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AI Hackathon
1-Day On-Site Facilitated Session
$5,000
- Gamified ideation — staff compete to surface best AI opportunities
- Ground-level workflow pain identification across all departments
- Cross-functional teams: mix departments, break silos
- Faction-led facilitation + technical feasibility scoring
- Staff AI Opportunity Map delivered within 5 business days
- Named internal champions for every top idea
1
Full Day On-Site
$5K
Flat. No surprises.
8–25
Participants
5+
Prioritized AI Ideas
T+5
Days to Deliverable
The Origin
Born From Every Assessment We’ve Ever Run.
Every time Faction conducts a full AI assessment, there’s one session that consistently generates more energy, more authentic insight, and more organizational momentum than anything else.
It’s not the executive whiteboard session. It’s not the data audit. It’s the moment we put the staff in the room and let them loose.
The people who do the actual work already know exactly where the problems are, which tasks drain them, and which processes feel like they were designed by someone who never had to use them. They just haven’t been asked.
We carved that session out as its own product. And now we recommend everyone start here.
“The single step that built more buy-in than anything else in our assessments wasn’t a strategy session. It was when we handed the room to the people doing the work.”
— Matt Murphy, CEO · The Faction Group
The Problem We Solve
70% of AI initiatives fail at adoption. Not because the technology doesn’t work. Because the people expected to use it weren’t involved in designing it.
The Hackathon makes your staff the architects of your AI future. They don’t resist what they built.
Why It Works
Three Forces Working at Once.
The Hackathon isn’t just an ideation session. It’s an organizational change mechanism disguised as a competition.
Ground-Level Intelligence
Your staff knows things your executives don’t. They know which processes are broken, which data is wrong, and which tools nobody actually uses. The Hackathon surfaces that intelligence systematically, in a format that’s actionable.
Gamification Creates Specificity
When people compete, they get specific. Vague ideas don’t win. The Hackathon format pushes participants to define the exact problem, the exact solution, and the exact impact — which is exactly what you need to evaluate an AI investment.
Champions, Not Converts
Every winning idea comes with a named internal champion — the person who presented it. They don’t need to be sold on the initiative. They invented it. That’s the difference between 40% adoption and 90%.
Reveals What You Can’t See
Leadership’s view of operations is filtered through reports and meetings. Staff operate in the raw reality. The Hackathon bypasses the organizational telephone game and gives you direct signal from where the work actually happens.
One Day, Real Momentum
Most AI discovery processes take weeks of interviews and stakeholder sessions. The Hackathon compresses that into a single high-energy day and ends with a prioritized, scored opportunity map you can act on immediately.
Faction-Scored, Not Gut-Checked
Every idea is scored by Faction facilitators on business impact, technical feasibility, data readiness, and adoption likelihood. You leave with a ranked list, not a pile of sticky notes — and a clear recommendation for what to build first.
Real Use Cases
The Ideas That Come Out of These Sessions.
These are representative ideas surfaced in real Faction-facilitated sessions. Your team will generate their own — these show what’s possible when you remove the ceiling.
Operations
Automated Route Optimization
Stop manually assigning routes every morning. An AI agent that optimizes sequencing based on job type, location, traffic, and tech availability — saving 8-10 hours per week.
Operations
Smart Job Scheduling Agent
Replace the group text chaos. AI dispatcher that reads job priority, tech skill match, and SLA requirements — and schedules without a human in the loop.
Operations
Inventory Reorder Automation
Staff waste hours manually checking stock and submitting POs. An AI agent that monitors par levels, predicts usage based on job schedule, and auto-triggers reorders.
Sales & Marketing
Proposal Generation Agent
Sales team spends 3-4 hours per custom proposal pulling from past decks. AI agent that generates a tailored proposal draft from a 5-minute intake form — ready to review, not start from scratch.
Sales & Marketing
Lead Scoring & Prioritization
CRM has 400 open leads. Nobody knows which to call first. AI model that scores inbound leads by fit, intent signals, and historical close rate — so reps work what converts.
Sales & Marketing
Content Repurposing Pipeline
Marketing creates one piece of content and publishes it once. AI workflow that automatically repurposes blog posts into LinkedIn, email, and short-form — from a single source.
Finance & Admin
Invoice Reconciliation Agent
AP team spends 2 days per month manually matching invoices to POs. AI agent that auto-matches, flags exceptions, and escalates only the 5% that need human review.
Finance & Admin
Expense Report Processing
Manual expense review creates a 2-week reimbursement backlog. AI that reads receipts, validates against policy, and auto-approves compliant submissions — humans review outliers only.
Finance & Admin
Contract Review First Pass
Legal and ops review every vendor contract from scratch. AI model trained on standard terms that flags non-standard clauses, missing protections, and risk items before human review begins.
HR & People
Candidate Screening Agent
Recruiters manually review 80+ resumes per role. AI agent that screens against job requirements, scores fit, and surfaces top 10 candidates with reasoning — in minutes, not days.
HR & People
Onboarding Document Agent
New hires get a packet of PDFs and a prayer. AI agent that answers onboarding questions 24/7, guides document completion, and surfaces the right policy at the right moment.
