Inside Future Caribbean's 12-Hour Demo Day: The Projects Presented

What happens when builders across the Caribbean are given the space to tackle real-world challenges with artificial intelligence? At Future Caribbean’s 12-hour Demo Day, the presentations explored how emerging technology might respond to problems affecting businesses, communities, and public services across the region.

As part of the Future Caribbean Buildathon, participants presented projects spanning finance and payments, tourism, transportation, climate resilience, healthcare, agriculture, the creative economy, and more. Some focused on bringing fragmented information together; others explored how AI could help coordinate workflows, support decisions, or make services easier to access.

The projects took different approaches, but many shared a practical starting point: identify a challenge faced by people or organisations in the Caribbean, then consider how technology could make the response more useful, connected, or efficient. The following recap brings together the products and concepts represented in the presentations.

The Projects Presented

Naytive’s Team — Kim Adams

Track: Finance, Payments & MSME Capital

Kim Adams presented Naytive as a way to reduce the friction people face when their lives or businesses cross national borders. The demonstration moved beyond treating identity, accounts, tax requirements and compliance as separate administrative tasks. Instead, Naytive’s approach was to connect relevant information in one place so a person or company can reuse details already provided rather than repeatedly starting applications from scratch. The presentation framed this as a practical problem for people navigating more than one jurisdiction: information becomes scattered, requirements differ, and even routine tasks can take unnecessary time. The proposed cross-border memory layer is intended to make those workflows more connected and easier to manage.

Archipelago Network — Junyi (Joey) Zhong

Track: Finance, Payments & MSME Capital

Joey Zhong introduced Archipelago Network as an AI-native financial platform built around the idea that Caribbean markets should not have to operate as isolated islands. He described how separate jurisdictions, currencies and banking systems create friction for local businesses, including high foreign-exchange costs and slow movement of money. The demo explored a stablecoin-based settlement layer intended to make regional transactions easier, alongside accounts and tools that help businesses manage activity across entities. Merchant support, transaction tracking and virtual cards were part of the product vision. The broader proposition was to connect financial infrastructure across borders, allowing Caribbean businesses to transact more easily without having to navigate every underlying system independently.

SG Nature Intelligence — Jon-Paul Cox

Track: Ocean Systems & Blue Economy

The presentation from the Sovereign Green Compute team introduced SG Nature Intelligence as a verification layer for natural capital. The focus was on the difficulty of establishing reliable evidence for nature-related projects, including restoration work, when information is spread across documents and separate reporting systems. The platform aims to organise evidence into a more structured record so that claims about environmental activity can be assessed rather than simply accepted at face value. In the wider context of the blue and green economy, the idea is to make nature-related projects easier to verify and compare, supporting greater confidence among the organisations funding, delivering or evaluating them.

IslandVoice AI — Geraldine Bengsch

Track: Tourism & Transportation IslandVoice AI is a WhatsApp-first tourism support and destination-intelligence system. It is designed to help visitors, tourism operators, villa hosts, hotels, drivers, and local businesses access locally grounded destination information through a familiar messaging channel.

Geraldine Bengsch presented IslandVoice AI as a WhatsApp-first tourism support and destination-intelligence service. The concept was designed around the questions visitors and tourism operators need answered in real time: where to go, what is available, how to reach local services and which experiences fit a traveller’s interests. Rather than limiting the experience to hotel information, the platform aims to connect visitors with the wider destination—including local businesses, drivers, villa hosts, hotels and tourism operators. The presentation positioned local knowledge as an important part of the visitor experience, with a conversational interface intended to make that information easier to find and more useful to people exploring the islands.

Velocity Hospitality OS — Druvaughn Edwards

Track: Tourism & Transportation

Druvaughn Edwards presented Velocity Hospitality OS as an agentic layer designed to sit above the property-management systems hotels already use. He focused on a persistent operational challenge for Caribbean hospitality: staffing shortages, high turnover and the difficulty of keeping service consistent when experienced employees leave or new staff need to get up to speed quickly. The system was presented as a way to make hotel procedures and operational knowledge more accessible. The demonstration and explanation covered support for standard operating procedures, onboarding and day-to-day coordination, with AI agents working alongside existing systems rather than requiring a hotel to replace its core software. The goal is to help teams deliver more consistent service despite operational pressure.

Morales — Theon Morales

Track: Tourism & Transportation

The presentation centred on a question that often goes unanswered after a trip is booked: who helps coordinate a traveller’s safety and support while the journey is actually taking place? The concept considered both leisure and medical travel, where a traveller may depend on several separate providers, such as airlines, accommodation and ground transport. When plans change or something goes wrong, the information and responsibility can be fragmented. The proposed service aimed to provide more continuous coordination across that journey, rather than leaving travellers to work through each provider independently. Its core concern was the gap between making a booking and ensuring that a traveller can complete the journey safely and with appropriate support.

Pulse — Matt Hamilton

Track: Tourism & Transportation

Pulse was presented as a way to make Barbados’ fast-moving public information easier to discover and use. The presentation described how important updates can be scattered across radio, social media, news reports and event sources, meaning that people may miss information simply because it appeared in the wrong place or at the wrong time. Pulse gathers these signals into a centralised information layer that AI systems can search and query. The idea is not just to collect posts, but to make local information more accessible as a useful, searchable picture of what is happening. That could help people find relevant updates and give downstream tools a better understanding of current events and local context.

