Congratulations to the LaunchLoop team, what an achievement! 🏆
Huge congratulations to the LaunchLoop team on winning first place at the National AI Challenge yesterday! The team — all participants in Enterprise Ireland's New Frontiers programme at IADT Media Cube/NovaUCD — includes: Kevin Collins → echofold.ai Alwin Stephen → neuramodal.com Daniel Smyth → tendr.ie Over a two-week sprint, they built GradGenie (gradgenie.net), a production-ready platform for grading Leaving Certificate exams. Powered by transformer-based OCR and a workflow of five AI agents, GradGenie reduces exam grading costs and turnaround times by 80%, helping eliminate delays that impact college placement schedules. The competition brought together 540 participants across nine hubs in Ireland. From 44 teams at the start, only 15 made it to the final showcase — and LaunchLoop came out on top. An incredible achievement for the team and a great example of Irish innovation in AI.
