Meet our winners!
Our expert judges have completed reviewing all entries—and the winners are.....
Pega Community Hackathon 2026 Winners
Category 1: AI-Assisted Development
Winner
BuildForge- Improve Productivity
BuildForge is an agentic AI tool built to boost developer productivity when building Pega applications in Infinity Studio.
- Team name: Cognizant Agentic Ai bulder
- Team lead: Ronodhir Chakraborty
- Team members:
The Agentic AI Builder demonstrated innovative, forward-thinking use of Agents to accelerate application development and enhance productivity. By transforming uploaded screenshots into application experiences, it showcased significant potential to streamline the creation of Pega-based user experiences while driving greater business value through AI-powered innovation. Nice work!
Runner-Up
Vision to View
Uses AI to turn UI mockups directly into Pega UI rules, accelerating design-to-build with Pega Constellation.
- Team name: AI InnovHer
- Team lead: Rashmi Chandrashekaran
Category 2: External AI Agents
Winner
Perch
Perch lets Pega agents safely negotiate and coordinate work with external AI agents over MCP, with governance built in.
- Team name: Dual Core
- Team lead: Ajanthan Arulananthar
- Team members: Anthony Goonawardena
Dual Core showcased what it takes to unlock real business outcomes from AI with the rigor, governance, and reliability enterprises actually need to scale agentic across their operation. Two thumbs up!
Runner-Up
Travel Agent
An AI-powered travel agent that coordinates external AI agents within a Pega workflow to plan and book trips.
- Team name: Ninjas
- Team lead: Drishya Pillai
- Team members:
Category 3: Amazing UX with Constellation
Winner
ESG Management Hub
An ESG Management Hub built in Constellation with rich dashboards and insights, AI-assisted rich text, and case navigation across multiple promoted actions.
- Team name: Constellation Nexus
- Team lead: Anandhu chandran
- Team members: Midhun Krishnankutty
StellarNexus' ESG Management Hub was an outstanding entry. The build had a thoughtful, modern, intelligent design that few entries matched. The team used more Constellation features than any other entry: Dashboards and Insights, AI in rich text, multiple promoted actions, case tabs, Embedded Data labels for rows, and case grouping with full-screen data reference lists. The project demonstrated deep platform knowledge and was clearly thoughtful about the app's users. Bravo!
Runner-Up
FinUX 360
A financial-services app built in Constellation with embedded data attachments, thoughtfully used custom components, and design tokens for a clean, modern experience.
- Team name: Constellation Crafters
- Team lead: Swetha M
- Team members:
Category 4: High-Fidelity Blueprint
Winner
Crisis2Stability
A Pega Blueprint that helps citizens in crisis tell their story once, coordinating benefits across agencies with AI recommending, rules deciding, and people approving.
- Team name: Blueprint Breakers
- Team lead: Maitri Ghosh
- Team members: Priyankar Ghosh
Crisis2Stability stood out because it demonstrated clear business value while showcasing Pega’s unique runtime AI differentiators. The team effectively combined agentic workflows with AI-driven decisioning to create a compelling vision of how organizations can move from crisis response to operational stability.
Runner-Up
Stronger Together
A Pega Blueprint solution from Team Cognitonic demonstrating collaborative, implementation-ready design.
- Team name: Cognitonic
- Team lead: Arjun Tks
- Team members:
Category 5: CDH Blueprint Innovation
Winner
Parking Validation, Reinvented with Next-Best-Action (Parky x CDH)
A live parking search in Japan already makes one decision per search. This week it gained a second one: whether a nearby shop deserves a word, or nothing.
- Team name: High Field
- Team lead: Taiga Takano
- Team members: Yuki Ueda
What I loved about the submission was the innovation in their use case - combining a traditional CDH approach with merchant bids and customer relevance to drive additional value, whilst protecting the end consumer and working that through to a full design.
Runner-Up
Customer-Centric Brain
An AI-powered CDH solution that turns insurance claims into empathetic, real-time, next-best-action engagement across the full claims lifecycle.
- Team name: Credera3D (Data, Decisions & Discovery)
- Team lead: Chetan Deshmukh