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Waypoint
A docs-first system for AI coding repos that helps projects stay understandable over time.
AI codingdocumentation systemsproject memory
Designed to make long-running work easier to resume, hand off, and maintain.
Mark Morgan builds AI systems, developer tools, and agent workflows. He is a Member of Technical Staff at ATG, a YC F25 company, an 8x hackathon winner, and a judge at Bay Area AI events.
His work focuses on agent systems, context routing, repo memory, and other tools that help software teams build and ship faster.
This site is a public record of his work: selected projects, hackathon wins, judging experience, and supporting links.
Achievements
Wins and judging.
Selected hackathon results and judging roles, with details and supporting links inside each entry.
- Date
- January 31, 2026
- Result
- 1st place
- Prize
- $25,000 cash + guaranteed YC interview + sponsor credits
win
1st place at YC's Hack the Stackathon
Won first place on January 31, 2026 with Bake-off, a marketplace where AI agents can create tasks, compete for work, and earn income.
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- Date
- January 31, 2026
- Result
- 1st place
- Prize
- $25,000 cash + guaranteed YC interview + sponsor credits
win
1st place at YC's Hack the Stackathon
Won first place on January 31, 2026 with Bake-off, a marketplace where AI agents can create tasks, compete for work, and earn income.
Open
Built Bake-off, a marketplace for AI agents to create tasks, compete for work, and earn income.
- Date
- January 31, 2026
- Result
- 1st place
- Prize
- $25,000 cash + guaranteed YC interview + sponsor credits
- Project
- Bake-off
- Project angle
- Marketplace for AI agents to create tasks, compete for work, and earn income
- Hack the Stackathon was hosted by Y Combinator and sponsored by MongoDB, Firecrawl, Reducto, Resend, Lovable, and ElevenLabs.
- The grand prize included a guaranteed YC interview, $25,000 cash, 500,000 Firecrawl credits, 100,000 Reducto credits, 6 months of Resend Pro, 6 months of Lovable Pro, and 3 months of ElevenLabs Pro.
- Bake-off is available as a public GitHub project.
- Date
- February 5, 2026
- Result
- 1st place
- Prize
- $25,000 cash + $25,000 Odyssey credits + $25,000 AWS credits
win
1st place at Odyssey's Odyssey-2 Pro Hackathon
Won first place on February 5, 2026 with Memory Palace, an education tool that turns study materials into vivid interactive video experiences using the method of loci.
Open
- Date
- February 5, 2026
- Result
- 1st place
- Prize
- $25,000 cash + $25,000 Odyssey credits + $25,000 AWS credits
win
1st place at Odyssey's Odyssey-2 Pro Hackathon
Won first place on February 5, 2026 with Memory Palace, an education tool that turns study materials into vivid interactive video experiences using the method of loci.
Open
Built Memory Palace, an education tool that turns study material into interactive video experiences using the method of loci.
- Date
- February 5, 2026
- Result
- 1st place
- Prize
- $25,000 cash + $25,000 Odyssey credits + $25,000 AWS credits
- Project
- Memory Palace
- Project angle
- Education tool that turns boring study material into vivid interactive video using the method of loci
- Odyssey-2 Pro was Odyssey’s first hackathon.
- The winning package included $25,000 cash, $25,000 in Odyssey 2-Pro credits, and $25,000 in AWS credits.
- The project turns dry study topics into immersive visual memory palaces for kids.
- Date
- September 27, 2025
- Result
- 1st place
- Prize
- $7,500 + Meta Ray-Ban glasses
win
1st place at a Microsoft x AI Tinkerers hackathon
Won first place on September 27, 2025 with Ross, an AI-powered client-acquisition system for personal injury law firms.
Open
- Date
- September 27, 2025
- Result
- 1st place
- Prize
- $7,500 + Meta Ray-Ban glasses
win
1st place at a Microsoft x AI Tinkerers hackathon
Won first place on September 27, 2025 with Ross, an AI-powered client-acquisition system for personal injury law firms.
Open
Built Ross, an AI client-acquisition system for personal injury law firms.
- Date
- September 27, 2025
- Result
- 1st place
- Project
- Ross
- Prize
- $7,500 + Meta Ray-Ban glasses
- Project angle
- AI client-acquisition system for personal injury law firms
- The win included $7,500 cash and Meta Ray-Ban glasses.
