Built in Public
Where Atlarix has been checked by someone other than us — and what we are building toward.
Peer-reviewed research
Published on Zenodo (CERN) — an indexed DOI, not a blog post.
On the Microsoft Store
Listed and signed by Microsoft — no SmartScreen warnings, automatic updates.
Apple notarized
Fully notarized and code-signed, so macOS trusts it out of the box.
- 5
- Hackathons entered
- 1
- Prize won
- 1
- Peer-reviewed paper
In-person and online, 2025–2026
Bonus Blog Post Prize, Devpost × AWS Nova
Published on Zenodo (CERN), May 2026
Building for Africa's AI ecosystem
More than a coding tool
Atlarix is part of a larger mission to make African-built AI models first-class citizens in real developer workflows.
Across the continent, teams are building remarkable AI — multilingual language models, domain-specific models for African markets, and research that reflects African contexts and needs. These models deserve the same developer tooling as any model from a Western lab.
We are actively working to integrate African AI providers as native, featured providers in the model picker — no extra setup, no second-class treatment. A developer in Nairobi, Lagos, or Cape Town should be able to open Atlarix, select a locally-built model, and ship production software with it.
If you're building AI in Africa, we'd love to hear from you.
Research
Published Peer-Reviewed Technical Research
Blueprint: Section-Scoped Structural Graph Retrieval and Post-Turn Compression for Agentic LLM Coding in Multi-Repository Workspaces — published on Zenodo (CERN), May 2026.
May 2026
Read the paper →Hackathons
Devpost × AWS Nova AI Hackathon
8,068 participants
Won Bonus Blog Post Prize — 2026Elasticsearch Agent Builder
1,914 participants
Participated — 2025Airia AI Agents Hackathon
317 participants
Submitted — 2026DeveloperWeek 2026
1,825 participants
Participated — 2026Auth0 Authorized to Act Hackathon
Shipped Workforce MCP integration patterns for Atlarix: secure, scoped agent access to Slack, Jira, GitHub, GitLab, and related tools via marketplace servers and per-server credentials.
CompletedAlso on the record
Community response, events, and the participation badges — kept because they happened, collapsed because they are not the point.
Devpost achievements — 1 win, 6 participation badges2026
Hackathon Winner Level 1
Earned by winning a hackathon prize (Bonus Blog Post Prize at Devpost × AWS Nova AI Hackathon).
Earned Apr 9, 2026
- X Hackathons Level 5Earned by submitting separate eligible projects to separate hackathons.Mar 19, 2026
- First In-Person HackathonEarned by submitting an eligible project to an in-person hackathon.Feb 20, 2026
- Dual BootEarned by submitting eligible projects to an in-person and online hackathon.Feb 20, 2026
- First Online HackathonEarned by submitting an eligible project to an online hackathon.Feb 20, 2026
- GeneralistEarned by submitting to 3 hackathons with different themes.Feb 20, 2026
- Welcome to DevpostEarned by joining Devpost.Feb 15, 2026
EventsMay 2026
Applying to speak at AI Everything Kenya × GITEX
May 19–21, 2026, Nairobi. Topic: Building Africa's AI developer infrastructure from the ground up.
Community responseFeb–Apr 2026
LinkedIn — Africa's AI ecosystem post
Our post on building AI tooling for Africa's developers — featuring African AI labs like Awarri (N-ATLAS, Nigeria), Lelapa AI (InkubaLM, East/West Africa), and LLM Labs Kenya — reached the African tech community on LinkedIn and sparked direct conversations with AI builders across the continent.
View post →March 2026
Two events. Two very different rooms. One direction.
Notes from the Lua AI (YC F25) × Antler "Building Agent-First Businesses" hackathon in Nairobi — in-person builders focused on autonomous systems for real African problems, not chat bolted on a product. In parallel, Atlarix won the Bonus Blog Post Prize at the Devpost × AWS Nova AI Hackathon: Nova showed that a model is only as strong as the capabilities, context, and agent architecture around it — the thesis behind Atlarix.
View post →April 2026