The Marketing Engineering Hackathon
50 builders. One day. $40,000 in prizes.
Applications close May 24.
Understanding the shift
This past April, Profound introduced Marketing Engineering to the world. Since then, companies like Google have already hired their first Marketing Engineers.
We're hosting this hackathon to push the limits of this new discipline and ask: how do you build systems and agents that let one marketer produce the work of a hundred?
Your challenge
Find a marketing process that's inhuman in scope or scale, and ship a system or agent that runs it.
The Hackathon problem statement will be announced during the Kickoff session.
House rules
Open platform
Build with whatever platform or tool you want. Everyone gets a Profound instance, but using it is optional.
Solo building
No teams. The thesis is that one marketing engineer can 10x the productivity of an entire marketing team.
Judged by demo
Teams will pitch their projects to judges through two rounds of a 4-minute demo format.
Agent's workflow of the day
- Saturday, June 6, 2026
- 9:45 AM → 9:00 PM EST
- TBA · New York City
Judges
A panel of five builders from leading companies
Operators, founders, and people who have shipped agents at scale.
Frequently Asked Questions
We're seeking highly technical marketers or pure engineers with a knack for marketing.
No. Every builder gets a Profound instance, but you can ship with whatever stack you want — Cursor, Claude Code, Python, n8n, Replit, your own framework. We keep the playing field clean by giving the Best Profound-native Agent its own prize.
About eight and a half hours of locked-in build time. Hacking from 10:25 AM, submissions hard-close at 7:00 PM.
No teams. The thesis is that one marketing engineer can 10x the productivity of an entire marketing team.
Applications open late April and close on May 24. Decisions go out the week of May 25th.
Nothing. Just bring your laptop, your taste, and the willingness to ship something memorable.