- The project focuses on ingesting police reports, surfacing viable leads, and automating outreach for personal injury lawyers.
- Date
- February 20, 2026
- Role
- Judge
judging
Judge at AWS x Anthropic x Datadog GenAI Hackathon
Served as a judge on February 20, 2026 for the AWS x Anthropic x Datadog GenAI Hackathon, a Bay Area builder event with a $35K+ prize pool.
Open
- Date
- February 20, 2026
- Role
- Judge
judging
Judge at AWS x Anthropic x Datadog GenAI Hackathon
Served as a judge on February 20, 2026 for the AWS x Anthropic x Datadog GenAI Hackathon, a Bay Area builder event with a $35K+ prize pool.
Open
Invited to judge a public AI hackathon hosted with AWS, Anthropic, and Datadog.
- Date
- February 20, 2026
- Role
- Judge
- Event
- AWS x Anthropic x Datadog GenAI Hackathon
- Prize pool
- $35K+
- Bay Area AI hackathon hosted around AWS, Anthropic, and Datadog.
- The event had a public $35K+ prize pool.
- Date
- February 21, 2026
- Role
- Judge
judging
Judge at AI Tinkerers x Google DeepMind Hackathon
Served as a judge on February 21, 2026 for AI Tinkerers SF’s Google DeepMind x Cactus Compute Global Hackathon, evaluating local-first agentic systems.
Open
- Date
- February 21, 2026
- Role
- Judge
judging
Judge at AI Tinkerers x Google DeepMind Hackathon
Served as a judge on February 21, 2026 for AI Tinkerers SF’s Google DeepMind x Cactus Compute Global Hackathon, evaluating local-first agentic systems.
Open
Invited to judge an AI Tinkerers SF hackathon hosted with Google DeepMind and Cactus Compute.
- Date
- February 21, 2026
- Role
- Judge
- Event
- Google DeepMind x Cactus Compute Global Hackathon
- Host
- AI Tinkerers SF
- AI Tinkerers SF hackathon hosted with Google DeepMind and Cactus Compute.
- The event focused on local-first agentic systems.
More
Work and additional context.
Current role, additional wins, and other public context that rounds out the picture.
- Started
- October 2025
work
Member of Technical Staff at ATG
Joined ATG in October 2025 as a Member of Technical Staff, building systems for financial intelligence at a YC F25 company.
Open
- Started
- October 2025
work
Member of Technical Staff at ATG
Joined ATG in October 2025 as a Member of Technical Staff, building systems for financial intelligence at a YC F25 company.
Open
Current role.
- Started
- October 2025
- Role
- Member of Technical Staff
- Company
- Autonomous Technologies Group
- Batch
- YC F25
- ATG is an applied AI research lab in NYC and a YC F25 company.
- The founders, Dillon Erb and Daniel Kobran, previously co-founded Paperspace.
- Paperspace was acquired by DigitalOcean in a nine-figure deal.
- The company builds systems focused on financial intelligence.
- Autonomous is ATG’s AI-native financial companion.
- Date
- November 28, 2025
win
1st place at Stacker House Hackathon
Won first place on November 28, 2025 at the Stacker House Hackathon with Conductor Control, a crowd-performance app that turns connected phones into a conductor-led instrument.
Open
- Date
- November 28, 2025
win
1st place at Stacker House Hackathon
Won first place on November 28, 2025 at the Stacker House Hackathon with Conductor Control, a crowd-performance app that turns connected phones into a conductor-led instrument.
Open
Built Conductor Control, a live performance system with one conductor screen and many connected audience devices.
- Date
- November 28, 2025
- Result
- 1st place
- Prize
- $1,000 cash
- Project
- Conductor Control
- A small unofficial hackathon hosted by Stack Auth in San Francisco.
- The prize was $1,000 cash.
- The app let a conductor control sound across connected phones in real time.
- Date
- October 21, 2025
win
2nd place at Clerk hackathon
Placed second on October 21, 2025 at Clerk hackathon with Fall Activities, an AI photo app that turns a selfie into autumn travel photos.
