Tano x Corgi Creator Heist Hack

Think James Bond... but in a hackathon The creator economy has a problem. Creators have built enormous audiences, incredible personal brands and businesses around their taste, knowledge and influence. But much of that value is still trapped inside the creator. Their audience asks the same questions over and over. Their best recommendations live in their DMs. Their taste lives in their head. Their product knowledge lives across Notes, Instagram, TikTok, spreadsheets and a thousand browser tabs. And the creator becomes the bottleneck. Tano wants to change that. So we're bringing together a small group of exceptional builders for a 12-hour experiment: This is not a traditional hackathon. There is no generic prompt. There is no requirement to build an AI agent. There is no prize for using the most tokens. And there is definitely no prize for making the most complicated architecture. Instead, we're giving builders access to realistic creator businesses, real-world evidence and a genuinely messy problem. Your job is to investigate, decide what matters and build something people would actually use. THE HEIST The entire day is framed around one simple mission: STEAL BACK THE CREATOR'S TIME. Each team receives a Tano Creator Case File containing evidence from a fictional but highly realistic D2C creator business. You are not told exactly what to build. Instead, you receive clues... plus a special surprise part way through THE PEOPLE We're interested in people with approximately 3+ years of meaningful experience, but age and traditional pedigree aren't the point. We're especially interested in: Computer Science degrees are not required. In fact, we're deliberately looking beyond the traditional engineering pipeline. We care about: Taste. Curiosity. Technical ability. Speed. Product instinct. And obsession with solving problems. PRIZES ALL WINNERS / WINNING TEAMS WILL BE ASKED TO INTERVIEW AT TANO 🥇 THE WINNING TEAM: The Perfect Heist (best overall solution) A dinner with an expert in tech + AI 🥈 SECOND TEAM: The Big Score (best commercial potential) Mac Mini 🥉THIRD TEAM: The Clever Job (most elegant or inventive) A private dinner or lunch with the Tano engineering team where you'll get to go much deeper into your project. JUDGES TBA