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title: "London AI x Science Hackathon: two tracks Amass data reaches"
description: "Amass is a partner of the London AI x Science Hackathon at 1-2 Paris Garden, 3-4 October 2026. Every team gets $500 in API credits across two science tracks."
url: https://amass.tech/london-ai-science-hackathon
---

# London AI x Science Hackathon: two tracks Amass data reaches

London AI x Science Hackathon, 1-2 Paris Garden, SE1, 3 to 4 October 2026

# Push frontier AI at the hardest open problems in science.

Every answer arrives with the record it came from.

Past event

Dates

Saturday 3 to Sunday 4 October 2026

Times

Doors 08:00 Saturday, submissions 14:45 Sunday, BST

Place

1-2 Paris Garden, London SE1 8ND

Run by

Iterate and futurebio.xyz

Amass

Partner, in the room both days

[Get started →](https://amass.tech/onboarding/london-ai-science-hackathon)

[Pick your track ↓](#tracks)

Step 01 of 04

## Get set up

### Logistics

Amass is a partner of the [London AI x Science Hackathon](https://iterate.inc/london-ai-science), run by Iterate and futurebio.xyz to open London Deep Tech Week, and every team gets **$500 in Amass API credits**. Amass is one REST API over six cross-linked \*Cores: 43M+ papers, 1.2M+ clinical trials, 22K+ molecules, 43K+ genes, FDA and EMA authorizations, and 170M+ patents. Every answer arrives with the record it came from.

Doors open at 08:00 on Saturday, the kickoff is at 09:00, and the submission deadline is 14:45 on Sunday with pitches straight afterwards. The venue is 1-2 Paris Garden, London SE1 8ND, and all times are BST. Registration is on [Luma](https://luma.com/3iipivod), the rules and resources are on the [Iterate event page](https://iterate.inc/london-ai-science). Questions for us: [hello@amass.tech](mailto:hello@amass.tech).

### Four ways in, one key

Start here

All four reach the same data with the same key. If you do not know which one you want, start with the assistant and let it write the first call with you.

-   #### The Amass build assistant Start with this

    [Open the assistant →](https://platform.amass.tech/assistant)

    A chat grounded in the Amass documentation, built to help you write against the API. Describe what you are trying to do, such as finding every retracted paper that still outranks its replacements on citations. It answers with the endpoint, the filters, and the field names, so you are not guessing at parameter names from a schema you have not read.

-   #### The platform

    [platform.amass.tech →](https://platform.amass.tech)

    Your account, credits, and API keys, plus the full documentation, the interactive API reference, and the app gallery. Everything the assistant reads from lives here.

-   #### The Amass app

    [preview.amass.tech →](https://preview.amass.tech)

    The product itself. Ask a research question and get an answer with the records attached. Use it on Saturday morning to see what the data can answer before you write a line of code.

-   #### MCP

    [Connect the MCP →](https://amass.tech/mcp)

    Connect Amass to Claude, Cursor, or Codex and query all six \*Cores in natural language while you build. It also gives you a judge-friendly demo with nothing to deploy.


### Hand your agent the Amass skill

Quickstart

Paste one prompt into Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, or any agent that reads skills. It installs the amass-api skill, which teaches the agent the six \*Cores, their filters, and the response envelope before it writes a single call. The skill reads your key from `AMASS_API_KEY`, the same variable the track prompts below use.

Agent prompt

[Agent setup](https://platform.amass.tech/documentation/for-ai-agents/llm-quick-reference)

Install the Amass API skill. Run \`npx skills add amass-technologies/public-skills --skill amass-api\` and select the agent you are running in. You can read the skill directly at https://github.com/amass-technologies/public-skills/blob/main/skills/amass-api/SKILL.md (raw: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/amass-technologies/public-skills/main/skills/amass-api/SKILL.md), with the full API reference next to it in AMASS.md. The skill reads my key from AMASS\_API\_KEY. If it is not set, tell me to create a key at https://platform.amass.tech and export it. Then use the Amass API skill when working on this project.

[SKILL.md](https://github.com/amass-technologies/public-skills/blob/main/skills/amass-api/SKILL.md)[View on GitHub](https://github.com/amass-technologies/public-skills/tree/main/skills/amass-api)

### Claim your team’s $500 in API credits

The offer

One code per team, worth **$500**.

[Redeem your code →](https://platform.amass.tech/event/london-ai-x-sci3nc3-hackathon)

#### What $500 buys

Roughly **10,000 searches** or **50,000 record fetches**. Search costs $0.05 per 20 results; get-by-id and lookup are $0.01 each. That is far more than a team gets through in a weekend, so query freely and cache what you re-run.

## Pick one, and go build it

Claim your team’s $500, choose a track, and let the API do the reading. Narrow it until it feels too small, build the baseline, and show where it breaks. We would like to see it on Sunday.

[Claim your team’s $500 →](https://platform.amass.tech)

[Build assistant](https://platform.amass.tech/assistant)[Try the app](https://preview.amass.tech)[Connect the MCP](https://amass.tech/mcp)

One code per team. Find us at the venue, on the hackathon Discord, or at [hello@amass.tech](mailto:hello@amass.tech)

Data

No training on your data

Hosting

EU-hosted, enterprise

Isolation

Tenant-isolated by architecture

Certification

ISO 27001, SOC 2, NIS2: in motion