✨ Agent Glow Up Hackathon

Hosted by Google x Sylph × Agora x Prefect | Powered by Build Club

Note: this is a highly exclusive hackathon with limited places for top technical builders in SF only. Please RSVP early to secure your spot.

1 day Hackathon · San Francisco 💅 📍 Venue: WorkOS HQ

💄 The Mission: Make Beautiful Agents

AI agents are powerful, but most of them aren't pleasant to use.

Agent Glow Up is an IRL hackathon for top-tier technical talent in SF. The goal is simple: Build thoughtful, end-to-end agent applications that look as good as they think.

We are looking for Agentic UI - dynamic dashboards, generative interfaces, and creative tools. If you love shipping under pressure and care about design systems as much as backend logic, this is for you.

🛠️ The Superpower: Build with AdaL

This hackathon runs on AdaL CLI, the local-first coding agent built by Sylph AI. It bridges the gap between technical logic and visual design:

The Best Design Engineer

🎨 Design with Gemini 3.1 Pro: Use Gemini's multimodal capabilities for visual reasoning, wireframing, and UI patterns.
🔧 Code with Claude Opus 4.6: Use the latest Claude Opus 4.5 for deep architectural integrity, React implementation, and refactoring.

Switch "brains" mid-conversation with /model to match the task.

🏆 The Challenge

Theme: Agent-Powered Applications (User-Facing)

Judging Criteria:

✨ Aesthetics: Usability and interface quality (No lazy chatbots!).
🧠 Intelligence: Agent design and orchestration.
⚙️ Reliability: Clarity of workflows and end-to-end stability.

🧰 The Stack & Partners

Bring your own stack, or build with our partner ecosystem to win specific category prizes:

Core: Sylph AI (Creators of AdaL) + Google Gemini (Models)
AI Infra / Workflow: Prefect
Voice: Agora
Web & Data: Exa
Compute: GMI Cloud

🎁 Prizes & Perks

💸 Cash Prize for the winning team + https://pyai.events/ tickets!
☁️ Credits (API and Platform) from sponsors.
📣 Demo Exposure across Build Club (50k+ builders) and Sylph channels.
☕ Fuel: Coffee, meals, and snacks provided throughout the day.

👩‍⚖️ Judges

A group of leading builders across AI, design, and developer ecosystems will review projects and select the winning teams. Submissions will be evaluated based on aesthetics, intelligence, and reliability.

Li Yin — CEO @ Sylph AI
Annie Liao — Founder @ Build Club / Solaris
Chenlin Meng — CTO @ Pika Labs
YenKai Huang - Founding Engineer @ Vizcom
Yan Liu — Principal Product Designer @ Microsoft
Maximillian Piras — Founding Designer @ Yutori
Yuqi Hou — Developer Community & Events @ GMI Cloud
Lakee Sivaraya — MLE @ Exa

Your hosts

This event is organised by Build Club - the most collaborative AI community in the world (50K builders, 60+ cities).

AI Agent Glow Up Hackathon