Hackathons

Unlock innovative solutions by leveraging community-driven hackathons to solve real business challenges.

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How it Works

Drive your product and business goals by tapping into 100+ tech communities in our ecosystem. Test with the right audiences, gather real-time feedback, and build with clarity.

Define the Challenge

Collaborate to create a problem statement that aligns with your business needs.

Engage Talent Communities

Invite skilled participants from diverse tech communities to work on solving the challenge, so you can have access to a wide range of skills and fresh perspectives.

Facilitate Collaboration

Provide participants with the necessary resources and platforms to collaborate effectively and deliver innovative solutions.

Evaluate & Implement Solutions

Assess the outcomes, select the best solutions, and integrate them into your business strategy or product development.

Why Propel?

Our ecosystem lets companies use the power of community to accelerate their people, product and business goals.

Grow faster with specialized, on-demand communities.

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Developer Communities

Software Dev Communities

Product Dev/Marketing Communities

Design Communities

Our Ecosystem Reach

We've built the largest network of specialized tech talent communities.

Countries

250+

Communities

850k+

Active Members

CASE STUDY

A leading company in the customer service industry was looking to implement an AI solution for its call center operations.

The Challenge

They wanted to build an AI model that could accurately process and understand customer interactions, improving efficiency and reducing operational costs, in a call center environment and within a tight timeline.

Needs

To Build and Train an AI Model

The client required an AI model that could understand and process natural language interactions, providing accurate responses to customer inquiries.

Rapid Solution Development

Given the tight timeline, the client needed to ensure that the AI model was developed quickly and to high technical standards, ensuring it would work effectively in real-world scenarios.

Team Collaboration and Management

The client needed help in assembling a team of highly skilled professionals, onboarding them quickly, and ensuring that they could collaborate effectively to deliver the solution on time.

Solution

Team Curation and Onboarding

Propel curated a diverse, skilled technical team that included experts in AI, natural language processing (NLP), and data science, all aligned with the client's needs.

Hackathon Environment

Propel created an intensive, hackathon-style environment where the team could work collaboratively to develop and train the AI model under tight deadlines.

End-to-End Management

Propel managed the entire project from start to finish, ensuring smooth communication, efficient collaboration, and rapid problem-solving throughout the development process.

Outcome

Successful development and training of an AI model that could effectively process and respond to customer interactions.

The project was completed within the required timeline.

CASE STUDIES

See how we’ve helped companies drive strategic goals.

Beta Testing

Accelerated team building With Propel.

The primary challenge faced by Stepstone was the urgency to assemble a team of experienced individuals in a short timeframe.

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Hiring

Recruiting the perfect match with Propel.

Propel's community engagement approach found the perfect technical and cultural fit for Farfetch's product development team, offering relocation and support for a smooth transition.

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Hackathons

Scaling Data Acquisition with Propel

Propel's Talent Pipelining service built a data acquisition team for Defined.ai, trained to meet strict standards and access data from emerging markets, resulting in over 100,000 data sets for their AI models.

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