Rydar AI — Thomas Kupcak and Michelle Tsing

Track: Tourism & Transportation

Thomas Kupcak and Michelle Tsing presented Rydar AI around a familiar Caribbean experience: waiting for public transport without knowing whether the bus is coming, where it will stop or whether the route information is reliable. The team described a transport environment where formal schedules and informal routes often coexist, while useful information can be difficult to find. Rydar AI aims to bring together route knowledge, schedules and rider-reported information to help passengers make better decisions about their journeys. The product is designed for the realities of regional transit rather than assuming that every service follows a fully digitised timetable. The presentation framed better information as a way to reduce uncertainty for everyday riders.

Ripple — Fingers Cracked (Vedang Kevlani)

Track: Tourism & Transportation The presentation explored fingers Cracked’s application names its product Ripple, an autonomous coordination layer for tourism operators. It is designed to respond when a disruption occurs and coordinate across linked bookings and service providers so that one change does not leave the traveller or operator to resolve every downstream issue manually.

Team Fingers Cracked presented its travel-disruption concept through the experience of a trip that suddenly falls apart. A delayed flight or another unexpected change can affect connecting transport, accommodation and planned activities, leaving travellers to contact providers and reorganise arrangements themselves. The presentation described Mice Travel as a way to coordinate a response when disruption occurs, helping travellers understand what has changed and what needs attention next. Rather than treating a delay as a single isolated event, the idea is to account for the knock-on effects across the wider itinerary. The aim is to make travel disruption less stressful by turning a confusing set of separate tasks into a more coordinated process.

CaribbeanGridAI — Andrew Narine

Track: The Electron Economy

CaribbeanGridAI focused on the challenge of planning energy systems in small island developing states, where utilities must balance reliability, cost, renewable-energy goals and changing weather conditions. The project’s approach brings together information such as solar and wind potential, climate conditions, grid behaviour and patterns of supply and demand. The purpose is to help planners understand how different conditions could affect the system and how renewable energy might be integrated more effectively. In the Caribbean, where grids can be small and exposed to external shocks, better forecasts can support more informed decisions about capacity and resilience. The presentation placed AI in a planning and decision-support role, rather than presenting it as a replacement for energy-system expertise.

Neptune Energetics — Simon Neptune

Track: The Electron Economy Discussed the energy and environmental cost of waste heat from industrial or facility operations and the opportunity to put that thermal energy to productive use The presentation framed waste heat as a resource rather than something to discard. The presentation focused on the core problem and the potential for technology to help recover and reuse energy that would otherwise be wasted.

Simon Neptune’s presentation explored how energy that is normally discarded as waste heat could be put to productive use. Industrial and commercial facilities can release thermal energy into the environment even when that heat may still have value for another process. The project examined the opportunity to identify and recover that energy, improving how facilities use the resources already available to them. The presentation connected this challenge to the broader need to make Caribbean energy systems more efficient and resilient, particularly where imported energy is expensive and waste has a direct economic cost. The central question was how to recognise useful energy that is currently being lost and turn it into an operational advantage.

PEBBLE — Dr. Wintta Ghebreiyesus

Track: Climate Risk & Disaster Coordination The presentation explored pEBBLE is an AI terrain-analysis and geospatial-intelligence platform that generates predictive risk maps from environmental and subsurface data. The product is designed to an edge-native approach intended to help Caribbean users assess terrain-related risks and support planning with multiple data sources.

Wintta Ghebreiyesus presented a disaster-response coordination support system built around a common problem: information may exist, but it does not always reach the right decision-maker at the right time. Weather updates, road access, shelter status, evacuation routes, community needs and field reports can sit in separate places. When one condition changes, coordinators must work out how that update affects the wider plan. PEBBLE was described as using a coordination agent to respond to changing operational evidence, recalculate downstream consequences deterministically and produce an explainable handoff for decision-makers. The presentation emphasised the need for a clear reasoning trail so responders can see why a plan changes and what action may need to follow.

KOUDMEN — Delon Paul Pierre

Track: Climate Risk & Disaster Coordination The presentation explored kOUDMEN is a multi-agent disaster-lifecycle system designed to connect forecasting, evacuation planning, crisis communication, and recovery workflows. Its application describes a geospatial intelligence foundation with agents that share information across the stages of a disaster.

Delon Paul Pierre presented KOUDMEN, a name drawn from a Creole expression for a helping hand, as a system for connecting organisations during a crisis. Drawing on the problem of siloed response efforts, he described a platform that initially focuses on storm coordination but is intended to extend to other disasters, including floods, fires, earthquakes and volcanic events. In a major emergency, agencies and community partners may each hold useful information but lack a shared view of what is happening and who is doing what. KOUDMEN aims to make coordination more direct by helping those groups connect around a common response. The presentation placed resilience not only in emergency equipment, but also in the relationships and information flows that support a coordinated effort.

Project Lighthouse — Sammarieo Brown

Track: Climate Risk & Disaster Coordination

Sammarieo Brown presented Project Lighthouse as an agentic-first disaster-relief platform designed to help citizens understand relief efforts and navigate claims more transparently. The presentation used the scale of hurricane damage in Jamaica to illustrate the problem: when a major storm affects hundreds of thousands of people, many households and small businesses may be uninsured and need to understand what assistance is available. Information about claims, support and relief activity can be difficult to navigate at precisely the moment people are under the most pressure. Project Lighthouse aims to give citizens a clearer way to view relief efforts and understand the steps available to them. The demo also described the ability to model scenarios based on previous storms or create new scenarios to explore possible outcomes.

