- Health access drew 13 of 27 projects, more than any other theme.
- The strongest builds used AI to explain, and left calculations, prices and final decisions to code and people.
- Each project's open question is listed under What we would test next.
2026 · The AI Collective
Saturday, October 24, 2026 · One Ford Place, Detroit
Hack for Humanity: Detroit
27+
projects built
27 submitted on MLH. Built one we missed? Tell us
13
health-access projects
Winners9 awards and mentionsLive demos16 Detroit appsAround the world16 more live appsPhotos23 from the day
See the winnersFeatured in: Luma: What's happening in Detroit (weeks of Oct 12 and Oct 19) · Henry Ford Health's News for 1 Ford Place (Oct 19) · The AI Collective Detroit newsletter (Oct 7) · Lovable Community Events
As announced October 24, 2026
Winners
Best Lovable Project
Health accessThird
Best Use of Gemma
Winner
Karan N.
4 MLH belt bags
Why it won
Consent is scoped by section and can be revoked, and the AI sees only what was shared.
Best Open-Source AI
Runner-up: Extract Clinical Notes from Audio
Health access
Runner-up
Senthil P.
Why it won
A phonetic correction step and evidence-linked extraction set it apart from a basic scribe.
People's Choice
Judges' notes come from a review of each project's code before demos.
Detroit
Live demos
Six of the 16 Detroit apps you can open right now. The rest are under Projects.
Highlight reel
Pivot Point
A rolling cut of the recognized demos. Muted and looping; tap a demo to open it.
Pivot Point
1st, Best Lovable Project
What a new job really pays, after childcare and the commute.
Gemmalovable.appBuilt with Lovable
Steer
2nd, Best Lovable Project
Practice coding with AI, scored on how well you steer it.
lovable.appBuilt with Lovable
SisterCare Detroit
Best Open-Source AI · People's Choice
Breast-health navigation, with AI that runs in your browser.
github.io
Coverage Pre-Check
Honorable mention
Tells you in plain words whether your plan covers a prescription.
Gemmalovable.appBuilt with Lovable
Screenshots and clips captured from each team's public demo on October 25 and 26, 2026. Demos belong to their builders and may change.
Gemma and privacy builds
Under the hood
These projects use sign-in, local models or multi-step pipelines, so two minutes on the room's computer couldn't show them fully. Here is how each one works, from the team's README.
1Profile
Best Use of GemmaModelGemma 4 via Gemini API
Hard to show live because: A phone app, a provider portal and an API running together, with sign-in on both sides.
How it works
- Members approve each requested section of their profile, and can revoke it any time.
- Providers find members only by a share code, so nobody can search for people.
- Gemma 4 agents only ever see the sections a member chose to share.
1 of 4
Screens from the 1Profile repository (MIT license). All patient data is sample data.
Extract Clinical Notes from Audio
Open-Source AI runner-upModelGemma 4 31B
Hard to show live because: A full audio pipeline that runs on a GPU, not a click-through app.
How it works
- Audio to speaker labels to transcript to a structured clinical note with linked evidence.
- Splits the work because Gemma's audio input is capped at 30 seconds per clip.
- Ships with its own evaluation: word error rate, speaker accuracy and evidence grounding.
- Audio
- Speakers
- Transcript
- Gemma note
HomeBoundOS
ModelGemma (open-weight)
Hard to show live because: Two roles, caregiver and dispatcher, on two screens.
How it works
- Gemma pulls mobility precautions out of caregivers' intake notes.
- Translates care summaries between English, Spanish and Arabic.
- Dispatch console filters by Detroit ZIP code and urgency.
Keep Your Home
Modelopen-weight model running locally
Hard to show live because: A local model plus staff-only pages behind a key.
How it works
- Looks up the live Wayne County tax record and counts down to the forfeiture deadline.
- Writes plain-language letters in English, Spanish and Arabic.
- Shows risk by neighborhood, never by house.
AfterBirth
3rd, Best Lovable ProjectModelGemma 4 31B
Hard to show live because: It opens from a QR code on a parent's phone.
How it works
- Gemma answers everyday questions and routes to vetted pages.
- Original care instructions stay visibly separate from AI explanations.
- No hospital account needed.
Detroit Health Access Finder
ModelNo model listed. Questions run against a CSV query engine.
Hard to show live because: It runs as a local Python server, not a hosted site.
How it works
- FastAPI backend with an /ask endpoint and a React (Vite) front end.
- Answers questions about 26 Detroit school-based health centers from a public dataset.
- Returns each center's location and sponsoring organization.
Care313
ModelGemma 4 via Gemini API
Hard to show live because: Four roles across a tablet intake, a review queue and a doctor view.
How it works
- Gemma asks one question at a time in English, Arabic, Spanish or Bengali.
- Reads medicine labels and insurance cards and marks its confidence in each field.
- Switches to "Call 911 now" on warning signs. The AI never diagnoses.
Summaries come from each team's own README, read October 25, 2026.
27 projects
18 projects entered the Lovable track, and 14 demos are hosted on lovable.app.
These are one-day prototypes, not clinical tools.
Project spotlight · Week of Oct 26
Pivot Point
What a new job really pays, after childcare and the commute.
Showing 27 of 27
Health accessA postpartum guide that starts with a QR code.QueenTesa F.GemmaBest Lovable · 3rd
One health profile, shared only with consent.Karan N.GemmaBest Use of Gemma · WinnerHealth accessFrom exam-room audio to a structured clinical note.Senthil P.GemmaOpen-Source AI · Runner-upReplay demo
Health accessCompare care costs by ZIP, insurance and need.Santhi L., Joshua G., Naga Venkata B., Rajathi P.
