OpenAI Build Week
A week for exploring what’s possible with Codex
OpenAI Build Week encourages developers, creators, founders, and students from around the world to experiment with new ideas and bring them to life with Codex.
Participants can join live sessions, take part in community events, and submit projects to the OpenAI Build Week Challenge. Whether you’re starting from scratch or building on an existing project, Build Week is an opportunity to learn, create, and share what you’ve made.
Winning teams
Education
First place
Mechanica(opens in a new window)
An interactive digital museum that brings ancient Chinese machines to life through physics-based 3D reconstructions, animation, and hands-on exploration.
Built by Weiying Zhu, Yukun Li, and Shan Wei.
Second place
Dấu(opens in a new window)
A Vietnamese pronunciation coach that visualizes vocal pitch, compares it with native-speaker examples, and explains how to improve each tone.
Built by Robert Huynh.
Work & Productivity
First place
veTriage(opens in a new window)
A safety-first phone-triage app that helps veterinary teams organize client calls, surface veterinarian-authored guidance, and prioritize pets that need care.
Built by Erin Downes, VMD.
Second place
Pulse(opens in a new window)
A real-time resuscitation assistant that listens to cardiac arrest care, tracks clinical events, and highlights next steps while keeping a human clinician in control.
Built by Mohamed Mostafa Mohamed Labib Abu Taleb.
Apps for Your Life
First place
Second Voice(opens in a new window)
An AI-powered communication aid that turns unclear speech into understandable sentences while letting the speaker review and approve every response.
Built by Ravitez Dondeti.
Second place
AirBridge for Windows(opens in a new window)
A Windows app that streams PC audio to AirPlay-compatible speakers, with multiroom playback and an optional AI voice assistant.
Built by Adam Tarantino.
Developer Tools
First place
Echo Canvas(opens in a new window)
A browser-based workbench for designing and testing spatial audio, letting developers hear how room geometry, walls, and materials change a scene’s acoustics.
Built by Kevin Yang.
Second place
Sentinel(opens in a new window)
A security scanner for MCP servers that combines static analysis, GPT‑assisted review, and sandboxed testing to catch vulnerabilities before deployment.
Built by Malik Bashaar Javaid.
Meet the judges
Thibault Sottiaux
Kath Korevec
Tara Seshan
Leah Belsky
