Hack complete

Beat The ClockAgent Hack

Two hours. Three Wayfair tracks. 58 agents shipped at Wayfair HQ during Boston Tech Week. Explore what the room built.

Event recap

Hack complete

Date
Tuesday, May 26
Location
Wayfair Office in Boston
Projects
58 teams
Hackers
200+
from 70 companies and 15 universities
Wayfair logoSubconscious logoBaseten logoCloudflare logo

From the room

Hackers building at long tables during Beat The Clock Agent Hack
Kickoff presentation on stage at Wayfair HQ
Furnish AI, the grand prize-winning team at Beat The Clock Agent Hack
Boston Tech Week check-in line for the hackathon
Participants working on laptops during the hackathon sprint
Group photo of hackathon participants at Beat The Clock Agent Hack

Showcase

What hackers built

58 projects from the May 26 sprint at Wayfair HQ. Click any project for the demo video, team, and links.

All projects

54more teams · badges mark track winners and the judges' top 15

Top 15

Supply chain and logistics

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

Wayfair bot Moana detects a weather issue and interactively reschedules a delivery with the customer, Andrew.

Bill Simmons, Andrew Farrell

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Top 15

Consumer shopping experience

Office Launch Agent

Office Launch Agent turns a startup's office move-in details into a styled, budget-aware furniture buying report with recommended products, quantities, costs, and tradeoffs.

Dave Gogi

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Top 15

Customer service and FinOps

Quibble

"When everything looks the same, let them quibble."

Komi (Jingren Ma), Patrick, komi, Patrick Liu

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Top 15

Supply chain and logistics

Return Damage Assessor

Damage assessor for returned furniture.

Athens Fitzcheung, Haidar Lafta

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Top 15

Consumer shopping experience

Room Vision to Cart

Upload a picture of your dream room, pick a budget, and get back a shopping cart of potential furniture options within your budget.

Kevin Phung

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Top 15

Supply chain and logistics

Supply Chain Early Warning System

An autonomous agent that detects supplier distress signals days before failure and recommends replacements, so Wayfair ops teams act before customers are impacted.

Rohan Manish Jauhari

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Top 15

Supply chain and logistics

TradeShock AI

TradeShock AI is a supply-chain war room agent that turns tariff shocks into SKU-level impact analysis, margin and delivery-risk forecasting, recommended mitigation actions, and real operational follow-through through execution and Jira ticket creation.

shivam singh, Shrivarshini

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Top 15

Consumer shopping experience

WayFinder

A voice-first furniture shopping assistant that makes online browsing more accessible by letting users naturally describe what they need, compare products, build a cart, and complete a mock checkout through conversation instead of clicks.

Clark Ohlenbusch, Tanay Mehta, Julie Hohenberg

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Top 15

Consumer shopping experience

WayFinder

Helps find products on Wayfair based on an image.

Joel Kalai, Daniel Suit, David Zhao

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Top 15

Supply chain and logistics

Waypoint

Waypoint is an AI agent that automatically analyzes delivery exceptions, figures out who's at fault, and recommends how to resolve them.

Nikethana

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Top 15

Consumer shopping experience

WayRecommender.ai

Built a smart AI recommendation system for a room of the user's choice within the user's budget and color combinations.

Siri Srinivas

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Customer service and FinOps

Autonomous On Call bot

An autonomous on-call agent.

Sam Xifaras

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Consumer shopping experience

CasaBot, a Private Personal Interior Designer

CasaBot is your personal interior designer: upload your room, tell us your style and budget, and get ranked furniture picks with a professional designer's taste, not endless filter scrolling.

Ruby, Ruby hong

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Supply chain and logistics

Claimfair

A real-time AI agent that automatically determines whether a Wayfair customer is eligible for a refund by cross-referencing order details, delivery status, and return policy, then streaming a clear verdict with a refund amount and next steps in seconds.

Jude Ighomena, Shahza Saeed, Khyati Amin

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Consumer shopping experience

CushionApp

The OpenAI-compatible interface made swapping in fast. Two things we hit: (1) tool_choice / function calling returns malformed arguments with XML artifacts, so we had to abandon tool use and go plain JSON-in-content. (2) The model reasons extensively before outputting JSON, so with low max_tokens it never reaches the output; needed 3000+ tokens. Once we worked around both, the model was solid for style narrative generation. Would love reliable tool_use in a future release.

