HACK47: OFFGRID

Brainstorm word cloud

Terms mined today from the brief, current gallery submissions, past winning projects in related Devpost hackathons and the discussion board. Bigger = more frequent (brief and winners weigh more). Click a word to see winning projects that mention it.

AI · slack · data · agent · tableau · next · trust · agents · natural language · assistant · model · learns · maps · robot · system · alert · ai-powered · never · generative · source · impact · AI workbench · false positives · tableau next · nvidia · manual · accurate · context · decision · drops · plan · autonomously · actions · sends · fraud · becomes · native · explainable · multi-agent · process

Past winners in related hackathons

Winner-badged projects from ended Devpost hackathons that share a theme with this one. Read a few before you pick an idea.

• EcoLafaek — Guarding Timor's Beauty (AWS AI Agent Global Hackathon)
• RAGIS (Retrieval-Augmented Generation Incident Summary) — Project uses NVIDIA AI Workbench to easily build an assistant to help security analysts quickly identify false positives, reducing manual effort by using a RAG model for accurate predictions. (HackAI - Dell and NVIDIA Challenge)
• (Tableau) Next Question — Slack is the place to be. (Tableau) Next Question removes barriers to get to your data in that context. Insights from Tableau Next and Tableau Core come to Slack and to each other, seamlessly. (Tableau Next Virtual Hackathon)
• Precedent - Decision Memory For Slack — Your organization already decided this. Precedent privately finds the decision before your team makes it again. (Slack Agent Builder Challenge)
• Skeptic — Every agent is handed tool documentation and told to trust it. This one doesn't. It experiments on its tools, learns what they really do, drops beliefs that stop being true, and publishes the spec. (Syndicate by Maximor)
• RoofGrid — Turn any rooftop into a practical, data-driven solar plan. (InfinityX Global Hackathon 2K26)
• marko — AR maps for commercial spaces, built autonomously from floor plans and a single phone scan. (BigRed//Hacks 2026)
• SafeServe — Cooking meals safely through imitation learning and LTL-based verification. (Revolute Hackathon)
• RoboChef: GPT-OSS Powered Kitchen Assistant — Ask for a dish, get it done. Our GPT-OSS kitchen assistant turns natural language into robot actions, orchestrating Isaac GR00T with a live UI that tracks progress and next steps. (OpenAI Open Model Hackathon)
• Gauntlet - Go safe or go home — GAUNTLET sends adversarial AI's to attack your AI service agent with multi-turn fraud. Every breach becomes a regression test in Test Manager, OWASP-tagged and AVSS-scored. Native to UiPath. (UiPath AgentHack)
• Solar Sync — Eco-conscious mobility: Empowering you to drive greener. (Girls in Tech : Hack for the Environment)
• AegisAgent - An insurance-claim app fully developed by Kiro — AegisAgent transforms manual insurance claim reviews into an automated, explainable multi-agent process, combining evidence curation, policy interpretation, and compliance reasoning through AWS-Kiro. (AWS AI Agent Global Hackathon)

Judging criteria

Criteria as listed on the official page; weights are not stated there, so they are drawn equal. source ↗

Timeline

Submission period (from Devpost): Sep 15 - Oct 15, 2026. Deadline: Deadline: Oct 15, 2026 @ 12:00am EDT.

How a beginner can ship

1. Read the rules page

   Check eligibility, team rules and what must be submitted.

2. Pick one idea from the word cloud

   Choose one problem and one user; cut everything else.

3. Build the smallest working version

   One flow that works end to end beats five half features.

4. Record the demo early

   Most Devpost judging leans on the video and description.