2nd Place OfferZen Community Hackathon 2025

Issued by Otinga.io

This badge recognises the exceptional performance of Team N8N, who earned second place in the OfferZen Community Hackathon 2025. Awarded for delivering a highly impactful and technically impressive autonomous agent, it celebrates a solution that demonstrated strong innovation, thoughtful execution, and measurable real-world value. Team N8N distinguished themselves through a well-designed agentic workflow that planned, acted, adapted, and evaluated its success with clarity and precision. Their project stood out among a competitive field for its engineering quality, practical usefulness, and polished demonstration. This achievement reflects their excellence in advancing agentic AI and contributing to the spirit of collaboration and learning at the 2025 hackathon.

Recipient: Bernard Oosthuizen
Issued On: Aug. 24, 2026, 3:04 p.m.
Certificate ID: c60ca974-419c-4798-bb4b-65b1ab2cdecb

Earning Criteria

Autonomy & Agentic Innovation
- Developed an autonomous AI agent aligned with the 2025 theme “Autonomous Agents That Drive Real Impact.”
- Demonstrated strong innovation in workflow planning, autonomous execution, and adaptive decision-making.
Technical Implementation & System Design
- Delivered a robust and functional end-to-end agentic system showcasing API orchestration, feedback loops, and reliable execution.
- Produced clear documentation and a well-structured architecture demonstrating solid engineering practices.
Impact & Practical Usefulness
- Addressed a meaningful real-world problem with measurable or clearly articulated improvements through KPI-driven insights.
- Showcased how the agent adapts to feedback and optimises performance for sustained impact.
User Experience & Transparency
- Designed intuitive outputs such as logs, dashboards, or reports to make the agent’s reasoning and behaviour easy to understand.
- Ensured the system was usable, monitorable, and extendable for practical developer workflows.
Collaboration & Team Execution
- Worked effectively as a team to conceptualise, engineer, and refine the autonomous workflow within the hackathon timeframe.
- Demonstrated strong communication, joint problem-solving, and consistent iteration throughout the project.
Pitching, Storytelling & Demonstration
- Delivered a polished and engaging demo clearly illustrating the agent’s autonomous operation and purpose.
- Presented a compelling narrative supported by a slide deck explaining the problem, solution, impact metrics, and technical decisions.
Overall Achievement (2nd Place – Team N8N, 2025)
- Earned one of the highest scores across autonomy, impact, technical depth, UX, and scalability in the 2025 OfferZen Community Hackathon.
- Recognised by the judging panel for delivering a highly innovative and effective agentic solution, distinguishing Team N8N among a competitive field.