Health accessDispatches medical rides for bed-bound patients.Kameron C.Gemma
Health accessFind the right medical ride program in a few questions.Dragana S.Gemma
Economic mobilityAn early warning before tax foreclosure.Edrees S.Gemma
Food & neighborhoodMaps what's within five minutes of home.Olivia P., Christa A., Swathi S., Sana H.
Health accessAsk a question, find a school-based health center.Sohel A.
Economic mobilityYour insurance policy, in plain language.Kashish K.
Security researchResearch on what local AI agents can reach.Jason T.Gemma
Also built on Saturday
Wi-Fi and AV issues kept some teams from submitting on MLH in time. These were built at the event and were not judged.
Built Oct 24 · not submitted to MLH · Not judged
Applyd
Rishiraj S.
Finds fresh job openings, writes a tailored resume and cover letter for each, and tracks every application.
Explore
What would you fix?
Pick a Detroit problem and see what builders made for it in one day.
Choose a problem above to see the builds.
Grouped by the recap team from each project's own description.
In their words
“My first hackathon! … see an idea take shape in just a few hours.”
“Detroit has real talent working on real problems.”
From builders' public LinkedIn posts, October 24, 2026.
Photos
Detroit and the world, on this page
15
chapters with builds here: Detroit and 14 more
108
builds listed: 27 from Detroit, 81 from other chapters
130
chapters signed up to host Hack for Humanity
52
countries with a signed-up host
Host list, checked October 26, 2026. Source
Hack for Humanity around the world
130 AI Collective chapters in 52 countries signed up to host. Blue dots have builds on this page; tap one to see what it built.
- Detroit
- Builds on this page (17)
- Signed up to host Hack for Humanity (130)
- Other AI Collective chapters (227)
Hosts from The AI Collective's Hack for Humanity page; other chapters from aicollective.com/chapters. Both read October 26, 2026. Regional and national chapters sit at their largest or host city. Dots mark the city, not the venue. Host list · All chapters
First place in other chapters
Builds that another chapter's published results list in first place. Chosen by that rule alone, in event order. Detroit's winners are under Winners. See Detroit's winners
Harare, Zimbabwe
WhatsApp crop advice for tomato growers that escalates when unsure.
Skopje, North Macedonia
Connects fire locations with nearby water.
Tampere, Finland
Designs prosthetic socket liners using parallel 3D simulations.
HolkkiLab
From the Quanscient challenge, one of the event's challenges. Ten teams took it. Descriptions are the challenge host's.
1st · Quanscient challenge
SourceJerusalem
Emergency reports over phones, Raspberry Pi hubs and LoRa when networks fail.
Live from other chapters
Live apps from other chapters. Each card opens the team's demo.
Miami
Your Ballot, Your Block.
Build for Miami theme winner
Shows your ballot and candidates for your address, with sources.
vercel.app
Hampton Roads (757)
FloodWise Hampton Roads
Best Community Impact
Flood and drainage guidance for residents.
lovable.appBuilt with Lovable
Hampton Roads (757)
Dollar Vote
Best Use of Gemma 4
Compares members of Congress with your priorities.
dollarvote.us
Taipei, Taiwan
Lonely Hearts
Winner
Groups young volunteers to visit older adults.
lovable.appBuilt with Lovable
Hampton Roads (757)
FloodGuard
Neighbors' flood photos and forecasts become a risk map.
floodguard.darkermine.dev
Taipei, Taiwan
FUMU
Helps working parents find government and employer support.
lovable.appBuilt with Lovable
Taipei, Taiwan
Can I Trust This Person?
Checks online sellers against local scam patterns.
lovable.appBuilt with Lovable
Taipei, Taiwan
Spot phishing emails
Teaches people, including older adults, to spot phishing.
lovable.appBuilt with Lovable
Taipei, Taiwan
ChillLens
Flags manipulative tactics in social media posts.
lovable.appBuilt with Lovable
Dublin, Ireland
Droichead
Best Open-Source AI Project
A private career navigator for people whose work is being reshaped by AI.
May take 30 seconds to load
droichead.onrender.com
San Francisco
SF Civic Lens
Turns street photos of problems like potholes into structured 311 tickets.
vercel.app
Miami
Blackout Box
A hurricane app that keeps working when the power and signal don't.
blackoutbox.micahberkley.com
Hampton Roads (757)
Twin Line
Two drum machines and a mixer for making beats with AI.
twinlinebeats.grok.me
Pune, India
Thamba
A Marathi, Hindi and English second opinion that helps Pune seniors stop 'digital arrest' scam calls.
vercel.app
Screenshots and clips captured from each team's public demo on October 25 and 26, 2026. Demos belong to their builders and may change.
Around the world
What other Hack for Humanity chapters built. Descriptions summarize each team's own submission.
Miami
AidNow
Carmen–Campeche, Mexico
Bus tracking, digital fares and emergency help.
Carmen–Campeche, Mexico
Environmental incident reports that work offline.
Carmen–Campeche, Mexico
Flags students at academic risk and suggests support.
Hampton Roads (757)
ScamGuard
Hampton Roads (757)
Retro Forge
Hampton Roads (757)
Dante's HELL "o" World
Taipei, Taiwan
Fact-checks captioned YouTube videos and cites sources.
Taipei, Taiwan
Coordinates dorm evacuations, from missing residents to blocked exits.
Harare, Zimbabwe
WhatsApp crop advice for tomato growers that escalates when unsure.
Harare, Zimbabwe
Curriculum-grounded tutoring that asks guiding questions.
Harare, Zimbabwe
Turns informal business records into cash-flow summaries.
Jerusalem
Emergency reports over phones, Raspberry Pi hubs and LoRa when networks fail.
Jerusalem
Earthquake preparation and safer routes after a quake.
Jerusalem
Coordinates community-center resources in emergencies.
