// The Challenges

Three tracks. Four real problems. One build day.

Pick the lane that fits what you want to ship — a venture, a real business solution, or something for the community.

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Tracks

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Industry challenges

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Idea to demo

// The Three Tracks

Three Ways to Build

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Startup

Venture-Scale

Build something venture-scale. Start from a partner company, or bring your own big-market idea. Standout teams keep building with us after the weekend.

02

Industry

Real Business

Pick one of four companies and ship against their real problem — real data, a rep on-site.

4 challenges ↓
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Community

Impact & Lifestyle

Anything with social impact — non-profit, civic, or lifestyle. Community first, scale later.

// Industry Track

Four Companies. Four Real Problems.

Pick one and ship a prototype in ~24 hours. Every challenge ships with anonymized sample data and a company rep on-site for live Q&A.

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Gainwise

Trade ops, answered in seconds.

Trading & Manufacturing

A Hong Kong trading and manufacturing company. Their sales team sources products from Japanese and mainland-China manufacturers and resells into the Hong Kong and mainland market.

Read the full brief

The challenge

Pick ONE of three real pain points and ship a working prototype against it.

Three ways in

  1. 1

    Sales copilot

    Reps answer client technical questions by hunting through manufacturer catalogs (Japanese + Chinese PDFs), internal docs, and WeChat exports. Build an assistant that answers sales questions in seconds, with citations.

  2. 2

    TT/LC parser + reconciliation

    Telegraphic-transfer and letter-of-credit details are keyed into Excel by hand and reconciled against bank statements manually. Extract the key fields from a TT/LC document and match them to a statement, flagging exceptions for human review.

  3. 3

    Cold-lead digest

    The team finds new clients through conferences and manual web search. Produce a CRM-ready list of new target accounts with rationale and sources.

Judged on

  • Sources citedno hallucinations, every claim traces back
  • Multilingualworks on Chinese + English (Japanese a bonus)
  • Real datauses the Gainwise sample files
  • Demoa 2-minute video showing the workflow end to end
  • Production pathwhat it takes to deploy at Gainwise next quarter
02

Konew FinTech

Turn a loan form into a conversation.

Licensed Money Lender

Konew FinTech Group (康業金融科技集團), founded 1997, is one of Hong Kong's leading licensed money lenders — mortgages, SME and personal loans — with 200+ staff across Hong Kong, Taiwan, and mainland China.

Read the full brief

The challenge

Replace the website lead form with an AI prompt-based interface that engages the customer, understands their needs in conversation, and shortens the whole pre-loan journey.

Three ways in

  1. 1

    Generate a tailored loan product in real time

    From the customer's needs and Konew's product metadata, using an LLM.

  2. 2

    Present an Approval-in-Principle (AIP)

    Show a few real, relevant options on the spot.

  3. 3

    Hand off to sales in real time

    A clean summary of the customer's loan portfolio and an activity log for follow-up.

Judged on

  • Shorter journeya real offer in real time instead of a callback
  • Quality of the offergenerated product + AIP fit the stated needs
  • Clean handoffuseful portfolio summary + activity log for sales
  • HK-readyworks in a real Hong Kong context (Chinese + English)
  • Demoa 2-minute end-to-end walkthrough
03

Apple Park Kids

Reinvent how a gift gets bought.

Organic Kids' Retail

Apple Park (Organic Farm Buddies) designs and sells organic, non-toxic apparel, sleepwear, dolls, and plush toys for infants and toddlers. Each doll is a named character that comes with its own book, and most of what they sell is bought as a gift.

Read the full brief

The challenge

Reimagine how they sell. If you designed how someone discovers and buys an Apple Park product in 2026 with AI, what would it look like?

Three ways in

  1. 1

    Conversational gift-finder

    Ask a few questions — child's age, occasion, budget, values — and recommend two or three products with a reason for each.

  2. 2

    Name-aware bedtime stories

    Type your child's name, get a short illustrated story starring the doll you're about to buy — used as a sales hook.

  3. 3

    Storytelling product page

    Turn each item's organic, plastic-free sourcing into a reason to buy, not fine print.

Judged on

  • New experiencechanges how people buy, not just decorates the catalog
  • Real productsruns against Apple Park's actual line
  • On-brandwarm, organic, parent-friendly
  • Demoa 2-minute walkthrough of the end-to-end experience
04

Vision & Co.

Hours of accounting, done in minutes.

Accounting & Consulting

A Hong Kong accounting and consulting firm serving SMEs — bookkeeping, audit support, company-secretary work, tax, and advisory. Like most firms its size, much of the work is still manual.

Read the full brief

The challenge

Take ONE slice of an accounting firm's workload and automate it so a junior accountant does in minutes what now takes hours.

Three ways in

  1. 1

    Document-to-books

    Drop in a pile of receipts and invoices (photos, PDFs, scans, mixed Chinese + English) and get clean, categorized ledger entries, with the source document linked to each line.

  2. 2

    Client onboarding copilot

    Turn the messy back-and-forth of collecting a new client's documents into a guided flow that gathers what's needed and flags what's missing.

  3. 3

    Audit / filing prep

    Assemble the supporting documents and a first-pass checklist for an audit or tax filing from a client's records.

Judged on

  • Time saved on a real task
  • Messy inputshandles mixed-language, photographed HK documents
  • Trustworthysources linked, easy to review and correct
  • Demoa 2-minute walkthrough on real-looking inputs

Pick your problem.

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