This past weekend on April 26th, Pear and Anthropic hosted nearly 200 hackers at Pear Studio SF for an epic hackathon! By 10AM, teams were already deep in brainstorming and building some next-level projects. We had over 50 teams submit projects and were completely blown away by the creativity, execution, and all the cool ideas that came to life.
Winners
Congratulations to all of the finalists and category prize winners!
Winners
- Most Impressive Technical Feat: SHIELD (Diego Caples, Nicole Ma, Zeyneb Kaya)
- Secure your codebase with SHIELD., a multi-agent reinforcement learning and tool use enhanced framework for automatic identification and remediation of system vulnerabilities.
- Most Innovative Application: SideQuest (Aryan Bansal, Ayush Paul, Rohil Agarwal, Stephen Xie)
- You know how humans hire AI agents to do their tasks for them? SideQuest reverses that relationship by letting AI post real-world jobs, match them with nearby human “questers,” track their progress, and return the verified results back to the AI. Questers get paid for each mission, giving AI a scalable embodied workforce and humans a simple way to earn.
- Most Ready to Ship: Ply (Baladhurgesh Balagurusamy Paramasivan, Barathwaj Anandan)
- Ply helps you auto-complete anything, anywhere, using the clipboard — so you type less and move faster.
Finalists
- Achilles (Abhiram Chennupati, Venkat Arun)
- Achilles automatically optimizes your python code using a set of different codegen agents, that each use different strategies to rewrite hotspots in your code in a lower-level language.
- AutoSurvey (Anthony Xie, Sina Mollaei, Viktor Krapivin, Wendy Huang)
- We built a platform that automatically generates tailored due-diligence surveys for M&A deals by combining DuckDuckGo web background research with large-language-model prompts to produce structured question sets across eight themed sections (Screener, Awareness, Usage, Voice of Customer, Advocacy, KPC, Channel, Brand).
- Claude for Accounting (Karsh Pandey, Micheal Sihavong)
- NetSuite is the defacto Enterprise Financial system used by all large enterprises. These teams have 100s of people working on reconciling and navigating the idiosyncrasies of the system every day. Our tool would enable accountants to leverage a Claude like interface to insert, review, and analyze NetSuite to always be audit ready with a high degree of trust and reliability.
- Op Dealers (George Hyun, Miles Zimmerman, Yuxuan Zeng)
- We built a tool that automates scheduling new appointments with doctors using AI voice chat and web search. The tool will automatically call, schedule, and confirm doctors appointments on your behalf based on your calendar.
- SentinelOS (Ayush Goel, Saarthak Trivedi)
- A self-healing linux OS. It monitors and diagnoses issues, prompts Claude to suggest a fix, and runs the fixes. It repeatedly prompts Claude if problems persist.
- SpawnCamp (Aadi Nashikkar, William Liu)
- AI agent orchestration to reduce dev time.
Here is the full gallery of projects built at the hackathon. It’s amazing how much creativity and innovation came together in just one day.
About PearX
It was inspiring to see what people can build in such a short period of time. If you’re currently building and want to accelerate your progress even further, our small batch accelerator PearX is the place for you. PearX invests between $250k to $2mn, and offers access to Pear SF Studio, bespoke recruiting support to close your first hires, GTM support to acquire your first customers, and a dedicated Pear partner who works directly with you. PearX alumni have raised over $2bn in follow-on capital. Apply now!
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