Jerusalem
Shows the air-pollution cost of supply-chain choices.
Jerusalem
Fire prediction, smoke sensing and spread mapping.
Jerusalem
Finds groundwater contamination and alerts authorities.
Jerusalem
Estimates air quality from existing cameras.
Aerolens
Shoutout: Feasibility & ResponsibilitySpecial shoutout: Strongest on Feasibility & Responsibility
SourceJerusalem
Prioritizes water sampling after floods.
Dublin, Ireland
Help for tenants facing housing problems.
Skopje, North Macedonia
Connects fire locations with nearby water.
Skopje, North Macedonia
Shows open spots and whether payment is needed.
Skopje, North Macedonia
Air quality for planning time outdoors.
Arlington, Washington area
AnyScholar
Best Prototype
SourceSan Francisco
An iMessage bot that says whether you can park at a pin and when street sweeping comes.
Can I park here?
From the host's recap, which covers projects that used FalkorDB. It may not list every team.
Best Use of Photon
SourceTampere, Finland
Designs prosthetic socket liners using parallel 3D simulations.
HolkkiLab
From the Quanscient challenge, one of the event's challenges. Ten teams took it. Descriptions are the challenge host's.
1st · Quanscient challenge
SourceTampere, Finland
Generates footstep sounds from simulated floor vibrations.
ModalForge
From the Quanscient challenge, one of the event's challenges. Ten teams took it. Descriptions are the challenge host's.
2nd · Quanscient challenge
SourceTampere, Finland
Tests designs for mid-air haptic buttons before a chip is made.
Touchstone
From the Quanscient challenge, one of the event's challenges. Ten teams took it. Descriptions are the challenge host's.
3rd · Quanscient challenge
SourceMiami
Identifies local wildlife and whether it is native.
Miami
Survive Miami
Miami
StormCard
Miami
HumanityOS
Miami
TESA MIAMI
Miami
4forces
Miami
Rooted
Miami
Four Forces Watch
Miami
Nodal
Carmen–Campeche, Mexico
Routes restaurant surplus food to people in need. A person reviews each match.
Carmen–Campeche, Mexico
A real-time, collaborative public-transport map.
Carmen–Campeche, Mexico
UBICARMEN
Carmen–Campeche, Mexico
OlaRuta
Carmen–Campeche, Mexico
MosquiCero
Carmen–Campeche, Mexico
Carmen en Ruta
Carmen–Campeche, Mexico
Cami
Carmen–Campeche, Mexico
Emplea CDC
Hampton Roads (757)
Agent check
Hampton Roads (757)
PC Deal Locator
Hampton Roads (757)
SimpSec OMNICHAIN
Taipei, Taiwan
Turns long-term-care rules into a care-navigation plan.
Taipei, Taiwan
Taipei RainReady AI
Harare, Zimbabwe
GeoAgriSense
Harare, Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe Nursing Tutor
San Francisco
Answers questions about 66 SF Board of Supervisors meetings, with vote details and video timestamps.
San Francisco
An iMessage agent that routes wildlife-encounter photos to the right agency.
WildSignal
From the host's recap, which covers projects that used FalkorDB. It may not list every team.
SourceSan Francisco
Turns a patient's after-visit summary into something you can ask questions about.
San Francisco
Translates between Inga and Spanish, shows each word's source and learns from speakers' corrections.
San Francisco
Recommends local spots over crowded tourist ones.
Tampere, Finland
Finds where office acoustic screens best reduce speech noise.
AllQuiet
From the Quanscient challenge, one of the event's challenges. Ten teams took it. Descriptions are the challenge host's.
SourceTampere, Finland
Advises wind farms whether to heat or stop iced turbine blades.
BladeThaw
From the Quanscient challenge, one of the event's challenges. Ten teams took it. Descriptions are the challenge host's.
SourceTampere, Finland
Estimates whether outdoor pipes will freeze, and what insulation changes.
Frost
From the Quanscient challenge, one of the event's challenges. Ten teams took it. Descriptions are the challenge host's.
SourceTampere, Finland
Compares fuel cell plate channel designs.
CellShield
From the Quanscient challenge, one of the event's challenges. Ten teams took it. Descriptions are the challenge host's.
SourceTampere, Finland
Predicts turbine blade deformation during machining.
Optimimax
From the Quanscient challenge, one of the event's challenges. Ten teams took it. Descriptions are the challenge host's.
SourceTampere, Finland
Models soldering settings to avoid microcracks in solar cells.
Solar cell soldering
From the Quanscient challenge, one of the event's challenges. Ten teams took it. Descriptions are the challenge host's.
SourceSilver Spring, Maryland
Upload a screenshot of a suspicious message and Gemma 4 explains whether it's a scam and what to do.
Miami
Shows your ballot and candidates for your address, with sources.
Miami
Miami
A hurricane app that keeps working when the power and signal don't.
Hampton Roads (757)
Flood and drainage guidance for residents.
Hampton Roads (757)
Compares members of Congress with your priorities.
Hampton Roads (757)
Neighbors' flood photos and forecasts become a risk map.
Hampton Roads (757)
Two drum machines and a mixer for making beats with AI.
Taipei, Taiwan
Groups young volunteers to visit older adults.
Taipei, Taiwan
Helps working parents find government and employer support.
Taipei, Taiwan
Checks online sellers against local scam patterns.
Taipei, Taiwan
Teaches people, including older adults, to spot phishing.
Taipei, Taiwan
Flags manipulative tactics in social media posts.
Dublin, Ireland
A private career navigator for people whose work is being reshaped by AI.
San Francisco
Turns street photos of problems like potholes into structured 311 tickets.
Hartford, Connecticut
Connecticut news, answered with public data.
Pune, India
A Marathi, Hindi and English second opinion that helps Pune seniors stop 'digital arrest' scam calls.
