# Credence at EF Marketing Agents Hackathon

Surya Pugazhenthi competed at Entrepreneur First's Marketing Agents Hackathon (Apr 2026) as a full-stack builder, shipping Credence. Result: 3rd place, Best Use of Apify API.

- **Organization:** Entrepreneur First
- **Role:** Full-stack builder
- **Dates:** Apr 2026
- **Result:** 3rd place, Best Use of Apify API
- **Career period:** Season 2, UC Santa Cruz (2024 – 2026)

## Context

High-stakes industries need to know which prospects to trust — signals are scattered across the live web.

## What Surya did

- Built a B2B prospect-intelligence platform scoring trust and fit using real-time web scraping and configurable signal weighting.
- Architected the pipeline with React + Vite, Supabase real-time queries, and Apify scraping normalized into a live scoring dashboard with connection-graph visualization.

## Outcome

Placed 3rd for Best Use of Apify API in a field of marketing-agent builds.

Source page: https://suryapugaz.com/career/credence-ef-hackathon