Formats & pricing
Seven ways to work with a corporate hackathon consultancy — from a 90-minute call that sharpens one challenge to a firm-wide challenge across business units. Prices are “from”, excluding VAT and travel.
Book now
Three small formats you can book today, on a corporate card, without a procurement round. Fixed price, fixed length, one clear output.
Power Hour
€500
You leave with: one sharpened challenge statement, a first batch of ideas, and a recommendation on which format to run next.
Best for: an innovation manager who has a brief but not a plan.
Workshop
€900
You leave with: a prioritised shortlist of three ideas the whole team agrees on, with an owner and a next step for each. Format: Lightning Decision Jam.
Best for: a team with too many ideas and no decision.
Quick Hack
€2,000
You leave with: one rough concept, pitched and voted on, with a one-page summary you can take to a sponsor.
Best for: showing a sceptical leadership team what a hackathon produces, before committing to one.
Prices in euros, excluding VAT. At your office in Île-de-France; travel elsewhere at cost. Schools, NGOs and early-stage startups: ask us.
Scoped with you
Bigger formats start with a free 20-minute scoping call. “From” prices are for the Consulting level of support — see below for Project management and Full facilitation.
Team Build
from€5,000
You leave with: an aligned team and one concept ready to test — a customer journey, a prototype, or an 18-month innovation roadmap, depending on the brief.
Includes: pre-call, agenda design, one lead facilitator, materials, written debrief within 48 hours.
Flagship Hackathon
from€15,000
You leave with: working prototypes, live pitches to a jury, and a go / no-go shortlist your leadership can act on within the month.
Includes: challenge scoping with sponsors, participant and mentor briefing, run-of-show and facilitation, jury process, results deck and follow-up plan.
Firm-wide Challenge
from€20,000
You leave with: dozens of ideas ranked across business units, a funded shortlist, and a repeatable process for the next round.
Includes: programme design, challenge platform set-up, local facilitator briefing, central jury, executive readout.
Champions Programme
Priced on scoping
You leave with: people inside your organisation who can design and run hackathons and sprints without us.
Includes: training sprints, co-facilitated first events, templates and playbooks, office hours.
How involved do you want us?
For the bigger formats you choose the level of support. The “from” prices above are for Consulting; Project management and Full facilitation are quoted on the scoping call.
Consulting
We design it, you run it. Challenge scoping, agenda, templates, a rehearsal with your facilitators, and a debrief.
Project management
We design and run the programme; your people facilitate the room with our coaching.
Full facilitation (A to Z)
We design, produce and facilitate the whole thing, in English and French, with our partner coaches and builders where the brief needs them.
Not sure which format?
- You have a brief and no plan → Power Hour
- You have many ideas and no decision → Workshop
- You need to convince leadership a hackathon is worth it → Quick Hack
- You have a sponsor, a budget and a date → Flagship Hackathon
Or pick by stage: Discover (find the right problem), Validate (test the best ideas), Prototype (build something people can react to). You’ll choose this on the booking form.
What we don’t do
We don’t run open public hackathons for developer recruitment, we don’t build the software after the event, and we don’t sell a platform. We design and run the room so your people make decisions faster — and we hand over to your teams or your tech partners for what comes next. If you need a recruitment hackathon or an engineering build, we’ll tell you on the first call and point you to people who do that well.
About MHD Innovation
MHD Innovation is a corporate hackathon consultancy and agency based in Paris. Founded in 2022 by Maria Halse Duloquin, it designs, produces and facilitates corporate hackathons, AI hackathons, design sprints and innovation workshops for large organisations, in English and French. Clients include Bel, Aviva, Compass Group, NAB and Cambridge University Press, plus the German Marshall Fund and business and tech schools such as HETIC and CREA. Since 2021 the agency has run more than 60 hackathons, sprints and workshops for 2,500+ participants, from corporate innovation teams to business-school cohorts. Its founder has hosted, coached or produced more than 100 hackathons and sprint workshops across 11 countries. Formats start at €500 for a 90-minute Power Hour; flagship hackathons start at €15,000.
Questions we get asked
How much does a corporate hackathon cost?
With MHD Innovation, a one- or two-day Flagship Hackathon starts at €15,000 excluding VAT for the Consulting level of support, and from around €25,000 for full facilitation of a 50-person event. Smaller formats start at €500 for a 90-minute Power Hour.
How long does it take to organise a hackathon?
Six to eight weeks from scoping call to event day is comfortable; four weeks is possible if sponsors and participants are already identified.
Can you run it online or in another country?
Yes. We run hybrid and fully online formats, and have delivered in person in France, the UK, the US, Saudi Arabia, Mexico, Switzerland and Germany among others. Travel is billed at cost.
Do you work in French?
Yes — everything is available in English and French, and we can facilitate in Spanish.
Do you build the winning prototypes afterwards?
No. We hand over a results deck, a go / no-go shortlist and a follow-up plan, and we can introduce you to development partners. See “What we don’t do”.
Is there a discount for repeat runs?
Yes — a second edition of the same format within twelve months is quoted at a lower rate because scoping and design are already done. Ask on the scoping call.
Ready when you are
Tell us what you have in mind. We reply within 24h with a date and either an invoice (for the book-now formats) or a 30-minute scoping call. Nothing is charged until you confirm.