Grouped by the recap team from each project's own description.
Getting to care
Detroit
A postpartum guide that starts with a QR code.
Detroit
One health profile, shared only with consent.
Detroit
Snap a medication label, get a plain-language lesson.
Detroit
Breast-health navigation, with AI that runs in your browser.
Detroit
From exam-room audio to a structured clinical note.
Detroit
Tells you in plain words whether your plan covers a prescription.
Detroit
Compare care costs by ZIP, insurance and need.
CareBridge Navigator
SourceDetroit
Bus times matched to specialist appointments.
Detroit
Dispatches medical rides for bed-bound patients.
Detroit
Find the right medical ride program in a few questions.
Detroit
Neighbors sharing rides to the hospital.
Detroit
Ask a question, find a school-based health center.
Detroit
Multilingual intake for Detroit's mobile health vans.
Taipei, Taiwan
Turns long-term-care rules into a care-navigation plan.
Taipei, Taiwan
Groups young volunteers to visit older adults.
San Francisco
Turns a patient's after-visit summary into something you can ask questions about.
Floods, fires and emergencies
Hampton Roads (757)
Flood and drainage guidance for residents.
Hampton Roads (757)
Neighbors' flood photos and forecasts become a risk map.
Jerusalem
Prioritizes water sampling after floods.
Jerusalem
Emergency reports over phones, Raspberry Pi hubs and LoRa when networks fail.
Jerusalem
Earthquake preparation and safer routes after a quake.
Jerusalem
Coordinates community-center resources in emergencies.
Jerusalem
Fire prediction, smoke sensing and spread mapping.
Skopje, North Macedonia
Connects fire locations with nearby water.
Taipei, Taiwan
Coordinates dorm evacuations, from missing residents to blocked exits.
Miami
A hurricane app that keeps working when the power and signal don't.
Scams and trust online
Taipei, Taiwan
Checks online sellers against local scam patterns.
Taipei, Taiwan
Teaches people, including older adults, to spot phishing.
Taipei, Taiwan
Flags manipulative tactics in social media posts.
Taipei, Taiwan
Fact-checks captioned YouTube videos and cites sources.
Pune, India
A Marathi, Hindi and English second opinion that helps Pune seniors stop 'digital arrest' scam calls.
Silver Spring, Maryland
Upload a screenshot of a suspicious message and Gemma 4 explains whether it's a scam and what to do.
Money, work and paperwork
Detroit
What a new job really pays, after childcare and the commute.
Detroit
Practice coding with AI, scored on how well you steer it.
Detroit
A 21-page tax exemption, reduced to a few photos and questions.
Detroit
Scholarships, internships and jobs for Detroit students.
Detroit
An early warning before tax foreclosure.
Detroit
Finds local gig work and reads listings aloud.
Detroit
Your insurance policy, in plain language.
InSimLai
SourceDetroit
A step-by-step permit path for Detroit businesses.
Taipei, Taiwan
Helps working parents find government and employer support.
Harare, Zimbabwe
Turns informal business records into cash-flow summaries.
Dublin, Ireland
A private career navigator for people whose work is being reshaped by AI.
Dublin, Ireland
Help for tenants facing housing problems.
Food
Detroit
Double Up Food Bucks markets, with recipes priced after the match.
Detroit
Free leftover food and pantry help, close by.
Carmen–Campeche, Mexico
Routes restaurant surplus food to people in need. A person reviews each match.
Harare, Zimbabwe
WhatsApp crop advice for tomato growers that escalates when unsure.
Getting around
Detroit
Bus times matched to specialist appointments.
Detroit
Neighbors sharing rides to the hospital.
Carmen–Campeche, Mexico
Bus tracking, digital fares and emergency help.
Carmen–Campeche, Mexico
A real-time, collaborative public-transport map.
Skopje, North Macedonia
Shows open spots and whether payment is needed.
Detroit
Unused parking time becomes a donation.
San Francisco
An iMessage bot that says whether you can park at a pin and when street sweeping comes.
Can I park here?
From the host's recap, which covers projects that used FalkorDB. It may not list every team.
Best Use of Photon
SourceClean air, water and land
Jerusalem
Shows the air-pollution cost of supply-chain choices.
Jerusalem
Estimates air quality from existing cameras.
Aerolens
Shoutout: Feasibility & ResponsibilitySpecial shoutout: Strongest on Feasibility & Responsibility
SourceJerusalem
Finds groundwater contamination and alerts authorities.
Skopje, North Macedonia
Air quality for planning time outdoors.
Carmen–Campeche, Mexico
Environmental incident reports that work offline.
Miami
Identifies local wildlife and whether it is native.
San Francisco
An iMessage agent that routes wildlife-encounter photos to the right agency.
WildSignal
From the host's recap, which covers projects that used FalkorDB. It may not list every team.
SourceCivic voice
Miami
Shows your ballot and candidates for your address, with sources.
Hampton Roads (757)
Compares members of Congress with your priorities.
San Francisco
Turns street photos of problems like potholes into structured 311 tickets.
San Francisco
Answers questions about 66 SF Board of Supervisors meetings, with vote details and video timestamps.
Hartford, Connecticut
Connecticut news, answered with public data.
Learning and language
Harare, Zimbabwe
Curriculum-grounded tutoring that asks guiding questions.
Carmen–Campeche, Mexico
Flags students at academic risk and suggests support.
Detroit
Say what you want to build, get the right AI tools.
San Francisco
Translates between Inga and Spanish, shows each word's source and learns from speakers' corrections.
More builds
Detroit
Maps what's within five minutes of home.
Detroit
Research on what local AI agents can reach.
