Search and source trails for fragmented public-spending records.
realFaro project visual published after Hack@LATAM.
At a glance
What I owned
Period
Hack@LATAM 2026; 48-hour build
Role
Product framing and prototype implementation
Team
Hackathon team
Users
People tracing public spending across vendors, departments, and regions
Status
Transparency track winner; public prototype
Contribution
Turned fragmented records into a product flow with search, maps, source links, and export.
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.
Event
Hack@LATAM 2026
Time
48 hours
Track
Transparency
Result
Winner
01
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.
recreatedNormalization made records searchable without removing their source trail.
02
What we demonstrated
The prototype normalized records and exposed search by vendor, department, and region. Results retained source links and supported export.
realProduct screen published by the team after the event.
realMap view from the Faro prototype.
realRecord-detail view from the Faro prototype.
03
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.
