Built in Public
The Atlarix journey — milestones, hackathons, and community recognition.
Product & Security
Apple Verified
Atlarix is fully notarized and code-signed, meaning macOS trusts it out of the box. No security warnings, no workarounds.
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 →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.
Hackathon Submissions
Devpost × AWS Nova AI Hackathon
- Prize
- $40,000 prize pool
- Participants
- 8,068 participants
Elasticsearch Agent Builder
- Prize
- $20,000 prize pool
- Participants
- 1,914 participants
Airia AI Agents Hackathon
- Prize
- $7,000 prize pool
- Participants
- 317 participants
DeveloperWeek 2026
- Prize
- $23,000 prize pool
- Participants
- 1,825 participants
Auth0 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.
$10,000 prize pool
Total: $100,000 in active prize pools
Events
🎯 Applying to speak at AI Everything Kenya × GITEX
May 19–21, 2026, Nairobi. Topic: Building Africa's AI developer infrastructure from the ground up.
Devpost Achievements
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 5
Earned by submitting separate eligible projects to separate hackathons.
Earned Mar 19, 2026
First In-Person Hackathon
Earned by submitting an eligible project to an in-person hackathon.
Earned Feb 20, 2026
Dual Boot
Earned by submitting eligible projects to an in-person and online hackathon.
Earned Feb 20, 2026
First Online Hackathon
Earned by submitting an eligible project to an online hackathon.
Earned Feb 20, 2026
Generalist
Earned by submitting to 3 hackathons with different themes.
Earned Feb 20, 2026
Welcome to Devpost
Earned by joining Devpost.
Earned Feb 15, 2026
Community
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. The thread ties that to sovereignty for African labs ("Your Architecture. Your Model. Your Sovereignty") and a roadmap to support continent-built models in production workflows. More updates soon; founders, developers, and AI labs across Africa are invited to reach out.
View post →April 2026