About the challenge

  • Financial Advisors (FAs) are currently trapped between two worlds: the need for modern, timely client acquisition and the rigid, slow-moving requirements of FINRA and SEC compliance.

     

     

  • In an industry where a "life event" (marriage, inheritance, job change) makes a prospect ripe for advice today, the current manual legal review process—often taking up to 6 weeks—renders most outreach obsolete before it is even sent.

     

     

  • The goal of this hackathon is to build an intelligent engine that interprets provided high-intent signals and automates compliant outreach, transforming weeks of legal bottleneck into seconds of verified communication.

     

     

  • The wealth management industry suffers from "Stagnant Lead Syndrome" in which advisors rely on static lists that don't reflect real-time financial triggers.

     

     

  • Every email template and custom message must undergo a grueling review to ensure it isn't "promissory," "misleading," or lacking "proper disclosures."

     

     

  • By the time a template is approved, the prospect has often already chosen a competitor or the financial window of opportunity has closed.

     

     

Get started

  • You will be provided with a curated list of enriched prospects.

     

     

  • Your mission is to design a platform that identifies the "Who, Why, and When" of prospecting while serving as a Real-Time Compliance Officer.

     

     

  • You must enable Signal Interpretation: Analyzing provided prospect data (Why Now reasons, match reasons, and brief summaries) to categorize specific life events.

     

     

  • You must enable Intent Prioritization: Ranking the provided list to identify who is best to reach out to NOW (hint: leverage the included Urgency and ICP match scores).

     

     

  • You must enable Verified Outreach: Generating personalized outreach that is pre-vetted & compliant against regulatory standards. 

Requirements

What to Build

  • Participants must build a functional prototype addressing two core modes:

     

     

  • 1. The Autonomous Prospector (Near Full Automation)

     

     

    • Signal Detection: Automatically surfaces "ripe" leads (e.g., "John Doe’s company just went public") from the provided list.

       

       

    • Auto-Drafting: Generates a custom outreach message reflecting that specific event.

       

       

    • Instant Clearance: An AI-layer that checks the message against a FINRA/SEC rulebook and self-corrects or blocks non-compliant text.

       

       

  • 2. The Rapid Reviewer (Human-in-the-Loop)

     

     

    • Accelerated Approval: For high-stakes messages, provide an interface for legal professionals that prioritizes only the riskiest emails, highlights specific phrases that might be non-compliant, and suggests compliant alternatives to speed up the 6-week review to 6 minutes.

       

       

  • Both modes should enable the financial advisor to edit the email or send it with a single click.

     

     

What to Submit

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    (Note: The provided document does not explicitly state the format of the final submission—such as a GitHub repo or video link—beyond requiring participants to "build a functional prototype addressing two core modes". ) ---

Hackathon Sponsors

Prizes

1 non-cash prize
The LAB Credits
3 winners

Credits allocated among winning teams.

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Judges

John

John

Jeriah

Jeriah

Gilad

Gilad

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