NIMICODER
Built at Meta Global AI Developer Hackathon · Oct 26, 2026 · Remote

Tendaa is a WhatsApp agent for sellers in Africa who already run their whole shop through chat. A customer can text, send a voice note, or send a photo, and the agent figures out what they want, asks for whatever's missing one thing at a time, and gives them a price and delivery total pulled straight from the shop's real data, not something the model made up. When they send proof of payment, the photo gets read for the amount, date and reference, but it's plain backend code that checks if it actually matches the order, not the model's word for it. If something needs an actual person, like a complaint, the agent hands it off and goes quiet on that chat until the seller deals with it. There's a dashboard too, so the seller can approve payments, see what's waiting on them, read back any conversation (including what the agent did behind the scenes), and manage the catalog. The important part to me was making sure the model can't invent a price or confirm a payment on its own, that's enforced in regular code, and I wrote an eval suite that runs real scenarios against the real model to check it actually holds up.