Pitch Us Your Idea. We'll Build the Best One.
Have an idea for a software application, AI solution, or technical innovation that deserves to be built?
Pitch it to Applied Visions. We're inviting All Things Open attendees to submit their ideas for a chance to have our engineering team turn one winning concept into a working proof of concept—at no cost.
We're looking for compelling ideas, interesting technical challenges, and opportunities to demonstrate what's possible with the right engineering expertise.
No random drawing. We'll review the submissions and select the pitch we believe has the greatest potential.
Your idea. Our engineers. Let's see what we can build.
Submit your pitch using the form provided! Attach a document or describe your concept. See below for terms and conditions.
1. Contest Overview
AVI invites eligible participants to submit proposals for innovative software applications, artificial intelligence solutions, or other technology-driven concepts.
One winning proposal will be selected through a competitive evaluation process and awarded complimentary professional engineering services to develop a limited proof of concept ("POC").
This is a skill-based competition. Winners will be selected based on the published judging criteria, not by random drawing.
No purchase or payment is necessary to enter or win.
2. Eligibility
The contest is open to individuals age 18 or older who are legal residents of the United States and who submit an eligible proposal during the contest period.
Individuals submitting on behalf of an organization must possess the authority to represent that organization and authorize participation.
Employees, officers, and directors of AVI, their immediate family members, and individuals directly involved in administering or judging the contest are ineligible.
The contest is void where prohibited or restricted by law.
3. Entry Period
The contest begins immediately and closes Monday, November 2nd, noon Eastern Time.
Entries received after the deadline may be excluded from consideration.
AVI anticipates notifying the selected winner by Friday, November 6th.
4. How to Enter
Eligible participants must complete the official submission form and provide:
- Name, organization (if applicable), and contact information.
- A description of the proposed software application, AI solution, or technical concept.
- The problem the proposed solution is intended to address.
- The anticipated value or impact of the solution.
- Any additional information reasonably necessary to evaluate technical feasibility.
No purchase, payment, or existing business relationship with AVI is required.
Limit one entry per individual or organization unless otherwise authorized by AVI.
5. Judging and Selection
Eligible submissions will be evaluated by AVI personnel using the following criteria:
- Technical feasibility (30%): Whether a meaningful proof of concept can reasonably be developed within the available resources.
- Innovation and originality (25%): The distinctiveness and creativity of the proposed solution.
- Potential impact (25%): The practical value of the concept and the significance of the problem it addresses.
- Clarity and completeness (20%): How effectively the proposal communicates its objectives, requirements, and anticipated outcomes.
The eligible submission receiving the highest overall score will be selected, subject to verification and agreement on a feasible POC scope.
In the event of a tie, the submission receiving the higher technical feasibility score will prevail, followed by the higher potential impact score if necessary.
AVI may request additional information or a brief discussion with finalists to verify feasibility and clarify the proposed scope. Any such information will be evaluated consistently under the published criteria.
Judging decisions are final, subject to applicable law. AVI reserves the right to reject submissions that violate these rules or fail to meet minimum eligibility, legal, safety, or feasibility requirements. If no submission meets those requirements, AVI may decline to award the prize.
6. Prize Description and Limitations
One winning entrant will receive complimentary professional software engineering services from AVI for the development of a limited proof of concept.
The prize includes up to forty (40) hours of engineering services.
The POC is intended to demonstrate the technical feasibility of a defined concept or feature. It is not a commitment to deliver a complete application, production-ready software, commercial product, or ongoing development services.
The final scope, technical requirements, development schedule, deliverables, and acceptance criteria will be established in a separate written project agreement between AVI and the winner before development begins.
The prize does not include third-party licensing fees, hosting expenses, hardware, paid APIs, ongoing maintenance, deployment, or other external costs unless expressly included in the written project agreement.
The prize is nontransferable, has no cash equivalent, and may not be exchanged for other services.