Compositional Boundary Precedence Inversion
SourceMiami
Miami
AidNow
Miami
Survive Miami
Miami
StormCard
Miami
HumanityOS
Miami
TESA MIAMI
Miami
4forces
Miami
Rooted
Miami
Four Forces Watch
Miami
Nodal
Carmen–Campeche, Mexico
UBICARMEN
Carmen–Campeche, Mexico
OlaRuta
Carmen–Campeche, Mexico
MosquiCero
Carmen–Campeche, Mexico
Carmen en Ruta
Carmen–Campeche, Mexico
Cami
Carmen–Campeche, Mexico
Emplea CDC
Hampton Roads (757)
ScamGuard
Hampton Roads (757)
Retro Forge
Hampton Roads (757)
Dante's HELL "o" World
Hampton Roads (757)
Two drum machines and a mixer for making beats with AI.
Hampton Roads (757)
Agent check
Hampton Roads (757)
PC Deal Locator
Hampton Roads (757)
SimpSec OMNICHAIN
Taipei, Taiwan
Taipei RainReady AI
Harare, Zimbabwe
GeoAgriSense
Harare, Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe Nursing Tutor
Arlington, Washington area
AnyScholar
Best Prototype
SourceSan Francisco
Recommends local spots over crowded tourist ones.
Tampere, Finland
Designs prosthetic socket liners using parallel 3D simulations.
HolkkiLab
From the Quanscient challenge, one of the event's challenges. Ten teams took it. Descriptions are the challenge host's.
1st · Quanscient challenge
SourceTampere, Finland
Generates footstep sounds from simulated floor vibrations.
ModalForge
From the Quanscient challenge, one of the event's challenges. Ten teams took it. Descriptions are the challenge host's.
2nd · Quanscient challenge
SourceTampere, Finland
Tests designs for mid-air haptic buttons before a chip is made.
Touchstone
From the Quanscient challenge, one of the event's challenges. Ten teams took it. Descriptions are the challenge host's.
3rd · Quanscient challenge
SourceTampere, Finland
Finds where office acoustic screens best reduce speech noise.
AllQuiet
From the Quanscient challenge, one of the event's challenges. Ten teams took it. Descriptions are the challenge host's.
SourceTampere, Finland
Advises wind farms whether to heat or stop iced turbine blades.
BladeThaw
From the Quanscient challenge, one of the event's challenges. Ten teams took it. Descriptions are the challenge host's.
SourceTampere, Finland
Estimates whether outdoor pipes will freeze, and what insulation changes.
Frost
From the Quanscient challenge, one of the event's challenges. Ten teams took it. Descriptions are the challenge host's.
SourceTampere, Finland
Compares fuel cell plate channel designs.
CellShield
From the Quanscient challenge, one of the event's challenges. Ten teams took it. Descriptions are the challenge host's.
SourceTampere, Finland
Predicts turbine blade deformation during machining.
Optimimax
From the Quanscient challenge, one of the event's challenges. Ten teams took it. Descriptions are the challenge host's.
SourceTampere, Finland
Models soldering settings to avoid microcracks in solar cells.
Solar cell soldering
From the Quanscient challenge, one of the event's challenges. Ten teams took it. Descriptions are the challenge host's.
SourceMiami
Shows your ballot and candidates for your address, with sources.
Miami
Miami
AidNow
Carmen–Campeche, Mexico
Bus tracking, digital fares and emergency help.
Carmen–Campeche, Mexico
Environmental incident reports that work offline.
Carmen–Campeche, Mexico
Flags students at academic risk and suggests support.
Hampton Roads (757)
Flood and drainage guidance for residents.
Hampton Roads (757)
Compares members of Congress with your priorities.
Hampton Roads (757)
ScamGuard
Hampton Roads (757)
Retro Forge
Hampton Roads (757)
Dante's HELL "o" World
Taipei, Taiwan
Fact-checks captioned YouTube videos and cites sources.
Taipei, Taiwan
Coordinates dorm evacuations, from missing residents to blocked exits.
Taipei, Taiwan
Groups young volunteers to visit older adults.
Harare, Zimbabwe
WhatsApp crop advice for tomato growers that escalates when unsure.
Harare, Zimbabwe
Curriculum-grounded tutoring that asks guiding questions.
Harare, Zimbabwe
Turns informal business records into cash-flow summaries.
Jerusalem
Emergency reports over phones, Raspberry Pi hubs and LoRa when networks fail.
Jerusalem
Earthquake preparation and safer routes after a quake.
Jerusalem
Coordinates community-center resources in emergencies.
Jerusalem
Shows the air-pollution cost of supply-chain choices.
Jerusalem
Fire prediction, smoke sensing and spread mapping.
Jerusalem
Finds groundwater contamination and alerts authorities.
Jerusalem
Estimates air quality from existing cameras.
Aerolens
Shoutout: Feasibility & ResponsibilitySpecial shoutout: Strongest on Feasibility & Responsibility
SourceJerusalem
Prioritizes water sampling after floods.
Dublin, Ireland
A private career navigator for people whose work is being reshaped by AI.
Dublin, Ireland
Help for tenants facing housing problems.
Skopje, North Macedonia
Connects fire locations with nearby water.
Skopje, North Macedonia
Shows open spots and whether payment is needed.
Skopje, North Macedonia
Air quality for planning time outdoors.
Arlington, Washington area
AnyScholar
Best Prototype
SourceSan Francisco
An iMessage bot that says whether you can park at a pin and when street sweeping comes.
Can I park here?
From the host's recap, which covers projects that used FalkorDB. It may not list every team.
Best Use of Photon
SourceTampere, Finland
Designs prosthetic socket liners using parallel 3D simulations.
HolkkiLab
From the Quanscient challenge, one of the event's challenges. Ten teams took it. Descriptions are the challenge host's.
