Get real people in the loop.
Most projects never meet a real user before the demo. Put your build in front of real people, live, and use what they say to get measurably better, all inside a single day.
Build something people can respond to
A simple app where a person uses your product, reacts to it, or labels, rates, ranks, or compares what your system produces.
Call the Terac API to bring the people
Launch your task on Terac and real people complete it within hours, so the full loop fits inside the day. You focus on building; recruiting and incentives are on us.
Turn that input into a better project
Product changes, prompt and retrieval changes, evals, or fine-tuning. Then show a clear before and after, ideally judged by a fresh round of humans.
The prize tracks.
Every build competes across the sponsor tracks below, with more announced closer to the event.
Best Use of Terac
The standout use of the Terac MCP: bring real humans into the loop and show a measurable before and after.
Best Use of Render
Every project must be hosted on Render and use a workflow. The standout Render build takes the track.
Coming soon
More sponsor tracks to be announced. Check back closer to the event.
One Saturday.
Doors at nine, awards by ten. A single day, start to finish. Times are provisional.
- Doors openCheck-in, coffee, find a team
- KickoffThe challenge, the Terac API, how credits work
- Team formationOffice hours open
- Build startsTeam credits go live
- LunchOn us
- CheckpointYour first human responses should be coming back
- Dinner
- Submissions close
- Demos2 to 3 minutes per team
- Judging and awards
Who's speaking.
Talks throughout the day. More speakers announced soon.
Ari Dutilh
from the Solo Founders Program
Coming soon
More speakers to be announced.
What you win.
Cash prizes, Terac API credits, and interviews at Terac.
Cash prizes
Awarded to the top teams at the closing ceremony.
Terac API credits
Credit to keep bringing real people to whatever you build next.
Interviews at Terac
We are hiring in-person engineers in San Francisco. Build something great and we want to talk.
How it's scored.
Three criteria. The human input is the point, so it carries the most weight.
Project improvement
40%A real, credible improvement driven by the human input, ideally a before and after human eval run on Terac.
What you built
35%The app or environment itself: task design, creativity, and UX.
Use of human input
25%Quality of the input, and getting signal efficiently within your credit.
Terac and our partners.
This weekend is put on with support from the teams below.
Good to know.
Anyone building with AI. Bring a team, or find one at kickoff. You will sign in to Terac as a researcher for the day.
No. What matters is that real human judgment changed your project for the better, and you can show it.
Terac makes human labor available on demand. You define the task and the kind of person you need; Terac handles recruitment, screening, verification, and payouts.
Each team gets Terac credit to spend on tasks. Message us once you are signed in and we will load your team.
General-population participants, so turnaround stays fast and your credit goes further. No specialist panels are needed to win.
A working app, real human input collected through Terac, a measurable before and after, and a 2 to 3 minute demo.
Every project must be hosted on Render and use a workflow. The standout Render build wins the Best Use of Render prize.
A laptop, your chargers, and something you want real people to react to. We handle food and the people.
Who's putting this on.
Terac makes human labor available on demand through a simple API. You define the task and the kind of person you need; we handle recruitment, screening, verification, and payouts, which powers frontier research and human-data programs for Fortune 100 companies.
We're hiring in-person engineers in San Francisco. Build something great this weekend and we want to talk.
Aug 15, 2026 · TBD
Come build something real people can respond to.
Spots are limited and go fast. Register now, then bring a team or find one at kickoff.