Chennai team’s AI solution bags top prize at Hackathon

AI is everywhere. AI is everything.

These five beaming faces know a thing or two about that. Part of the Chennai-based Bounteous x Accolite Salesforce team, this team clinched the grand prize of ₹50 lakhs at the recent Agentforce Hackathon 2025, held during TrailblazerDX in Bengaluru.

“We are thrilled. This is a big achievement, and we are proud to be called AI agents and part of a team that will pave the way for the usage of artificial intelligence in the future,” says Mayur Kinhekar, senior consultant.

Mayur, along with his colleagues Rajaseeman PS, Yogeshwar Andi Sudhakaran, Sheetalraj Gangadhar and Vijay Kalidasan, formed a team that called itself ‘Aichemist’. Their mission? To ensure smoother operations in the hospitality industry using cloud-based platform Salesforce.

Competing against 195 teams, the AI-driven solution provided by this Chennai team wowed tech geeks at the hackathon. Their Smart Hotel Agent uses data cloud and loyalty tiers to ensure personalised hotel services to customers, handled through Slack, and a service tablet. “With our AI model, we wanted to make life a lot easier for customers wanting to book a hotel. Our solution focussed on reducing human interaction between a customer and hotel staff, which leaves them to attend to other critical tasks in the property,” says Rajaseeman PS, the team lead at the Hackathon.

Their AI solution involved handing over tablets to patrons, which could help them deal with tasks from check-in to check-out. “Someone spills water on the floor, for instance. In today’s scenario, you call the front desk, which probably asks you for your room number and then assigns it to housekeeping. Our AI solutions sends notifications to the respective departments which can directly address the problem,” he adds.