5 teams, 24 hours, we ended up with five working prototypes shipping this week.
ai hackathon retail
AI Workshop for Retail Teams, One Day Onsite
Retail teams lose time to work that keeps category teams from working on assortment strategy. Product descriptions written one by one for thousands of items. Inventory sync between shop, marketplace and ERP tracked by hand. Customer service inquiries about returns and availability that need the same answers over and over. Assortment reports rebuilt every week. The AI workshop, one day onsite, starts on exactly one of these steps. Your team builds a prototype in a single day that generates product copy in minutes or answers inquiries automatically, instead of a certificate. Need more, you scale straight into the multi-day Corporathon hackathon, with a documented competence record under EU AI Act Art. 4, mandatory since 02 February 2025.
- Real prototypes instead of slides
- Facilitated by AI practitioners
- Ready to run within a week
- Documented handoff included
Built for
Retail teams lose time to work that keeps category teams from working on assortment strategy. Product descriptions written one by one for thousands of items. Inventory sync between shop, marketplace and ERP tracked by ha
Customer voices
What participants publicly say about the hackathon
Summarised takeaways from approved LinkedIn posts by teams that built with us.
From “I should really learn AI” to a shipped product, with zero coding experience.
No months of prep needed: a team, a bit of chaos, and it turned into a working product.
5 teams, 24 hours, we ended up with five working prototypes shipping this week.
From “I should really learn AI” to a shipped product, with zero coding experience.
After day one, people who had never opened a terminal were building in Claude Code.
OW
Oke Wilhelm
NavVis
The biggest effect wasn’t the tooling, it was the mindset shift: “I can build this myself.”
NT
NavVis Team
Marketing & ops
After day one, people who had never opened a terminal were building in Claude Code.
OW
Oke Wilhelm
NavVis
The biggest effect wasn’t the tooling, it was the mindset shift: “I can build this myself.”
NT
NavVis Team
Marketing & ops
The format
Knowledge turns into a working prototype.
AI workshop for retail teams, one day onsite. Build a product copy generator or inventory sync bot, then scale into the Corporathon hackathon.
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Where retail teams lose time
Retail teams lose time to work that keeps category teams from working on assortment strategy. Product descriptions written one by one for thousands of items. Inventory sync between shop, marketplace and ERP tracked by hand. Customer service inquiries about returns and availability that need the same answers over and over. Assortment reports rebuilt every week. The AI workshop, one day onsite, starts on exactly one of these steps. Your team builds a prototype in a single day that generates product copy in minutes or
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What the team builds
Challenges from assortment and customer service. A product copy generator as a Custom GPT that turns attributes and photos into shop descriptions. An inventory sync bot with n8n that keeps stock levels aligned across channels. A customer service assistant that answers standard questions about returns and delivery times. An assortment reporting autopilot with Gamma, plus a category research tool with Claude Code for trends and competitor pricing.
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One week to your Corporathon
1. Intro call, we understand assortment, channels and pain. 2. Tools and challenges call, we pick the automations with the biggest lever. 3. Finalizing data and access, shop system, ERP, product data. 4. Preparation, we set up environment and sample data. 5. Hackathon days, tool workshop in the morning, sprint on the prototype, pitches at the end.
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Classic training vs. Corporathon
A training shows category managers AI in theory. A Corporathon delivers the product copy generator that writes the next 500 items while the team works on season planning. That is why usage stays high.
Output, not slides
A Corporathon is not a seminar. It is a facilitated sprint where teams rebuild real work with AI.
0 week
from scope to ready-to-run sprint
0 formats
Spark, Ignite and Blaze
0 steps
from call to documented handoff
How it works
Clear steps from scope to handoff.
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Intro call
Corporathon + sponsor · goal, scope and date
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Challenge design
Corporathon + team leads · real use cases and tool stack
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Data & access
Client · approved data, roles and boundaries
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Tool workshop
Corporathon · teams can use the stack
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Hackathon sprint
Teams · working prototypes
Next step
Ready for your Corporathon?
Book a discovery call directly, we clarify goal, format and date in the call.
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FAQ
Questions that should be clear before the first call.
AI workshop for retail teams, one day onsite. Build a product copy generator or inventory sync bot, then scale into the Corporathon hackathon.
Retail teams lose time to work that keeps category teams from working on assortment strategy. Product descriptions written one by one for thousands of items. Inventory sync between shop, marketplace and ERP tracked by hand. Customer service inquiries about returns and availability that need the same answers over and over. Assortment reports rebuilt every week. The AI workshop, one day onsite, …
Challenges from assortment and customer service. A product copy generator as a Custom GPT that turns attributes and photos into shop descriptions. An inventory sync bot with n8n that keeps stock levels aligned across channels. A customer service assistant that answers standard questions about returns and delivery times. An assortment reporting autopilot with Gamma, plus a category research tool …
1. Intro call, we understand assortment, channels and pain. 2. Tools and challenges call, we pick the automations with the biggest lever. 3. Finalizing data and access, shop system, ERP, product data. 4. Preparation, we set up environment and sample data. 5. Hackathon days, tool workshop in the morning, sprint on the prototype, pitches at the end.
A training shows category managers AI in theory. A Corporathon delivers the product copy generator that writes the next 500 items while the team works on season planning. That is why usage stays high.
Does this work with our shop system? Yes. We connect to Shopify, Shopware, SAP or whatever you use via n8n and APIs. We sort out access and data formats before the hackathon days so the prototype works with your real product data. Do our customer data stay secure? We work in your environment with your accounts. Customer data stays with you. The hackathon also delivers the documented internal AI …
Teams of four to six work best. Overall we run everything from a single team up to several dozen participants.
All three work. On site creates the strongest momentum, remote is leaner logistically, hybrid is the usual compromise for distributed sites.
You get a documented handoff: prototypes, setup, open items and a recommendation on which results deserve to go to production.
We define target metrics before the sprint — hours saved, cycle time, quality or revenue contribution — and review them in the closing session.
Slots are usually available within two to four weeks. With a clearly scoped use case it can be sooner.