MLAI Hackathon 2026

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 · data · agent · AI agents · step · risk · sinh · intelligent · watches · plan · emergency · healthcare · routing · elasticsearch · hospital · reasoning · money · intelligence · phoenix · mcp · never · predicts · helping · patient · system · trong · thi · hcm · nam · theo

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.

• Orbit-ops — From Environmental Data to Intelligent Decisions. (Hackathon New Delhi: Build AI Agents)
• Cassandra — AI agents fail silently, confidently wrong, and nobody notices. Cassandra is an AI that watches your AIs. It catches every lie, diagnoses why, ships a proven fix, and even grades its own accuracy. (Google Cloud Rapid Agent Hackathon)
• Waylo — Waylo is an AI that lives on your Mac and guides you through anything - a pulsing red dot shows exactly where to click next, spoken aloud, step by step. (H0: Hack the Zero Stack with Vercel v0 and AWS Databases)
• SafeHer — Not just the fastest route — the safest one (Zero Origin)
• RoofGrid — Turn any rooftop into a practical, data-driven solar plan. (InfinityX Global Hackathon 2K26)
• commutify — we are creating a travel agent (Hackathon New Delhi: Build AI Agents)
• CrisisRoute AI –|Right Patient |Right Hospital |Right Time. — A Gemini-powered emergency healthcare routing platform and MCP-integrated Elasticsearch that intelligently matches patients to the most clinically appropriate hospital using multi-agent reasoning (Google Cloud Rapid Agent Hackathon)
• TradeWizard — TradeWizard helps people navigate uncertainty with confidence when money is on the line. (H0: Hack the Zero Stack with Vercel v0 and AWS Databases)
• ScaleFlow — ScaleFlow dynamically scales cloud resources during traffic spikes, distributes workloads across healthy instances, monitors infrastructure, and enables automated failure recovery. (Zero Origin)
• MediAudit AI — Snap a photo of your confusing medical bill and then MediAudit AI turns it into plain English, a checklist, and the exact words to say, so anyone can question an unfair charge. (InfinityX Global Hackathon 2K26)
• airDNA — Turning air quality into personalized health intelligence. (Hackathon New Delhi: Build AI Agents)
• ComplianceOS — A compliance agent that audits your code against real law, writes the fixes, and reads its own Phoenix traces through MCP to get better after every scan. (Google Cloud Rapid Agent 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 18 - Oct 16, 2026. Deadline: Deadline: Oct 17, 2026 @ 12:00am +07.

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.