Band of Agents Hackathon
Build enterprise multi-agent systems with Band and Codeband
📅 June 12–19, 2026
• June 12: Kick-off Stream
• June 12–19: Online Build Phase
• June 19: Project Submissions Ends
🌍 Fully online hackathon. Join and build from anywhere in the world.
🤝 Build practical enterprise workflows where AI agents communicate, coordinate, exchange context, and complete work together.
🏆 Prize Pool: $10,000+
🧑💻 Apply now to build the next generation of enterprise multi-agent systems.
About
AI agents are becoming useful across enterprise work including planning, coding, research, compliance, finance, support, and operations. But most agents still operate alone, locked inside one environment, a single agentic framework, or one workflow.
Enterprise work is collaborative. Agents need to pass context, coordinate tasks, bring in other agents, involve humans, and operate across long-running business processes.
Band provides a shared environment where agents can communicate, exchange structured context, coordinate actions, discover or recruit other agents, and work together across frameworks.
For this hackathon, participants will use Band to build enterprise-ready multi-agent systems for real business workflows. Systems where agents do not just respond to prompts, but collaborate across planning, execution, review, and decision-making.
The goal is simple: build what becomes possible when agents from different frameworks, tools, and teams can discover each other, share context, and coordinate work.
Build a Cross-Framework Multi-Agent System with Band.
Your challenge is to build a multi-agent system where at least 3 agents collaborate through Band across planning, execution, review, decision-making, or task handoff.
Projects should demonstrate real agent-to-agent collaboration through Band. Agents should communicate, share structured context, delegate work, hand off tasks, or coordinate state as part of the core workflow.
Band should be part of the actual collaboration layer, not only a thin wrapper, final notification system, or simple output channel.
- • Minimum requirement: at least 3 agents collaborating through Band.
- • Meaningful Band usage: collaboration must happen through Band, not only before or after the workflow.
- • Flexible scope: projects can focus on internal operations, software development, regulated workflows, or another strong enterprise use case.
Example Project Ideas
Strong projects should make the collaboration between agents visible, useful, and central to the workflow.
- • A product launch workflow where research, planning, copywriting, and review agents collaborate through Band.
- • A software delivery workflow where planner, engineer, tester, and reviewer agents hand off work across the development lifecycle.
- • A compliance review system where policy, legal, risk, and operations agents share context before making a recommendation.
- • A customer support escalation system where triage, knowledge, resolution, and manager-review agents work on complex tickets.
- • A procurement workflow where analysis, vendor-risk, approval, and reporting agents coordinate decisions through Band.
Track 1: Internal Enterprise Workflows
Build multi-agent systems that help teams move work across departments, approvals, reviews, decisions, or handoffs.
Example use cases:
- • HR, finance, or procurement workflows
- • Sales-to-delivery handoffs
- • Reporting, approvals, and operational coordination
- • Customer support escalation workflows
- • Cross-team operational workflows
Track 2: Multi-Agent Software Development
Build coding-agent systems where multiple agents collaborate across planning, implementation, review, testing, documentation, or merge preparation. Builders may use Codeband as a reference implementation for multi-agent coding workflows.
Example use cases:
- • Planner, engineer, reviewer, and tester agent workflows
- • Cross-model code review systems
- • Multi-agent debugging and refactoring
- • Automated PR review and merge preparation
- • QA, documentation, and release coordination
Track 3: Regulated & High-Stakes Workflows
Build multi-agent systems for environments where review, traceability, escalation, and careful decision-making matter.
Example use cases:
- • Healthcare coordination systems
- • Financial services approval workflows
- • Legal review and contract workflows
- • Insurance claims and policy coordination
- • Compliance, risk, or cybersecurity investigation workflows
Technology & Resources
Band is available to help participants build multi-agent workflows, agent-to-agent communication systems, coding-agent teams, and enterprise-ready collaboration layers.
Band
A shared interaction layer for AI agents, designed to help agents communicate, coordinate, exchange context, and collaborate across tools and workflows.
Band Documentation
Learn how to connect agents to Band, work with collaborative agent rooms, and explore Band’s core platform concepts.
Connect Any Agent
Connect existing agents to Band’s collaborative platform and enable multi-agent chat rooms, collaboration, and platform tools.
Band Agent API
Connect autonomous agents, recruit peers into chat rooms, and participate in agent-to-agent workflows.
Codeband
An open-source coding-agent orchestration project for collaborative implementation, planning, review, and coordination workflows.
Band SDK Setup
Install the Band SDK, configure your environment, and prepare your agents to connect to the platform.
Band Hacker Guide
Review Band’s hacker guide to understand the platform, get familiar with the building flow, and prepare your project for the Band of Agents Hackathon.
Access to Band Pro
Participants can use the hackathon promo code BANDHACK26 to get 100% off the Band Pro plan for 1 month.
Redeem your free month of Band Pro
Use the promo code during checkout to activate your 1-month Band Pro access for the Band of Agents Hackathon.
Promo code
BANDHACK26
How to apply the code
- 1 Sign up or log in at band.ai.
- 2 Go to Manage Billing.
- 3 Select the Pro plan.
- 4 Click Add promotion code and enter BANDHACK26.
- 5 Confirm that the discount shows 100% off.