Isaac, Isaac Gbaba, Damien Johnson, Elton Baidoo

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Consumer shopping experience

Delta Home

We're building software that takes a home's dimensions and recommends furniture that fits the space and can be delivered within a specified timeframe.

Cole, Yonatan Shichor, Noah Rubin, Ethan Lopez-Levy, Cole Wysopal

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Supply chain and logistics

DelXAI

AI agent handling supply chain logistics.

Lenny Pische, Bohdan Koshevoi

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Consumer shopping experience

fitcheck

It's a conversational shopping agent that takes your room image, estimates fit dimensions, and returns a best-fit product with a generated in-room preview overlay.

amar, Amar Nagargoje

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Customer service and FinOps

Fraud agent

A return and refund policy fraud detection agent that can approve, deny, and escalate requests.

Rudy Banerjee, Nitin

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Consumer shopping experience

Interior Designer Agent Skill

Room Designer is a Claude Cowork skill that turns Claude into an expert interior designer, taking a room's measurements, budget, and style into a scale floor plan, then running an item-by-item loop over Wayfair.com that places real, verified-to-fit furniture while building a live shopping list and design thesis.

Michael Wheeler

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Supply chain and logistics

LastScrew

Last Screw makes Wayfair's customers the new central warehouse: they keep the item assembled at home instead of dismantling and shipping it back, priced in real time by a Subconscious agent and verified by a Baseten vision model.

Wesley Donohoe

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Consumer shopping experience

Lo - Realtime voice agent

Lo, a real-time voice agent that answers questions about products and orders, and takes actions.

Hansen Liang

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Consumer shopping experience

MarriageSaver

MarriageSaver is an agent that lives inside the Wayfair shared board where couples asynchronously decide what they're considering, and an agent surfaces their agreements, tensions, and open questions so they can make a joint decision without a joint session.

Atin Tandon

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Consumer shopping experience

Materia

Discover and match Wayfair furniture based on your Pinterest.

Loic Djayep, Aman Upadhyay, Gilles Loic Djayep

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Consumer shopping experience

Move-in Discovery Agent

We built a multi-agent emotional spatial reasoning system that transforms human feelings and lifestyle intent into personalized living spaces through AI-powered Wayfair discovery.

Chenyan Zhu, siting wang

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Customer service and FinOps

Recall

A Cloudflare Worker that triages Wayfair supplier-service tickets with a Subconscious LLM agent, fronted by an edge KV decision cache so repeat ticket patterns resolve instantly at zero tokens instead of re-deriving the same answer every time.

Kevin Wang, Kevin

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Customer service and FinOps

RefundIQ

An AI agent that automatically evaluates Wayfair customer refund requests, makes instant decisions with full reasoning, and generates the customer response, no human required.

Arin, Arin Rakshe

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Supply chain and logistics

ReturnFair

ReturnFair is an AI agent that verifies damaged-item claims with photos or videos, recommends part replacement, partial refund, or escalation, and helps Wayfair reduce return costs while still resolving customer issues fairly.

Vinay Kejriwal, Alex Troetsch

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Supply chain and logistics

ReturnFlow AI

We built an AI-powered returns triage agent that investigates furniture returns, recommends the most cost-effective disposition path, and autonomously executes downstream logistics workflows with a human reviewer in the loop.

Scott Cronson, Hanpeng Yang

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Consumer shopping experience

Roomathon

Room redesign with Wayfair products.

Aleko, Mabrok, Mabrok Bharuya

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Supply chain and logistics

Salvage

Salvage is an agentic returns-triage console that uses Subconscious's thinking mode to reason through all five disposition paths for a Wayfair return (warehouse, refurb, liquidator, donate, or refund-and-keep) and recommend the one that maximizes net recovery, with a live reasoning trace and an auto-drafted customer message.

Nihir, Nihir Kothari

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Consumer shopping experience

Shop Council!

Shopper Council uses agents to help users decide what to buy and promotes why you should buy on Wayfair.

Hari Joshi, Mihir Jani, Harry Joshi

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Consumer shopping experience

Shop_Way

ShopWay Concierge is an AI agent that takes a plain-English furniture request (style, budget, and room size), browses a live storefront, checks if products physically fit your space, and adds the best match to your cart, all without a single click.

