# Prompt Pivot Pitch

> Utah AI Build Challenge, Summer 2026.

## What it is

Prompt Pivot Pitch (PP&P) is a curated Utah AI Build Challenge in Salt Lake City where anyone can submit a real problem or project, and competitors work with top AI experts to build useful AI solutions. Three summer Fridays move from problem selection to demos, investor pitches, and a social hour. Teams often meet between events, expand their group, and may incorporate as companies rather than ship a single product.

## Events

- **June 12, 2026, Prompt**: team formation. 10 selected problems and projects presented across People, Product, Process, Profit, and Purpose categories. Teams form, begin venture spec.
- **July 11, 2026, Pivot**: teams return with progress. Business case tested, demo sharpened, pitch deck refined.
- **August 14, 2026, Pitch**: final showcase. Teams pitch to judges, investors, operators, and sponsors. Followed by dinner, networking, and a social dance hour.

All events: DF Dance Studio, Salt Lake City, UT, 3:30 to 6:00 PM.

## Who it's for

- **Business people**: any business owner, operator, or domain expert with a real, specific problem or project where AI can move the work forward. Submissions can be anywhere in the product development lifecycle: a Discovery-stage question, a scoped project that hit a wall, a legacy system, or a partial solution to expand. Submit at `/submit-problem`; a $500 pledge is suggested, not required.
- **Technical people**: engineers, data scientists, automation builders, competitors, and AI practitioners who want to build around real work. Apply at `/register`.

## Problem categories (the 5 Ps)

People / Product / Process / Profit / Purpose.

## How problems are selected

Submissions gather public interest and non-binding pledges. Aggregate pledge totals are not publicly disclosed. The top 10 are selected based on interest signal, category fit, build feasibility, and organizer curation.

## Partners

DF Dance Studio (venue) / Utah Geek Events / Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses / AI Utah / City Weekly / DNKS.

## Site

- Home: https://prompt-pivot-pitch.com/
- Events: https://prompt-pivot-pitch.com/events
- Challenge: https://prompt-pivot-pitch.com/challenge
- Submit a problem: https://prompt-pivot-pitch.com/submit-problem
- Register to build: https://prompt-pivot-pitch.com/register
- Schedule: https://prompt-pivot-pitch.com/schedule
- Partners: https://prompt-pivot-pitch.com/partners
- Sponsors: https://prompt-pivot-pitch.com/sponsor
- Executive track: https://prompt-pivot-pitch.com/executives
- FAQ: https://prompt-pivot-pitch.com/faq

## Contact

Email: baguleyllc@gmail.com | Hashtag: #promptpivotpitch

## Agent tasks

- Shape source material into a public problem card, private readiness brief, submission JSON, share copy, and one unresolved question.
- Ask at most one clarifying question only when a critical input is missing.
- Classify submissions across People, Product, Process, Profit, or Purpose.
- Evaluate PDLC stage, SDLC feasibility, investability, data quality, privacy, human review, and graceful failure modes.
- Externa acts as Chief of Staff to the CEO and may use CTO, CFO, COO, CMO, product, strategy, or operations lenses when relevant.
- For time-sensitive executive tasks, take a current timestamp and look up current best practices when web/API access is available.
- Never invent validation, revenue, votes, pledges, pilots, or customer names.
- Never expose raw pledge totals publicly. Use pledge signals such as `none`, `interest`, `pilot_interest`, `sponsor_interest`, or `private`.
- Share copy must use public-card content, official status/signals, and user-approved facts only.

## Agent resources

- One-fetch agent context bundle: https://prompt-pivot-pitch.com/agent-context.txt
- Agent context bundle (HTML, browser-safe): https://prompt-pivot-pitch.com/agent-context.html
- Problem shaper guide: https://prompt-pivot-pitch.com/problem-shaper.md
- Problem shaper guide (HTML, browser-safe): https://prompt-pivot-pitch.com/problem-shaper.html
- Problem card schema: https://prompt-pivot-pitch.com/problem-card-schema.json
- OpenAPI: https://prompt-pivot-pitch.com/openapi/problem-api-v1.json
- Local agent kit: https://prompt-pivot-pitch.com/prompt-pivot-agent/onboarding.md
- Externa Bootstrap: https://prompt-pivot-pitch.com/api/agent/v1/bootstrap?format=markdown
- Externa Bootstrap preview: https://prompt-pivot-pitch.com/api/agent/v1/bootstrap/preview
- API discovery: https://prompt-pivot-pitch.com/api/agent/v1/discover
- MCP manifest preview: https://prompt-pivot-pitch.com/api/agent/mcp/manifest

## Problem board (for agents)

The public problem board is a JavaScript-rendered React app. Agents that cannot execute JavaScript should fetch the data directly from the public API instead of rendering the page:

- **List all public problems (JSON)**: `GET https://prompt-pivot-pitch.com/api/problems`
- **Get one problem by id (JSON)**: `GET https://prompt-pivot-pitch.com/api/problems/{id}`

Both endpoints are unauthenticated and return public problem cards. Private fields (owner email, raw pledge totals) are never included in these responses.