1st · Quanscient challenge
SourceTampere, Finland
Generates footstep sounds from simulated floor vibrations.
ModalForge
From the Quanscient challenge, one of the event's challenges. Ten teams took it. Descriptions are the challenge host's.
2nd · Quanscient challenge
SourceTampere, Finland
Tests designs for mid-air haptic buttons before a chip is made.
Touchstone
From the Quanscient challenge, one of the event's challenges. Ten teams took it. Descriptions are the challenge host's.
3rd · Quanscient challenge
SourceMiami
Shows your ballot and candidates for your address, with sources.
Miami
Miami
A hurricane app that keeps working when the power and signal don't.
Hampton Roads (757)
Flood and drainage guidance for residents.
Hampton Roads (757)
Compares members of Congress with your priorities.
Hampton Roads (757)
Neighbors' flood photos and forecasts become a risk map.
Hampton Roads (757)
Two drum machines and a mixer for making beats with AI.
Taipei, Taiwan
Groups young volunteers to visit older adults.
Taipei, Taiwan
Helps working parents find government and employer support.
Taipei, Taiwan
Checks online sellers against local scam patterns.
Taipei, Taiwan
Teaches people, including older adults, to spot phishing.
Taipei, Taiwan
Flags manipulative tactics in social media posts.
Dublin, Ireland
A private career navigator for people whose work is being reshaped by AI.
San Francisco
Turns street photos of problems like potholes into structured 311 tickets.
Hartford, Connecticut
Connecticut news, answered with public data.
Pune, India
A Marathi, Hindi and English second opinion that helps Pune seniors stop 'digital arrest' scam calls.
From organizer results, MLH and Devpost galleries and chapter recaps, inspected October 25, 2026. Code and video links come from each team's own submission page. Screenshots and clips were recorded by the recap team from each team's public demo.
Each city picked its own problem: farming in Harare, buses in Carmen, disasters in Jerusalem, ballots in Miami, health access in Detroit.
Global
Detroit in a global series
Hack for Humanity is The AI Collective's global build series. Each chapter chose its own local problems.
Job displacementTechnical literacyAccessibility
One hackathon at a time
Hack for Humanity is a series of separate events. Each chapter ran its own event and set its own date. 13 dated events on this page ran from Sep 19 to Oct 24, 2026, with Detroit on Oct 24.
Harare, Zimbabwe
5 builds listed
San Francisco
Entrepreneurs First
7 builds listed
Singapore
No builds listed here
Dublin, Ireland
2 builds listed
Skopje, North Macedonia
3 builds listed
Skopje, North Macedonia: Chapter pageSkopje, North Macedonia: Date source
Tampere, Finland
Tampere University
9 builds listed
Miami
13 builds listed
Carmen–Campeche, Mexico
11 builds listed
Carmen–Campeche, Mexico: Chapter pageCarmen–Campeche, Mexico: Date source
Hampton Roads (757)
10 builds listed
Hampton Roads (757): Chapter pageHampton Roads (757): Date source
Taipei, Taiwan
9 builds listed
Jerusalem
8 builds listed
Fredericksburg, Virginia
No builds listed here
On the same day as Detroit
Detroit
This recap
27 builds listed
Also with builds on this page. Their sources do not give an event date: Arlington, Washington area; Hartford, Connecticut; Pune, India; Silver Spring, Maryland.
Source: The AI Collective launch announcement, September 1, 2026
- Chapters in 50+ countries
- September 1 to October 31, 2026
- Follows Humans in AI Week (June 2026): 250,000 people, 100+ events
- Global partners: MLH, Google, Lovable, Snowflake and Databricks; Build Club as community partner
“Technology should serve humanity, not the other way around.”
Detroit in the global picture
Detroit shipped 27 projects in 3 hours of building, with 51 builders checked in, among the highest project counts reported so far.
Data available for 8 of 130 Hack for Humanity host chapters.
Scroll sideways to see every column.
| Source | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carmen–Campeche | 11 | — | — | — | — | — | 0 | Projects, as of Oct 25, 2026 |
| Detroit | 27 | 5139 named on teams | 0.53 | 3 h | 9.0 | 48% | 17 | Projects, as of Oct 25, 2026Builders: MLH OrganizerHQ and Luma check-in counts, reconciled Oct 26, 2026, Oct 24, 2026Build window: Organizer timeline: building ran 10:40 AM to 1:40 PM |
| Dublin | about 15The builder reports roughly 15 teams. | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | Projects, as of Oct 25, 2026 |
| Hampton Roads (757) | 10 | — | — | — | — | — | 4 | Projects, as of Oct 25, 2026 |
| Harare | 5 | — | — | — | — | — | 0 | Projects, as of Oct 25, 2026 |
| Jerusalem | 8 | — | — | — | — | — | 0 | Projects, as of Oct 25, 2026 |
| Miami | 13MLH lists 14, including a test entry. | — | — | — | — | — | 3 | Projects, as of Oct 25, 2026 |
| Taipei | 9 | — | — | — | — | — | 5 | Projects, as of Oct 25, 2026 |
- Verified:
- a raw count from the linked source.
- Modeled, Projects per builder:
- Projects reported divided by builders.
- Modeled, Projects per build hour:
- Projects reported divided by build window hours.
- Modeled, Health-access share:
- Builds tagged Health access divided by all themed builds on this recap.
- —
- Not reported.
Counts come from different sources and aren't directly comparable.
Chapter pages
Where each chapter on this page published its event, results or recap. Most chapters used Luma and MLH. Jerusalem is the only other chapter we found with its own results site.