Parthvi Soni, Parthvi

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Consumer shopping experience

ShopPilot

A Chrome extension that turns Wayfair into an AI-copilot shopping experience. The agent browses the real site alongside you with three modes: Browse, Smart Pick, and Auto Cart.

Nehanth

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Customer service and FinOps

smart_return

An AI agent that decides each Wayfair refund to be fair to the customer and cheapest for the company, and escalates only the cases that truly need a human.

Yikun Ding

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Consumer shopping experience

SmartShop

Our project allows users to intelligently search for products based on keywords and returns the most trustworthy / reputable products.

Hudson, Ben

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Customer service and FinOps

Support Case Autopilot

An agent that reads a Wayfair support ticket, pulls the order, policy, and payment, reasons to a policy-backed decision, drafts the customer reply and rep handoff, and escalates to a human when a case falls outside policy.

Om Solanki

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Supply chain and logistics

The Dock

An agent that checks every furniture delivery against the order and the supplier's paperwork, catches what's missing or damaged, and files the claims for a human to approve in one click.

Arman Rysmakhanov

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Customer service and FinOps

Triage

Simple triage.

Nicholas Adrogue, Nico

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Consumer shopping experience

Voice Helper

Voice agent to find products on Wayfair.

Subham Kumar Das, Shanmathi Sivakumar

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Customer service and FinOps

Way Ledger

WayLedger AI is an autonomous financial operations agent for e-commerce, built to protect profit margins and resolve disputes instantly.

Arjun Malarmannan

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Supply chain and logistics

WayAhead

WayAhead is a proactive voice agent that monitors Wayfair orders for delivery risk and automatically calls customers to resolve problems before they ever call Wayfair.

Krishan Gauri, Shiv Patel

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Supply chain and logistics

WayBack

Refund / return eligibility agent.

Yassine, Yassine Fatimi

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Consumer shopping experience

Waycool

Structure product data for agentic commerce; use shopper context to route to the right products.

Cameron, Cooper Oliff

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Supply chain and logistics

Wayfair delivery rescheduler

Allow users to quickly reschedule their delivery without talking to a delivery driver, which is currently required for large parcel deliveries.

Cedric Prentice

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Customer service and FinOps

WayFair Fraud Agent

Wayfair Fraud Agent helps customer service teams detect suspicious refund, return, and replacement requests by analyzing order history, policy risk, customer behavior, and product evidence images.

Abishek, Abishek Muralikrishna

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Supply chain and logistics

Wayfair Logistics Executable

Handles spot-market issues on the fly, shortening employee workflows.

Rohan Nagpure

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Customer service and FinOps

Wayfair Ops Agent

We have a chat agent for the customer representatives or customers themselves.

Rahul Suresh, Ojas Misra

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Customer service and FinOps

Wayfair Returns Triage Agent

An autonomous agent that triages Wayfair customer return complaints end-to-end (looking up the order, checking policy, scoring fraud risk, and verifying the damage photo with multimodal vision) to decide refund, replace, or escalate, and draft the customer reply in under thirty seconds.

Bhoomika

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Supply chain and logistics

Wayfair Supply

Wayfair Supply is an AI agent for warehouse freight-exception operations that lets ops staff resolve hundreds of daily exceptions (damaged pallets, BOL mismatches, missed appointments) through natural language and autonomous reasoning, rather than manually clicking through queue-management screens.

Michael Shehata, Craig Bakke, Michael, Atharva Kamble

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Consumer shopping experience

WayFair Support Wizard

The hardest part of support is not having the information available to you; this project uses browser automation plus policy indexing to provide guidance to the agent handling the issue in real time.

Mike Miner

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Consumer shopping experience

Wayfair Vibe Scout

AI shopping copilot that turns a vibe, budget, and optional room screenshots into ranked Wayfair-style picks with normalized catalog cards and a lightweight demo cart.

Lily

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Supply chain and logistics

WayTriage

An autonomous operations dashboard that uses multimodal AI to instantly cross-reference customer damage photos against carrier manifests to automatically determine liability and financially resolve supply chain exceptions.

Aayam, Aayam Mainali

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Consumer shopping experience

Wheelfit

WheelFit is an AI agent that helps wheelchair users find accessible furniture on Wayfair by analyzing their room dimensions, scoring every product against ADA wheelchair clearance standards, and recommending the best combinations that leave enough space to safely navigate.

Tanmayi Shurpalo, Tanmayi Shurpali, Anmol Shetty

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