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vCon TADHack Results, and Detailed Review

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In memory of Bogey, the McCarthy-Howe’s family dog for 13 years, who died unexpectedly during vCon TADHack.

This is the first ever TADHack dedicated to a single sponsor, STROLID, and focused on vCon. Virtual conversation (vCon) is the global standard for conversations. After the success of TADHack 2024 we’re bringing that learning to TADHack 2025. Simply, each sponsor gets a dedicated online event, and we stagger multiple sponsors’ events over time.

This enables better focus on each sponsor’s resources, provides fairer judging for each event, online hackathons work well, we’ve been doing them since 2014, and enables each sponsor to structure the event to their specific needs. 

It’s not just about prize money. Winning at TADHack is a great addition to your resume, and last year we had a variety of internships. Enabling those seeking such opportunities to get invaluable real world experience. The vCon ecosystem is expanding rapidly, we’re hoping to grow the internship opportunities.

For vCon TADHack, the focus is creating vCon apps for the vCon Store.

The Shortlist

The four hacks Thomas sees with immediate market potential, that is, he wants them in the vCon Store, are:

  • Call Sense QA by Pedro Muttenda from South Africa
  • PossibleAI by Ronnie Leon Ochieng from Kenya (finalist)
  • ConvoLens by Suraj Shivakumar and Anish Babu
  • Supernova by Bello Abdullahi, and Muhammad Alameen Abdullahi

The opportunity for these hacks are vCon store sales, and projects across the vCon ecosystem based on the teams’ abilities.

The next category are no-code hacks:

Creative hacks:

Presenter hacks:

  • Vizzy by Anna Correa
  • Reflecta by Sabrina Inczedy Pagan (finalist)
  • vCase by Ahmadu Suleiman from Nigeria (finalist)

And the cash prize winners are:

Deep Dives

Reflecta by Sabrina

Sabrina is the creator of Reflecta. She is an undergraduate student at Valencia College. This was her first experience with vCon.

Reflecta is a no-code smart dashboard that transforms vCon call data into daily business insights, including:

  • Call wait time analysis
  • Service trend breakdowns
  • Sentiment feedback
  • Automatic call quality scoring

It highlights key customer pain points, popular products, top performing agents, service trends, and more through an approachable dashboard with daily summaries. Reflecta makes advanced vCon analysis accessible to everyday business teams. This empowers businesses to improve measurable results such as reducing wait times and/or boosting customer satisfaction.

Github: https://github.com/SabrinaCreates/reflecta-tadhack-2025

Demo: https://b3f3bef0-6c55-4f22-b9ab-f1d52745154c-00-279ovluyia7f0.janeway.replit.dev/

Tales from the vCon by Mike

Mike is a TADHack regular with a long telecom history, all the way back to Voxbone, that was bought by Bandwidth. Some of his past hacks are funny, check out Burbudy from 2017.

Tales of the vCon, adds more competition into the classic Role Playing Games. Using ChatGPT to rate the plays, create graphic around the game / plays, and using vCon in a real-time way for judging plays and making awards, in addition to storing the game as a complete vCon.

Github: Code will be pushed once project is completed.

vCon to SDLC by Elizabeth

A hack from Elizabeth Mwangi, Kenya, that converts client conversations (vCons) into actionable to-dos and SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle) timelines. This will help project managers and developers automatically extract project requirements and create structured development plans. Thomas does this with vCons today in Strolid, this hack is spot on.

Guthub: https://github.com/Lizz-njeri/vCon_SDLC

Call Sense QA by Pedro

Pedro Muttenda is based in South Africa. He submitted a great hack last year using TNID (Telephone Number ID). This year CallSense QA is an AI-powered tool that analyzes customer service calls in seconds using Groq’s LLaMA 3 model. It delivers clear insights on agent performance,customer sentiment, and compliance. Easily browse call history, view transcripts, and run real-time analysis. Fast, scalable, and built for smarter support teams.

Github: https://github.com/pedropkmmt/Quality-assurance/tree/main

LangQuest by Anthony

LangQuest is an AI-powered platform designed to help Kenyans learn, master, and preserve their indigenous languages, cultures, and heritage. Through interactive lessons, voice-based learning, storytelling, and gamified experiences, users can reconnect with their roots and explore the rich diversity of Kenya’s ethnic traditions.

