Q2 2026 · In-person · Nexu HQ

NEXU AI
HACKATHON

A day and a half. Eight teams. Six tracks. One bet: build something with AI that we'll actually ship.

when Wed May 20 – Thu May 21, 2026 prep Mon May 18 + Tue May 19 where Nexu HQ · in person
1.5
days of building
8
cross-functional teams
6
tracks to choose from
$17K
MXN in Amazon cards
// the agenda

Two days. Lock scope at 11. Demo at 15.

Wednesday is for building. Thursday is for shipping the demo. Coaches roam both days.

Day 1 · Build

Wednesday May 20

9:00 – 21:00 · scope locks at 11:00
9:00
Kickoff + breakfast
9:30
Team huddle — confirm scope
10:00
Architecture + division of labor
11:00
Scope LOCKED · Build sprint 1
14:00
Lunch
15:00
Build sprint 2 · coaches on call
17:00
Checkpoint — 60s status / team
17:15
Build sprint 3
18:00
Dinner
19:00
The last push · Build sprint 4
21:00
Go home. Sleep on it.
Day 2 · Demo

Thursday May 21

9:00 – 17:30 · awards by 17:30
9:00
Final polish + breakfast
12:30
Demo prep · tech check
14:00
Lunch
15:00
DEMOS · 8 teams, 5 min each
16:30
Judging deliberation
17:00
Awards · commitments · photo
17:30
We did it.
// pick one

Six tracks. Every team picks one.

Stretch ideas that span two tracks are fine — declare the primary track for judging.

Track 01

Customer-facing AI

Anything an end customer would directly see or talk to. Strong fit for design-heavy work and UX polish. Synthetic data only.

  • Conversational onboarding that replaces long forms
  • AI doc-upload coach that critiques photo quality live
  • In-app advisor in plain Spanish, 4–5 questions
  • Voice-first balance check / payment confirmation
Track 02

Sales & origination ops

AI that makes sales and credit teams dramatically faster. Strong fit for teams comfortable with messy real-world inputs.

  • One-page underwriting summary from the full doc set
  • KYC pre-check copilot — what's missing before they leave
  • Lead-scoring agent from intake transcripts
  • Voice-to-CRM: structured notes, follow-ups, tags
Track 03

Internal productivity copilots

AI tools for Nexu employees doing day-to-day work. Lowest data-sensitivity track — great fit for teams that want to ship something usable fast.

  • Internal docs Q&A with citations
  • Meeting summarizer with action items + owners
  • Auto-generated weekly team digest
  • Doc drafter for RFCs, post-mortems, project briefs
Track 04

Risk, credit & fraud

The heart of Nexu's business model. Highest-impact and highest-skill. Strong fit for data + AI + BI talent. Synthetic underwriting data only.

  • Fraud-pattern detector across application clusters
  • Anomaly watchdog on portfolio metrics
  • Document-tampering detector for IDs and pay stubs
  • Early-warning model for delinquency + draft outreach
Track 05

Data & BI automation

Make the data team's outputs faster, richer, accessible. Remove the bottleneck where the rest of the company waits for data.

  • Natural-language SQL with chart + visible query
  • Auto-narrated dashboards — what changed and why
  • Metric anomaly explainer with hypotheses
  • “Data dictionary” agent answering provenance questions
Track 06

Design & content AI

How Nexu creates, communicates, tests its product and brand. Strong fit for designer- and marketer-led teams.

  • Marketing-asset pipeline from a single brief
  • UX-research synthesizer over 20 interview transcripts
  • Design-system copilot respecting tokens
  • Brand-consistency checker on drafts and screens
// how you win

Four criteria. One scorecard. No drama.

Each judge fills the card for every team. Your final score is the average of judges' weighted totals.

CriterionWeightScore (1–10)Weighted
Business impact / problem fit30%
Use of AI — depth & craft25%
Feasibility / path to production25%
Demo quality & UX20%
Total100%
Rankings determine 1st, 2nd, 3rd. Best Use of AI is a special category — it can also win a placement.
1st place
Champion
$8,000 MXN
per person · Amazon
2nd place
Runner-up
$5,000 MXN
per person · Amazon
3rd place
Bronze
$3,000 MXN
per person · Amazon
special
Best Use of AI
$1,000 MXN
per person · Amazon

Winning ideas don't die in the slide deck.

The top 3 ideas get a named owner from leadership, a 4–6 week target to ship a v1, a small dedicated team, and a budget line for tooling and API spend.

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