On 7 and 8 February I was at the Hack-Nation Global AI Hackathon, run with the MIT Sloan AI Club. I went in with Bibhor Puhan and Mohammed Kaif Pasha, and we built a prototype we called an AI chief of staff.
The problem: inside most companies, information moves like a game of telephone. Some people drown in updates, others miss the one that mattered, there is no single source of truth, and nobody has a map of who knows what.
What the prototype did
- Mapped how knowledge flows across teams, using communication graphs and stakeholder networks built from the Enron email dataset.
- Kept a living source of truth that versions decisions and flags when a new one conflicts with an old one.
- Routed each update to the people who needed it, instead of broadcasting it to everyone.
The questions it was meant to answer every morning: what changed today, who needs to know, and where is knowledge getting stuck?
Hour 22
The RAG pipeline crashed at hour 22. We rebuilt it by hour 26 and shipped at hour 36. It is a rough prototype, not an operating system for a company.
The piece I would keep is the versioned record of decisions with conflicts flagged, which is the same idea I used at Agentathon in December. Search engines organised the world's information. Inside organisations, information still spreads blindly, and I think the fix starts with keeping track of what was decided and when.