What 30 Teams Built in One Day at the AI Agents for Hire Hackathon
30 teams. One day at the AWS Builder Loft. A single brief: build agents that work like employees and are ready to be hired for jobs people would happily pay to offload.
June 29, 2026
On June 26, 2026, builders filled the AWS Builder Loft for the Beta Fund AI Agents for Hire Hackathon, powered by GMI Cloud. The theme was clear from the first minute: move agents past the demo stage and into work people will pay for. Every team built and shipped on GMI AgentBox, with access to more than 200 models through a single API key.
Teams of one to two builders had a single day to ship. The morning opened with workshops, the afternoon was a focused build sprint, and the day closed with three-minute demos and a live audience vote.
Four tracks, one goal
Track | Focus |
|---|---|
Agents for Hire | Focused AI workers that take on jobs people and companies pay to outsource. |
Workflow and Operations | Agents that automate repetitive business tasks, backend workflows, and execution-heavy work. |
Marketplace-Ready MVPs | Practical agent products ready to list, launch, and hire through AgentBox. |
Wildcard | Open to any agent-native concept solving an intense, everyday problem. |
The top three
The audience voted these three to the front of the room.
First place: Clinical Trial Oracle
An agent that predicts a clinical trial's probability of success before the readout moves the market. Seven agents and five models coordinate through an orchestrator-and-worker design, returning one verdict backed by an evidence chain. Built on GMI AgentBox with LangChain and Next.js. Team: Tianlu Zhu, Jiajie Gu, and Zihan Wu (UCSF), with Eunice Guo (NYU Stern).
Second place: Eli
The sales floor, remixed. A DJ-style controller for sales reps whose sample pads trigger AI agents and scripts on demand, with a slider that dials context from beginner to expert and live CRM sync. Team: Archit Lal and Maher Hasan.
Third place: East Agents, MRI
Market Research Intelligence. An agent crew that runs the research workflow end to end and returns a decision-ready brief. Team: Steven Yang and Noriaki Kishida (Minerva University).
Standouts across the partner stack
Built and shipped on GMI
Clinical Trial Oracle: a seven-agent orchestrator on AgentBox, five GMI-hosted models to one verdict.
LaunchStudio: one key and four modalities (LLM, image, text-to-speech, and music) deployed live on AgentBox.
CaseScribe: multi-model routing on AgentBox at $0.04 per session, with frontier models on demand.
GrowthScout AI: NVIDIA NIM running on GMI Cloud for explainable lead Value-Fit scoring.
Audit AI: a live tax-compliance pipeline served from a GMI Cloud container.
Rem: a voice-first assistant deployed on AgentBox with scheduled routines.
NVIDIA-powered
DisOps, The Building That Talks: NVIDIA Nemotron voice with sub-two-second latency and automatic fallback, so guidance keeps flowing.
GrowthScout AI: NVIDIA NIM on GMI Cloud powering explainable Value-Fit lead scoring.
Standout engineering
Silicon Agent: a chip-design agent that drives a full EDA toolchain (Verilator, cocotb, Yosys, OpenROAD, sky130 PDK) and writes and verifies Verilog RTL.
Shipsense: a synthetic shopper swarm, 1,000 personas plus live VLM browser agents simulating A/B tests in parallel.
PayCrew, InvoiceOS: governed six-agent accounts-payable automation with risk-based routing and fraud signals, built on CrewAI and TrueFoundry.
PARALLAX: an agent that builds 3D mechanical CAD assemblies from a photo and a prompt.
Gauntlet: the hireable agent that vets other agents, scoring reliability and auditing claims on live Stripe rails.
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Watch the demos
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Team | Video link |
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SuperCommerce | |
Gordon | |
Masky.ai, Aphrodite | |
BROKAZY |
Every team that shipped
All 30 builds, grouped by track.