Detroit
- Event pageLuma
- ResultsMLH
Harare, Zimbabwe
- Event pageMLH
- ResultsMLH
San Francisco
- Event pageLuma
- RecapFalkorDB, a sponsor
Hartford, Connecticut
- Event pageUConn
- Builder's postCT Signal team
Dublin, Ireland
- Event pageLuma
- Builder's postDroichead builder, on DEV
Skopje, North Macedonia
- Event pageStartUp Revolution AI Summit agenda
- RecapAI Now society
Tampere, Finland
- Event pageLuma
- RecapQuanscient, a challenge host
Miami
- Event pageLuma
- ResultsMLH
Carmen–Campeche, Mexico
- Event pageLuma
- ResultsMLH
Hampton Roads (757)
- Chapter on LumaThe AI Collective Hampton Roads
- ResultsMLH
Taipei, Taiwan
- Event pageLuma
- ResultsDevpost
Jerusalem
- Chapter siteJerusalem AI
Fredericksburg, Virginia
- CoverageFredericksburg Free Press
Arlington, Washington area
- Builder's postParticipant, on LinkedIn
Pune, India
- Builder's postThamba team README
Silver Spring, Maryland
- Builder's postScam Checker team README
Found October 26, 2026. Each link names who published it. Builder posts and sponsor recaps may not cover every team.
Detroit builds for people
Detroit has a long record of building things that serve people directly. Here are a few moments, each with a source.
1836
Thirteen formerly enslaved people found Second Baptist Church, one of the last Underground Railroad stops before Canada.
Source1914
Ford's $5 day more than doubles pay for qualifying autoworkers and cuts the workday to eight hours.
Source1920
Detroit police officer William Potts creates the first three-color, four-way traffic signal, at Woodward and Fort.
Source1952
Harper Hospital surgeons and GM engineers build a mechanical heart used in one of the first successful open-heart operations.
Source2009
Double Up Food Bucks launches at five Detroit farmers markets, doubling SNAP dollars for Michigan-grown produce.
Source2026
Builders at One Ford Place submit 27 projects in one Saturday for Hack for Humanity: Detroit.
Source
See all 13 moments
1836
Thirteen formerly enslaved people found Second Baptist Church, one of the last Underground Railroad stops before Canada.
Source1891
Eastern Market moves to its current site, today the largest historic public market district in the US.
Source1909
Wayne County paves a mile of Woodward Avenue in concrete, widely cited as America's first concrete highway mile.
Source1913
Ford's Highland Park plant adopts the moving assembly line, and the Model T's price falls from $825 to $260 by 1925.
Source1914
Ford's $5 day more than doubles pay for qualifying autoworkers and cuts the workday to eight hours.
Source1920
Detroit police officer William Potts creates the first three-color, four-way traffic signal, at Woodward and Fort.
Source1952
Harper Hospital surgeons and GM engineers build a mechanical heart used in one of the first successful open-heart operations.
Source1959
Berry Gordy Jr. founds Motown with an $800 loan from his family's savings club.
Source2008
Data Driven Detroit forms to open up neighborhood data, and D-Town Farm takes root on seven acres in Rouge Park.
Source2009
Double Up Food Bucks launches at five Detroit farmers markets, doubling SNAP dollars for Michigan-grown produce.
Source2013
Motor City Mapping surveys 380,217 Detroit parcels and makes the property data public.
Source2024
Michigan Central Station reopens after about three decades empty, now a hub for tech and culture.
Source2026
Builders at One Ford Place submit 27 projects in one Saturday for Hack for Humanity: Detroit.
Source
Sources checked October 25, 2026.
Hosted at Henry Ford Health
Source: event listing, luma.com/detroith4h
- Hosted by the Digital Enablement Hub at Henry Ford Health, Detroit.
- Community partner: Henry Ford Innovations.
How the day worked
How we set the challenge and judged the projects.
Summary
The challenge
The challenge
01Job displacement
Help people navigate changing roles, skills and economic security.
02Technical literacy
Make AI easier to understand, evaluate and use with confidence.
03Accessibility
Remove barriers and widen who benefits from AI.
04Detroit local track
Health access, environment, neighborhood services, economic mobility or civic data.
Tracks 1 to 3 came from The AI Collective's global brief. Track 4 was Detroit's own.
The rules
Teams of 1 to 4
Start from zero
No code written before hacking began.
Open by default
Use open data. MLH prizes also required a public repo under MIT or Apache 2.0.
Spend $0
Free tiers and free credits only.
Open to everyone
No coding experience required. Teams formed on site.
The day
9:30 AM
Doors and check-in
10:00 AM
Opening
10:40 AM
Hacking begins
Noon
Working lunch
1:40 PM
Building ends
Afternoon
Demos and judging, past 3 PM
Results reveal
Every builder got 100 free Lovable credits.
Source: event deck and organizer brief; build times confirmed by the organizer, Oct 26, 2026.
How we judged
Transparency
How we judged
Four criteria, weighted equally: social impact, technology, polish and accessibility, and innovation, each scored 1 to 5. Teams had two minutes to demo and one minute for questions.
MLH received 27 submissions. The Gemma and Open-Source AI tracks drew 16 and 17 entries, and every award winner has a public repository.
- Social impact
- Technology
- Polish and accessibility
- Innovation
What Detroit built
What Detroit built
Projects by theme
- Health access13 of 27
- Economic mobility8 of 27
- Food & neighborhood4 of 27
- Tech literacy1 of 27
- Security research1 of 27
Health access led
13 of 27 projects.
Multilingual by design
Projects offered Arabic, Spanish and Bengali (Keep Your Home, HomeBoundOS, Care313).
Bounded AI
Pivot Point and HOPE Check do their calculations in code. Coverage Pre-Check pulls prices from a database. Care313 has a nurse review every summary.
Privacy first
Let's Eat! collects no logins or benefit numbers. SisterCare Detroit runs its AI in the browser. 1Profile shares data only with consent.
What we would test next
What we would test next
Each code review ended with one question a live demo would answer.
