Projects / Hack the North 2025
FinalistHack the North 2025: FinalistsConfidence: medium
SpeakEasy
Behavioral-interview practice that scores what you say and how you say it from video.
Project facts
- Team
- Size unknown
- Build
- software only
- AI
- llm api, llm scoring, computer vision, voice ai
Problem
Video interview analysis tools are sold to recruiters; applicants only meet them in the real interview and have no fair way to practice against that kind of scoring.
Solution
Pick behavioral topics, answer generated questions on camera, and get verbal scores (relevance, STAR structure, insight, vocabulary, filler words) plus non-verbal scores (face, eyes, gestures, pauses, framing) with concrete pros and cons.
Demo moment
Record one answer and immediately see a breakdown of both your content and your body language.
Why it stood out
- team statedInverts a crowded enterprise market: the same analysis recruiters buy, pointed at the applicant.Source ↗
- team statedNamed a list of incumbents in the write-up, showing the team knew the market it was flipping.Source ↗
- team statedEngineering discipline on LLM output: benchmarked providers, then added validation with automatic re-prompting until output met format rules.Source ↗
- curator inferenceUsed a sponsor's model router as core infrastructure, fitting a sponsor prize lane alongside the main rubric.
Lessons for your next hackathon
- Look for a tool that exists only for the powerful side of a transaction and build the other side's version.
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Sources
- https://devpost.com/software/speakeasy-vdkc9n · devpost project · retrieved 2026-09-14