OpenAI + The AI Collective + Think Technologies
Built in a day.
Ready for what's next.
A San Francisco hackathon for creators, founders, and operators turning Codex and Workspace Agents into practical tools for real work.
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The recap / San Francisco, California
A room full of builders. One shared challenge: make AI useful.
Thank you to everyone who joined the Think Technologies OpenAI Hackathon in San Francisco. Creators, builders, founders, and innovators came together to explore what becomes possible when powerful AI tools meet practical problems and ambitious ideas.
The day focused on Codex and Workspace Agents, capabilities available through ChatGPT Business and Enterprise accounts. Participants moved beyond the demo, experimenting with new workflows, delegating work, and building faster.
We are grateful to OpenAI and The AI Collective for helping make the event happen, and to Entrepreneurs First for creating such a welcoming home for the California builder community.
What we explored
From a prompt to a working system.
Participants learned where each tool shines, then put that knowledge to work on business challenges spanning research, sales, analytics, marketing, finance, and IT.
Delegate the work.
Use Codex to execute instructions, build deliverables, refine ideas, and automate repeatable work with clear context and direction.
Connect the workflow.
Bring together instructions, apps, skills, files, memory, governance, and guardrails to support work across teams and systems.
Lead qualification
Research, score, route, and update the CRM.
Content systems
Turn one source into a coordinated campaign.
Weekly reporting
Transform raw data into a polished readout.
Software review
Compare requests with the approved stack.
Monthly close
Surface variances and draft the summary.
The day's rhythm
Learn. Build. Show.
A fast-moving program designed to take teams from orientation to a working demo in one afternoon.
Networking + welcome
30 minGreetings + builder callouts
30 minFocused build sprint
4 hoursJudging period
30 minFinalist demos
30 minPrizes, photos + wrap-up
20 minIn the room
Curiosity, collaboration, and a lot of building.
The best part of a hackathon is the moment ideas leave the whiteboard and become something people can see, test, and improve together.
Thank you, San Francisco
Powerful technology matters most in the hands of curious people.
Thank you to every participant who brought brilliant ideas, energy, and creativity into the room. The projects, conversations, and collaboration were a reminder of what can happen when people get the space and tools to build.
We're looking forward to more events, more teams, and more opportunities to help businesses and communities unlock the value of AI.
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