Ingenium — Hacklanta '26 Winner, Photon Agents in iMessage Track

Key Highlights

Winner, [Photon] Agents in iMessage track at Hacklanta '26
Led a 4-person team at Hacklanta '26 (GSU, Oct 9–11, 2026); owned the spec, 42 of 64 commits
An orchestrator pulls specialist agents into iMessage group chats, each locked to its own sources
Neon leader lease (5s renewal) lets any laptop take over with no double replies
Every push to main typechecks and deploys to Fly.io

Overview

Winner, [Photon] Agents in iMessage track, Hacklanta '26 — [see it on Devpost](https://devpost.com/software/ingineer).

Ingenium puts a team of AI agents in your iMessage. Text Ing, and an orchestrator pulls in the specialists a goal needs — a planner, a ride, a food order — each locked to its own sources. The agents vote with tapbacks, and Ing moves on after 60 seconds so nothing stalls.

My Contributions

Owned the spec and led a 4-person team; wrote 42 of the repo's 64 commits in 72 hours.

Built the orchestrator that hands roles to agents from a menu of 8, per goal.

Made it fault-tolerant across laptops: a Neon Postgres lease (renewed every 5 s, 20 s lifetime) means any machine can take over and only one is ever live.

Set up CI so every push to `main` typechecks and deploys to Fly.io; built the pitch deck for judging.

What came next

Ingenium was forked into [Vince](/projects/vince), an always-on AI chief of staff.