Eirene

Inspiration

Our team wanted to explore AI agents and integrate them into solving a real challenge. This hackathon felt like the right opportunity to learn more about intelligent systems, frontend development, and working with real databases, while also tackling a problem that affects companies every day.

What it does

Eirene is an AI powered assistant that helps employees plan their PTO by checking approval likelihood and explaining company policies through a chatbot interface. It provides managers with intuitive dashboards that show real time team availability, coverage gaps, and workload distribution. Eirene also integrates with Jira and MongoDB to automatically update task trackers and workflows when leaves are approved.

How we built it

• Backend: Python, LangChain, and MongoDB for managing employee and leave request data
  
• AI Agent: Natural language processing and machine learning models to analyze policies and requests
  
• Frontend: React and TailwindCSS dashboards for employees and managers to track requests and availability
  
• Integrations: Jira APIs for automatic task tracker updates and workload adjustments
  

Challenges we ran into

• Structuring the database to handle employees and managers separately
  
• Debugging the connection between the frontend and backend so data updates smoothly
  
• Training and configuring the AI agent to make consistent, policy-aware decisions
  
• Designing dashboards that were clear, intuitive, and responsive under time pressure
  
• Bringing together multiple technologies within the short hackathon timeline
  

Accomplishments that we're proud of

• Building a working prototype that connects an AI agent, database, and frontend dashboards
  
• Creating a chatbot that employees can use naturally to plan their leaves
  
• Developing dashboards that make PTO management more transparent for managers
  
• Learning how to integrate with external tools like Jira to synchronize real tasks
  

What we learned

• How to design and implement AI agents for real workflow challenges
  
• How to build responsive frontend dashboards connected to a live database
  
• How to manage team collaboration across AI, backend, and frontend work
  
• How integrations with third party tools like Jira can reduce friction for companies
  

What's next for Eirene

We want to make Eirene more adaptive by connecting it to different company policy templates, expanding integrations to other workflow platforms beyond Jira, and improving the chatbot experience to support more conversational planning. In the future, we hope Eirene can be deployed at scale to handle PTO management across different organizations.

Built With

• azure
• express.js
• fastapi
• gemini
• github
• javascript
• jira-api
• langchain
• mongodb
• node.js
• python
• react
• tailwindcss