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Sprints are 12-week product development cycles that bring together tech teams and collaborators to build public-facing digital products using open data.
2025 Sprints
2025
Increasing Access to Small Dollar Loans in Rural America
Challenge:
Use data and technology to help improve access to credit and reduce the origination cost of small dollar loans (<$150k) for housing-related needs (e.g., homeownership, renovations, equity drawdown, etc.) in rural communities.
Agency
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Target Audience
Rural Americans, those lending to rural Americans, or technologies that enable lending to rural Americans who are in need of housing finance for small dollar loans via government-backed programs, community banks, credit unions, CDFIs, commercial banks, mortgage companies, etc.
Preparing Federal Open Data for the Next Generation of AI Users
Challenge:
Improve the ability of Large Language Models (LLMs) to serve accurate and reliable information involving federal open data, while making this data more easily ingestible by LLMs.
Agency
U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Census Bureau
Target Audience
LLM developers and their downstream users making inquiries about federal data.