Opportunity brief
The Agents' Bounty is a 3–4 hour individual AI Agent Build Challenge conducted as part of Zettaabyte 5.0. Participants will choose one bounty from a set of practical problem statements and build an AI agent capable of solving it within the given time. The best-performing agents will be evaluated on functionality, AI integration, innovation, UI/UX and presentation, with the top three participants claiming the bounty.
Event Details:
- Date: 11 September 2026.
- Time: 10:00 AM.
- Venue: TRCAC, Dahisar East.
- Duration: 3–4 hours.
- Entry Fee: Free.
- Participation: Individual.
- Format: One-round, offline AI Agent Build Challenge.
- Problem Statements: 15 total — 5 Easy, 5 Medium and 5 Hard.
- Bounties: Participants may choose one problem statement.
Challenge Categories:
- Easy — Beginner-friendly AI agent challenges.
- Medium — Intermediate AI agent challenges involving more complex workflows and functionality.
- Hard — Advanced AI agent challenges requiring more sophisticated reasoning, workflows or integrations.
The difficulty level is intended to help participants choose a challenge suited to their skills. It does not provide any additional scoring advantage.
Competition Format:
- Participants will choose one bounty from the available problem statements at the beginning of the challenge.
- Each participant will have 3–4 hours to build a working AI agent based on their selected problem statement.
- The agent must be developed during the event and will be judged and demonstrated on the spot at the venue.
- Participants may use any AI model, API, framework or service of their choice, including OpenAI, Gemini, Claude, Hugging Face, Ollama and others.
- Internet access, documentation, libraries and development resources are permitted.
- Participants may build a web-based UI for their agent where required by the problem statement or their solution.
Judging Criteria:
All participants will be judged using the same evaluation criteria with a total score of 100, regardless of the difficulty of their chosen bounty.
- Functionality — How effectively and completely the agent solves the given problem.
- AI Integration — How meaningfully and effectively AI is used within the solution.
- Innovation & Problem Solving — Creativity, originality and quality of the approach.
- UI/UX — Usability, clarity and overall user experience where a user interface is provided.
- Presentation & Demo — Clarity of explanation and effectiveness of the live demonstration.
The top three participants with the highest overall scores will secure first, second and third place.
Rules:
- Participants must compete individually.
- Each participant may register and participate only once.
- Participants may select only one problem statement.
- Collaboration or sharing of solutions between participants is prohibited.
- Copying another participant's work or submitting a pre-built complete solution is prohibited.
- The core AI agent must be built during the event.
- Participants may use any legitimate AI model, API, framework, library or development tool.
- Internet access and external documentation are permitted.
- Any malicious, harmful or intentionally disruptive use of AI or other technology is strictly prohibited.
- Participants must work only on their selected problem statement and their own solution.
- Any violation of the rules may result in immediate disqualification.
- The organizers' and judges' decision will be final.
Eligibility and Requirements:
- The challenge is open to college students interested in AI, software development, problem-solving and emerging technologies.
- Beginners are welcome, and previous experience with AI agents is not mandatory.
- Participants may use any programming language, AI model, API, framework or development stack they are comfortable with.
- Participants are expected to create a functional MVP (Minimum Viable Product) of their selected AI agent within the allotted time.
- The completed MVP will be evaluated and demonstrated locally at the venue as part of the judging process.
Rewards:
- First Place: Certificate.
- Second Place: Certificate.
- Third Place: Certificate.
Choose your bounty. Build your agent. Prove your creation. Claim the bounty.