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24 hours. One Sunday. 3 Lines. £30,000 in builder grants. Real problems. Funded solutions. Products that ship.
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Venue to be announced
Central London. Under 10 minutes from a tube station. Fully accessible. The exact address drops with your acceptance email. Apply first, location later.
We post the problems.
We fund the solutions.
You build.
This is not a hackathon in the traditional sense. These are build grants, not prizes. Products ship through our partner network after the event. Winning teams enter a 90-day incubation with mentorship, operational support, and routes to funding.
Apply to launch in six steps.
Apply
By May 15
Get accepted
Join Discord + WhatsApp, receive API docs
Form your team
Teams finalised before Sunday
Show up 08:00 Sunday
Breakfast, opening, ground running at 09:30
Demo 19:00 — 21:00
5 min presentation, 3 min Q&A
Awards at 21:45
£10K per Line + incubation + launch
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 · 3 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.
0 judges,
coming soon.
A panel curated across finance, research, payments, community, and build platforms. Revealed May 2026.
Ethical Finance
Problem · adoption
Foundation Research
Ethical integrity
Payments
Integration · viability
Community
Usability · non-tech lens
Build Platform
Technical quality
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
3 Fireside Chats. Between build blocks.
Short conversations with operators and builders. Not instruction — signal.
Speaker TBA
Ethical Commerce
Speaker TBA
Creator Economy
Speaker TBA
Shipping & Scale
Speakers announced May 2026
Run of Show · Sunday 7 June · 08:00 → 22:30
Teams are formed before the event — everyone hits the ground running at 09:30. Demos run 19:00 — 21:00. Prayer breaks for Dhuhr, Asr and Maghrib. Breakfast and late lunch/dinner provided, all halal. Times are tentative and subject to change.
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 2M+ 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.
Applications close May 15
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Competitive application. 120 places. £30,000 in grants.