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Custom hackathons and challenges that turn ideas into impact

AMPLIFY YOUR BRAND, FIRE UP HUMAN POTENTIAL

Is your product, brand or community destined for bigger things but you're under resourced with shorter term priorities?

Turn your audience into active participants

For your team

You know you need to use AI to be more productive and efficient. But it can be hard to know where to start. Give your team the space and time by hosting an internal hackathon and start building a library of use cases and prototypes together.

For your community/customers

Make product adoption fun. Forget boring demos, tutorials, and guides. Do something different. Encourage your customers to get hands-on (the most effective way to learn!). Crowd source ideas and ways to use your product. Provide a more memorable and engaging experience.

The best way to teach your audience about your product and the value to them? Get them in there using it. Craft a challenge that gets their attention and gets them interacting with your brand and using your product.

For your prospects
Human connection drives engagement
Human connection drives engagement
Passive audiences drain resources and deliver little value.
Turn them active with hackathons and challenges that lead to real opportunity.

Full service hackathon management

We do the work so you can focus on building connection and engagement

From strategy and execution to wrap-up, Suru handles every detail so you can deliver a standout hackathon event, without the stress. We deliver out-of-the-box, high-impact experiences for any audience, anytime, anywhere.

Don't DIY your hackathon

Suru does the heavy lifting to make you look like the hero
Save hundreds of hours

Ditch the volunteer teams and traditional event planners. Hackathons are a specialist category of engagement. They are super high-impact but high-effort, they're not side projects. Suru handles the heavy lifting so you get all the benefits, minus the stress and diversion from your core work/duties.

Focus on the outcomes

Outsourcing the management affords you the time to ensure the outcomes you set out to achieve are met, while the strategic planning, running, execution, people management and technical operations just happen.

Maximize Engagement

Our experience guarantees higher participation and engagement from all participants throughout the entire journey. From our unique pre-hack attrition strategies to how we fuse partner products together with participants for a genuine hands-on experience.

Our market speciality

We specialize in designing and running standout hackathon experiences for B2B tech organizations—from SaaS and Web3 to the new wave of AI-native startups reshaping how business gets done.

Investment

Typically, running and managing your own hackathon-style external event without our support will approximately double the investment needed and not accounting for the indirect cost impact and associated risks.

Speed to market

Time kills deals. Spending 3+ months building your event or demand gen strategy from scratch is too long. Suru gives you an out-the-box, premium experience, ready to customise and launch quickly.

Frequently asked questions

This was such a valuable experience! I learned lots of new marketing strategies and ideas, and the networking was really fun!

Debbie - Finn Partners

This was a really fun way to gain exposure to new ideas, meet peers, and use my smarts for a good cause. I would absolutely participate again!

Becca - Amazon

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An experience they'll actually remember

This environment reminded me how fun and experimental the marketing profession can (and should) be.

Dustin - adMarketplace

I’ve been marketing for many years and still learned so much from my peers!

Miquel - ActBlue

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Together we'll build out a challenge or hackathon that wins over your audience, ignites the impact and smashes your goals

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