John Daniel Pere@Danro

Delivery drivers spend their shifts juggling screens: checking the next address, following the route, calling customers, accepting orders and updating each delivery, often while moving. Every glance at the phone is a moment of distraction on the road. Kora is a voice-first AI co-rider that moves that work into conversation. Just say "Kora" and speak naturally. Ask for your next stop and Kora reads it out while drawing the route on the map. Accept or decline new orders by voice, call or message a customer, check your order queue, track your daily target and end your shift, all hands-free. After each reply Kora keeps listening for a few seconds, so follow-up questions do not need the wake word again. Behind the scenes, one request can trigger several actions at once. Kora runs its tools in parallel rather than one after another, and the driver hears one clear answer. The live conversation runs on AssemblyAI's Voice Agent, connected to 20 purpose-built tools for routes, orders and customer communication. When the shift ends, AssemblyAI LeMUR turns the day's conversation into a shift report. Kora is built with safety and control in mind: it waits for a clear yes before accepting an order, auto-accept only works when the driver switches it on, and new orders are offered near the driver's own location. Drivers can choose from eleven co-rider voices. This hackathon build is an Android prototype. Orders come from a simulator and the customer-call demo reaches no real person, so judges can try the full flow safely.

🌎 Online Hackathon | 💻 Month-long challenge | Dates: Sep 1–30, 2026 | 🏆 $10,000 Prize Pool ($5k cash + $5k in AAI credits) A month-long online challenge run by lablab.ai together with AssemblyAI, the Voice AI infrastructure company for builders. Every participant builds on AssemblyAI. You can join at any point — registration stays open for the whole build window, so you can start on day one or pick the project up halfway through and still submit. 🌍 Fully online hackathon. Join and build from anywhere in the world.