New winner announcement date: March 4
We're thrilled to announce our newest challenge with Algolia!
Running through February 8, the Algolia Agent Studio Challenge invites you to build intelligent, data-driven AI agents using Algolia's Agent Studio and search infrastructure. Whether you're crafting conversational shopping assistants, building smart workflow enhancements, or creating proactive user experiences, this challenge is your opportunity to explore how fast, contextual retrieval powers the next generation of AI applications.
There will be four chances to win.
We hope you give it a try!
Our Prompts
Consumer-Facing Conversational Experiences
Use Agent Studio to craft rich, dialogue-based experiences for end users. Think shopping assistants, guided discovery tools, customer support bots, or any conversational interface that benefits from intelligent data retrieval.
Your agent should demonstrate targeted prompting with retrieval from indexed data to provide contextually relevant responses. Consider incorporating Algolia's new InstantSearch chat widget to build your frontend experience.
Conversational Experiences Submission Template
Please review our judging criteria, rules, guidelines, and FAQ page before submitting so you understand our participation guidelines and official contest rules such as eligibility requirements.
Consumer-Facing Non-Conversational Experiences
Build smart enhancements that proactively assist users within existing workflows. We're looking for solutions that inject intelligence without requiring explicit conversation.
Examples include:
- Solution suggestions from a knowledge base during support ticket submission
- Fashion "look" creation from a curated index
- PC building with knowledge of compatibility of different components
The key is showing how contextual data retrieval enhances user experience without requiring back-and-forth dialogue.
Non-Conversational Experiences Submission Tempalte
Please review our judging criteria, rules, guidelines, and FAQ page before submitting so you understand our participation guidelines and official contest rules such as eligibility requirements.
Judging Criteria
All qualified entries will be judged based on the following criteria:
- Use of underlying technology
- Usability and User Experience
- Originality and Creativity
Prizes
We'll be selecting two winners per prompt. Each winner will receive:
- $750 USD cash prize
- DEV++ Membership
- Exclusive DEV Badge
All participants with a valid submission will receive a completion badge.
How To Participate
In order to participate, you will need to create an Algolia account and publish a post using the submission template below.
- Your project should integrate Algolia's Agent Studio and demonstrate how fast, relevant data retrieval enhances your AI agent's performance. All projects must be deployed and functional.
- Algolia's Free Build Plan provides everything you need to complete your project—no credit card required!
- If your app requires logging in, please provide testing credentials and/or instructions on how judges can best test your application.
Please review our judging criteria, rules, guidelines, and FAQ page before submitting so you understand our participation guidelines and official contest rules such as eligibility requirements.
Getting Started with Algolia 🚀
Algolia's free Build Plan provides everything you need to complete your project. No credit card required!
Get started with these resources:
We encourage all participants to join the Algolia Community Discord to connect with the Algolia team and developers building with Algolia!
Important Dates
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January 7: Algolia Agent Studio Challenge officially begins!
- February 8: Submissions due at 11:59 PM PST
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February 26: Winners Announced
Questions about the challenge? Ask them below!
Good luck and happy coding!
Top comments (21)
Good luck. You're going to like this one.
Looking forward to seeing these submissions!
So excited to see all of the cool things you build with Agent Studio! Feel free to come join us on Discord to chat!
discord.gg/ytbZuTQukV
Hi there, thanks for organizing the challenge. It's really fun to learn a new technology. I'm working on an app to participate the challenge. I'm using the Apparel sample dataset. It was working great. But today, the item image (from images attribute) doesn't work.
The images has been working again :-)
Good luck, everyone!!
Algolia Agent Studio feels like a powerful way to push AI agents beyond simple chat and into truly useful, real-world experiences. I especially like the balance between conversational and non-conversational ideas, which opens the door for very practical solutions. In my opinion, this could lead to some genuinely creative workflows that feel fast and natural for users. I’m definitely interested in exploring this and seeing what the community builds around it.
Got an invalid/expired link warning from discord. If there another link for the community channel?
Hey Jason -- thanks for the heads up. I wonder if we hit a limit -- I'll create a new link and post it here.
Just tested it and the invite is working for me. We use a link shortner -- I wonder if it's having a caching issue. Here's the actual invite link: discord.gg/ytbZuTQukV
good luck everyone
Cool
Best of luck.
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