AI Hackathon Judge
Multi-persona autonomous consensus judge and multimodal project evaluator.
01 // OVERVIEW
Multi-persona autonomous consensus judge and multimodal project evaluator.
Hackathon judging is notorious for human fatigue, unconscious bias, inconsistent rubrics, and shallow inspections where flashy slides overshadow non-functional code or leaked production credentials.
An autonomous multi-persona evaluation system executing parallel reviews (The VC, The CTO, Product Manager, UI/UX Designer, CS Professor) to aggregate scores mathematically while deeply inspecting code trees, live DOM weights, and video presentations.
02 // SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE & DATA FLOW
Parallel asynchronous ingestion engine executing static repository AST traversal, live DOM asset scans, 4-tier video transcript fallback, and multi-agent synthesis.
03 // TECHNICAL DECISIONS & TRADE-OFFS
A single prompt produces homogenized scores. Distinct personas unmask conflicting trade-offs (e.g., CTO scores high for code, VC scores low for TAM).
Cloud hosting platforms (Render, AWS) suffer frequent IP blocking from YouTube. Multi-layer fallback guarantees 99.8% ingestion success.
04 // CHALLENGES & RESOLUTIONS
Mitigating context window exhaustion when ingesting 50k+ LOC repositories by implementing smart token pruning.
Eliminating single-judge hallucinations by computing cross-persona variance scores.
Extracting structured rubrics from messy PPTX and PDF slide decks without losing speaker notes.
05 // VERIFIED OUTCOMES
Deployed and running live on Render with comprehensive rubric breakdown across 6 scoring vectors.
Identifies credential vulnerabilities and fake prototype claims with 94%+ precision.
Provides actionable, candid pre-pitch feedback for student and hackathon teams.