Introducing the 2024 Buildi Award Winners: The GenAI Breakthroughs of the Year

It’s been one of the most consequential years for the tech industry in memory. Disillusionment with GenAI inside many organizations led to a reckoning as many technical leaders reevaluated whether the old digital transformation model worked in this new era. Heading into 2025, we’re witnessing a new wave of GenAI maturity as leaders realize what it really takes to go from prototype to production.

One of the great privileges of working at A.Team is that we’re surrounded by so many incredible builders — the 11,000+ highly-skilled engineers, product managers, designers, data scientists, AI experts, and marketers in our network, as well as our hundreds of client partners. These two groups come together on A.Team to build what’s next, and that means we get a front-row seat to the future.

Today we’re excited to reveal our third annual Buildi Awards, which celebrates the best builders and new product builds of 2024 at A.Team — from a healthcare startup that deployed an AI agent that slashed insurance verification time from hours to seconds, to a fintech team that built a platform that's automating tax complexities for America's fastest-growing workforce, to an engineering team that built GenAI features that sent user satisfaction skyrocketing for one of the most popular consumer apps in the world.

This year's winners didn't just launch impressive demos—they shipped launch-ready solutions that drove real ROI. They solved the thorny challenges of LLM hallucination, built sophisticated testing frameworks for non-deterministic systems, and cracked the code on user adoption.

We’d say more, but then you wouldn’t be incentivized to watch the video below, and honestly, our marketing team is very proud of the animation that pops in at 0:08.

We give you: The 2024 Buildi Awards.

This Year’s Winners

Startup of the Year:?Lettuce

AI Build of the Year:?Arrow

Team Leader of the Year: Elad Shaham, Chief Technology Officer

Community Contributor of the Year: Nik Laufer-Edel, Product Manager

Innovator of the Year: Vineet Sinha, Solution Architect

AI Builder of the Year: Tomislav Peharda, AI/ML Architect

Overall Builder of the Year: Toby Urff, Product Manager

A.Team of the Year: Team Grindr

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