Building an AI Advisory Board - Top 5 at a Hackathon!!
Yeah you read the title - isn’t that wild???
I got to go to the Creators Corner AI Agent Hackathon which was hosted in the Datadog office in NYC, they had the most amazing view I can’t believe people are able to actually get work done there and not just stare outside those windows all day. They also had so many free snacks, some chips and drinks I have never even heard of - you know I had to yoink a fair share of those.
Anyway, we had 6 hours to make something so I teamed up with another developer (hi camilo!!!) and we made something pretty cool!
Our project was called AI Advisory Board — a tool that lets you get insights from a panel of custom AI experts. Instead of chatting with a single model, you can build your own board of advisors, each with unique roles and areas of expertise, and have them weigh in on a question or problem together.
So, in our example, you were the owner of an ecommerce business - lets say you wanted to know if you should expand your product offerings, once you ask that question
Agent 1 (CFO) would go look at your sales data and have and answer for your questions backed by that data
Agent 2 (Customer Support) would go read recent reviews and emails from customers and answer your question backed by that data
Agent 3 (Outside research) would go read news and social media posts about your question then answer it with the data they found.
After the agents presented their cases to each other - they debated and had a proper back and forth. Agent 2 would be like “our customers have been asking for this new thing” and Agent 1 would be like “That’s nice but we don’t have enough sales to diversify right now” and Anent 3 would be like “Well have you guys seen our competitor is also releasing a new product?” Then a “referee” agent would read their entire conversation and write out a summary for you to read - of course you could see the entire debate for fun too but the actionable summary is what really matters.
We built it using a mix of tools:
Airia for orchestration (super smooth to work with),
Linkup for external search and retrieval, and
OpenAI for analysis and response generation.
The idea was simple but powerful — what if instead of one AI assistant, you could get perspectives from a group? A strategist, a data scientist, a designer, a skeptical product manager — all simulated through carefully-tuned agent prompts. The result was surprisingly good. Each agent added its own voice, and the “board discussion” often surfaced ideas I wouldn’t have thought of alone.
More than anything I was just really inspired by being around other developers and by being scrappy and building this in just 6 hours. We really had to cut some corners but we made something!!
If you wanna check it out you can see it here or on my projects page: https://ai-advisor-board.vercel.app/
Thats it - hope you enjoyed reading!!
