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Profound announced the first-ever Marketing Engineering Hackathon on June 6, 2026…

2026-05-12 · 16:16 UTC ·@hasantoxr ·1 min read

Brief

Profound's Marketing Engineering Hackathon (June 6, 2026, Union Square, NYC) will host 50 builders for a one-day challenge to automate inhuman-scale marketing processes, offering $40,000 total in prizes and judges from Ramp, Stripe, and MongoDB. The platform-agnostic event allows Claude Code, Cursor, n8n, Python, LangChain, or raw APIs; winners receive cash, Profound credits, and interviews. Application required.

Why it matters

Profound announced the first-ever Marketing Engineering Hackathon on June 6, 2026 in Union Square, NYC: one day, 50 builders, and $40,000 in total prizes.

Key details

  • Two prize tracks—Best Overall Build and Best Profound-Native Agent—each award $10,000 cash, $10,000 in Profound agent credits, and an interview at Profound.
  • The event is platform-agnostic (Profound access plus use of Claude Code, Cursor, n8n, Python, LangChain, raw APIs), will be judged by people from Ramp, Stripe, and MongoDB, and requires an application; only 50 spots.
Source evidence

I'm done manually building marketing agents after finding this hackathon.

@Profound just announced the first-ever Marketing Engineering Hackathon and the challenge is unlike anything I've seen:

"Find a marketing process that's inhuman in scope or scale. Build a system or agent that runs it."

50 builders. One day. $40,000 in prizes. Union Square, NYC on June 6th.

The judges are from Ramp, Stripe, and MongoDB. The people actually hiring for this role right now.

Here's what makes this different from every other hackathon:

It's fully platform agnostic. Everyone gets Profound access but can also build with Claude Code, Cursor, n8n, Python, LangChain, raw API calls whatever ships the best system wins. No restrictions.

Two prize categories:

Best Overall Build:
→ $10K cash
→ $10K in Profound agent credits
→ Interview at Profound

Best Profound-Native Agent:
→ $10K cash
→ $10K in Profound agent credits
→ Interview at Profound

This event is for two kinds of people.

The technical marketer with a GitHub who has been quietly building agents and taking work off their team's plate for months.

The engineer with marketing instinct who can read a funnel, sees how broken most marketing systems are, and knows they could fix it.

Marketing Engineering was introduced as a discipline just weeks ago. The world's biggest companies are already hiring for it. There is no playbook yet.

The 50 builders who show up June 6th will write it.

Only 50 spots. Application required.

Apply here: university.tryprofound.com/e…

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