Team hackathon prototype, 2026
Academic Ally
A study companion that turns course syllabi into a plan for what to work on next.
Top 10 in Round 1, KPMG x Microsoft Academic Innovation Challenge 2026.
- My role
- Product requirements, desktop experience, and planner integration
- Built with
- Electron, LLMs, Agent orchestration
A plan from the syllabus
Our team developed Ally to help students decide what to study next. The prototype parses syllabus deadlines, exams, grading weights, and topics, with planning tools for tasks and calendars.
It explores onboarding, diagnostics, focus sessions, and a mobile companion. Some dashboard and calendar areas remain static or partial; this is a hackathon prototype.
My part in the team
I worked on product requirements, the Electron shell, time-block behavior, calendar and task surfaces, desktop-orb chat, and local/cloud model integration.
The five-agent architecture is shared team work. Ally reached the Top 10 in Round 1 of the KPMG x Microsoft Academic Innovation Challenge.