FieldWatch — Onassis Alexander Nottage

Track: Climate Risk & Disaster Coordination The presentation focused on using field information and monitoring to support climate and disaster readiness The presentation explored the core theme was making relevant observations easier to gather and use when assessing conditions and coordinating a response.

Onassis Alexander Nottage introduced FieldWatch, described in the presentation as a climate and crisis operations command platform, from the perspective of someone who had worked with emergency-response teams. The central message was direct: in a major weather event, lost time can mean lost lives. First responders may face an overload of incoming information while trying to coordinate personnel and resources across a rapidly changing situation. FieldWatch aims to provide a command view that helps emergency teams organise response activity and act on the information that matters. The presentation connected the platform to practical experience with emergency operations, focusing on the need to make coordination clearer and faster when conditions are changing and many teams are working at once.

Sage — Shariq Shaukat

Track: Finance, Payments & MSME Capital The presentation explored sage is a control layer for AI agents that spend real money. The product is designed to a model in which a business gives an AI worker a budget and rules, then allows it to pay people for completed work. The product is designed to address the tension between giving agents autonomy and keeping spending safe and controlled.

Shariq Shaukat demonstrated Sage as a control layer for AI agents that spend real money. He began by framing a challenge for businesses: as AI agents take on more work, they may need to pay people or services, but handing over payment authority without safeguards creates risk. Sage’s model gives an AI worker a budget and rules, then allows it to make payments for completed work within those boundaries. Shaukat walked through a live workflow using a real job and real money, showing how the idea could operate in practice rather than remaining a conceptual diagram. The presentation focused on balancing agent autonomy with visibility and spending controls, so organisations can let AI carry out tasks while maintaining guardrails around financial decisions.

Yaad Trust Engine — Monique Shanaz Sewell-Bennett

Track: Finance, Payments & MSME Capital The presentation explored the Yaad Trust Engine is an open-source agentic system designed to run verified job workflows end to end over WhatsApp, with low-bandwidth and informal-economy conditions in mind. Its application describes a structured job loop that can take a task from intake through verification and completion.

Monique Shanaz Sewell-Bennett brought her experience as a construction project manager to a problem involving trust, documentation and the practical work of managing projects. The presentation connected the concept to the need for more dependable information when people and organisations have to assess whether a project, claim or party can be trusted. In sectors where decisions depend on records and supporting evidence, scattered information can slow work and make it harder to assess risk consistently. Yaad Trust Engine was presented as a way to strengthen that process by bringing relevant information together and helping users work through it more systematically. The product’s framing reflected a practical, industry-led approach: start with a real workflow and make the evidence needed for a decision easier to organise and review.

123PAGO — Melissa Marchand

Track: Finance, Payments & MSME Capital The presentation explored 123PAGO is an AI orchestration layer designed to make cross-border payments in the Caribbean less costly and fragmented. The product is designed to routing transfers over licensed payment rails, matching sender payment methods with available liquidity, and supporting reconciliation across markets.

123PAGO tackles the friction people and businesses face when money needs to move between Caribbean markets. Different currencies, payment methods and financial systems can turn a straightforward transaction into a complicated process. A regional payment solution has to consider not only the transfer itself, but also how users access the service and know whether a payment has gone through. 123PAGO was presented as an AI orchestration layer designed to make cross-border payments less costly and fragmented, routing transfers across licensed payment rails and helping match sender payment methods with available liquidity. Reconciliation across markets is another part of the challenge: making a transfer is only useful if the records can be followed and resolved afterward.

Surge Apply — Mohammed Ismaeel Khan

Track: Finance, Payments & MSME Capital / Employment The presentation focused on job applications and the gap between having skills and being able to communicate them effectively to employers The speaker described the difficulty qualified candidates can face in getting work and presented an AI-supported approach to help users improve how they apply and present themselves. The product was positioned as an AI-supported way to improve how candidates apply for work and present their skills.

Surge Apply focuses on the gap between having the skills to do a job and being able to communicate them effectively to employers. The presentation highlighted how qualified candidates can struggle to find suitable opportunities, understand what an application requires and present their experience in a compelling way. Surge Apply aims to make that process more structured, helping applicants navigate the steps involved instead of leaving them to piece everything together on their own. The broader goal is to reduce avoidable friction between capable people and the opportunities they are trying to access.

ASCEND — Daniella Maniram

Track: Open Track / Education & Employment

Daniella Maniram’s presentation began with the uncertainty many people feel after graduating, considering a career change or trying to turn an idea into a viable next step. She described a regional challenge in which talent is widespread but access to opportunity is uneven, while headlines about AI can make people fear replacement rather than see possible pathways forward. ASCEND was presented as a response to that gap: helping people understand where their skills could take them and how to move from uncertainty to action. The presentation connected individual career guidance with the wider question of how Caribbean talent can adapt as work changes. Its central message was that people need clearer routes into opportunity, not simply more warnings about disruption.

Research Navigator — Anthony A.S. Baptiste

Track: Open Track — Research Navigator is a market-validation tool for founders. It helps users assess customer demand, willingness to pay, competing solutions, distribution challenges and unit economics before committing substantial time or money. Tishana Simon introduced the product as a “GPS for market validation,” focusing on the questions founders should answer before investing heavily in an idea. The product lead and presenter details should be confirmed before publication.

