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Web & Design Society
The Web and Design Society (WebnD) is a tech society under the Student Technical Council (STC), IIT Bhubaneswar. Our members design and code, from interfaces and brand work to full-stack builds, and we run workshops, events and competitions where students learn, share their work and build together.
Psst: the one in the cape is Webby, our mascot.
Last lap · CR 4.0
Pick a domain, then one track inside it. Build agents and AI for Bharat in Web2, or onchain payments and AI × Web3 in Web3.
AI that takes over real work, and AI that works for every Indian.
AI & Automation
Agents that take over real work, and still ask before anything they can't undo.
Sub-tracksAutonomous Business Operations
Build agents on TrueForge that run a real business workflow end to end, such as a support resolution agent that reads order and billing data, issues refunds and escalates when it should, or a multi-agent workflow where separate agents handle procurement, dispatch and payment follow-up. Anything irreversible must pass through Tool Approval.
Engineering & Incident Response
Build agents that keep systems running. Examples are an incident response agent that reads alerts, logs and metrics, finds the likely cause of an outage and suggests a fix for a human to approve, or a DevOps agent that triages failing builds overnight and drafts fixes. Handling large logs without overflowing context is central, so Context Engineering and Sub-Agents matter here.
Data & Decision Automation
Build agents that turn raw data into decisions. Try a data analyst agent that answers business questions in plain language by querying databases and producing charts, or an inventory and logistics agent that predicts stock-outs, optimizes routes and drafts orders for approval. Memory should show how the agent improves from one run to the next.
Internal Operations & Workforce Automation
Build agents that remove routine work inside organizations. Examples include an internal helpdesk agent handling IT and HR requests with the right permissions per user, or a finance back-office agent that checks invoices, flags mismatches and sends reminders. Keep permissions tight, keep every action logged and make the agent say clearly what it could not do.
AI for Bharat
AI that fixes a real problem for the last user in the line, in India's languages, networks and scale.
Sub-tracksGovernance & Public Services
Build AI that makes digital governance work for every citizen. Examples include an agent that takes grievances in Indian languages, routes them across departments and shows live status until closure, or a scholarship and certificate assistant that verifies documents from other systems instead of asking for uploads. Protect citizen data by design, work on a basic phone, leave an audit trail officers and citizens can follow, and use human approval before any action that cannot be undone.
Healthcare, Education & Rural Livelihoods
Use AI to close access gaps in health, learning, agriculture and climate resilience. Try a health worker assistant that guides referrals and flags drug shortages, a voice-first tutor for low-connectivity regions, or a farmer alert and registry desk that sends pest and weather warnings by SMS or voice. Prioritize local languages and simple interfaces, and hand over to a human professional whenever the AI is unsure.
FinTech & Financial Inclusion
Build secure financial services for people the system still misses. Ideas include a first-time credit guide, a fraud triage agent that groups likely scams and asks a human to approve any freeze or customer message, a micro-insurance claims desk, or a UPI scam-warning companion in the user's language. Explain every decision plainly, and keep a human in control of anything that moves money.
Mobility, Trade & Infrastructure
Build agents and tools that keep India moving and its businesses running. Examples are an incident response agent that reads traffic and sensor feeds and suggests diversions for approval, an EV charging and bus-reliability planner, a small-seller order and inventory desk, or a multi-agent trade workflow covering procurement, dispatch and payment follow-up. Handle large data feeds cleanly, show real-time tracking and give users dashboards they can act on quickly.
Open Innovation
Build anything. If it's bold and it works, it belongs here.
Partner Bounties
Sponsors run their own bounties, open to teams from every track.
Hover or tap a coin to flip it.
Awarded to the most innovative, scalable, and production-ready distributed system or intelligent web application in the Web2 track.
PRIZES & CERTIFICATES FOR WINNERSAwarded to the top decentralized protocol, zero-knowledge application, or smart account infrastructure project in the Web3 track.
PRIZES & CERTIFICATES FOR WINNERSCash prizes for both track winners, plus runners-up awards and in-kind rewards from our partners.
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Code Relay 5.0,
powered by TrueFoundry
TrueFoundry, the AI infrastructure platform, is our title sponsor. TrueForge, their open-source agent harness, is at the heart of the Web2 AI & Automation track: build on it, or bring any framework you like.
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Title, Platinum, Gold, Silver and Bronze tiers, plus Track, Talent and Food & Beverage partnerships.
Everything you need before you grab the baton.
Join the participants' Discord at discord.gg/y54wHSpVC. Announcements, shortlist news, Round 2 details and answers from the organisers are all posted there first.
Any undergraduate or postgraduate student currently enrolled in a recognized university or institute in India is eligible. Teams may consist of 2 to 4 members. Inter-college and inter-branch teams are fully permitted.
Round 1 is free for everyone. Only teams selected for Round 2, the 30-hour final on campus at IIT Bhubaneswar, pay a registration fee to confirm their place. Accommodation on campus is optional and charged separately. Selected teams get the exact amounts along with their shortlist confirmation.
Participants can register online for round 1 and submit their ideas. If qualified for round 2, they will have to attend it on-campus at the IIT Bhubaneswar permanent campus (Argul, Jatni).
Code Relay 5.0 has two domains with two tracks each. Web2: AI & Automation (with TrueFoundry) and AI for Bharat (with CSM Technologies × TrueFoundry), each with four sub-tracks. Web3: Onchain Payments and AI × Web3, each with a problem statement and starting ideas, open to any blockchain. Each team picks one track.
All code submitted for judging must be written during the 30-hour hackathon duration. You may utilize public open-source libraries, packages, frameworks, and APIs, but the core project logic, contracts, and interfaces must be original work created during the event.
The Code Relay 5.0 tracks, sub-tracks and Round 1 guidelines are live on the Event page and in the PS Vault. The vault also has the problem statements from Code Relay 4.0 and 3.0.
Developers
03- Shruti01
- Shriya02
- Rajesh03
Convenors
02- Kshitij01
- Aarush02
Media heads
02- Nikhil01
- Lakshya02
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Round 01 is online and open to every college in India. 2–4 per team. Round 01 is free.