Build
what's next.
24 hours. One Sunday. 3 Lines. £30,000 in builder grants. Real problems. Funded solutions. Products that ship.
Acceptance letters are out. Check your email for your place and venue details.
Buildathon begins in
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Central London.
Locked in. Under 10 minutes from a tube station. Fully accessible. The exact address drops with your acceptance email, apply first, location later.
Demo day guests, public registration coming soon.
Come watch the top teams pitch on the main stage from 20:00. Free, capped, register in advance. We'll open guest sign-ups closer to the event.
Three Lines. Nine Tracks. One winner per Line.
Pick a Line. Build on one of its Tracks. £10,000 build grant per Line.
The Signal Line
3 tracks · £10,000
The Circuit Line
3 tracks · £10,000
The Interchange
Open · £10,000
The Signal Line
Broadcasting the alternatives.
This Line is for builders creating the platforms that help people create, distribute, and consume media on their own terms.
What Teams Build
Web-based remote recording. Multi-participant, speaker-separated tracks, local backup, episode management. Creators own their revenue from day one.
What Teams Build
Open music licensing platform. Searchable library, artist profiles, clear licensing terms, direct download. Every licensed track pays the artist directly. No corporate intermediary.
What Teams Build
A curated directory helping users find films, shows, music, podcasts, and creators that meet ethical criteria. Alternative sources listed per title. Better discovery, no streaming infrastructure.
The Circuit Line
Infrastructure for daily life.
This Line is for builders creating better versions of the systems people depend on every day. Insurance, productivity, local commerce. The invisible infrastructure that shapes daily life.
What Teams Build
A comparison interface that surfaces Takaful and ethical insurance options alongside conventional products. Foundation ethical ratings applied to each provider. Clear criteria. Direct application routes.
What Teams Build
Not the whole stack. One well-built piece. Ethical team communication, privacy-first document sharing, or an open-protocol email tool. Something a small team can adopt in a day.
What Teams Build
A map-based app using Foundation ethical ratings to find certified local businesses. Restaurants, shops, services. Location search, business profiles, ethical score display, filters.
The Interchange
Choose your own route.
No predefined tracks. Builders pitch their own product. One constraint: identify a product category dominated by a top 100 company where an ethical alternative is missing. Define the gap. Build the solution.
Rules of The Interchange
£10K build grant per Line
·90-day incubation for top teams
·Launch through partner network
Ummah.com API + sandbox from kickoff · Replit credits for every team · 10 domain-expert mentors · 4 fireside chats throughout the day · Prayer breaks for Dhuhr, Asr, Maghrib · All meals halal · Angel syndicate access for top 2 teams · Swag
The Panel
One panel across all Lines. Five-dimension scoring. Live demo required.
Sujude Dalieh
Strategic Growth at Replit
Scientist turned product leader turned investor, now driving global strategic growth at Replit, the platform builders use to ship at the Buildathon. A Berkeley-trained chemist and former Berkeley Lab researcher, she led the Jupyter Project integration at the Berkeley Institute for Data Science before investing at JAZZ Venture Partners and Lux Capital across frontier tech and health. She holds an MEng from Stanford and guest lectures at both Stanford and Berkeley.
Shahed Amanullah
Founder, Zabihah · MD, Elian Capital
Built Zabihah into the world's largest halal restaurant guide (acquired by River) and founded Affinis Labs and Zakatify. Former Senior Tech Advisor at the US State Department. Now Managing Director at Elian Capital.
Nida
CEO, Karmic
CEO of Karmic, designing and building innovation ecosystems. Scaled multibillion-dollar CPG brands inside Fortune 200s and invested as an early-stage VC at a $400M fund. Her portfolio has raised $75M in venture funding and $51M in federal grants.
Scoring Framework
Domain Experts
30-minute office hours throughout the day. Book via Discord.
0 mentors,
coming soon.
Domain experts across all three Lines. Announced with accepted builders. Office hours bookable throughout the day.
Expertise areas
10 seats
Fireside Chats. Between build blocks.
Short conversations with operators and builders. Not instruction, signal.
Charity Stack
Title Sponsor
Ummah
Building Payment Infra
Shahed Amanullah
Raising and Building
Adil · Boycat
Your First Million Users
Times tentative · Final running order shared with accepted builders
Run of Show · Sunday 7 June · 08:00 → 22:30
One Sunday, five phases. Build runs 09:30 to 19:00. Public doors open at 19:00. During Round 1 judging only, teams split between their Line demos and the Boycat fireside so nobody waits around. Everyone reconvenes at 20:00 for the public finals, where the top teams pitch to the room, then awards. All meals halal. Times are tentative.
Registration, badges, prayer space orientation. All food halal.
The Foundation's mission. The year ahead.
Agent walkthrough. Replit credits live for every team.
API + sandbox opening.
Open. Speaker TBA.
Teams already formed. Hit the ground running.
Build continues alongside.
Coffee, tea, snacks. Builders free to step out for lunch as needed, no scheduled sitting.
+15 min after adhan at 12:59. Prayer space open. Build continues.
Building payment infrastructure. Build continues alongside.
Raising and building. Build continues alongside.
Eat at your station or in the dining area.
Asr around 19:00. Prayer space open through the build freeze and Round 1 transition.
Submission portal hard-closes. No late submissions.
Guests, press, and supporters arrive for the finals. Welcome desk and refreshments.
Teams move to assigned Line rooms. AV checks. Submissions verified.
One room per Line. Pitch, Q&A, top 5 per Line advance.
Three rooms, one per Line. 2-min pitch + 1-min Q&A + 30-sec transition per team. A sub-panel of judges and mentors scores each room. Top 5 per Line advance.
Already pitched? Networking floor, then the Boycat fireside.
Once your team has pitched, refresh and mingle. Mentors, partners, investors on the floor.
Getting your first million users: the awareness trap. Runs alongside Round 1 judging.
15 finalists pitch to the full room and the public. 3-min pitch + 1 judge question (60s). Full judging panel scoring. Live audience voting via QR. Everyone watches.
Scores aggregated. Winners locked in. Builders and guests mingle.
Maghrib enters 21:27. Anyone praying prays. Non-Muslim judges break.
Finalist mentions. 3 Line winners (£10,000 each). Audience pick. Top 2 teams flagged for angel syndicate + 90-day incubation. Group photo.
Venue clears.
Tentative · Final run of show shared with accepted builders
Built with.
The Shared Futures Foundation
UK charity, registration in process. Research, fund, and launch ethical alternatives to top-100 products.
0M+ eyes on this Buildathon
Combined social reach across the Foundation, our partners, and community channels. Every team that demos gets amplified, press, socials, direct intros. Distribution is built in, not bolted on.
Become a Buildathon sponsor.
Back a Line. Fund mentors. Underwrite an award. Name a prize. Sponsor packages available for founding partners, with direct access to 120 builders and amplification across a 4M+ combined audience.
A Shared Futures Foundation initiative · More partners TBA
The event is the beginning.
Every team that demos enters the pipeline. This is what separates us from every other hackathon.
All Finalists
Top 4-6 Teams
Top 2 Teams
Be respectful. Build with integrity. Help each other. If someone asks you to stop, stop.
Every participant, mentor, judge, sponsor rep, volunteer and organiser is required to follow the Code of Conduct. Read it in full before you apply, it covers expected behaviour, build rules, reporting, and IP.
The Buildathon starts in
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Sunday 7 June · 08:00 BST · Central London
120 builders · £30,000 in grants · 4M+ eyes watching. Accepted? Check your email.