Research Navigator was introduced by Tishana Simon as a “GPS for market validation.” The presentation focused on the questions founders should answer before committing significant time or money to a new idea: is there real customer demand, will people pay, what alternatives already exist, how will the product reach its audience, and do the unit economics make sense? The tool aims to help founders structure that investigation instead of relying only on intuition or scattered online research. It was positioned as a practical guide for testing assumptions early, when a change in direction is still relatively inexpensive.

CARI Forge — Team Convergency (Nigel Guy)

Track: Open Track The presentation explored cARI Forge is a governed agentic-AI implementation accelerator designed to help Caribbean institutions and creative-economy founders move from an AI idea to a deployed system. The application emphasizes a structured implementation process rather than an unconstrained chatbot, with governance and execution built into the workflow.

Nigel Guy presented Team Convergency’s AI development process, known as CARI Forge. Drawing on decades of experience in machine learning implementation, Guy described the challenge of turning an AI idea into a working system within a short build cycle. The approach uses a governed network of agents to move from a plain-language idea toward a tested prototype, with structured stages and human decision points rather than leaving the entire process to an unconstrained model. The presentation positioned governance as a practical requirement for enterprise AI: teams need a way to move quickly while keeping the development process understandable, testable and under control.

Solvane Hub / FoundryAI — Jamil Nash

Track: Open Track The presentation explored solvane Hub’s application describes FoundryAI as an AI-native economic coordination platform. Its first workflow helps an entrepreneur turn a plain-language business idea into a personalized launch roadmap, including relevant steps across registration, tax, insurance, compliance, and funding.

Jamil Nash and his co-founder introduced Islander, built through Solvane Hub, as an intelligent business platform for making sense of the tools and information a business already has. They described how documents, platforms and disconnected systems can leave business owners with more data but no clear view of their position or what they should do next. Islander’s aim is to bring that information into a more connected workspace and help businesses navigate decisions rather than switching continually between tools. The presentation framed the product around a practical question for small and growing businesses: how can digital systems make day-to-day management easier, instead of adding another layer of complexity?

Glossay — Jermaine Gooden

Track: Open Track / Commerce

Jermaine Gooden presented Glossay as a live beauty-shopping app designed for the Caribbean. He drew on his experience in marketing, brand development, Shopify stores and advertising, as well as work with local beauty businesses. Beauty products are already sold through social platforms, but transactions often happen in direct messages, with screenshots used as proof of payment and uncertainty around availability and trust. Glossay aims to bring that activity into a more complete shopping experience, combining live video with product discovery, questions and a clearer checkout process. The presentation’s point was that the demand already exists; what is missing is a reliable way to turn social engagement into an actual purchase without relying on fragmented messages and manual follow-up.

Merkado — Luuk Weber (EcoLabs)

Track: Real Estate & Development The presentation explored merkado is a marketplace and data layer for tangible assets in the Caribbean, starting with vehicles and expanding into real estate. The application identifies fragmented property listings and limited market transparency in Curaçao as core problems, with the goal of making asset discovery and transactions more informed.

Luuk Weber presented Mercado, known as Merkado, as a real-estate and vehicle marketplace built around making transactions more efficient. He described the housing challenge in Curaçao, where many people are waiting for housing while homes can remain empty and purchase prices are high relative to local incomes. The team saw an opportunity to use better information and intelligence to reduce the gap between a fair price and a price shaped by market friction, while also reducing fees and speeding up transactions. The project began with a car marketplace and expanded during the buildathon toward real estate. The presentation positioned the platform as a way to make assets easier to discover and trade, with the potential to reduce costs for buyers.

OceanX — Daniel Ché Mc Dougall

Track: Ocean Systems & Blue Economy

Daniel Ché Mc Dougall presented OceanX as an AI research assistant for scientists studying Caribbean reefs. He demonstrated an investigation focused on a reef in Bonaire during the 2023 marine heatwave, using public data to explore whether coral might produce proteins that protect cells from damage through antioxidant activity. OceanX brings together clues that are usually scattered across seawater-temperature measurements, marine-life records, DNA data and research papers. An important part of the demo was that the system did not simply generate a hypothesis and stop there: it tested the idea against possible objections, kept those objections visible and used fixed rules to turn the recorded checks into a recommendation. The goal is to help researchers decide what to investigate next while preserving uncertainty and evidence.

Baroow — Nasir Tijani

Track: Open Track The presentation explored baroow is an AI commerce operating system for Caribbean island economies. The product is designed to tools that help small businesses, sellers, tourism operators, service providers, and consumers move from informal, disconnected transactions toward more structured discovery, booking, and commerce workflows.

Nasir Tijani presented Baroow as an AI commerce operating system for Caribbean island economies. The concept aims to help small businesses, sellers, tourism operators, service providers and consumers move from informal, disconnected transactions toward more structured discovery, booking and commerce workflows. Across island markets, finding a reliable provider or turning interest into a completed transaction can depend on scattered information and personal connections. Baroow’s ambition is to bring more of that activity into an accessible digital experience, making it easier for people to discover services and for local businesses to reach customers.

HOM3 — Paul Krause

Track: Open Track The presentation explored hOM3 is a digital platform built around provenance, sovereignty, and security. The application frames the challenge as creating a reliable foundation for useful technology without sacrificing control or safety.

Paul Krause presented HOM3 as a safer digital home for individuals, families and businesses. He acknowledged the excitement around new AI tools while also pointing to the risks that come with adopting them, from privacy and security to the challenge of trusting systems with sensitive activity. His argument was that safety alone is not enough: a product must also retain the utility that makes people want to use it. HOM3 was described as an application layer and operating system intended to help users navigate the digital environment more safely without giving up useful capabilities. The presentation explored how a more trusted digital foundation could help people and organisations benefit from AI while being more deliberate about the risks they accept.

