TrustBroker AI is officially live and submitted!
I am excited to announce that TrustBroker AI has been officially submitted to the PayPal AI Hackathon 2026!
Here is a summary of what was accomplished and verified for this release:
- End-to-End PayPal Integration — Full milestone payment lifecycle running against the PayPal Sandbox using PayPal Orders v2 capture for client milestone staging and the PayPal Payouts API for single-click disbursement to freelancers.
- Deterministic PolicyEngine — Strict policy checks guarantee that AI never moves money unilaterally. Payouts require explicit, authenticated client authorization after criteria evaluation.
- Multimodal AI Verification Engine — Evidence inspection powered by Groq LPU with zero-delay fallback cascades (OpenRouter and DeepSeek). The engine enforces principled honesty: ambiguous evidence routes to human review rather than fabricating a pass.
- Operations & Ledgers — Dense financial ledgers powered by AG Grid Enterprise alongside an embedded workspace-scoped AI Copilot in AG Studio.
- Comprehensive Test Suite — 90 automated regression tests passing across API contracts, PayPal integrity, SSRF protection, authentication boundaries and CORS security.
Project Resources
- Demo Video: Watch on YouTube
- Live Web App: trustbroker-ai-frontend-bx9a.onrender.com
- API Service: trustbroker-ai-api-bx9a.onrender.com
- GitHub Repository: github.com/brianproducedit/trustbroker_ai
Thank you to the PayPal and Devpost teams for hosting this hackathon!