​Friday Hacks #290

​​Friday Hacks, by NUS Hackers, is a weekly event where invited speakers share their technical experiences and interests! In this week's session, we have:

​Building an Explainable AI Analyst for Company Intelligence

​What if you could ask, “Which companies are expansion-ready?” and get a grounded, data-backed answer in seconds — not a hallucinated guess?

​In this talk, we share how we built IntelliCompany AI, an explainable company intelligence platform that combines clustering, feature engineering, and a guardrail-constrained LLM to generate defensible business insights.

​We’ll break down our end-to-end pipeline — from 8,559 companies and K-Prototypes clustering to a Groq-powered Llama 3.3 AI Analyst — and the architectural decisions that helped us win 1st place out of 86 teams.

​Speakers Profile🎙

​Bernardino Lintang is a Year 3 Data Science & Analytics student at NUS who builds AI agents and data-driven systems that combine machine learning, GenAI, and product thinking to create real-world impact.

​Patil Kaveri Vinod specializes in building reliability-first AI systems that bridge the gap between complex ML and product-driven impact.

​See you there! 👋