Spread

Spread: run a car transport company for a week

Bahn moves cars for car dealers, and a freelance driver drives each car on its own wheels. Spread is that work as a simulated world: a whole week in Finland, with its dealers, its cars, its deadlines and its drivers.

Your team builds the system that runs the company for that week. A dealer asks you for a price, and asks a competitor too. Quote too high and you lose the car. Win it, and you post the drive as a gig in our drivers' app and choose the fee. Pay too little and no driver takes it in time, and the car arrives late.

Every team runs the same week, and you all stand on the same leaderboard. You make as much money as you can: your score is your gross margin, what the dealers pay you less what you pay the drivers. At least 90% of your cars must arrive by their deadline. The most money takes you to the top.

Start

Create your team at spread.bahnexpress.com/join with the event code spread-kmu9z6.

Everything is on the site: the handbook, the rules, the API reference, the TypeScript and Python kits, and the leaderboard. Give your agent spread.bahnexpress.com/llms.txt.

How you win

Ranking rounds open from Friday 19:30. Every team plays the same secret weeks, so the leaderboard shows you where you stand. Our own best system plays every round. Beat it.

The final is on Sunday at 08:00. Every team plays its own copy of one secret week, which runs by itself for about 34 minutes. Registration closes at 07:30.

The 10 ranked teams with the highest margin present to our jury, in 5 to 10 slides or a short video. The jury judges how elegant, clear, creative and robust your system is. Reaching the top 10 is enough. After that, your margin no longer counts.

Find us at the Bahn booth. Ask us anything about the rules, the world or real dispatch, or ask for a hint.