Plutus - Return Your Wealth

Inspiration

This was a fixed requirement from the developed solution... so not much for inspiration front up!

What it does

Plutus analyzes an HVAC contractor’s project portfolio to identify financially risky projects, explain why they are going wrong, and propose concrete recovery actions.

How we built it

We split the system into five stages: loading and cleaning the data, turning it into a structured working dataset, flagging questionable projects, running LLM analysis through three separate agents in three separate stages, and then packaging the results behind a frontend built for quick executive review.

Challenges we ran into

Git coordination was a major challenge. Not everyone on the team was equally comfortable with branching and merging, so we ran into constant conflicts, syncing issues, and delays waiting for each other’s changes

Vercel was also difficult to set up because none of us had much prior experience with its ecosystem, and we struggled with team access and ownership while trying to use v0 effectively.

Combining everyone’s parallel work at the end was messy and much harder than expected, and we ended up relying heavily on AI to untangle and integrate our (drastically) different workflows together,

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We’re proud that we managed to use the Vercel and v0 tooling meaningfully instead of treating it like a formality!

What we learned

Orchestrating a coding group for a project is like orchestrating a cluster of GPUs, you want more parallel processes for higher throughput for each group member!