Stakeholder overview · Summer Pilot 2026
Open community program · production software pilot
For a quick visual map, send participants to What is this program?. This page is a longer summary for faculty and partners.
Outcome
Participants complete six weekly deliverables by building, deploying, reviewing, and operating production-grade software. Assessment is pass/fail on published criteria. Summer Pilot 2026 is open-access—formal academic credit and certificates are deferred.
Weeks 1–3 · Contests
- Each participant builds and deploys a production application.
- Written technical review on every peer submission (one written review per merged submission — you review the peers who actually shipped, not the whole roster).
- Optional public upvotes on GitHub (or abstain) determine which system operates for the cohort — tallies are not shown on this site.
- Non-winners contribute to the selected platform through review, QA, and follow-on changes.
- Week 1: Project management platform
- Week 2: Internal communications platform
- Week 3: Vibe marketing platform
Operator roles (~10% each winning platform): 21 of 67 students.
Weeks 4–6 · External sprints
- Week 4: Learning engineer integration to Ludwitt — a registered, working, instrumented app
- Week 5: Startup / entrepreneurship — deck, plan, production app
- Week 6: Open source swarm — merged upstream contribution
For hiring partners
- Vibe marketing platform ships in week 3
- End-of-pilot hiring showcase (Boston anchor)
- Review deployed systems, technical documentation, and contribution history directly
Contact: cohort@hult.edu
Timeline
Start: July 13, 2026 at 09:00 Eastern Time · Showcase: August 19, 2026