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What is an AI Hack Day?

An AI Hack Day is a focused, facilitated workshop where a client’s team spends a full day learning about AI and then building real tools and prototypes that solve genuine problems in their business. No coding experience required.

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Learn by doing

Participants get a practical introduction to AI — from automation and LLMs to vibe coding — and then immediately put it into practice by building something real.

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Real business problems

Each hack day centres on a mission brief tailored to the client. Teams tackle challenges drawn directly from their own work — not abstract exercises.

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Working prototypes in hours

Using tools like Bolt, Gemini, and Claude, teams go from a blank page to a working, interactive prototype by the end of the day — often with live demos.

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Everyone contributes

Teams include planners, designers, testers, and presenters. There’s no single “coder” — everyone has a role to play and something to learn.

A typical hack day

The day is structured to maximise learning and output, moving from introduction to hands-on building to a show-and-tell finale.

09:00 — Welcome

Arrive and get set up

Coffee, introductions, and getting everyone logged into the tools they’ll use for the day.

09:30 — Introduction

What is AI?

A practical, jargon-free introduction covering automation, machine learning, LLMs, agents, and “vibe coding” — with live demos.

10:15 — Mission Brief

Teams and challenges

Participants split into small teams and receive their mission — a real business challenge to solve using AI tools.

10:30 — Quick Build

Warm-up exercise

A short, fun build activity (like creating a Sudoku game) to get familiar with the tools before the main mission.

10:50 — Build

The main mission begins

Teams plan on whiteboards, sketch ideas, and start building their prototypes using Bolt, Gemini, and other AI tools.

13:00 — Polish

Improve and expand

After lunch, teams refine their creations — improving UX, adding features, preparing for the demo.

15:00 — Show & Tell

Demo time

Each team presents their working prototype to the group. Points for working demos, creativity, good UX, and humour.

15:45 — Wrap Up

Reflections and next steps

What did we learn? What surprised us? Where could AI help us next? The day ends with discussion about taking ideas forward.

Real missions, real outcomes

Each hack day was tailored around a real challenge from the client’s business. See what we’ve built recently.

Primeast

AI Coaching Platform

Primeast deliver leadership coaching programmes using diagnostic tools like Insights Discovery and Leadership Circle 360. The challenge: coaches spend hours reading PDF reports before each session, and learners lose momentum once coaching ends.

Three teams built an AI-powered coaching platform that reads diagnostic PDFs, extracts key insights about strengths, blind spots and development areas, then generates personalised action plans and ongoing coaching nudges across an 8-month journey.

The finished prototype included a dashboard with journey progress, a leadership profile with data visualisation, weekly reflection prompts, and AI-generated coaching commitments — all deployed as a live, interactive web app.

BoltGeminiClaudePDF AnalysisLeadership Coaching
Primeast team planning on flipchart
Planning the vision
Primeast presenting
Breakout session
AI Coaching Platform dashboard
The finished coaching dashboard
Audley Villages

AI-Powered Content Helper

Audley Villages manages 19 luxury retirement communities across the UK under the Audley and Mayfield brands. The challenge: producing consistent, on-brand marketing copy across all villages — from event posters and social posts to property descriptions and image libraries.

Working in small teams at one of their village locations, participants built AI-powered content tools including a brand tone checker that flags off-brand phrasing and suggests alternatives, a property description generator that creates listings from floor plans and specs, and an image tagging tool to help organise their large untagged photo library.

Other teams explored AI-generated village event materials, with one group creating an illustrated character mascot using AI image generation that brought genuine delight to the room during show-and-tell.

BoltChatGPTLovableBrand ConsistencyContent GenerationImage Tagging
Audley Villages workshop
Getting hands on
Audley team presenting
Show & tell time
Audley Villages team building
Audley team in action
Guides for Brides

Smarter Events & Lead Management

Guides for Brides is the UK’s leading wedding directory and awards platform. Their team tackled multiple missions across event management, lead scoring, and post-event PR.

The A Team built a “Smarter Events” suite — using AI to generate risk assessments for venues, create name badges from attendee lists, design event programmes, and automate post-event questionnaires.

Another team created a Wedding Industry Lead Prioritiser — a tool that scores and ranks sales leads by pulling data from URLs, Google Maps, and CSV uploads, checking for Google Business profiles and directory listings to prioritise outreach. A third team focused on Event PR automation — generating social media posts, press releases, and media contact lists for award winners.

BoltGeminiLead ScoringEvent ManagementPR Automation
Guides for Brides whiteboard planning
The A Team plans
Guides for Brides team working
Building the tools
Guides for Brides breakout session
Presenting the Lead Prioritiser

What participants said

After each hack day, we collected feedback using NPS surveys. The response was overwhelmingly positive.

★★★★★

The day was well structured, engaging and really useful. Learned about useful AI tools, got to put them into practice and create something useful.

— Elena Ciccotti
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A really valuable day — it was great to step away from the day-to-day and think more broadly about how we approach digital solutions and problem-solving. We all came away with fresh perspectives and lots of ideas, without feeling overwhelmed.

— Patient Choice participant
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The day was inspiring, educational, and also played a role in team building. A thoroughly worthwhile day away from ‘business as usual’.

— Audley Villages participant
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You definitely taught an old(ish) dog new tricks which will be put into use within the everyday workplace. Their wealth of knowledge was extensive and I certainly left with oodles more confidence than I arrived with.

— Neets, Patient Choice
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Really love the experience you provided — I’m amazed what everyone came up with! Every company needs to do this.

— Patient Choice participant
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It was practical, useful, engaging and informative. Delivery was at the right tone and pace.

— Audley Villages participant
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Friendly & welcoming team. Created a new supporting project within a few hours.

— Sophie Sibbald
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It was extremely well thought out and very engaging. I came away very impressed, even as someone already familiar with AI who uses it daily.

— Patient Choice participant

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