// HACKATHON · MAY 23 – 24 · 2026
Prompt
Finance Hackathon
Two days. Three finance challenges. Agentic AI throughout. Startup Sauna, Espoo. Three challenge partners, two days, agentic AI throughout. Register on Luma — the rest happens here.
● ClosedStartup Sauna, EspooMay 23 – 24EEST · UTC+3
// EVENT CLOCK
19:15:54EEST
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// WHAT'S NEXT
09:00Sat
Doors open
Startup Sauna
10:00Sat
Opening ceremony
Main hall
11:00Sat
Hacking starts
Startup Sauna
// CHALLENGES · 03
// SORTTER
€3,000
Next-level personalization in loan comparison
How can AI optimise and time transactional messages — application status updates, offers, reminders — so they adapt in real time to different customer behaviours and needs, maximising conversion and customer experience without message fatigue? The right message, at the right time, in the right channel, to the right customer.
● 5 teams buildingDeadline · Sun 15:00View brief →
// TAXXA.AI
€2,000
Agentic GraphRAG for accounting regulatory research
Naïve RAG breaks on regulatory text — chunking cuts clauses in half, cosine ignores recency + authority, inter-document references aren't followed, and multi-hop questions get one-hop answers.
● 11 teams buildingDeadline · Sun 15:00View brief →
// AIVEN
€2,000
Engineering Aiven's Infra Economics
Aiven ships an 18-month, ~4M cost-line dataset from production: 4 clouds, 18 SKU families, 6 geo buckets, 6 service categories.
● 10 teams buildingDeadline · Sun 15:00View brief →
// PARTNERS
sortter.com
aiven.io
taxxa.ai
lovable.dev
featherless.ai// TOOLS · SPONSOR PERKS
Sponsor credits for every participant
Lovable Pro (200 credits) + Featherless inference credits. Redemption instructions on the Tools page.
// PRACTICALITIES
Startup Sauna, Espoo
Sat doors open 09:00, opening ceremony 10:00. Sauna on the third floor in the evening. Sun submission deadline 15:00 sharp. Catered meals + snacks all weekend.
Full info →// COMMS
Where we talk during the event
Discord is the firehose — every team, every channel, partners on call. Announcements also appear here as a sticky banner during the event.