{"slug":"centinela","name":"Centinela","hackathon":"croma-govtech-ai-2026","tagline":"Autonomous agent that watches Colombian public procurement and issues opportunities and red flags with cited evidence.","placement":{"status":"grand-winner","awards":["Winner (only prize): USD 300 + 6 months of Croma"],"rank":1,"of_teams":12},"team":{"size":1,"members":["Adrian Issac"],"countries":["PE"]},"problem":"Procurement risk and opportunity are invisible when contracts are read one at a time, and checking a supplier across registries takes weeks of integration work.","solution":"Every two hours it checks new processes for flagged entities and contractors, chains six official sources (procurement, company registry, corporate supervisor, judiciary, disciplinary and fiscal-control records) and returns a verdict with the evidence chain; it spots cross-contract signals and drafts the freedom-of-information request, evidence dossier and social thread.","demo_moment":"The same flagged process shown twice: as a winnable low-competition opportunity for a small business, and as a red flag (single bidder, two-month-old company) for a citizen.","build_style":"software-only","tech":{"stack":["croma-platform"],"ai_patterns":["agent","llm-api"]},"domains":["govtech-transparency","due-diligence-risk"],"analysis":{"why_it_stood_out":[{"claim":"One engine, two products: the paying SME opportunity feed funds the free citizen watchdog.","basis":"organizer-stated","source":0},{"claim":"Finds patterns invisible contract-by-contract: award concentration around one supplier, shared legal representatives between supposed competitors.","basis":"organizer-stated","source":0},{"claim":"Does not stop at the finding — drafts the legal information request and the dossier.","basis":"organizer-stated","source":0},{"claim":"Autonomous: runs on a schedule without being asked, unlike the search/research tools most other entrants built.","basis":"curator-inference"},{"claim":"Won from the most crowded lane (7 of 12 projects did procurement): differentiation came from autonomy, dual use and action, not topic choice.","basis":"curator-inference"}],"mechanisms":["dual-use-value","takes-action","cited-evidence-trust","sponsor-platform-mastery","live-real-world-proof"],"judging_lens":["impact","business-potential","sponsor-api-use"],"lessons":["In a crowded lane, compete on autonomy and the next action, not on better search.","Show the business model inside the demo: who pays, who benefits."],"confidence":"high"},"links":{"devpost":null,"repo":null,"demo":"https://centinela.aido.lat","video":null},"sources":[{"url":"https://usecroma.com/en/blog/hackathon-govtech-resultados","kind":"official-results","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14"}]}