Hack@LATAM 2026 Winner
Faro
A tool to follow public money.
Problem
Public spending data is public, technically. But it lives across different government portals, in different formats, with no way to connect vendors, geography, or time. A journalist who wants to follow where money goes has to manually cross-reference files. That's not transparency.
Solution
We built Faro in 48 hours. You search for a vendor, a department, or a region. You see where money went, who received it, and where. Every record links to its source. You can export everything. It's not pretty, it's a hackathon build, but it proves the point: public money can be trackable if you normalize the data and put it behind a search.
How
Data normalization from multiple government portals. Map visualization. Searchable records with source attribution. Built in a team of four under hackathon pressure.
Outcome
Won the transparency track at Hack@LATAM 2026. The judges saw the same thing we did: this problem is solvable, it just needs someone to build it.