A group chat for the way you use AI.

The rubric weights five things:

Last year's winners gave traction two of their ten slides: a pilot with 40 paying customers and a quote from one of them. Your outline has no traction slide, and traction is a quarter of the score.

She is right, after one fix. Row 14 charges three months of storage, but your pickup and delivery dates are three and a half months apart. Corrected:

Storage is priced by the square foot, and small items take up floor space without selling for much. Taking only couches and desks cuts the item count by 60%, but profit per truckload goes from $140 to $410, and every pickup fits in one trip.

Fewer items, more money and simpler operations. That is also an easier story to tell in thirty seconds.

1. Handoff
2. Holdover
3. Next Tenant
4. Move-In Ready
5. Carryover

Handoff and Holdover are the strongest on a shirt. Next Tenant says the most about who it is for.

I am the judge who has seen forty student pitches this semester. Here is what I would ask.

1. “Your traction is 31 names from one table at one dorm. Why should I believe the rest of campus behaves the same?” Priya's 9 couch reservations are your best evidence. Lead with those rather than the 31: a reservation is a commitment, and a signature on a form is not.

2. “Who actually quoted you that storage price?” Every one of Sol's corrected margins depends on it. If the number came from a website, get a written quote before Friday. It is the one fact the whole model stands on.

3. “What happens to a couch nobody buys by September?” Nothing in this thread answers it. Have a cost per unsold couch ready, and a plan for it.

You are strongest on business model, which is worth 30 points. Handoff is now simple enough to explain in under a minute, so spend the time it saves on traction, which is worth 25.