Hack@LATAM 2026 / Transparency track winner

Faro

Search and source trails for fragmented public-spending records.

At a glance

Period: Hack@LATAM 2026
Role: Product decisions, design and presentation
Team: Hackathon team
Users: People tracing public spending across vendors, departments, and regions
Status: Transparency track winner; public prototype

EventHack@LATAM 2026
ContributionProduct, design and presentation
TrackTransparency
ResultTrack winner

My part

Within the team, I worked on product decisions and design for a flow with search, maps, source links and export, and presented the project.

Tradeoff

Normalize enough fields to support useful search while keeping a trace back to each source record.

Evidence

Public product screens, Hack@LATAM site, and the team winner post.

The data problem

Public-spending records were split across portals and file formats. Following one vendor required manual cross-referencing, with weak links back to source material.

Illustration of loose papers flowing into an index cabinet topped by a small lighthouse — IllustrationAI-generated illustration: scattered public records become one searchable index.

What we demonstrated

The prototype normalized records and exposed search by vendor, department, and region. Results retained source links and supported export.

Faro prototype product screen published after Hack@LATAM — OriginalProduct screen published by the team after the event.

Faro map interface showing public-spending records — OriginalMap view from the Faro prototype.

Faro record detail interface — OriginalRecord-detail view from the Faro prototype.

Result

Faro won the transparency track at Hack@LATAM 2026. The award is sourced through the linked public winner post, not inferred from these product screenshots.

Project linksHack@LATAM Winner post