FlowStay — Eric Sanchez

Track: Tourism & Transportation The presentation explored flowStay is an agentic hospitality platform already operating with a signed pilot at a 121-room resort in Puerto Rico. Its application describes a system that can book and take payment during a call, with voice and visual interaction designed to make guest service more seamless.

Eric Sanchez presented FlowStay’s audiovisual agents for hospitality: agents that coordinate what a guest sees on screen with what they hear in conversation. He then connected that underlying capability to a broader Caribbean tourism challenge. Online travel agencies can take a significant share of a booking while island destinations receive limited data about the visitors they attract. Occupancy information may arrive months late, leaving destinations unable to react quickly to slow periods or plan marketing and flight capacity effectively. The presentation proposed TradeWind as a wider, agentic way to explore and book the Caribbean—not just a room, but local experiences, tours, chefs and other services. The idea was to give travellers a more tailored experience, hotels a lower-cost distribution channel and destinations better information about demand.

Tradewind — Aaron Moruf

Track: Food Systems & Supply Chains The presentation explored tradewind is an AI-powered trade-execution platform designed to simplify intra-Caribbean imports and exports. It targets the manual coordination required to move goods between islands, helping participants manage the information and steps needed to carry a trade transaction through.

Tradewind was discussed within Eric Sanchez’s FlowStay presentation as the broader destination-booking concept developed for the buildathon. The pitch argued that a traveller should be able to discover the wider island experience, rather than simply reserve a hotel room through a large online travel agency. The platform was proposed as an agentic interface for finding places to stay and activities that fit a visitor’s interests, while creating more direct opportunities for local service providers. A second part of the argument concerned destination data: if occupancy information is delayed or unavailable, tourism organisations cannot respond quickly to changes in demand. TradeWind was presented as a way to connect discovery, booking and more timely insight into the tourism economy.

JAPI — Chesley Bobb

Track: Open Track The presentation explored jAPI (Jiggy Adaptive Pattern Intelligence) is a human-centred adaptive-intelligence framework combining structured reasoning with AI assistance. Its application describes support for problem-solving, learning new skills, and organising projects through a more guided process.

Chesley Bobb presented JAPI—Zeke Agentic Pattern Intelligence—drawing on his experience around farming, shipping and small businesses in St. Vincent. He described a recurring problem: one person may have information that another person needs, but the information does not reach them in time. That gap can lead to misdeliveries, lost shipments or passengers waiting without knowing when transport will arrive. JAPI was presented as an agentic intelligence system intended to recognise patterns across practical workflows and improve how information is shared and acted on. The examples grounded the idea in everyday Caribbean logistics, where businesses and communities often depend on timely coordination but may not have a single connected system to support it.

Premise Language — Michael Miller

Track: Open Track The presentation explored the Premise Language is a functional prototype programming language that combines high-level intrinsic primitives with persistent objects. The project explores a foundation for building systems that can retain structured state and support more complex agentic or interactive applications.

Michael Miller presented Premise Language through a critique of the assumption that all AI needs to be built around large language models. He argued that language models are useful, but they cannot by themselves perceive and reason about every kind of real-world process. Premise was introduced as an alternative way to prototype AI systems, with the aim of making development faster and more directly aligned to the problem being modelled. The presentation positioned the project as a different foundation for building intelligent systems, rather than simply another chatbot. Miller also discussed Subthought Corporation and Premise as a language and development approach.

Kretopia — Ethan Auguste

Track: AI for The Arts The presentation explored kretopia is described in the application as an AI-powered operating system for the creative economy, helping Caribbean creators build professional identities, find opportunities, collaborate, manage projects, and grow beyond informal networks.

Ethan Auguste presented Kretopia, a creative-economy platform. He described a familiar problem across creative and business communities: opportunities circulate through personal networks, portfolios are scattered across platforms, and project coordination happens in email and WhatsApp threads. When a project is complete, it can also be difficult to establish who contributed what. Kretopia aims to connect creative talent with organisations commissioning work and provide a more structured way to manage collaboration from discovery through delivery. The presentation’s premise was that the Caribbean does not lack creative talent; it needs better infrastructure for helping that talent find opportunities, work together and receive recognition for their contributions.

SeaWise AI — Brendon Johnson (Horizon Technology)

Track: Ocean Systems & Blue Economy The presentation explored seaWise AI is a Caribbean fisheries and ocean-intelligence platform designed to help fishers and small fleets make better decisions before going to sea. It aims to predict productive fishing zones, optimize fuel use, improve safety, and reduce uncertainty for fishing livelihoods.

Brendon Johnson introduced SeaWise as an intelligent fishing platform for people who depend on the ocean for their livelihood or recreation. He opened with the image of a fisherman preparing to leave before sunrise without knowing where the fish are likely to be. Choosing the wrong location can mean wasted fuel, lost hours and a missed catch—costs that matter to families and small operators. In the demo, users could select a target species, such as grouper, and view ranked zones on a map. The system analyses environmental conditions, habitat structure and the needs of the selected species to identify promising areas. The broader aim is to replace scattered information and guesswork with a more informed decision before a boat leaves the dock.

CaribFlow — Daisy Filin Daunar

Track: Food Systems & Supply Chains The presentation explored caribFlow is described in the application as a three-agent coordination system intended to connect parts of the Caribbean food system that currently operate in isolation. Its proposed technical stack combines n8n orchestration, Ollama model inference, and PostgreSQL memory.

