Real problems. Real solutions.

The problem

Staff answer dozens of questions every day from guests curious about wind energy — and many of those questions arrive as challenges, fueled by myths about renewables. The tour's FAQ video and the team's ongoing self-education only carry so far when a guest brings their own context and bias to the conversation.

What got built

A real-time customer-facing web app that answers guest questions with authoritative information from trusted sources — complete with an animated mascot. The team is exploring voice features and inline illustrations next, with the goal of debuting at the facility within the month.

The problem

A library of 1,000+ meditations — each one needing audio editing, transcript generation, an intro/outro added, categorization, and routing to YouTube, Kajabi, or Dropbox — runs through a manual stack of Canva, Descript, Kajabi, Dropbox, Zapier, and iMovie. Every new recording means juggling six tools and hours of repetitive work.

What got built

The Vibe-a-thon team mapped which AI tools fit a data-processing-heavy workflow like this and which don't. The path forward leans on hands-on Python automation that can run the meditation pipeline end-to-end on a single machine.

The problem

The zoo team gets a constant stream of Burrtec waste-hauling invoices that someone has to download as PDFs, manually re-key into a spreadsheet, and then summarize against multi-year strategic plan goals. Pickup frequency, cost per ton, where the trash is being generated — all locked behind hours of manual entry.

What got built

An upload-driven tool that auto-converts the invoices into structured data and surfaces an interactive dashboard for trends by date and location.

The problem

Every custom t-shirt proposal needs a brochure of mockups — the same proprietary artwork rendered across multiple shirt styles and colorways — built by hand in Illustrator. It's the biggest bottleneck in the company, and there are customers they've lost because the mockups couldn't get out fast enough.

What got built

Three different automated approaches from the AWS builders, each generating multi-color mockup brochures from a single source artwork. Every version is designed to save the shop significant time on each customer proposal.

The problem

Visit Greater Palm Springs manages project work in Basecamp, but the platform's built-in overdue view returns a single undifferentiated list — every late item across every project and department, with no way to filter by department, identify aging tasks at a glance, or flag work without an assigned owner. Each week, managers were compiling the picture manually, running reports owner by owner.

What got built

Two independent teams delivered working tools within the 24-hour window. The featured build, Visit Greater Palm Springs Pulse, is a live Basecamp intelligence dashboard with ten modules: department scorecards with health indicators, AI-written weekly summaries constrained to verified data, ad-hoc cross-department reports, scheduled morning and evening manager briefings, and an end-of-day visualization that traces task completions across departments through the workday. The first live data pull surfaced 529 overdue items across ten departments — an estimated three to five hours of recovered manager time per week. A second team delivered a parallel implementation, Basecamp Pulse.