Opticar

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Car Damage Detection and Visual Analysis
Price, Risk and Roadworthiness Recommendation

Inspiration

We were inspired by a trust gap in vehicle damage assessment: users receive estimates, but there’s no tamper-proof proof of what was assessed, when, and by whom. We saw Solana as the perfect foundation to add transparency, speed, and verifiability to insurance and repair workflows.

What it does

Opticar is an AI damage assessment platform with on-chain proof:

Detects part + damage severity from vehicle images
- Produces a CAD line-item estimate and roadworthiness guidance
- Generates technical repair recommendations
- Anchors assessment integrity on Solana Devnet (hash + memo + signature/explorer link), so results can be independently verified

How we built it

FastAPI backend + frontend dashboard for upload, analysis, and reporting
Detection + pricing pipeline for structured, deterministic estimates
LLM layer for meaningful safety/roadworthiness reasoning
Solana attestation module to:
Hash response payloads
Submit memo-style attestations on Devnet
Track status (pending/submitted/confirmed/failed)
Expose explorer links and verification actions in UI

Challenges we ran into

Designing a clean flow between AI outputs and blockchain submission states
Handling async blockchain confirmation without blocking user experience
Making attestations useful to non-crypto users (clear status + simple verify UX)
Ensuring reliable fallback behavior when external services are unavailable

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We shipped an end-to-end AI + Solana workflow, not just a concept
Every assessment can be tied to a verifiable on-chain artifact
We built a live attestation dashboard and verification controls
We made blockchain trust benefits visible in a practical, real-world product

What we learned

Solana is a strong fit for high-frequency, low-latency trust records
Verifiability matters most when users can understand it instantly
Pairing deterministic computation, LLM reasoning, and on-chain attestation creates a powerful trust stack
Product UX is as important as protocol integration in Web2.5 applications