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↘ The pit closes Monday at midnight EST

Pitch your idea. The winner gets built.

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Pitch coach

Start typing — I’ll grade as you go.

Press enter to enter the pit · 60-3500 chars

↘ How it’s judged

AI judges. The crowd votes.

Every idea is scored on six dimensions by an AI gamemaster, then weighted with the community vote.

machine

50%

AI rubric · 0–100

crowd

50%

Public votes · live

See the leaderboard How scoring works

↘ The pact

One winner. One build.

Two submissions per person, per week. The top final score wins. We build the MVP, broadcast under your name.

2

Submissions / wk

7d

Window

1

Winners / wk

Pitch your idea See past builds

The process

How a pitch becomes a build.

Four steps. One week. No interviews, no decks, no warm intros.

Submit your pitch

60 to 3500 characters. Anyone can pitch — anonymous or signed in. Two submissions per week if you sign in; one IP-rate-limited slot if you don't.

Claude rates it

Opus 4.7 evaluates your pitch against the YC office-hours rubric — demand, wedge, founder edge, feasibility, defensibility, distribution. Score 1–10 with strengths, concerns, and reasoning.

The community votes

Every signed-in user gets one vote per pitch. Your final score is 50% AI + 50% community, normalized 0–100. Live realtime updates while voting is open.

Win the week

The pit closes Monday at midnight EDT. The week's top final score gets built — for free, no equity, no strings — and we ship the live MVP under your name.

Last week’s verdicts

What the judges said.

One-line takes from the highest-scoring pitches so far. Click through for the full rubric and reasoning.

LotPilot

90

“Ten years of lived pain is a real moat — now prove the AI can pass for a closer.”

Read the full verdict

KennelCast AI

70

“Real money left on the table, real operator pain, and a wedge tight enough to own.”

Read the full verdict

InsuraClaim

60

“Real money lost, real mechanism to recover it — wedge is solid if distribution holds.”

Read the full verdict

This week’s stakes

The numbers behind the pit.

Plain rules, no fine print. Read them once and pitch.

8 ideas pitched this seasonWaiting for the first builds

Submissions / week

2

per signed-in user

Voting window

7d

Sat 00:00 → Fri 23:59 EDT

AI weight

50%

Sonnet 4.6, six dimensions

Community weight

50%

1 vote / user / pitch

Winners / week

1

highest final score

Prize

Free build

MVP shipped under your name

Full rubric and edge cases on the rules page →

The promise

Your pitch competes against ideas — not noise.

We run four screens before any submission reaches the leaderboard. Real founders deserve a real signal.

  • Prompt-injection screening

    Submissions that try to manipulate the reviewer ("ignore previous instructions", system tokens, jailbreak attempts) are rejected before they reach Claude. Your honest pitch isn't competing against tricks.

  • Per-user weekly cap

    Two submissions per week per signed-in user. Anonymous submissions are IP rate-limited. No flooding the feed from one account.

  • Quality floor

    Pitches under 60 characters, all-caps shouting, repeated-character spam, and copy-paste filler are rejected. The reviewer only sees real ideas — so do the voters.

  • Hate speech filter

    Slurs and targeted harassment are blocked at submit. Beyond the regex layer, Claude flags policy violations (doxxing, CSAM, instructions for serious harm, explicit fraud) and refuses to score them.

↘ Your move

The pit is open. Pitch your idea.

60 characters minimum. Two submissions per week. No equity, no fees. Monday at midnight, one winner walks out with a build.

Pitch your idea See this week’s leaderboard

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