Daisy Filin Daunar presented CaribFlow, described during the talk as an agentic screening corridor for Caribbean trade. She framed the challenge as an information problem: the region’s resilience depends partly on its ability to trade with itself, yet producers and entrepreneurs can struggle to determine whether a product can move from one territory to another and what barriers stand in the way. The demo asked users to enter a product and an origin and destination, then assess whether a market opportunity exists, what is preventing access and which signals matter. Daunar said the system covered around 11,000 trade corridors across the Caribbean and drew on public datasets, including World Bank and United Nations sources. A pipeline of agents analyses the market, applies a defined scoring method and produces a brief for human review.

Hatch Systems — Berenice Charrez

Track: Healthcare Systems & Delivery The presentation explored hatch Systems is a workforce-resilience platform combining wearable physiological monitoring, environmental sensing, and AI-driven analytics. It is designed to help protect workers exposed to high temperatures and physically demanding conditions by making risk signals easier to monitor and act on.

Berenice Charrez presented Hatch Systems as real-time operational intelligence for people working in high-stakes environments. Drawing on her offshore-sailing experience, she described how fatigue, heat, cold, noise, motion and sustained cognitive stress can affect performance, often with little visibility into a person’s physiological state. The problem extends beyond extreme sports to firefighting, military operations, mining, industry, healthcare and emergency response. Hatch’s approach combines physiological data with environmental conditions—such as temperature or smoke—and operational context, including terrain, equipment and vehicles. The aim is not merely to report what has happened, but to improve the ability to recognise and predict risks such as heat illness or cognitive decline before they become critical. The presentation connected worker safety to a need for more contextual, real-time insight.

AdMagic — Anmol Pandita

Track: Open Track

Anmol Pandita presented AdMagic around the cost and uncertainty of digital advertising. He described the familiar experience of spending substantial money testing multiple creative options before discovering which one performs well. The presentation framed this as an inefficient process for businesses that need to make marketing decisions with limited budgets and cannot afford to waste spend on repeated trial and error. AdMagic’s goal is to help teams make better-informed decisions about ad creative and performance, using AI to support the process of identifying promising options. The demo was positioned around a practical business outcome: reducing the time and money spent finding a winning advertisement, so more of the budget can go toward campaigns that are more likely to work.

LogiSphere AI — Carlton Scott, Lamar Shaw and Enrique Thompson

Track: Trade & Regional Commerce The presentation explored logiSphere AI is an agentic logistics and transportation operating system intended to coordinate supply-chain operations. It targets fragmented transport systems, manual inventory tracking, inefficient delivery routes, and disconnected software, using agents to connect workflows across the movement of goods.

Carlton Scott presented LogiSphere AI alongside Lamar Shaw and Enrique Thompson as a logistics-focused AI management platform. The team described a need to connect inventory, transport, delivery, tracking and business workflows that are often managed across separate tools. When these functions are disconnected, businesses can struggle to see where an order is, identify bottlenecks or respond quickly when something changes. LogiSphere aims to improve visibility and automate parts of those processes, helping teams coordinate operations and reduce inefficiency. The presentation grounded the product in practical logistics and business integration: rather than adding another isolated dashboard, the goal is to connect the information and workflows needed to move goods and manage fulfilment more reliably.

Koro Farm — Britney Patterson

Track: Food Systems & Supply Chains The presentation explored koro Farm focuses on the barriers facing smallholder farmers in St. Elizabeth, Jamaica, including uncertain demand, aggregation, paper-based compliance, limited credit history, and vulnerability to shocks. Its agentic coordination layer is designed to connect the path from smallholder producers to buyers and markets.

Britney Patterson and Tristan Thompson presented a food-supply concept through a simple example: when lettuce becomes unexpectedly expensive or unavailable, a household may change its meal, but a hotel kitchen serving many guests faces a procurement problem and a farmer may be left with produce that spoils without dependable demand. They argued that these are connected effects of a fragmented supply chain. Koro Farm was described as a supplier-assurance operating system for Caribbean agriculture. It focuses on what happens after a buyer commits: if a supplier cannot fulfil an order, the system needs to identify backup supply, confirm who can accept it and make clear what remains unresolved. The aim is to help food move more reliably from field to plate.

Carib Econ — Zeke Prescod

Track: Energy, Climate & Resilience The presentation explored boltGrid is described in the application as an energy operating system for Caribbean facilities, starting with hotels. It brings energy records into one place to help facility teams identify waste, understand consumption, and assess solar and battery performance.

Zeke Prescod presented Carib Econ, a Caribbean economic-intelligence platform. He described the difficulty analysts face when macroeconomic data and regional news are spread across sources with different formats or conflicting figures. An analyst preparing a client memo might find several different inflation values and then spend more time validating the inputs than conducting the analysis. Carib Econ was presented as a shared intelligence layer bringing macroeconomic data, regional news and evidence into one research workflow, with sources available for human verification. The demo’s value proposition was speed without abandoning traceability: a task that might take one or two hours of manual research could potentially be reduced to minutes while retaining a source trail.

NextGen Delivery — Kai

Track: Trade & Regional Commerce

NextGen Delivery explored how last-mile delivery could work for Barbadian restaurants, small businesses and parcel recipients without requiring every merchant to build its own delivery operation. The presentation showed a dispatcher supporting an initial delivery, with agents reusing customer and driver notes to coordinate later requests. The team described a working demo and prototype, while noting that the service had not yet operated at scale. The concept aims to give local businesses a more practical way to reach customers and fulfil orders.

