FinOps Hackathon
Build AI agents that automate financial operations for early-stage startups — hack, demo and compete for prizes.
What if the finance work just did itself? At this hackathon, you'll build the finance function you wish you had: agents that do the work a founder, a fractional CFO or an ops lead currently does by hand. The idea is simple. Financial operations is the most repetitive, boring and quietly time-consuming work in a startup — and most of it can be automated now. Give an agent structured access to the money records and most of it week becomes a workflow.
That's what the Seapoint MCP does, and we're launching it here. Accounts and balances, reporting, transactions and spend, cards, bills and invoices, vendors, treasury, burn and runway — queryable by your agent. Pick a piece of financial operations — the month-end close, the board pack, the payment run — and build something that does it. You'll work in a Seapoint sandbox with seeded transaction data, so no real bank accounts and no real money.
At code freeze you submit a short demoWork solo or in teams of up to 3. If you're building in a team, we'll suggest mixing it: someone commercial, someone who knows finance properly, someone who can ship. Come with a team or find one on the night.
👥 Who this is forFounders, CFOs, fractional CFOs, finance and ops leads, chiefs of staff — anyone who owns or touches the finances of an early-stage (Pre-Seed to Series A) company. Technical, semi-technical, or the person who knows exactly what should be built and needs someone to build it. 📅 Schedule 17:30 — Doors open. Find your cluster on the board, pick a team, get set up 18:15 — Welcome, briefing & judging overview 18:20 — Hacking begins 18:30 — Food 20:20 — Code freeze, submissions & initial scoring 21:25 — Live demos of Top 5 (2–3 mins each) 21:45 — Final judging & awards 22:00 — Close Can't get there before 6pm? Come anyway, we'll help you find a team and set up quickly. 🤝 Partners & Sponsors Co-hosts Seapoint 13books Capital Supported by Claude — providing credits for everyone building on the night Judges Neil Streete — Head of Product, Seapoint Michael McFadgen — Partner, 13books Capital Hannah Salmons — Accountant, Green and Purple Corinne Thompson — Founder & CEO, Ecap Financial Caelum Rosenkranz · AI & Cloud GTM, Google 🏆 Demo FormatEvery team submits a live demo at code freeze. Top 5 scored will do a LIVE DEMO.Then of the top 5, 3 shall place 1st, 2nd, and 3rd. Projects will be judged on: Technical execution Product thinking Agent autonomy UX clarity Real-world applicability Safety & oversight design 🎁 Prizes Prizes for 1st, 2nd and 3rd. Plus credits for everyone building on the night. What to bringA laptop, your usual AI coding setup, and one finance problem that annoys you. Food, drinks, wifi, power and sandbox access are on us.