Infer-a-thon with Superlinked
Infer-a-Thon: The Agentic AI Hackathon
Build agents. Solve real-world problems. Compete with builders across the globe.
The next wave of AI isn't just about building smarter models. There is one important direction that's emerging - building systems that can think, retrieve, reason, and take action.
Welcome to Infer-a-Thon, a global AI hackathon organised by Geek Room in collaboration with Superlinked.
We're bringing together developers, AI engineers, startup founders, working professionals, and AI enthusiasts to build the next generation of AI-powered applications.
Over 7 days, you'll turn ideas into working products, experiment with modern AI technologies, solve meaningful problems, and compete with builders from across the world for a ₹1.5 lakh+ cash prize pool.
Explore the Tracks
Infer-a-Thon will feature two tracks. Here's an early look at what you can expect.
Track 1: Agentic Businesses in India
Build AI agents that solve real business workflows in the Indian context.
Think beyond generic business automation. Explore challenges around relationship-driven deals, credit terms, WhatsApp and phone-based follow-ups, multilingual documents, and workflows that are often handled manually.
The goal is to build agents that understand these business realities, make useful decisions, and help get things done.
Track 2: Agentic Engineering
Build agents that do real engineering work, including coding, testing, SRE, migrations, and other software engineering workflows.
Combine frontier LLMs for planning and reasoning with Superlinked's SIE for supporting capabilities such as retrieval, reranking, classification, information extraction, and guardrails.
Important: These are early track previews, not the final problem statements.
The complete problem briefs, expected agent capabilities, detailed requirements, available resources, and evaluation criteria for both tracks will be released on December 5, 2026.
Stay tuned for the official announcement!
Start Exploring with Superlinked
You don't have to wait until December 5 to start experimenting.
Make sure to join the group here - Join WhatsApp Group
We recommend exploring the Superlinked Cookbook, which contains example projects and practical implementations to help you understand how Superlinked's SIE can be used to build intelligent applications.
Explore the cookbook: superlinked/cookbook
Here's how we'd recommend using it:
Explore the existing projects to understand their architecture and implementation.
Experiment with different models, retrieval approaches, and workflows.
Understand how SIE can support different parts of an AI application.
Try combining capabilities to build more sophisticated agentic workflows.
Take inspiration from the examples, but don't simply reproduce an existing project.
Improve on the ideas, introduce meaningful capabilities, and build something original.
You can also explore other projects in the Superlinked ecosystem and start experimenting with different use cases.
The cookbook is a starting point, not a list of projects to copy. We want to see what you can build on top of these ideas.
A Few Things to Keep in Mind
This is an AI hackathon, not an integration sprint. You can use mock APIs and sample datasets where necessary. You don't need to integrate with live business systems.
Focus on the agent. The quality of your agent, its capabilities, reasoning, and ability to solve the given problem will matter.
Build beyond basic LLM wrappers. Think about how retrieval, reranking, classification, extraction, and other capabilities can improve your application.
Use SIE meaningfully. For the Agentic Engineering track, every project should use SIE for at least one supporting capability, rather than relying only on a single embeddings call.
Originality matters. Existing examples are there to help you learn and experiment. Your submission should demonstrate meaningful improvements and original work.
Build something functional. Focus on demonstrating what your agent can actually accomplish, not just presenting an idea or a collection of prompts.
The detailed technical expectations will be shared along with the official problem statements.
What You Can Expect
Access to Superlinked's SIE technology and technical documentation.
Technical mentorship and guidance during the hackathon.
Clearly defined problem statements across both tracks.
An opportunity to showcase your work to industry professionals.
Evaluation and feedback from technical experts.
A global community of developers and AI builders.
A ₹1.5 lakh+ prize pool, with a winning team selected from each track.
Hackathon Timeline
December 5: Official problem statements released and hackathon begins.
December 5–11: Seven-day building phase with technical resources and mentorship.
December 12: Mentoring and evaluation round.
December 14–15: Finalists announced. Top 5 teams from each track will qualify.
December 20: Final presentations and winner announcements.
A total of 10 teams will qualify for the final stage, with 5 finalists from each track.
Each track will have its own winning team.
Who Can Participate?
Everyone is welcome. There are no restrictions based on your educational background, professional experience, or location.
We're inviting:
Software developers and AI engineers.
Working professionals.
Professionals returning to work or getting back into building.
People currently interning at companies.
Startup founders and independent builders.
AI enthusiasts and researchers.
We particularly encourage working professionals and current interns to participate.
If you're already working at a company or interning with a team, bring that industry experience into the hackathon. Your exposure to real engineering challenges, business workflows, and practical problems can give you a different perspective when building your solution.
Team Formation and Registration
Team size: 1–4 members.
You can participate individually or as a team.
Bring your fellow builders that accompany you on production code and professionals!
You can form teams with people from different companies, and backgrounds.
Every participant must register individually through Luma.
If you're participating as a team, decide on a unique team name and make sure every member enters exactly the same name during registration.
One member should identify themselves as the team lead.
Don't have a team yet? You can still register individually and connect with other participants to find teammates.
Participants from anywhere in the world are welcome.
About the Organisers
Geek Room
Geek Room is a global developer community connecting 150,000+ developers across 400+ colleges and 20+ chapters. With 25+ hackathons and developer initiatives, Geek Room brings together builders, and technology communities to learn, collaborate, and create.
Superlinked
Superlinked builds technology for intelligent retrieval and AI applications. Its SIE platform enables developers to build sophisticated information retrieval and processing systems that power more capable AI applications.
Ready to Build?
Start exploring the resources, get your team together, and prepare to build something meaningful.
The problem statements go live on December 5. Until then, experiment, learn, and start thinking about what you want to create.
7 days. 2 tracks. 10 finalist teams. 2 track winners. ₹1.5 lakh+ in prizes.
See you at Infer-a-Thon!