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The Great IndianFDE Hackathon 2026

Ship the agent that cleans up a 43-year-old manufacturer — and prove it by the business outcomes it delivers. Four task families, one shared environment, and a hidden key that decides the score. Download the data, build in whatever environment you already use, and upload the output file for automatic scoring.

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Opens 20 Aug 2026 · Closes 27 Sep 2026, 23:59 IST · Stage at Cypher 2026

Build an agent for the enterprise that never got rebuilt

You have joined a 43-year-old manufacturing company where technology has accumulated rather than evolved.

The ERP is decades old. The CRM migration was never completed. Thousands of service tickets remain open. Critical business decisions live inside shared email threads. Policies are scattered across more than a thousand documents — and sometimes contradict each other.

Your challenge is to build an Agentic AI solution that can operate inside this environment. The agent must demonstrate its ability to work across four enterprise challenges: reconcile information across fragmented systems, understand and cite conflicting enterprise knowledge, orchestrate multi-step workflows while holding state, and act safely on changes that ripple downstream.

Your mission is to build an agent capable of understanding the environment, reasoning across systems, selecting the right actions and producing the required business outcome. You may use any models, frameworks, agent architecture or development environment. The technology stack is your choice. The outcome is not.

Download the challenge dataset, build your solution and submit the required output file for automated evaluation. Your solution will be tested against unseen scenarios and a hidden evaluation set designed to measure whether your agent can reason and operate reliably — not simply reproduce expected answers. The winning agent will not be the one that talks best. It will be the one that can operate inside the mess.

next deadlineP0 · 20 Aug 2026

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The client

Four decades of accumulated systems. Nothing was ever fully decommissioned.

SYS-01

Legacy ERP

commissioned 1998, patched ever since

Purchase orders, inventory, and the general ledger. Batch jobs run at 02:00 and nobody knows who wrote them.

SYS-02

Half-migrated CRM

migration started 2022, never finished

Accounts exist in both the old and new instance. Neither is authoritative. Both are queried.

SYS-03

Ticketing queue

3,400 open tickets

Customer escalations, warranty claims, and dispatch requests, loosely categorised at best.

SYS-04

Email inbox

shared ops@ mailbox

Approvals, invoice disputes, and vendor chases live here as free text and forwarded threads.

SYS-05

Document store

1,100+ PDFs and scans

The 2019 pricing policy contradicts the 2023 one. Neither is marked superseded.

The four enterprise challenges

Your agent faces all four inside the same environment, and is judged on the outcome of each.

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Reconcile

Connect information across fragmented systems and identify inconsistencies, duplicates and mismatches.

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Understand

Retrieve the right enterprise knowledge, resolve conflicting information and provide evidence-backed answers.

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Orchestrate

Execute multi-step workflows across systems while maintaining context, state and business rules.

04

Act safely

Recommend or execute changes without breaking downstream processes, while recognising when human approval is required.

How to compete

how to compete
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Download the client's data
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Build in your own environment
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Run your system against the data
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Submit the output CSV

The leaderboard measures what your system got right. How you built it is your business.

Evaluation

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Automatic re-runs

Every submission is re-run against a hidden task suite. The leaderboard updates itself — no manual judging round.

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Correctness first

Correctness and completion dominate the score. Cost and latency only matter as tiebreakers.

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Metered proxy

All model calls run through a metered proxy with a per-submission cost cap, so engineering wins over spend.

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Any model, any framework

Vendor-neutral by design. Bring whatever stack you would actually deploy at a client.

Timeline

  1. P0
    20 Aug 2026
    Registration opens
  2. P1
    06 Sep 2026
    Registration closes
  3. P2
    20 Sep 2026
    Qualifier submissions close
  4. P3
    02 Oct 2026
    Finalists announced
  5. P4
    07–09 Oct 2026
    Finals + winners at Cypher 2026