Winners of USAII Global AI Hackathon 2026

In the US the help that follows release from prison is real but fragmented: housing, identification, legal aid and employment programs each sit with a different organisation. Alyosha puts returning citizens, providers and caseworkers in one place and walks them through those pieces as a single route back into ordinary life.

A decision-support tool for the people who have to answer the opioid crisis on the ground: county health directors, lawmakers and advocacy groups. It shows how large the problem has grown, guides the user through shaping a response, then puts a price on that response alongside the savings it could produce.

A benefits navigator that works in the browser and speaks three languages: English, Spanish and French. Users type or talk through their situation, NLP pulls out what they need with confidence scores attached, and the tool then walks them through what they may qualify for and keeps checking back until help has actually arrived.