The Founder Sprint

A 48-hour anti-hackathon for AI-native builders. Build fast. Validate smarter. Most hackathons celebrate who can ship the most features in 48 hours. We celebrate who can find the strongest evidence that their idea actually matters to real people. The Founder Sprint isn't a hackathon. It's a 2-day startup building experience. 100 builders. Hand-picked. Application-only. — DAY 01 — THE FORGE A full day of workshops on the methodology real founders use to validate ideas: problem severity, rapid validation, AI-native building with the Boundless Stack. Plus team formation and experiment design. DAY 02 — LAUNCH DAY A 10-hour build sprint. You'll prototype, talk to real users, validate one assumption, and present to a panel of judges (including a working VC) for $5K in cash, $10K+ in credits, and 3 months of mentorship with the top team. — WHO THIS IS FOR All fields. Healthcare, education, finance, arts, anything. You don't need a CS degree — you need to know how to use AI as a force multiplier. Vibe coding, AI research, no-code prototyping. If you can use AI to build, you belong here.…