Turn a real business friction into a working prototype — in one sprint.
Two complementary formats: a high-energy Entrepreneur Hackathon built on Lovable, and a focused Corporate Intrapreneur Hackathon built on n8n and Lovable. Both move teams from friction to demonstrable outcome in hours, not weeks.
Two formats, one philosophy
These are business-building and transformation sprints — not coding competitions. Teams leave with something concrete: a published prototype, a tested workflow, or an internal automation ready for a decision-maker.
Entrepreneur Hackathon
A three-hour venture-building sprint for 50+ entrepreneurs in a large room, hosted with an incubator and built on Lovable. Teams attack one specific industry friction and leave with a published app prototype.
- Audience: founders, makers, start-up teams
- Group size: 50+ participants
- Tools: Lovable
- Outcome: published app prototype
Corporate Intrapreneur Hackathon
An on-site internal sprint for 15–25 employees, built on n8n and Lovable. Available in two durations — a three-hour compact sprint or a full-day extended sprint — both turning observable process frictions into working automations, visible interfaces and an implementation roadmap.
- Audience: employees, ops, transformation teams
- Group size: 15–25 participants
- Tools: n8n + Lovable
- Durations: 3 hours or full day
- Outcome: working automation + interface, with implementation roadmap on the full-day format
Entrepreneur Hackathon — three-hour agenda
Built around one narrow industry friction (e.g. onboarding delays in healthcare, fragmented supplier comms in construction, manual compliance reporting in professional services). Each segment is operationally precise so the room moves fast.
Corporate Intrapreneur Hackathon — choose your format
Two durations, same outcome focus: a working n8n automation paired with a Lovable interface, plus governance and ownership clarity. The compact three-hour sprint is ideal for awareness, leadership engagement and a first prototype. The full-day extended sprint is best for cross-functional transformation priorities — stronger prototypes, a validation plan, owner assignment and a technical review.
Option A — Three-hour compact sprint
Best for: awareness, quick prototypes and leadership engagement. Outcome: one workflow prototype per team plus a live demo. Works well when the challenge brief and tool access are prepared in advance.
Option B — Full-day extended sprint
Best for: cross-functional transformation priorities. Outcome: stronger prototypes, a validation plan, assigned owners, a technical review and a practical implementation roadmap. Allows deeper process mapping, governance discussion and stakeholder alignment.
Corporate use cases
The best corporate challenges target a clearly observable operational friction — not vague themes like "improve productivity".
Judging criteria
| Criterion | Entrepreneur | Corporate | What it means |
|---|---|---|---|
| Business value | 30% | 30% | Real friction addressed with a clear user benefit |
| Working prototype | 30% | 25% | Something that actually runs and can be demoed |
| Feasibility | 25% | 25% | The idea can realistically be piloted further |
| Story & clarity | 15% | 10% | Problem, solution and impact explained clearly |
| Governance awareness | Optional | 10% | Data, approvals, security and ownership considered |
Frequently asked
Entrepreneur format: founders, makers and start-up teams from an incubator community. Corporate format: employees, managers, product owners, operations and transformation teams close to the workflow.
A laptop, a charger, and one real friction insight. Corporate participants should also bring process knowledge and examples of manual work.
Lovable lets non-technical builders create working web apps from plain-language prompts. n8n adds visual workflow automation, integrations, AI steps and human-in-the-loop controls — ideal for internal processes.
Entrepreneurs leave with a published prototype addressing a specific industry friction. Corporate teams leave with a working automation, a visible interface, and a practical implementation roadmap.