About Elastic

Elastic is the search AI company and makers of Elasticsearch.

Elasticsearch is an open source, distributed search and analytics engine built for speed, scale, and AI applications. As a retrieval platform, it stores structured, unstructured, and vector data in real time. It delivers fast hybrid and vector search, real-time analytics on logs, metrics or events, and enables AI-driven applications with high performance, accuracy, and relevance.

How to use Elastic

You can build a multi-step AI agent that uses Elasticsearch combining a Jina embedding model. You are also free to combine it with one or more of Elastic’s available capabilities (such as Elastic Agent Builder, Elastic Workflows, Search, ES|QL, Observability, Security, or the A2A/MCP connectivity) to automate real-world tasks. 

How to Get Started

NOTES:

• Once your 14-day free trial ends, you are able to self-extend for a further 30 days using this form.
• You can also run Elasticsearch locally for free: https://www.elastic.co/downloads/elasticsearch

You are able to sign up to a 14-day free trial by following the below steps:

1. Go to https://ela.st/elastic-paypal-hackathon.

2. Sign up for a free trial using your desired login method:
   

3. Enter your firstname, lastname and company name when prompted.

4. Select your project type (either Search or Vector Search is recommended).

5. Select the region you would like your cluster to be created, and hit Launch.

6. Wait until your serverless cluster is available to use. This will only take a few minutes.

7. Enter Kibana:
   

8. Now you’re ready to get started. Choose to connect your IDE to the skills and CLI, or follow one of our tutorials to get started with Elasticsearch, vector search or Agent Builder.

9. Get building!

Resources

1. Elastic Getting Started Guides

2. Elastic Docs

3. Elastic Free Training

4. Elastic Community

For any trial or hackathon questions:

Connect with the Elastic team via the PayPal Discord!