HR & People
Training Completion Automation
Compliance training has a 40% on-time completion rate. AI nudge system that tracks individual progress, sends personalized reminders, and escalates to managers only when needed.
Customer Service
Tier-1 Support Automation
60% of support tickets are the same 12 questions. AI agent trained on your actual knowledge base that handles Tier-1 resolution without a human — and escalates with full context when needed.
Customer Service
Proactive Communication Agent
Customers call to check on their order status. AI agent that monitors job progress and proactively sends status updates at key milestones — before the customer has to ask.
Customer Service
Churn Prediction & Intervention
High-value customers leave without warning. AI model that analyzes engagement, support history, and usage patterns to flag at-risk accounts 30 days before they churn — so your team can intervene.
What You Get
A Deliverable That Drives the Next Decision.
Within 5 business days of your Hackathon, you receive the Staff AI Opportunity Map — a comprehensive document your leadership can act on immediately.
$5,000
Flat fee. On-site. All in. No surprises.
Everything Included
- Full-day on-site facilitation (Faction team)
- Technical feasibility scoring by Faction’s tech advisor
- All materials, idea cards, and scoring framework
- Staff AI Opportunity Map (delivered T+5 days)
- Executive debrief session (end of day)
- Named internal champion for every top idea
- Recommended next step with scoped proposal
Optional Add-On
Vibe Coding hours to prototype the winning idea same day — from $2,000 for 10 hrs.
Pain Inventory
Every painful or repetitive task your team documented, aggregated and grouped by department and theme. This alone is worth the day.
Full Idea Submission Archive
Every idea submitted — not just the winners. Problem statement, solution concept, estimated impact, data requirements, and the team that generated it. All documented.
Scored Opportunity Map
Top 5–8 ideas ranked by Faction’s 100-point rubric: business impact, feasibility, data readiness, and adoption likelihood. Not gut feel — scored methodology.
Named Internal Champions
Every top idea has a name attached — the person who championed it. They’re already bought in. They’re ready to lead implementation. You know exactly who to call.
Recommended Next Step
A specific, scoped recommendation for your #1 opportunity — not “consider further assessment.” A clear proposed next engagement with what it covers, what it costs, and what it produces.
Right Fit
The Hackathon Is Built for Specific Situations.
Be honest about which column you’re in. We’ll tell you if something else fits better.
You’re Ready If…
- You want staff buy-in before committing to AI investment
- Leadership is aligned but unsure where to start operationally
- You have more than one department that could benefit from AI
- You’ve heard “we should use AI” but nobody’s been specific about how
- You want a bottom-up discovery to complement top-down strategy
- You need a fast, low-risk way to identify your highest-impact opportunities
You’re Scaling and…
- Your team has grown faster than your processes
- You’re tired of fixing the same operational problems repeatedly
- You’ve tried AI tools but adoption was low
- You want to surface ideas from people you don’t normally hear from
- You’re planning an AI initiative and need organizational momentum
- You want proof of staff engagement before pitching the board
Consider Something Else If…
- Executive team is not aligned on AI at all — start with the Leadership Lab
- You already know exactly what you want to build — go straight to Pilot
- You need a technical architecture recommendation — that’s a different engagement
- Your team is fewer than 8 people
- You’re looking for AI training, not AI discovery
Not sure which is right for your situation? Book a free 30-minute call with Matt and we’ll tell you honestly — even if the answer is “not yet.” We disqualify 60–75% of our own prospects. We’d rather build right than bill wrong.
How We Compare
Why Not Just Run an Internal Workshop?
You could. Here’s what you’d be giving up — and gaining — with each approach.
| Dimension | Internal Workshop | Generic Consulting | Faction AI Hackathon |
|---|---|---|---|
| Facilitation Quality | Whoever volunteers | Senior consultant (often on script) | ✓ Best Matt — practiced, direct, energetic |
| Technical Scoring | None | Sometimes included, often theoretical | ✓ Included — Faction tech advisor on-site |
| Deliverable | Meeting notes, if lucky | Slide deck, 2–3 weeks later | ✓ T+5 Days — Scored opportunity map with champions |
| Staff Buy-In | Variable — depends on facilitator | Low — externally driven process | ✓ Built In — Staff own the ideas, instant champions |
| AI Feasibility Check | Nobody in the room knows | PowerPoint feasibility, no technical depth | ✓ Real-Time — Scored against actual AI buildability |
| Next Step | Another meeting | Another proposal | ✓ Clear — Specific recommended engagement, pre-scoped |
| Cost | Staff time | $15K–$50K+ for discovery | ✓ $5K Flat — No surprises, all in |
What Comes Next
The Hackathon Is the Starting Line, Not the Finish Line.
The Opportunity Map you receive gives you a clear ranked list of AI investments to pursue. Most clients choose to take the #1 opportunity into a 30-Day Department Pilot — a focused, deep-dive assessment that produces an agent design spec, ROI model, and implementation roadmap.
You’re never pressured to continue. But in our experience, once you see what your team uncovered in a single day, the question is never whether to move forward — it’s which opportunity to prioritize first.
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