Open
- Date
- October 21, 2025
win
2nd place at Clerk hackathon
Placed second on October 21, 2025 at Clerk hackathon with Fall Activities, an AI photo app that turns a selfie into autumn travel photos.
Open
Built Fall Activities, an AI photo app for generating fall-themed travel photos from a selfie.
- Date
- October 21, 2025
- Result
- 2nd place
- Event
- Clerk hackathon
- Project
- Fall Activities
- Project angle
- AI photo app that turns a selfie into fall-themed travel photos
- Second-place finish at Clerk hackathon in late 2025.
- Fall Activities generated autumn travel photos without prompt writing, using a selfie as the starting point.
- Date
- September 19, 2025
win
Top Airia Agent at MCP AI Agents - AWS Hackathon
Won the Top Airia Agent category on September 19, 2025 with Powwow, a personal conference chief-of-staff built for event coordination and follow-through.
Open
- Date
- September 19, 2025
win
Top Airia Agent at MCP AI Agents - AWS Hackathon
Won the Top Airia Agent category on September 19, 2025 with Powwow, a personal conference chief-of-staff built for event coordination and follow-through.
Open
Built Powwow, a personal conference chief-of-staff for event coordination and follow-through.
- Date
- September 19, 2025
- Award
- Top Airia Agent
- Prize
- $1,500 Amazon gift card
- Event
- MCP AI Agents - AWS Hackathon
- Project
- Powwow
- The category prize included a $1,500 Amazon gift card and 12 months of Airia access.
- Powwow was a personal conference chief-of-staff for event coordination and follow-through.
- Date
- October 4, 2025
win
Datadog sponsor prize at Supabase Hackathon
Won the Datadog sponsor prize on October 4, 2025 at Supabase Hackathon with Kaizen, a tool that analyzes developer impact and suggests concrete ways engineering teams can improve.
Open
- Date
- October 4, 2025
win
Datadog sponsor prize at Supabase Hackathon
Won the Datadog sponsor prize on October 4, 2025 at Supabase Hackathon with Kaizen, a tool that analyzes developer impact and suggests concrete ways engineering teams can improve.
Open
Built Kaizen, a tool for understanding developer impact and recommending concrete team improvements.
- Date
- October 4, 2025
- Award
- Datadog sponsor prize
- Event
- Supabase Hackathon
- Project
- Kaizen
- Project angle
- Analyzes developer impact and recommends specific team improvements
- Sponsor prize at Supabase Hackathon.
- Kaizen combined GitHub, Linear, and Datadog data to help engineering leaders understand productivity and AI adoption.
- Date
- October 29, 2025
win
Best use of Fetch.AI at Gemini Hackathon
Won the Best use of Fetch.AI category on October 29, 2025 at Gemini Hackathon with Watch & Learn, a tool that turns screen recordings into skills for AI agents.
Open
- Date
- October 29, 2025
win
Best use of Fetch.AI at Gemini Hackathon
Won the Best use of Fetch.AI category on October 29, 2025 at Gemini Hackathon with Watch & Learn, a tool that turns screen recordings into skills for AI agents.
Open
Built Watch & Learn, a tool that converts a recorded demo into instructions and assets for AI agents.
- Date
- October 29, 2025
- Award
- Best use of Fetch.AI
- Event
- Gemini Hackathon
- Project
- Watch & Learn
- Project angle
- Turns screen recordings into skills for AI agents
- Category win at Gemini Hackathon.
- The project turns a screen recording into step-by-step instructions, scripts, templates, and other assets an AI agent can follow.
Projects
Open-source projects.
Public tools for agent workflows, context routing, repo memory, and local-first project tracking.
Open source
Meridian
A memory and workflow layer for Claude Code that keeps repo context, rules, and patterns reusable across sessions.
AI systemsdeveloper toolingrepo memory
Built to make AI-assisted software work more consistent and less fragile.
Open source
Reflex
A context-routing engine that selects the right docs and skills for a task before an agent starts working.
AI routingagent contextCLI tooling
Built to improve reliability by loading only the context that matters.
Open source
Pebble
A lightweight local-first issue tracker with a CLI and browser UI for managing project state inside git repos.
local-firstissue trackingCLI + UI
Built to keep tasks easy to inspect, edit, and automate.