Github: https://github.com/antonie-riziki/LangQuest

Heardly by Brian

Heardly by Brian Mwangi, Kenya, helps sales reps cut through messy inboxes by analyzing email threads and surfacing real leads, fast. Instead of reading through every message, reps can focus on the ones that matter and track which outreach actually works. It’s built on Vcon to organize conversations in a way that’s easy to understand and act on. Brian was a winner at TADHack 2024.

GithubURL(frontend): https://github.com/Brian-Mwangi-developer/Heardly
GithubUrl (Backend vcon creator): https://github.com/Brian-Mwangi-developer/vcon-create-backend

Switch App by Linda

Linda Mosemaka, South Africa, developed an Android application that functions as a social networking and marketing tool for businesses. All businesses are combined into a single app. It enables businesses to publish about their goods and services and enables consumers to communicate with businesses directly via video calls, phone calls, and messages.

The primary purpose of the app is to make it simple to communicate with businesses about their goods and services, to ask questions or solve issues related to those goods and services, to advertise those goods and services, and to obtain accurate reviews of those goods and services. Additionally, the software would enable businesses to analyze client data using Vcon technologies.

Linda was a winner in 2022. He is also seeking full time or project work.

Cold calling assistant by Rudy

Rudy Nieves is an undergraduate student at Valencia College. He brings significant experience of cold calling. His hack is a cold calling assistant that takes cold calls and organizes leads into 3 separate categories to better assist companies make more calls and follow up calls.

Github: https://github.com/nieves183/Vcon-/blob/main/vcontadhack.py

No code hack by Vincent

Vincent Wong from Malaysia is a TADHack regular with several wins under his belt, spanning all the way back to 2018.

Even though this is a no code hack, he forked the hackathon repo and compiled all the vcon files into a single file to be used with ChatGPT.

Vizzy by Anna

Anna won a TNID prize last year, and is back for more. Vizzy is a vCon visualization tool.

Github: https://github.com/annapcorrea/vizzy

Demo: https://vizzy-vcon.streamlit.app/

PossibleAI by Ronnie

Ronnie Leon Ochieng, based in Kenya, is the creator of PossibleAI. Conversational Intelligence & Auto Resolution platform. A comprehensive, real-time web application for analyzing customer service conversations in vCon format. It demonstrates advanced conversation intelligence, automated resolution capabilities, and cross-domain adaptability.

Github: https://github.com/Ronnie-Leon76/Conversational_Intelligence_and_Autoresolution_System

Demo: https://tadhackconversationalintelligencean.vercel.app/

vCon Redactor by Matt Williams

Matt Williams, based in the UK is the creator of vCon Redactor AND an adapter for Azure blob storage for the vCon server. Matt, and his then girlfriend now wife, are now parents of 2 young children. They are great examples of those who can hack together, stay together.

vCon App Store makes it easy to discover and run new apps, but vCons contain personal data. Can you trust a new app not to leak it (intentionally or otherwise)? vCon Redactor is an API server that redacts personal data as it serves vCons, meaning there’s no risk of leak!

Github: https://github.com/matt-williams/vcon-server

ConvoLens by Suraj and Anish

Suraj Shivakumar has won at TADHack several times, at TADHack Open, and TADHack 2024 with an honorable mention. ConvoLens is a conversational intelligence tool, real-time insights, talk to vCons, dashboard, and insights.

Supernova by Bello and Alameen

Bello Abdullahi and Muhammad Alameen Abdullahi are based in Nigeria.

Supernova is an AI-powered voice conversation intelligence dashboard that transforms VCON files into rich, actionable insights. Users can get a bird’s-eye view of all calls, check general sentiment and compliance risks, and even deep dive into individual conversations. An AI assistant is integrated to help users ask natural-language questions about their calls and instantly get answers — because it understands the data.

Streamlit(ran locally): https://github.com/AwesomeuncleB/Vcon-Analytics-Dashbaord

Vercel (Connected to Vcon server): https://github.com/al-ameen36/supanova

Vercel (bubble Maps): https://vcon-bubble-maps-ev9r.vercel.app/ ( (Connected to Vcon server)

V-Assist by Hope and Amos

Hope Wanjeri is the frontend developer, and machine learning engineer. Amos Nyaburiis the backend developer, and AWS cloud architect. They are based in Kenya.

