One day. One room in Hyderabad. Three problems worth your Saturday.
Signal Labs builds the AI-native infrastructure that decides what deserves attention: signal detection, hypothesis reasoning, and automated decisioning at scale.
Every enterprise runs a hundred-odd systems, each generating its own alerts, reports and dashboards. The information is all there. Models have never been better at reading it. And almost none of it still reaches the right person in time to matter. That is not an intelligence problem. It is an architecture problem, and it is the one we have decided to solve.
On Saturday, 29 August 2026, we are opening our Hyderabad office for a day to see what you can build with the same class of problem in front of you. Pick a track, form a team, bring whatever AI tooling you are fastest in, and ship something real before the afternoon freeze — then demo it live before we close at 6:30 PM.
Requirements
Tokenomics. Design or simulate an incentive mechanism, a token model, or an on-chain economic system — including one where the actors are autonomous AI agents rather than people — and show why it holds up under stress.
Distributed Systems. Build something that has to survive failure, latency or scale: a consensus mechanism, a real-time data pipeline, an agent orchestration layer, or an inference-serving path that stays up when traffic spikes.
Platform & SaaS. Build a multi-tenant product, a developer tool, or an AI-native feature — an agent, an automated workflow, a retrieval layer, or an infrastructure primitive.
One track per team. Choose on the day; you are not locked in at registration.
Four criteria. The first two carry the most weight:
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Architecture and technical judgement design quality, trade-offs, how it behaves under scale or failure
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Real-world problem solving is the problem real, and does the build genuinely move it
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Originality
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Demo quality five minutes, clearly explained
Prizes
First Prize
The strongest builders we see on the day get a 3-month paid internship at the Signal Labs Hyderabad office, with a real path to converting to full-time based on your contribution during it. This can be a whole team or a single person pulled out of any team. You do not have to place to get one, and placing does not guarantee one.
Second Place
Third Place
Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
Judges
Praveen Sameneni
Engineering, Signal Labs
Judging Criteria
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What we want out of your demo
Four criteria. The first two carry the most weight: - Architecture and technical judgement — design quality, trade-offs - Real-world problem solving - Originality - Demo quality — five minutes, clearly explained
Questions? Email the hackathon manager
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