Last Friday's Ship to Prod hackathon brought together 150+ builders to showcase their vision for agents, copilots, and autonomous systems that solve real problems at production scale.
Congratulations to IP-Pulse and ElderShield for winning the 'Best Use of Akash' category!
Our first place winner, IP-Pulse, built AI-native patent intelligence software that monitors USPTO and Google Patents continuously, checks open-source prior art to invalidate threatening filings, and weighs the filer's litigation history. The architecture federates 5 GraphQL subgraphs behind a WunderGraph Cosmo router, all exposed as MCP tools to an orchestrating Claude agent, with bulk claim summarization running on Kimi K2.6 hosted on AkashML. Patent attorneys charge $500 to $1,000/hour for this kind of work. IP-Pulse delivers it for around $100.
Our second place winner, ElderShield, built a fully autonomous scam-protection agent for older adults. The pipeline sweeps inboxes every 15 seconds via Nexla, opens every suspicious link in a real remote browser via TinyFish, and classifies risk using a two-tier Redis memory system that tracks scam patterns across households over time. The team integrated 10 sponsor tools with real API calls, no mocks, no stubs, and deployed on Akash with Chainguard distroless containers at a zero-CVE security posture.
A special shoutout to tokens& for bringing together the most innovative AI builders in SF!
Check out our winning projects here: https://lnkd.in/eDZSUBcw