Agents for Hire
Team | What they built | Builders |
|---|---|---|
Eli | A DJ-style controller for sales reps whose sample pads fire AI agents and scripts on demand. | Archit Lal, Maher Hasan |
GrowthScout AI | One agent for the whole funnel: scout, research, score, and close leads automatically. | Shruti Mandaokar (Purdue, Datastrato.ai) |
CaseScribe | An AI caseworker that turns messy session notes into three legally required documents in 60 seconds, FERPA-safe at $0.04 per session. | Prakash Acharya |
Gauntlet | The hireable agent that vets other agents with a reliability score and claim audit on live Stripe rails. | Emanuel Gonzalez, Peyton Li (UC Berkeley) |
Audit AI | An AI tax co-pilot that parses 1099s and receipts into an audit-ready Schedule C. | Dmitri Verstak, Amogh Nadakudhiti |
Rem | A voice-first productivity assistant that captures at the speed of thought, deployed on AgentBox. |
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Masky.ai, Aphrodite | An agent persona built on the Masky.ai platform. | Seth Caldwell (CTO, Masky.ai) |
Workflow and Operations
Team | What they built | Builders |
|---|---|---|
East Agents, MRI | Market Research Intelligence that runs the research workflow end to end. | Steven Yang, Noriaki Kishida (Minerva University) |
Shipsense | A synthetic shopper swarm, 1,000 personas plus live VLM browser agents simulating A/B tests before you ship. | Vishal Verma (Carnegie Mellon) |
PayCrew, InvoiceOS | Governed six-agent accounts-payable automation with risk-based routing and fraud detection. | Kenil, Aditya, Shresth |
Lore | A brain-dump agent for Forward Deployed Engineers: talk for 30 seconds and it files Jira tickets, pings Slack, and updates the board. | Hectar Carson (Minerva CS) |
Gordon | An AI compliance agent for restaurants that tracks inspections, expiring stock, licenses, and paperwork. | Aung Kaung, Ashna |
ZENO | AI automation for easy IT tickets, where voice and vision agents resolve and deflect Tier-1 work. |
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RackPilot | AI capacity engineering, simplified. | Yeshasvi K. (UC Berkeley), Zain H. (UC San Diego) |
LiveKaizenAI | Turns a meeting into executed follow-through: decisions, action items, and risks, each citing the transcript. |
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Scout Workflow | A workflow agent that automates execution-heavy back-office operations. | Mark Gregory, Nick Pallavicini |
Marketplace-Ready MVPs
Team | What they built | Builders |
|---|---|---|
LaunchStudio | Turns one sentence into a complete on-brand launch kit in under a minute with a self-correcting multi-agent studio. | Aarsh, Kenil (SJSU) |
SuperCommerce | An agent marketplace where you hire pre-trained agents in 60 seconds and pay monthly. | Ahmed Maher (CEO), Ibrahim Osama (CTO, ex-Atlassian) |
BROKAZY | An AI-driven stock-trade marketplace with insurance and personalized criteria for safer trades. | Vy Nguyen (Founder and CEO) |
Wildcard
Team | What they built | Builders |
|---|---|---|
Clinical Trial Oracle | Predicts a clinical trial's probability of success before the readout moves the market. | Tianlu Zhu, Jiajie Gu, Zihan Wu (UCSF), Eunice Guo (NYU Stern) |
DisOps, The Building That Talks | A building's own cameras and speakers guide people to safety in seconds using NVIDIA Nemotron voice. | Shresth (Koyal AI, SJSU), Chetas (SFSU) |
Silicon Agent | A chip-design agent that drives a full EDA toolchain and writes and verifies Verilog RTL. | Carl Okpala |
PARALLAX | An agent that builds 3D mechanical CAD assemblies from a photo and a prompt. | Kevin, Homen |
AI Bouncer | Text an AI bouncer that decides, in character, whether to let you into the event. | Alhwyn (Victoria, BC) |
LAP-Agent | A wildcard agent build from a solo founder. | Haseeb Khan |
Thanks to our judges and workshop leads
Big thanks to Roan Weigert (GMI Cloud) for judging and leading the GMI workshop, and to Abheer Singh, Abhinav Balasubramanian, and Shashank Verma (NVIDIA) for judging and workshops. Thanks as well to Beta Fund and the AWS Builder Loft for hosting, and to partners Voice Cursor, Snaplii, and Upscale X.
Powered by NVIDIA
GMI Cloud runs on NVIDIA GPU infrastructure, and that showed up throughout the day. Two NVIDIA judges evaluated projects: Abheer Singh and Abhinav Balasubramanian. Shashank Verma led a hands-on workshop helping teams deploy on NVIDIA NIM through GMI Cloud. Standout NVIDIA-powered builds included DisOps (NVIDIA Nemotron voice, sub-two-second latency) and GrowthScout AI (NVIDIA NIM on GMI Cloud for explainable lead scoring).
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