Trackathon reads how you build, live, and the proof is yours to keep.
Plug it into your coding agent and Trackathon turns your real building, cadence, consistency, momentum, into a verified record you own. Hackathons are where it goes first: win or lose, every builder leaves with proof of how they built. It works anywhere people build against a clock.
Read a Build Pulse now
Live, from public GitHubThe demo is judged. The build is invisible.
Every hackathon scores the same thing: a written page and a demo video at the finish line. That gate cannot tell a project that grew across the weekend from one carried in pre-built, and the AI wave makes a shiny finish easier to manufacture than ever. Trackathon reads the building itself.
builders registered for a single 2025 hackathon with over a million dollars in prizes. Human judging of a final demo cannot see how that many people actually built.
Bolt, World’s Largest Hackathon 2025
the share of changed code that is genuinely refactored, down from about 25% in 2021, as AI-assisted output climbs. A polished demo proves less than it used to.
GitClear, 211M+ changed lines, 2025
how much slower experienced developers were on real tasks with early-2025 AI tools, while believing they were about 20% faster. Working well with AI is a real, uneven skill.
METR randomized study, July 2025
Major League Hacking already checks commit history by hand for a single dump at the start, and asks builders to disclose their AI use so a project stays, in its own words, “created by humans.” Trackathon reads both automatically, live, as the event runs.
Major League Hacking, official event rules
One signal, wherever people build
Hackathons are the sharpest case, and the first. The same reader works any time building happens against a clock.
Hackathons
The flagship. Win or lose, every builder leaves with proof of how they built, and organizers see who built consistently across the event.
Cohorts and fellowships
Give a batch a shared build signal so mentors can see momentum, not just the final showcase.
Bootcamps
Turn a program into a portable record each grad carries into hiring.
Team sprints
A shipping week, a launch push, an internal hack day, read the build as it happens.
Your own streak
Point it at yourself. Watch your cadence and consistency compound, and keep the receipts.
How it works
Plug in Trackathon
Connect it to your coding agent, or open the reader on this page. Nothing to install for the builder who just wants their number.
Build like you always would
Keep working. Trackathon reads your live public build activity across the event window. Your agent can log milestones it knows about that a commit log alone would miss.
Keep the proof
A verified read of how the work actually grew: cadence, consistency, momentum, what was built in-window. Yours to own and carry to the next thing you make.
git clone https://github.com/advik-bhatt/rolemate
cd rolemate/mcp-server && npm install && npm run build
claude mcp add rolemate -- node "$(pwd)/dist/index.js"Then ask your agent: “Run rolemate_trackathon_pulse for my handle over the last 48 hours.” It speaks MCP, so Cursor and Codex work too. Prefer zero setup? The field above reads your Build Pulse right now.
What the Build Pulse reads
Descriptive evidence of one build, shown in the open. It reads cadence, the shape of how the work grew. It is a snapshot of one event, not a code-quality grade and not a ranking of you as an engineer, and it says so every time.
In-event timeline
Whether the work grew across the window or appeared as one dump at the start.
Consistency
How evenly the building was distributed, the load-bearing signal against pre-built projects.
Built in-window
Repositories and work created during the event, not imported wholesale.
Momentum
Where the weight of the work landed, described plainly, early, steady, or late.
Active time
Hours and days with real activity, and how soon after the gun the first work landed.
Milestones
Opt-in checkpoints your agent logs, the debugging and recovery a commit history cannot show.
Live standings
Demo eventRunning an event?
Give every participant a reason to show up and a reason to stay. Trackathon is the judging aid you already do by hand, made instant, and a gift for the builders who do not win.
See how, in real time
Live standings of how consistently each team builds, so you can spot a single dump at the start or a genuine weekend of work at a glance.
Harder to fake than a demo
A live-observed build is tougher to manufacture than a video, and manufactured history is exactly what the anti-gaming layer is built to catch.
Everyone leaves with proof
The winners take the prize. Everyone else takes a verified record of how they built, portable to the next thing they make.
Yours to run, yours to keep, yours to show
The record belongs to you, not to anyone watching. You join an event to be read, the read is scoped to that window, and the proof is yours to share or hold. Trackathon sees public, pushed activity and the milestones your agent chooses to log. Your source code, your prompts, and your private work stay with you and never leave your machine.