# CORD - Ambient intelligence screensaver agent.

- **Event:** [Zero to Agent: Vercel x Deepmind Hackathon London](https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/zero-to-agent-london)
- **When:** Sat, Mar 21 at 9:00 AM – 10:00 PM (GMT)
- **Where:** London, UK
- **Team:** [Priya Prakash](https://cerebralvalley.ai/u/Priyascape)
- **GitHub:** https://github.com/priyascape/cord
- **Demo video:** https://www.loom.com/share/fb89e2991e244c488fafc57399bd68bf
- **Gallery:** https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/zero-to-agent-london/hackathon/gallery
- **Page:** https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/zero-to-agent-london/hackathon/gallery/22

https://ambient-agent.replit.app/

Every time you step away from your desk, intelligence accumulates - Slack messages, emails, calendar reminders, paper submissions, flagged anomalies. But when you return, you face a wall of notifications across fragmented surfaces.  

CORD is an ambient intelligence screensaver agent that reads everything while you're gone and briefs you the moment you're back.

I am Creative AI co-chair at NEURIPS The AI ML Conference.
The real problem: NeurIPS 2025 received 800+ paper submissions. Chairs coordinate across multiple geographies, timezones and apps - Slack, Gmail, OpenReview, shared drives. A single chair might be responsible for 50+ papers across a global team. The cognitive overhead of staying coordinated is enormous. Critical items get missed. Hallucinated citations slip through. 

https://fortune.com/2026/01/21/neurips-ai-conferences-research-papers-hallucinations/

CORD sits in the background as a screensaver. 
The Matrix-style visualisation shows live notification streams falling across surfaces - Slack, Gmail, Calendar, OpenReview. Agent cursors move across the streams in real time, reading and flagging. Notification bubbles surface key items - including a GPTZero agent running background checks on submissions, flagging hallucinated citations before they reach the proceedings.

When you return to your desk: press the mic, ask "what did I miss?" -  CORD synthesises everything with Gemini 2.5 and speaks the brief back via ElevenLabs.

"3 papers flagged with hallucinated citations. 14 submissions in your review queue. Terri needs sign-off on the travel grant doc. NeurIPS Creative AI call at 3pm."

Built for knowledge workers in high-stakes, multi-surface, multi-geography environments where attention is the scarcest resource. 

Today: academic conference coordination. 
Tomorrow: any regulated enterprise where missing one notification has consequences.


Built for knowledge workers in regulated and high-stakes environments where attention is the scarcest resource.

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