The problem
Résumés won't tell you who can actually build.
High-signal CTFs, hackathons and gatherings that put the right people on hard problems. We design the challenges, build the infrastructure, and run the day end to end.
For people hunting signal, not swag.
Companies
You want a recruiting or upskilling event that actually surfaces builders — and reflects well on your brand.
Schools & communities
You need a flagship technical event but lack the time to design and run the infrastructure.
Conferences
You want a frontier-tech track, workshop, or live competition with real technical depth.
What we bring to the day.
Artifacts, decisions, and measurable outcomes — not slide decks.
Custom CTFs
Original challenges across security, AI, and systems — calibrated to your audience and hosted on our platform.
Hackathons
Theme, mentoring, judging, and infrastructure for a hackathon that produces real prototypes.
Talks & workshops
Frontier sessions — agentic AI, autonomous-systems security, robot swarms — by people doing the work.
Recruiting events
Challenge-based formats that let you meet builders by watching them build, not by reading résumés.
What a PRIMITIVE event feels like.
Briefing — the problem drops
Teams form, the scenario lands, and the infrastructure is already humming.
Flags open
Live scoreboard up. Validators judge real artifacts — running exploits, working code — not multiple choice.
The twist
A mid-game challenge wave reshuffles the leaderboard and keeps the day honest.
Final sprint
Scoreboard freeze. The last hour is where you see who can actually build under pressure.
Debrief
Write-ups, winners, and the conversations — technical and hiring — the day was designed for.
From first call to real-world impact.
- 01
Design
We shape the format, challenges, and difficulty to your goals — recruiting, learning, or community.
- 02
Build & host
Challenges, validators, and scoreboards run on our platform; we handle the technical infrastructure.
- 03
Run the day
We operate the event live — mentoring, support, and judging — and hand you the results afterwards.
Run an event worth showing up for.
Tell us the audience and the goal. We'll propose a format and handle the hard parts.
Engineers who’ve shipped & led
Scaleway
Kiln
Tresorio
Berty
Gno.land
Ingenium Calor