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Moonshot Award — 第2回 AI Agent Hackathon with Google Cloud 2025

KnockAI

A service that hands quotation work, long the preserve of veteran staff in woodworking shops, over to AI agents. The job is split into stages: read the PDF drawing, identify items and quantities, price the materials, produce the quote. At each stage a person checks, corrects and approves the AI's draft before it moves on.

Event
第2回 AI Agent Hackathon with Google Cloud
Organizer
Zenn (Classmethod) / Google Cloud Japan
Year
2025
Region
Japan
Prize
Moonshot Award
Tech
Nuxt 3Vue 3TypeScriptFirebaseFirestoreVertex AIAgent Development KitCloud RunSecret Manager

From the organizer's citation (summary)

Judges praised using AI to inherit the tacit knowledge behind manufacturing skills, singling out a quotation process broken down from on-site interviews with clear AI and human roles, and the ADK-and-Firestore setup aimed at continued development.
A summary of the commentary the organizer published. See the source for the original wording. Zenn (Classmethod) official results

Why It Won — our reading

A Moonshot award tends to reward how far an idea could reach rather than how finished it is today, and this entry has that shape: it narrows to a single task, quotations, while aiming at something much larger, the transfer of what lives in a craftsman's head. The other likely factor is that human approval is built into the flow from the start. Where a wrong number is unacceptable, that is the precondition for using AI at all, and it makes real deployment easy to picture.

This is our own analysis based on the official announcement and the project's own materials. It is not the organizer's stated reasoning.
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