But then Fortune 500 companies approached Devpost with a tough ask: recreate this magic, but only with their employees. How do you spark the same level of creativity in a closed ecosystem?

Devpost’s first attempt completely missed the point. We copied over all our public platform features - collaboration tools, the voting system, everything - but something was missing. Teams stuck to their usual groups and played it safe with ideas. When our customers looked at their first internal hackathon results, it was pretty clear: 90% of what teams built were just small tweaks to projects that already existed.

That's when we saw the real opportunity: companies already have tons of valuable knowledge locked away inside them. What if we could help employees actually access and use it? We realized a company knowledge base could unlock all those hidden insights and use AI to turn them into strong product ideas that keep companies ahead of the competition. That's how we built Devpost for Teams.