AssureSwarm Cherry Hill Advisory
October 2026

Auditober

The internal audit hackathon where your ideas come to life.

Sign up for Auditober See how it works

Help build the future of internal audit.

Scientists and electrical instruments in a classic black-and-white laboratory.

Internal auditors build agent-native audit solutions in a free sandbox environment. Enter on your own or as a team, using mock data throughout.

A gothic laboratory with a raised platform and overhead lights.
Electrical coils and glass instruments in a vintage laboratory.

Create and submit AI-driven workflows and custom solutions.

Every entry is shared anonymously with all participants. You leave with more than your own work: you get the community's whole playbook.

Join the hackathon
30 minAs little as 30 minutes to set up a sandbox and build something new.
FreeA sandbox environment for every entrant or team.
4 categoriesFrom risk assessment to your most creative application.
Shared with youEvery participant leaves with the community's work.

The hackathon

Four Winners

Create and submit AI-driven workflows and custom solutions. Pick the part of audit where your idea belongs.

  • Planning

    Risk assessment

    Bring an audit question into focus before the work begins.

  • Fieldwork

    Testing

    Put an agent to work on testing and fieldwork.

  • Audit delivery

    Operational audit

    Build for the work from walkthroughs to findings and reporting.

  • Open category

    Most creative

    Try a different application of agents in audit.

Your October

How it works

  1. NowSign up

    Join the update list with your work email. We will send the rules and how to enter.

  2. Oct 1Get your sandbox

    A free sandbox environment, loaded with mock data, for every entrant or team.

  3. Oct 8kickoff (CPE training)

    Join a CPE training session on Audit Engineering. See what you'll learn.

  4. OctoberBuild

    Create a workflow, an agent skill, a plugin, or a dashboard. A kickoff session and weekly office hours support you along the way.

  5. Oct 31Share

    Submit your entry. Entries are shared anonymously with all participants.

  6. NovemberWin

    Each category winner takes an AuditKeyboard home and receives a QAIP readiness review. The winners also share AssureSwarm subscriptions.

The prizes

What you can win

$1,000,000 in AssureSwarm subscriptions

Shared by the category winners.

About AssureSwarm

CPE training · October 8, 2026

Audit Engineering CPE

Learn to design a connected audit universe, reusable agent skills, traceable workflows, and dashboards using Model Context Protocol (MCP).

Hosted by Cherry Hill Advisory.

View the full program and CPE details.

Before you join

Common questions

What is Auditober?

A monthlong hackathon for the audit community, running through October 2026 and powered by AssureSwarm, the first agent-native audit management platform. Internal auditors build agent-native audit solutions, a workflow, an agent skill, a plugin, or a dashboard, in a free sandbox, and share what they build.

The point is collective intelligence: the community's best thinking, available to everyone who takes part.

When is it?

The whole of October 2026. Sign up, and in late September we email everyone on the list the rules and how to enter.

How much time does it take?

As little as 30 minutes to set up a sandbox and build something new. Beyond that, put in as much of October as you like.

Who is eligible to win?

Awards are limited to practitioners working within an organization's internal audit function. Use the work email associated with that role when joining the update list. Full eligibility requirements will be published with the rules.

Is Auditober a hackathon?

Yes. Auditober is the audit community's hackathon, stretched across a whole month. Instead of a weekend of code, you get the whole of October 2026 to build a workflow, an agent skill, a plugin, or a dashboard on mock data, and every entry is shared anonymously with all participants rather than locked away with one winning team.

If you searched for an audit hackathon, an internal audit hackathon, or a GRC hackathon, this is that event.

What do I enter?

A workflow, an agent skill, a plugin, or a dashboard, built for any phase of the audit: planning and risk assessment, walkthroughs, testing and fieldwork, findings and reporting.

A workflow is the steps of a piece of audit work, defined once so agents and auditors run them the same way every time. An agent skill is a reusable set of instructions an AI agent follows to do one piece of audit work. A dashboard is the live view of that work.

Every entry is judged in one of four categories: risk assessment, testing, operational audit, and most creative.

Where do I build it?

In a free sandbox environment, loaded with mock data, provided to every entrant or team. No integration, no procurement, and no private data.

What support is there during October?

A kickoff session, weekly office hours, and an October 8 CPE training session on Audit Engineering. The details come with the rules.

What happens to my entry?

It is shared anonymously with all participants. That is the heart of Auditober: everyone who enters leaves with everyone's work, the community's whole playbook.

Exactly where and how entries are shared will be stated in the published rules.

What can I win?

The winner of each of the four categories takes an AuditKeyboard home and receives a QAIP readiness review provided by Cherry Hill Advisory, and the winners share $1,000,000 in AssureSwarm subscriptions.

Full rules and entry mechanics are not announced yet; sign up and we will email them to you in late September.

Who are the judges?

The judging panel will be announced soon, and the judging process comes with the rules.

Is my data safe?

Yes, because none of it is used. The hackathon runs entirely on mock data: nothing from your organisation's systems, workpapers or audit record is uploaded, and you never need to bring real evidence to take part.