Halmahera
AI product team from Indonesia

Your AI idea, working in two weeks.

Five award-winning builders. Hackathons taught us to ship under pressure. Now we do it for you. 🚀

Abstract oil painting of crimson, plum, and white brushstrokes
Day 14. Demo day.14/14
  • 🏆 1st Place · LIDM 2024
  • 🦙 3rd Place · Meta Llama
  • 🛰️ 3rd Place · Gemastik 2024
  • Chatbots on your data
  • Smart search
  • Document reading
  • Workflow automation
  • Early warning systems
  • AI storybooks
  • Working demos, not decks
Our work

Built under pressure.

Weekend deadlines, national juries, real problems. Two products, three podiums.

“The dragon was scared of the rain, so the kids built it an umbrella…”

Page 3 · written by Class 4B

✨ Painted by AI

Kids write the story. AI draws it.

A reading classroom where every page gets a painting, and teams talk the story through.

1st Place · LIDM 20243rd Place · Meta Llama Hackathon 2024

17,000

islands. One early warning.

Disaster detection

An AI system that spots disasters across Indonesia, so help knows where to go first.

3rd Place · Gemastik 2024
Services

Pick a card. Any card.

  • AI Inside

    Add AI to the product you already run.

    Chat, search, document reading, or automation, wired into your app and your data.

    Your stack · your data

  • Prototype Sprint

    Start here

    Idea on Monday. Demo in two weeks.

    One sharp use case, built end to end, in your hands. No slide decks.

    Fixed scope · 2 weeks

  • Full Build

    From first sketch to launch day.

    Design, engineering, and AI in one small team. We stay until real users are on it.

    Design · build · launch

The sprint

Two weeks on one calendar.

This is a Prototype Sprint, day by day. Every day ends with something you can click.

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  • Day 1

    Scope

    One use case. One test for “working”.

  • Days 2–4

    Data & design

    Your data in. First screens out.

  • Days 5–11

    Build

    The model and the product, end to end.

  • Days 12–13

    Test

    Real users try to break it.

  • Day 14

    Demo

    You get a working thing, not a deck.

Why us

Why not a big agency?

Big agencies are good at big programs. When you need to know fast if an AI idea works, they are slow.

  • A discovery deckA working demo
  • A few monthsTwo weeks
  • An account managerThe people who build it
  • Many teams, many handoffsFive builders, no handoffs
  • AI added at the endAI from day one
The team

Five builders. Three podiums.

Two of us won with the reading classroom. Three of us won with disaster detection. Now we build together.

Let’s talk

Got an AI idea collecting dust?

Tell us what it should do. We will tell you honestly if two weeks is enough.

Email us

hello@halmahera.site

We build our own products too. Want early access? Say so in your email.