ISLEA8 — Terry Giddings

Track: Tourism & Transportation

Terry Giddings presented ISLEA8 as a concierge and loyalty platform designed to connect visitors with Caribbean attractions and participating businesses. The experience combines attraction discovery, booking options, trip calendars, digital vouchers, promotional codes and location-based challenges. A provider portal was also demonstrated for accommodation, activity and transport businesses. The presentation explored how discovery and rewards could encourage visitors to engage more deeply with local services, although customer and revenue figures were not provided.

Albion Luxe Travel — Sky

Track: Tourism & Transportation

Albion Luxe Travel focused on helping visitors discover Bahamian restaurants, cultural sites and local experiences alongside established tourism businesses. Its AI concierge uses destination information, traveller preferences and budget to build daily itineraries with travel time and buffers. The demonstration included activities and meal options in Nassau, with users able to revise and save their plans. The broader aim is to make local experiences easier to find and incorporate into a trip, with expansion beyond The Bahamas described as a future possibility.

ASG — David

Track: Climate Risk & Disaster Coordination

ASG was presented as an environmental prediction engine intended to help users prepare earlier for ocean-current and weather-related risks. The interface returned location-based conditions and forecast information, with governments and catastrophe-bond participants identified as potential users. The presentation also discussed Agentic AI and quantum-inspired computing concepts, although the forecasting method and the claimed benefits were not established during the demo. The project’s next challenge is to test its predictions against existing baselines and define a clearly scoped pilot.

Yadli — Monique Shanaz Sewell-Bennett

Track: Commerce & Community

Yadli addressed the challenges faced by Jamaican property owners, diaspora families and tradespeople when coordinating building work. The platform is designed to organise priced milestones, timestamped photographs, invoices and progress approvals, with AI helping turn WhatsApp updates into reports and flag missing evidence. The demonstration walked through a test job, while the presenter said the project did not yet have paying clients. Its central idea is to make construction work easier to track and payments more closely tied to documented progress.

Cross-Border Payments & Reconciliation — Melissa and David

Track: Finance, Payments & MSME Capital

The presentation explored a cross-border payments workflow intended to reduce friction for Caribbean users moving money between markets. The concept focused on routing transfers and reconciling transactions across payment methods and settlement systems, with the aim of making payments easier to track from initiation through completion. The formal product name was not captured in the project report, so the description is kept to the workflow presented rather than assigning an unconfirmed brand.

Dossier by Ventureable — Team Ventureable

Track: Finance, Payments & MSME Capital

Dossier by Ventureable focused on helping businesses prepare stronger financing applications. The platform brings scattered financial statements, incorporation documents and supporting records into an organised funding package that can be reviewed and exported as an editable document. AI helps extract information from scanned or handwritten records, gather business context, research relevant details and flag missing evidence or inconsistencies. The presentation showed a working MVP using a fictional company seeking financing, with lenders retaining responsibility for funding decisions. The next step is controlled beta testing with businesses, advisors and capital providers.

Averin and CC Nose — Team

Track: Health & Care

Averin and CC Nose explored a personal-finance operating system intended to bring accounts, investments, expenses and financial goals into one view. The presentation covered web, mobile and Telegram interfaces, a live ledger, asset watch lists and configurable levels of autonomy. Specialist agents were described as working with private memory and an arbitration layer, while permissions and approval queues constrain the actions they can take. CC Nose remained pre-release, with further safety testing, banking integrations and early-user feedback identified as important next steps.

CareBridge Journey — Team

Track: Healthcare Systems & Delivery

CareBridge Journey focused on connecting patient information and referral workflows that can otherwise remain scattered across records and providers. The system was described as using agents to extract information, prepare evidence-linked recommendations and support routing, while retaining patient consent and leaving clinical decisions with clinicians. The presentation used a fictional patient scenario to illustrate intake, prioritisation, referral and the digitisation of handwritten records. A supervised clinic or hospital pilot was identified as an important next step.

Caribbean Capital Network — Jevaughn

Track: Finance, Payments & MSME Capital

Jevaughn presented Caribbean Capital Network as an investment platform connecting diaspora investors with opportunities in the Caribbean, initially focusing on Jamaica, Trinidad and Guyana. The workflow uses investor profiles and research to help match people with opportunities and explain where an investment may not fit their goals. The presentation noted a growing focus on real estate following customer research and described human approval for transactions. The wider ambition is to make regional investment opportunities easier to understand and access.

Wellnest Triage and Scribe — Adrian Tennant and Malik Christopher

Track: Healthcare Systems & Delivery

Wellnest Triage and Scribe explored how clinical teams could manage spoken consultations, paper records and overloaded patient queues more effectively. The platform is designed to structure information from speech, retrieve relevant chart context and suggest triage priorities with supporting reasons, including support for Jamaican Patois. The demonstration showed intake, chart retrieval, a triage suggestion and dictated vital signs. The workflow includes checks and clinician approval, keeping clinical decisions with healthcare professionals.

Kitchen AI and Goal Station AI — Team Amenity Creatives

Track: Healthcare Systems & Delivery

Kitchen AI and Goal Station AI presented a personalised nutrition concept built around food preferences, allergies, goals, lifestyle and relevant health information. The meal builder can generate recipes, nutritional details, substitutions and preparation steps, while the demonstration also showed health-filtered meal browsing and a nutrition chatbot. The project aims to make tailored food guidance more accessible, with consent-based collaboration among healthcare professionals, nutritionists and trainers described as part of the wider vision. The presenter noted that the product remained an MVP with further development needed.