From the judges' pre-demo code reviews.
Why it matters
Analysis
Why it matters
People closest to a problem can now show a working fix in a few hours. Whether it lasts depends on the organizations around it.
Where does the system already provide information or services, yet still leave patients, caregivers or staff unable to complete the next step?
Read the full analysis
What success could look like
Product
A prototype becomes software people use.
Operational learning
A misunderstood workflow becomes clear.
Capability
People get better at building responsibly.
These are open questions, not findings.
What this shows
- 27 prototypes built in one day, each aimed at a Detroit problem
- Shared habits: bounded AI, multilingual design, privacy by default
- A published rubric and a gallery of every project
What it does not show yet
Adoption, clinical benefit or economic return.
The next step is testing the strongest ideas with the people they were built for.
Keep it going
What happens next
For builders
Keep your repo public.
MLH prizes require a public repo under MIT or Apache 2.0.
Watch your inbox.
MLH first-place winners received their prizes at the event. Lovable Pro codes arrive by email. Missing something? Message Saeb or Donovan.
Make it easy to try.
Add a README, a demo link and a short video so people can try your project without you there.
See your score breakdown
Sign in with your Luma email to see your project's scores. Only your team can see them.
Sign inShare what you built.
Share kitNext in Detroit: Michigan DevFest + AI Hackathon
Saturday, Nov 14, at Hollywood Casino at Greektown. Hack for Humanity: Detroit builders get a community discount.
For everyone
Get The AI Collective newsletter.
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Follow the Detroit chapter.
Detroit chapter events.
Try a live demo.
16 Detroit apps are live.
Try a live demoPass this recap on.
Share the recap.
Questions
When and where was Hack for Humanity: Detroit 2026?
Saturday, October 24, 2026, at One Ford Place in Detroit, hosted by the Digital Enablement Hub at Henry Ford Health.
Who won?
Pivot Point won Best Lovable Project, followed by Steer and AfterBirth. 1Profile won Best Use of Gemma. SisterCare Detroit won Best Open-Source AI and People's Choice.
How many projects were built?
27 projects were submitted on MLH. Health access was the largest theme, with 13.
How were projects judged?
Four judges scored social impact, technology, polish and accessibility, and innovation, each from 1 to 5 and weighted equally.
What is Hack for Humanity?
A global build series from The AI Collective, with Chapters in 50+ countries from September 1 to October 31, 2026. Each chapter chose its own local problems.
Who made it possible
Detroit builds with Detroit businesses. Two local favorites fueled the day, and a set of hosts and build partners made it possible.
Local fuel
Powered by Detroit-area favorites
Their coffee and pizza kept the room going from the morning welcome to the final demos.
Coffee
Qahwah House
Thank you for the 10 pounds of dark roast Yemeni coffee that started our morning.
Topped Yelp's list of the best coffee shops in Michigan in 2019. Source
Founded in Dearborn in 2017 by Ibrahim Alhasbani, the eighth generation of his family in coffee. Our coffee came from the Schaefer Road location in Dearborn. Source
Lunch
Papa's Pizza & BBQ
Thank you for the pizza, salad and chicken tenders that kept our builders going.
Family-owned since 2000, with 18 Michigan locations, four of them in Detroit. Our lunch came from the Clinton Township kitchen. Source
- projects built
- 27projects built
- for health access
- 13for health access
- Saturday at One Ford Place
- 1Saturday at One Ford Place
Host and venue
The room
A home for the day at One Ford Place.
Host
Henry Ford Health
Thank you for hosting us at One Ford Place.
Henry Ford Hospital admitted its first patients on October 1, 1915. Source
Community partner
Henry Ford Innovations
Thank you for joining us as community partner.
Henry Ford Innovations turns inventions developed at Henry Ford Health into products, working with startups, companies and investors. Source
Venue
One Ford Place
The venue.
The building began as the Detroit headquarters of Burroughs, the adding-machine and computer maker. Henry Ford Health bought the site in 1991. Source
Organizer
The community
The Detroit chapter that brought builders together.
Build partners
The tools and prizes
Credits, models and prizes that let teams ship in one day.
Build partner
Lovable
Thank you for the prizes, credits and support. This recap was built with Lovable.
An AI app builder founded in Stockholm in 2023 by Anton Osika and Fabian Hedin. Source
Build partner
MLH
Detroit was an official Hacktoberfest Hack Day.
Major League Hacking co-stewards Hacktoberfest 2026 with DEV. Source
Hacktoberfest presenting partner
DigitalOcean
DigitalOcean launched Hacktoberfest in 2014. Source
Gemma
Google DeepMind
Google DeepMind builds Gemma, the open models behind the Best Use of Gemma prize. Source
Fuel the next Detroit build
Coffee, lunch, a room or prizes: every partner gets a spot on this page and in front of the builders. Talk to the chapter about the next one.
Thank you
Thank you to everyone who spent Saturday building for Detroit.
In about three hours of build time, you made 27 projects on real Detroit problems.
You worked around a street closure and guest Wi-Fi, and still got your projects in on time.
Thanks to Siranjeev Venkateswaran for the coffee run and cleanup, Juliana Ashrifeh for food logistics and Donovan Brown for everything in between.
Hosts
- LinkedIn profile of Saeb A. AhsanDigital Enablement Hub, Henry Ford Health
- LinkedIn profile of Juliana Ashrifeh
- LinkedIn profile of Donovan Brown
- LinkedIn profile of Zlatan CizmicHenry Ford Innovations
- LinkedIn profile of Josh Crites
- LinkedIn profile of Charvi Rathod
- LinkedIn profile of Joshitha Recharla
- LinkedIn profile of Siranjeev Venkateswaran
Results checked against MLH submissions on October 25, 2026.
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