Highlights from DEEP Open Innovation Hackathon 2025 – India 

India’s growing community of AI builders took center stage during the DEEP Open Innovation Hackathon 2025 – India, an open-format challenge that invited developers to explore ideas freely and build solutions rooted in real problems.

Unlike traditional hackathons with predefined themes, this initiative encouraged participants to innovate from personal experience: empowering builders to decide what to create, how to create it, and which problems mattered most to them.

The result was a diverse and highly competitive set of solutions, reflecting both technical depth and strong personal motivation.

An Open Challenge Driven by Builders

The India hackathon brought together developers, students, and independent builders working across different domains and use cases. The open challenge format created space for experimentation, creativity, and originality, without restricting innovation to a single problem statement.

Throughout the process, participants iterated on their ideas, tested assumptions, and refined their solutions under real evaluation conditions, supported by structured review and feedback.

The judging process proved especially demanding, as many submissions demonstrated strong technical quality and creative approaches.

Evaluation Focus and Selection Criteria

Solutions were evaluated through multiple review phases, with emphasis on:

• Clarity of the problem being addressed
• Technical execution and feasibility
• Creativity and originality
• Potential for real-world adoption and usefulness
• Alignment with the SingularityNet Marketplace

As judges noted during the final review, the competition was exceptionally close, requiring careful consideration of small but meaningful differentiators between projects.

From an initial pool of submissions, the field was narrowed down to three top-performing solutions.

Meet the Winning Teams

Winner — The Finer Algorithm Club

Project: Job- Pilot

Job- Pilot is an AI-powered career assistant that transforms a resume and user inputs into a dynamic AI career avatar. Job-Pilot models career preferences, salary and location flexibility, work-life balance, cultural alignment, skills, and achievements — helping users navigate opportunities with greater precision and self-awareness.

What set Job Pilot apart was not only its technical execution but also the clarity of its purpose and its strong alignment with real, lived experience.

During the winners’ meeting, Akshay, representing The Finer Algorithm Club, shared a perspective that captured the spirit of the hackathon:

“I was not anticipating winning at all. I just came here to understand what others were building.”

He emphasized that the motivation behind Job Pilot was deeply personal:

“My aim was not winning, but just to create something which can help others.”

For Akshay, the project emerged from a simple but powerful principle:

“I try to solve my own problems. Not anyone else’s.”

This mindset resonated strongly with the judges, reinforcing the idea that some of the most impactful solutions begin with personal curiosity rather than competition.

Learn more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEeO_t66cx0 

Second Place — Wanderly.ai 

Wanderly.ai is an intelligent, agent-based travel planning system that generates complete trip itineraries from simple natural language requests. By orchestrating multiple agents for weather, points of interest, and scheduling, Wandrly-AI delivers structured, day-by-day travel plans in seconds, saving time while offering personalized experiences.

The project stood out for its creative use of agent-based architectures and its clear applicability in real-world consumer scenarios.

Learn more: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dEEIDiSydbuZ5S0KiUalf4SiJ-KNZhpm/view 

Third Place — AlgoSlayers

Project: LegalEase AI

LegalEase AI is an AI-driven legal assistant designed to simplify and secure contract review. LegalEase AI analyzes and compares legal clauses in plain English, highlights risks and imbalances, detects potential fraud, and produces structured reports that make legal insights accessible, transparent, and practical for everyone. 

The judges highlighted the project’s clarity, relevance, and strong potential for broader adoption.

Learn more: https://suprakash-dhar-pw.github.io/contract-ai/ 

From Hackathon to Long-Term Impact

The India Open Innovation Hackathon was designed not as a one-time event, but as a gateway into a broader innovation ecosystem.

Beyond winning, participants were encouraged to continue refining their solutions, explore deployment opportunities, and remain engaged within the community.

As emphasized during the closing discussion, success in innovation is not only about ranking — but about building something meaningful, learning from others, and staying connected.

By empowering builders to follow curiosity, solve personal problems, and create with purpose, the hackathon reinforced a core message:

Innovation thrives when people are free to build what truly matters to them.