Ages Flow AI — Osreah Bowens

Track: Open Track / Cybersecurity

Ages Flow AI focused on helping small businesses and IT teams investigate cybersecurity alerts without requiring every user to have deep technical expertise. The platform brings alerts and uploaded logs into a prioritised workspace, explains the evidence, drafts step-by-step response guidance and updates recommendations as users complete tasks. The presentation referenced established security frameworks and safeguards intended to keep sensitive company data out of AI processing. The project was still developing integrations and validation, and the presenter said it had no customers yet.

Island Bridge — Anthony George

Track: Commerce & Community

Anthony George presented Island Bridge as a business-discovery and market-intelligence platform for Caribbean SMEs, residents and tourists. Its installable web app combines country-specific search, maps, business profiles, recommendations, promotions and favourites, while giving businesses insight into customer demand. The demonstration included discovery and business-credit dashboards, although the displayed content was AI-generated for the demo. The project aims to make local businesses easier to find and help them improve their visibility as authentic business content is added.

Tairin — Eddie Taylor

Track: Climate Risk & Disaster Coordination

Tairin explored the use of digital twins to help property owners, managers, developers, insurers and governments assess resilience and plan inspections. The concept combines drone imagery, satellite and public data, and weather information to generate evidence-linked findings, alerts and reports. The demonstration covered property registration, flight scheduling, uploads and existing reports. Users approve consequential actions, while autonomous data collection and island-wide monitoring were described as future stages.

Switchboard Hybrid Voice Assistant — Jim, Synervos

Track: Open Track / AI Infrastructure

Jim from Synervos presented Switchboard as a voice assistant designed to keep working when connectivity is limited. It combines local speech processing and an on-device language model with optional cloud reasoning, allowing applications to use a mix of offline and online capabilities. The demonstration included offline travel questions and a cloud-connected weather query, with the switch between models handled manually. The project’s potential applications included travel and disaster response, where voice interfaces may be useful even when network access is unreliable.

CarryForge — Team Convergency (Nigel Guy)

Track: Open Track / AI Infrastructure

CarryForge focused on helping organisations move from an AI idea to a usable system through a structured implementation process. Its proposed workflow generates a prototype, technical design, tests and a decision pack that a client can own and take toward deployment. The approach includes specialist agents, an AI review council and human approval points intended to keep development governed and understandable. The presenter reported a first letter of intent and testing checks, while noting that a production customer had not been demonstrated.

Lynx — Michael Lashley and team

Track: Education & Employment

Lynx was presented as a career-development platform for young people, combining a personal roadmap, AI mentor, résumé tools and discovery of scholarships, competitions and jobs. The current experience focuses on personalised guidance, while automated applications and credential verification were described as future additions. The team showed an MVP with four usable functions and redesigned product pages. The project aims to help young people understand possible pathways and find relevant opportunities, with university and employer relationships identified as important next steps.

Abang — Chris Belgrave

Track: Finance, Payments & MSME Capital

Abang was introduced as a regional intelligence desk that brings economic information, news, tenders and market signals into one place. Users can customise feeds and follow developments relevant to particular countries or interests, while scheduled collection and signal detection help surface useful information. Chris demonstrated country views and feed customisation and reported coverage across 23 markets. The project aims to make regional business and economic intelligence easier to monitor, with improved data access and further testing of its subscription model still ahead.

Next Move Writing Coach — Jonathan Gittens and Marcus

Track: Education & Employment

Next Move Writing Coach explored how AI could help students improve their writing while keeping responsibility for the work with the student. The Google Docs extension analyses selected text, suggests three possible next steps and explains why each could help, alongside a transferable writing principle. The demonstration showed suggestions for developing a memo or invitation, including logistics, significance and an RSVP. The presenters said the first version was live and free in Google Workspace, with institutional partners and more accessible, audio and multilingual versions among the next opportunities.

OpenJM — Anu El, Crimson Tide AI Limited

Track: Open Track / AI Infrastructure

OpenJM, also referred to as Open Jamaica AI, was introduced as a Caribbean enterprise AI platform for productivity and knowledge workflows. The presentation emphasised local language, culture, regulatory context and institutional knowledge, with the company saying it had recently launched and was serving users through a small data centre in Jamaica. The recording ended during the introductory slides, before the architecture or product workflow could be examined in detail, so the presentation did not establish user numbers, revenue or a specific deployment scale.

Looking Ahead

Across the 12-hour Demo Day, the projects offered a wide-ranging look at how Caribbean builders are approaching real challenges with AI. The projects spanned agriculture, hospitality, logistics, finance, climate resilience, research, disaster response and the creative economy. While the products differed in maturity and focus, many shared a practical ambition: to make complex systems easier to navigate, connect information that is usually scattered across tools and organisations, and help people make better decisions with the resources available to them.

The event was also a reminder that building for the Caribbean means designing around the region’s particular realities, from fragmented markets and costly cross-border transactions to climate exposure and gaps in access to useful data. The next step for these teams is to keep testing their ideas with the people who would use them, strengthen their products through feedback, and turn promising demonstrations into dependable solutions. Together, the presentations showed the breadth of talent and imagination emerging across the region—and the opportunity to channel that energy into technology built for Caribbean needs and capable of reaching far beyond them.