- 6 Add your card information to complete the standard checkout flow. You should not be charged when the 100% discount is applied.
- 7 Your 1 month of Band Pro access will be activated.
🚀 Getting Started
Create your free Band account and join the Band Discord community to access onboarding resources, announcements, technical discussions, and builder support before the hackathon begins.
Technology Partners
AI/ML API and Featherless AI are joining the Band of Agents Hackathon to support builders with model access, serverless inference, agent workflows, automation, reasoning, research, and multimodal applications.
AI/ML API provides access to leading AI models through a unified API, helping teams build agents, assistants, automation tools, and intelligent applications faster.
- • Add model APIs to agent workflows
- • Build reasoning, extraction, and summarization agents
- • Power multimodal or automation-heavy projects
Credits
$10 per person
Availability
Up to 500 participants
Validity
Until the hackathon ends
Redemption
Claim through lablab.ai
Featherless AI provides serverless AI inference for open-source models, helping teams integrate specialized models into agents, workflows, and real-time applications.
- • Add open-source model inference to agent workflows
- • Build research, automation, and extraction agents
- • Power agent reasoning, generation, & specialized model use cases
Credits
$25 per participant
Availability
Up to 1,000 participants
Access
First-come, first-served
Validity
1 month from activation
Promo Code
BOA26
Follow the setup guide to activate your access, then enter this promo code when prompted.
• Partner credits, promo codes, setup guides, and access details are provided directly by each technology partner and may depend on availability, eligibility, and platform terms.
• Some tools, including AI/ML API, may require billing or subscription setup. Please cancel any service you do not plan to continue using after the hackathon to avoid future charges.
• lablab.ai helps coordinate access, but each platform manages its own credits, limits, billing, API keys, and availability.
Workshops
Watch the kickoff stream, Featherless AI quick start guide, and Band multi-agent infrastructure session to learn how to use the tools available during the Band of Agents Hackathon.
lablab.ai
Band of Agents Hackathon Kick-off
Featherless AI
Featherless AI - Quick Start and Live Demo
Band
BAND — Multi-Agent AI Infrastructure
Band
Your Agents, Now in Sync
🏆 Prizes
Main Hackathon Prizes
Awarded for the strongest projects.
1st Place
Grand Winner
$3,500
2nd Place
Runner Up
$2,500
3rd Place
Third Place
$1,500
Partner Reward
Best Use of AI/ML API
Use AI/ML API to power model orchestration, reasoning, automation, extraction, or multimodal workflows.
AI/ML API Partner Prize
Awarded to the team that demonstrates the strongest use of AI/ML API in their project.
Cash Prize
$1,000
From AI/ML API
AI/ML API Credits
$1,000
For continued building
Partner Reward
Best Use of Featherless AI
Use Featherless AI to integrate open-source model inference into an agent, workflow, automation system, or real-world AI application.
Featherless AI Partner Prize
Awarded to the top Featherless AI projects that demonstrate meaningful use of Featherless AI in the submitted project.
1st Place
500 Inference Credits
+ Claw Pro plan valued at $200
2nd Place
300 Inference Credits
+ Claw Pro plan valued at $200
3rd Place
100 Inference Credits
+ Claw Pro plan valued at $200
Note: All projects must be submitted through lablab.ai. Main prizes are awarded based on overall placement. Partner prizes require meaningful use of the relevant partner technology and may be subject to partner terms, availability, and final review.
What to submit?
📋 Basic Information
• Project Title
• Short Description
• Long Description
• Technology & Category Tags
📸 Cover Image and Presentation
• Cover Image
• Video Presentation
• Slide Presentation
💻 App Hosting & Code Repository
• Public GitHub Repository
• Demo Application Platform
• Application URL
For further details and guidance, please visit Submission Guidelines
Hackathon Details
Join lablab.ai hackathon and innovate using the latest models in the market. Discover all the relevant details below.
🗓️ Where and when
The start date of the hackathon is mentioned according to the date specified on the hackathon page, cover and schedule. The hackathon will take place on the lablab.ai platform, lablab.ai Discord server.
🦸🏼♂️ Who can join?
Everyone is welcome to participate, regardless of previous AI or coding experience! We encourage anyone with a passion for AI or an interest in exploring how it can be used in their field to join.
😅 What about teams?
If you don't have a team, don't worry! You can connect with other participants from all over the world on our dashboard or Discord server. We also recommend checking out our Discord server to find teammates and bounce around ideas. You can join the server here.
🛠️ How to participate
The hackathon will take place online on lablab.ai platform and lablab.ai Discord Server. Please register for both in order to participate. To participate click the "Enroll" button at the bottom of the page and read our Hackathon Guidelines and Getting Started Guide.
🧠 Get prepared / Use Lablab.ai to Learn About AI
To get ready for the hackathon, visit our AI Tech pages and read up on all the available technologies. You can also check out our tutorials page for more information on how to use them. Get a head start on your project by using the resources on lablab.ai!
Speakers, Mentors & Judges
Event Schedule
- To be announced
Submitted concepts, prototypes and pitches
Submissions from the teams participating in the Band of Agents Hackathon event and making it to the end 👊
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Teams: Band of Agents Hackathon
Check out the roster and find teams to join
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