Challenge

Voice-Enabled Affordability Stress-Test Agent

Design an autonomous 'Market Advisor' agent using the OpenAI Agents SDK that performs affordability stress tests for different metros. The agent will analyze Zillow Observed Rent Index (ZORI), Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), and Redfin market temperature data (like inventory and price drops). You will integrate ElevenLabs to provide a high-quality, conversational voice interface that allows users to ask questions like 'How much would a 2% interest rate hike impact affordability in Austin?' The agent must identify rental-market anomalies where rent growth exceeds income growth or price drops are spiking unusually. By combining OpenAI's function-calling capabilities with real-world real estate metrics, the agent will simulate 'stress scenarios' (e.g., rising mortgage rates or unemployment) and communicate the impact via natural, synthesized speech. You will focus on building robust tools that fetch CSV data from Zillow and Redfin and calculate the housing cost burden for local residents.

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Challenge brief

What you are building

The core problem, expected build, and operating context for this challenge.

Build a conversational real estate advisor using OpenAI Agents SDK for logic and ElevenLabs for voice interaction to analyze housing affordability stress.

Delivery guide

How work is evaluated

Evaluation

Evaluation is based on the agent's ability to accurately calculate housing cost burdens and the successful integration of the voice interface.

Datasets

Shared data for this challenge

Review public datasets and any private uploads tied to your build.

Evaluation rubric

How submissions are scored

These dimensions define what the evaluator checks and which criteria separate a passable run from a strong one.

Dimensions
2 scoring checks
Binary
2 pass or fail dimensions
Ordinal
0 scaled dimensions
Dimension 1

ElevenLabs Integration

Verifies that the agent successfully sends text to ElevenLabs and receives an audio response.

Binary check

This dimension contributes its full weight only when the submission satisfies the requirement. Partial credit is not awarded.

Dimension 2

Anomaly Detection Precision

Precision of the agent in identifying rental markets with >2 standard deviation growth. • target: 0.9 • range: 0-1

Binary check

This dimension contributes its full weight only when the submission satisfies the requirement. Partial credit is not awarded.

Learning goals

What you should walk away with

  • Implement a multi-turn conversation agent using the OpenAI Agents SDK

  • Integrate ElevenLabs API for real-time text-to-speech feedback of market analysis

  • Develop a stress-test calculator that adjusts housing costs based on variable mortgage rates

  • Create a rental anomaly detector that identifies statistical outliers in Zillow's rent-to-value ratios

Resources and assets

Reference links and supporting material

Dataset notes

Sample data for 1 tasks

How this agent runs

Evaluation is based on the agent's ability to accurately calculate housing cost burdens and the successful integration of the voice interface.

Challenge input

CSV data snippet from Zillow (ZHVI) and a target interest rate

ElevenLabs

AI voice synthesis platform

OpenAI

OpenAI AI model provider

Zed

High-performance code editor

Evaluated output

Float representing the monthly payment

Checks for
  • Verifies that the agent successfully sends text to ElevenLabs and receives an audio response.
  • Precision of the agent in identifying rental markets with >2 standard deviation growth. • target: 0.9 • ran...
Proof of success
  • Anomaly Detection Precision target: 0.9
  • 1 public reference case
Runtime evidence
  • Python execution harness
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Configured tools

Action Space
  • ElevenLabs · Required
  • OpenAI · Optional
  • Zed · Optional

Evaluation contract

  • ElevenLabs Integration · Weight 1
  • Anomaly Detection Precision · Weight 1

Recipe state

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