ABBYY Hackathon Winners Demo the Power of Document AI, AI Agents and GenAI to Solve Enterprise Challenges
ABBYY hosted its third annual AI Pulse Developer Conference and Hackathon July 9-10 where 35 entrants registered to build their most innovative solutions using Document AI with AI agents and generative AI technologies to solve real-world enterprise problems. Four teams wowed the more than 300 attendees winning categories for Best Overall App, Best Use of an ABBYY Product, Best Integration of Third-Party AI, and an honorary mention of a Student Excellence Award.
The judges for the hackathon were ABBYY executives Paula Sanders, SVP of Pre and Post Sales, Neil Murphy, Chief Revenue Officer and Bruce Orcutt, Chief Marketing Officer.
When we kicked off DevCon three years ago, we wanted to build a global community where developers could challenge the status quo and reimagine what’s possible with AI and documents and cure the biggest headaches related to document processing. This year’s solutions were nothing short of inspiring - turning complex challenges like healthcare policy interpretation and expense compliance into smart, intuitive experiences. What excites me most is how far we’ve come, with ABBYY investing in new R&D hubs, Centers of Excellence, and the tools to empower this growing ecosystem of innovators. We’re just getting started.
Neil Murphy, Chief Revenue Officer at ABBYY
The winner for Best Overall App was Team Deloitte, consisting of Kaustubha Uday Vaidya, Rithi M, S Shanthaseelan and Md. Shahid Akhtar. Their solution, Spend Guard, automated the scanning, interpretation and validation of business expense receipts. They leveraged ABBYY Vantage for data extraction and agentic AI using Gemini to ensure policy compliance by instantly flagging non-compliant expenses and reasons for flagging. Their app accelerated expense claim processing, reduced manual effort, and helped organizations minimize errors and policy violations.
Participating in the ABBYY Developer Conference was an incredible opportunity to push the boundaries of what’s possible with AI-driven document processing. The energy, innovation, and support from the ABBYY community made this an unforgettable experience.
Rithi M, Team Deloitte
Winning Best Use of an ABBYY Product was Team McKinsey led by Sathish Kumar Murugan who developed a cutting-edge solution designed to break language barriers in global document processing through the power of AI. The Smart Translator used ABBYY Vantage to intelligently extract data from scanned or image-based documents and integrated ChatGPT for instant, context-aware translation. It eliminated the need for manual data entry and translation, saving time and reducing errors and empowering teams to work faster, smarter, and more collaboratively—regardless of language or document format.
Participating in the ABBYY hackathon was an inspiring journey of innovation and collaboration. Building Smart Translator showed us how AI and intelligent OCR can come together to solve real-world challenges with speed and accuracy.
Sathish Kumar Murugan, Team McKinsey
The Best Integration of Third-Party AI combined ABBYY Vantage and OCR and Document Skills with a variety of AI tools including spaCY, OpenAI Embeddings, ChromaDB, LangChain Agents and Gradio. Created by Team Telstra with Krishna Kumar S and Madhu Shankar, their Insurance AIdvisor was an agentic AI assistant that simplified health insurance policies so users would no longer be surprised by denied claims or financial shock due to not understanding complex jargon or fine print.
We were proud to be part of AI Pulse, a platform that highlighted the transformative potential of agentic AI. ABBYY’s strategic evolution within this forward-looking ecosystem—by empowering Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) tools—positions it as a key enabler in the development of autonomous, decision-capable AI systems.
Madhu Shankar, Team Telstra