Hope introduces the product, V-Assist, which transforms customer interactions into actionable insights for e-commerce platforms like Alibaba and Amazon. They identified that platforms such as Jumia and Kilimal lose millions due to poor communication, leading to frustrated customers. V-Assist addresses this by providing instant replies and price comparisons through a chat-bot, enhancing user experience and boosting seller conversions. They showcased a prototype demonstrating how the virtual assistant remembers previous interactions to streamline the user journey. Please consider how V-Assist can improve customer satisfaction and reduce support loads for sellers.

vCase by Ahmadu

Ahmadu Suleiman is a recent graduate based in Nigeria, he was a winner of TADHack 2024 with AnonymiTNID, His 2025 hack is vCase is a vCon-powered platform that turns one-off reports into rich, ongoing conversations. It combines voice transcripts, SMS, and email into one centralized thread for each case, making follow-up effortless and transparent.

Github: https://github.com/Ahmadu-Suleiman/vCase

VCON: Insight engine, bettering operations by Ziyad

On June 12th Ziyad Shuaibu from Nigeria sent an email to me. Yes, the date of the submission deadline:

“Hope its not too late to register, I have been having second thoughts, since I am not a developer, and I don’t have anyone to partner with.

But then I saw the vCon Tadhack resources video where Thomas stated anyone can participate. Long story short I did some toying around and I have a hack.”

Well, Ziyad did submit and won. He’s had winning hacks in the past, here from 2023.

This hack is focused on how organizations can use VCONS to gain insights on activities across several departments through customer feedback and use the findings to figure out problems and improve operations across all departments.

Epsilon Note Assistant by Jared and David

David Sikes and Jared Ashcraft have won many times at TADHack, I think the first time was in 2021 as part of TADHack Global. And of course last year they created the hilarious ‘Shrine at the Temple of Computing.”

For 2025 this hack utilizes AI in combination with vCons in order to contextualize images and enter that contextual information into vCons. The information in the vCons could be used in plaintext formats, or the information could be extended and used to organize collections of images according to the commonalities and differences that the AI analyzes from the images. These organizational structures could included in the vCon, and that information could be extended to a wider variety of uses.

Github: https://github.com/PockyBum522/pockybum522-hackathons/tree/main/2025-06-TadHack-vCon

Some vCon TADHack Observations

1) Hacking is now a Critical Skill
I saw this post over the weekend from João Camarate https://lnkd.in/eyTb-3Xa. It echoed what I saw over vCon TADHack. Impressive dashboards created by young students as part of their hacks. The gap between idea and implementation is getting smaller.

Here are a couple of examples from

Sabrina: https://youtu.be/cgEb6_xXw0M?si=A7442_I09ijEYwQ-

and

Anna: https://youtu.be/AtoSyNKzN1Y?si=c9Ci6wXbAhFapPyL

2) AI enables us to ask questions of the Data

We had several hacks ingest vCon, enabling impressive analysis / dashboards. AND whether through text or voice, ask questions of the body of vCons. It’s sort of reinventing Big Data, a dialogue with your data, it’s enabling us to slice, dice, and deduce at the speed of thought. And for icing on the cake arranging meetings with your colleagues to discuss the findings.

Suraj and Anish: https://youtu.be/qgLNRhVflnQ?si=tY95br0HWRz4LSZ4

and

Bello and Alameen https://youtu.be/baUIGt7t8uM?si=5O6qlbKsrBGVj00x

3) Talent is everywhere

Tony Jamous said this phrase last week.

TADHack has been demonstrating this since 2014, with TADHack 2025 hacks across USA, UK, Belgium, South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria, Malaysia, etc.

4) The applications of vCons are everywhere, from Role Playing Games to Art Exhibitions.

Mike: https://youtu.be/ixN2SMu0_TM?si=8JAvi9o0q-3ZQznA

and

Jared and David: https://youtu.be/Gmov3YFN_VY?si=rOuf5REtwh6r7enL

Thank you to everyone for their amazing hacks, well done!

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