Competition
Nine and a half minutes. One build.
One week after the visit, every team comes back with answers. Here is what today is made of.
Trainer, scoper, builder — all three of you on your feet.
Seven thirty to pitch. Two minutes of questions from the room. Then the room scores you.
Storytelling ability · preparation · understanding of the problem · feasibility of the solution.
The team the room scores highest gets the follow-up call with David — and builds the solution.
One buy, across the counter.
This is the process as it runs today — every step by hand. Point at the arrow your team is fixing.
A photo of the ID, phone number, email.
Filled in at the counter, item by item.
The weight, re-typed from the same sheet.
All three, entered again in one place.
Printed from QuickBooks.
Their copy, over the counter.
The IDs, uploaded and sent on.
ID photos for verification, and the day’s buy-order report.
Four criteria. Four unasked questions.
Scored one to ten by everyone in the room except your team. Each one is an answer to a question David is holding and will not ask.
A hook in the first twenty seconds. One idea per beat. The thing shown, not described. It earns its minutes.
A tour of everything you thought of — "the temptation is to cram twenty minutes into five."
Rehearsed to time. A backup story ready if the demo dies. December answered before anyone asks.
Running over. Reading the slides. Finding out in front of us that the demo does not work.
The one branch that hurts most, in his words. Genuine pain, not theoretical inconvenience.
A solution looking for a problem. Your summary of what he said instead of what he said.
What it plugs into that he already runs. What you would not touch. Who keeps it alive.
A rebuild of everything. A tool that only works with you standing next to it.
It pops up on your laptop.
When a team finishes, the card appears on every laptop but theirs. Nobody grades their own pitch.
Open connect-ai.world/rubric, pick the team from the list and send it. Go back and change a score, or catch up on a team you missed, until the competition closes. The comment is anonymous to the team — write one they can use.
Averages per criterion, the overall, and the team the room scored highest — which gets the follow-up call and builds it. Your team’s results post to connect-ai.world/teams tonight.
Six teams. Order drawn live.
Every team named itself. Nobody knows who goes first — we draw the next team right before each pitch, and you get seven thirty from the moment you stand up.
6 teams. Nobody knows the order.
Thank you.
Six teams stood up in front of a room and were judged by it. Nobody got to hide behind a slide, and everybody had to say what they would actually build. That is the whole job.
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