Give builders
more to build with.

Bring useful technology, a real challenge, expertise, or an opportunity. Put it directly into the hands of people building.

Partner with Hackyard

Agent37

Exclusive Sandbox Partner

Build and run your AI agents.

Agent37 provides hosted, isolated sandboxes and runtimes for AI agents, with persistent files, browser access and app connections.

Build 2026 features an Agent37 challenge. Build using the platform and submit an artifact demonstrating how your project uses it.

Exclusive partnership in the hosted agent sandbox/runtime category.

View challenge

BUILD 2026

ByteAsk

F26

Official partner · Online open-source challenge

Rewards up to
$30K USD.

Up to $30,000 USD in total rewards. Enter with your team, make useful open-source contributions and show what you can build.

28 September–18 October 2026

Explore the challenge Register with ByteAsk

Total rewards pool · Up to

$30K
USD.

ByteAsk Pro, Ultra and Max plan rewards.

Top 10 participants get direct fellowship interviews.

Selected fellows: ₹30,000/month stipend.

Plus ₹20,000 in cash prizesChallenge terms

Confirmed build partner

Nodus Compute

Nodus Challenge.

₹1,00,000 cash for the top three teams.

Build on Nodus compute at the in-person event at IIT Guwahati, 24–25 October 2026. The best projects win ₹50,000 for first place, ₹30,000 for second and ₹20,000 for third.

Each team at the event also receives $30 in Nodus product credits. Credits are separate from cash and subject to Nodus terms.

View Nodus prizes

Confirmed build partner

Render

Build, deploy,
and orchestrate.

$50 for eligible physical-build attendees.

Interested attendees aged 16+ who are building with or on Render can claim $50 in build credits. Hackyard will share the private claim link when the hackathon starts; claimants submit a GitHub account and receive the code by email.

Best Use of Render track.

Each member of the 1st-place project receives $200 in credits (up to $800 total), each member of 2nd place receives $100 (up to $400), and each member of 3rd place receives $50 (up to $200).

Required: projects must use Render Workflows to qualify for Best Use of Render track prizes. Hackyard confirms attendee age eligibility.

More confirmed
build partners.

Practical tools, access, and founder experience for projects at Build 2026.

YC F26

Maritime

Maritime will give 100 projects one free month of its Starter plan for building and hosting AI agents.

Cofounder and CEO Maria Gorskikh will also share her founder story and how Maritime was built.

Visit Maritime

FlutterFlow

Interested projects receive a 30-day free trial to build with FlutterFlow.

The top 2 projects receive one-year FlutterFlow Basic subscriptions.

Visit FlutterFlow

ElevenLabs

All participants can claim one month of Creator tier access for building with AI voice and audio.

Overall winners receive 3 months of Pro tier per team member, and the Best Project Built with ElevenLabs receives 3 months of Scale tier per team member.

Open the hacker guide Claim through Discord

MojoAuth

MojoAuth provides 5 Business Pro licenses, one for each of the top 5 winning teams.

Visit MojoAuth

Spline

Spline provides 3 Spline Professional Annual plans with AI credits, one for a nominated member of each of the 3 winning teams.

Visit Spline

Exclusive media partners

Build 2026,
on the record.

Hub News and EastMojo are the exclusive media partners for Hackyard Build 2026, bringing the builders, projects and results from IIT Guwahati to readers across the Northeast.

Hub Network

Hub News

A fast-growing digital media platform from Meghalaya, covering news across Northeast India.

hubnetwork.in

Northeast India news

EastMojo

A digital newsroom reporting stories from across Northeast India.

eastmojo.com

Start with
an objective.

Technology, challenges, talent, founder discovery, and expertise. These are conversations, not generic sponsorship packages.

Technology

Put your APIs, AI models, cloud infrastructure or developer tools into the building process.

Challenges

Give builders a real problem worth solving.

Talent

Meet exceptional builders for internships, hiring and future opportunities.

Useful access.
Clear scope.

Put your APIs, AI models, cloud infrastructure, developer tools, real problems, and opportunities into the building process.

No sponsor roster, package pricing, guaranteed adoption, hiring outcomes, or participant-data access is promised here.

Tools & technical support

Discuss what builders need to try your tool: documentation, a useful example, an appropriate access model, and technical support. Access conditions and any limits should be clear before participants begin.

A challenge worth solving

Describe the user, the problem, and what a useful result would demonstrate. Agree on the brief, data permissions, support, and assessment before a challenge is published.

Responsible hiring conversations

Explore how to meet builders through their work. Participation, consent, and the scope of any hiring activity must be agreed in advance. A partnership is not permission to access private participant data.

Confirmed event facts

Applications are online, free, and open from 14 September to 10 October 2026. Selected participants build in person at IIT Guwahati on 24–25 October, either solo or in teams of 2–4. Each selected project receives $100 in Hackyard LLM credits. Main-event prizes include ₹47,500 cash and ₹1,00,000 in Agent37 prize credits, with separate support for qualified projects. The Nodus Challenge adds ₹1,00,000 cash for the top three teams building on Nodus compute at the event, plus $30 Nodus product credits per event team. The Open Innovation main track adds ₹25,000 cash for the top three teams. The combined cash pool is up to ₹4,72,500; credits are separate.