Beyond the Speckleverse: Hackathon Wrap-Up

Beyond the Speckleverse: Hackathon Highlights

With more than 280 participants — that’s 211% more than the first Speckle hackathon — from over 30 countries, Beyond the Speckleverse produced 23 innovative AEC applications (77% more than last time).

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This is the place to hear from the winning teams in their own words — and to find out what the judges thought of this year’s standout apps.

First Place Overall: ark

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Team: Victor Wanderley Barbosa, Zuzanna Czapla, Adam Burnham, Daniel Boba, Ellen Berglund
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"We want to use Speckle's open-source features to create a much cheaper alternative. This is where ark comes in." — ark team

Ark is a project document platform that lets you upload Rhino or Revit files, automatically generating deliverables, publishing data to Speckle, and making everything viewable and shareable online.
Tech stack: TypeScript + Vue.js (frontend), C# (backend), connected to native Revit and Rhino APIs.

Next steps:

• Support more file types
• Improved UI
• Version history and enhanced drawing section

Most Impressive Use of Business Intelligence: What.If.Architect

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Team: Wyeth Binder, Matthew Tam, Steffen Samberger
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The project re-visualises the structural impact of removing a column in a building, using Karamba3D in Rhino + Speckle to compare scenarios.

"The winner proves that Business Intelligence goes beyond dashboards, driving informed decisions in design." — Mücahit Bilal Göker

Next steps: Real-time calculations and analysis for user-defined changes.

Most Impressive Project Pulse: Speckle Orchestrate & Coordinate

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Winner: Joscha During

A workflow tool that generates weekly work diaries from commit messages (Speckle + GitHub), interpolating “commit-less” days for a complete project overview. Outputs can be embedded into Notion with live status updates.

Most Impressive Future Craft: LiDAR_to_BIM

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Team: Agustina Aboy Berrutti, Pablo Gancharov, Julio Sarachaga, Emilio Bartolini, Martin Daguerre
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Smartphone LiDAR scans are uploaded via a custom Python connector, then processed in Dynamo + Revit to create BIM objects. Current focus is on walls, with plans to support doors, windows, and furniture.

Most Impressive Use of Automate: Maple

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Team: Andres Buitrago, Gizem Demirhan
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Maple is a Python library for running model quality checks in Speckle. Integrates with Speckle Automate to run tests continuously, ensuring project standards.

mp.it("checks window height is greater than 2600 mm")
mp.get('category', 'Windows') \
.where('speckle_type', '...Revit.RevitInstance') \
.its('Height') \
.should('be.greater', 2600)

Most Impressive Low-Code/No-Code Implementation: Kai Tak MGM JV

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Team: Andrei Sandor, Martijn van Blijswijk, Arda Arslan, James Holcombe, Joost Gevaert
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Developed a voxel-based underground mapping system using geological and GIS data, integrated with Speckle for collaboration across sub-teams.

Popular Vote Winner: AI2Speckle: Textures Search

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Team: Jordana R., Abhishek S., Josie Harrison, Marwan Elzainy
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An AI-powered texture suggestion workflow for architectural models, pulling textures from PolyHaven and applying them directly in Speckle.

Thanks to our judges:

Murat Melek, Aaron Atkinson, Viki Sándor, Martha Tsigkari, Mücahit Bilal Göker, Claire Kuang, Kateryna Konieva, Dimitrie Stefanescu.