Key Dates

Date (2025)

Activity

Sat, Sept 13

Kickoff Buildathon (in‑person/hybrid) — ship Day‑1 MVP + live link; create DevPost draft submission

Sept 14 – 26

Remote sprint: polish, dedup service, web discovery agent, UX, docs; async office hours; DevPost updates

Fri, Sept 26

Final submissions due on DevPost (repo, live URL, video, docs)

Eligibility

  • Open to teams of 3 - 5 members.

  • Participants must be at least 18 years old.

  • All submissions must be the original work of the team.

  • Teams can use open-source tools or libraries, but must cite them clearly.

  • You agree to the Challenge Participation Agreement

Project and Submission Requirements

  • Title + 1-sentence pitch

  • Live demo URL + repo

  • 3–5 min demo video

  • 1-page README (stack, data model, how to run) + simple arch diagram

  • Team (3–6) and roles

Prizes

One million naira(1m). Winner takes all.

Judging Criteria and Winner Selection

Criteria

Description

Points

Working Prototype & UX

Quality & intuitiveness across platforms

25 pts

Agentic Intelligence

Quality of prompts/skills; A2A or multi‑agent orchestration where useful.

20 pts

Autonomous Discovery

Effectiveness of web scanning, candidate extraction, scoring, and verification flow.

15 pts

Security

Secure first platform

15 pts

Maps Execution

Clustering, filters, geosearch, performance.

10 pts

Scalability, Openness & Architecture

Clean repo, OSS release, Data model.

10 pts

Storytelling & Impact

Amala spirit, clarity, usefulness

5 pts