Miami
AI Hackathon.
Build with Mel
+ ElevenLabs.
Choose a problem. Build an agentic solution. Demo it live.
- Sep 19
- Miami · 12:30–8:30 PM EST · Miami Dade College
mel · hackathon
One day. One idea. Ship it with an agent.
Type a command, or press Tab to see what there is.
Start with `help`.
mel · hackathon
One day. One idea. Ship it with an agent.
Type a command, or press Tab to see what there is.
Start with `help`.
The terminal needs JavaScript. Everything it can tell you is on this page anyway.
Build something real
One day. Three tracks. A working demo.
Open to developers, founders, students, designers and business professionals. No coding experience required.
Choose your track
Pick one. Build anything inside it.
Agenticcommerce
Build shopping agents, customer experiences, product-intelligence tools, payment workflows, loyalty systems, inventory automation or retail operations.
Project ideas
- shopping agents
- customer experiences
- product intelligence
- payment workflows
- loyalty systems
- inventory automation
Agenticfinance
Build agents for financial analysis, reconciliation, risk, compliance, payments, treasury, trading or finance operations.
Project ideas
- financial analysis
- reconciliation
- risk & compliance
- payments
- treasury
- trading operations
Agenticmarketing
Build agents for audience research, campaign creation, personalization, content, customer intelligence, growth or performance optimization.
Project ideas
- audience research
- campaign creation
- personalization
- content generation
- customer intelligence
- growth optimization
Agenticengineering
Bring a real GitHub repository—broken starter, legacy code, or your own project—and use Mel to understand, investigate, plan, debug, modify, test, fix, verify and ship it. We want to see whether Mel can work through a real codebase and solve problems, not simply generate code.
Project ideas
- debug real code
- fix failing tests
- investigate bugs
- refactor legacy code
- verify solutions
- ship working fixes
Your final demo must clearly show the original problem, how Mel investigated it, what was changed, how it was tested, and evidence that the final solution works.
Build with Mel
Mel is an agentic development environment. Build, investigate, repair and verify software in natural language — models, tools and workflows in one place.
Complimentary Mel build credits and model access for all participants.
openmel.dev
Download Mel before the event and arrive ready to build.
Build with ElevenLabs
Add conversational AI, speech, voice, music, sound or multilingual experiences to your product.
Every attendee who builds gets one month of ElevenLabs Creator.
elevenlabs.io
Voice, speech and audio APIs for agentic products.
Winner awards
Up to $12,910 in awards
Up to $2,485
Overall Grand Prize
- $1,000 cash from Mel
- Three months of ElevenLabs Pro for each team member
- 600,000 ElevenLabs credits per month
- Three months of Mel Pro for each team member
Up to $4,485
Best Use of ElevenLabs
- Three months of ElevenLabs Scale for each team member
- 1.8 million ElevenLabs credits per month
- $897 value per team member
$5,940
SSOJet Enterprise-Ready Awards
- Five selected winners will each receive one production-ready SSOJet Business license
- Enterprise SSO and MCP authentication support
- $1,188 first-year value per license
Mel Pro
Track Winners
- Winning teams across Agentic Commerce, Agentic Finance and Agentic Marketing receive three months of Mel Pro for each team member.
Every participant receives
- Complimentary Mel build credits
- One month of ElevenLabs Creator
- 131,000 ElevenLabs credits
Prize values assume maximum team size where applicable. Subject to event rules and sponsor terms.
Judging criteria
Importance of the problem
Does it solve something that actually matters?
Agentic workflow and tool use
Are agents and tools doing real work, not just chatting?
Quality of execution
Is the product functional, polished and coherent?
Verification and responsible human oversight
Can a person check, steer and trust the result?
Creativity and originality
Is the approach fresh and unexpected?
Real-world usefulness
Would someone use this tomorrow?
Quality of the live demonstration
Does the demo prove the idea in real time?
What to bring
- Laptop and chargerYour main build machine.
- An idea, skill or problemSomething you want to explore.
- APIs, datasets or toolsAnything you want to wire in.
- A willingness to collaborateSolo or on a team.
Partner with us
We welcome organizations and individuals interested in supporting Miami's agentic AI builder ecosystem.
- Sponsorship and technology partnerships
- Cash prizes, APIs and builder credits
- Speakers, judges and mentors
- Community and media partnerships
- Event volunteers
- Hosting a future Agentic Day hackathon
Contact: pr@helloagentic.ai