The winner is responsible for any applicable taxes and any expenses not expressly included in the prize.
7. Intellectual Property and Submission Rights
Entrants retain ownership of their original ideas, concepts, materials, and intellectual property submitted to the contest.
By submitting an entry, each entrant grants AVI a limited, nonexclusive, royalty-free license to review, reproduce internally, and evaluate the submitted materials solely for purposes of administering and judging the contest.
Submission does not grant AVI ownership of the entrant's intellectual property.
Entrants acknowledge that AVI may independently develop or encounter ideas, concepts, or technologies similar to those contained in submitted proposals. Submission does not prohibit AVI from pursuing independently developed work, provided AVI does not unlawfully use or disclose protected entrant materials.
Ownership, licensing, and permitted use of any software, source code, documentation, or other materials created during the winning POC project will be determined by a separate written agreement executed before development begins.
No intellectual property transfer or assignment is implied by selection as the winner.
8. Confidentiality
Entrants should submit only information appropriate for evaluation without a confidentiality agreement.
Contest submissions will not automatically be treated as confidential, and participation does not establish an attorney-client, fiduciary, or other confidential relationship.
Entrants should not submit trade secrets, credentials, personal health information, regulated data, or other sensitive information.
Any confidentiality obligations associated with the winning project must be established through a separate written agreement.
9. Winner Notification and Acceptance
AVI will attempt to notify the selected winner using the contact information provided with the submission.
The selected winner must respond within 10 business days and complete any reasonably necessary eligibility verification, tax documentation, and project agreements.
If the selected winner cannot be contacted, fails to satisfy eligibility requirements, or declines or fails to execute the necessary project agreement, AVI may select the next highest-scoring eligible submission.
Development will begin only after the parties have agreed in writing to the project scope, responsibilities, and applicable terms.
10. Project Scope and Delivery
The winning POC will be limited to the engineering effort and deliverables expressly identified in the written project agreement.
AVI does not guarantee that the POC will establish technical or commercial viability, achieve any particular performance standard, or result in a marketable product.
The POC may involve prototypes, mockups, limited integrations, experimental code, or other exploratory technical work.
Production deployment, security certification, regulatory compliance, commercial support, and ongoing maintenance are excluded unless expressly agreed in writing.
11. Representations and Responsibilities
By entering, participants represent that:
- They have the right and authority to submit the proposed concept.
- Their submission does not knowingly infringe third-party intellectual property rights.
- Their submission does not contain unlawful, malicious, or unauthorized materials.
- They will cooperate reasonably with AVI in any necessary verification process.
AVI may disqualify submissions involving unlawful activities, unauthorized access, infringement, or other prohibited conduct.
12. Publicity and Privacy
AVI may identify the winning individual or organization and describe the winning project in connection with announcing the contest results, subject to applicable law and any confidentiality agreement.
Use of a winner's name, likeness, logo, testimonials, or detailed project information for additional promotional purposes will require any consent mandated by applicable law.
Personal information collected in connection with the contest will be processed in accordance with AVI's applicable privacy policy. Marketing consent, where offered, will be optional and separate from contest participation.
13. Limitation of Liability
To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, AVI and its officers, directors, employees, and agents disclaim liability for indirect, incidental, special, or consequential damages arising from contest participation, submission evaluation, prize acceptance, or use of any resulting proof of concept.
AVI makes no warranty regarding the commercial viability, fitness for a particular purpose, or production readiness of any resulting work.
Nothing in these rules excludes or limits liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited.
14. Modification or Cancellation
AVI reserves the right to modify, suspend, or cancel the contest if fraud, technical failures, legal restrictions, or circumstances beyond its reasonable control materially affect the integrity or administration of the competition.
Any material changes will be communicated through the contest website, and AVI will take reasonable steps to preserve fair treatment of eligible entrants.
15. Governing Law
The contest and these Official Rules shall be governed by the laws of the State of New York, without regard to conflict-of-law principles, except where applicable law requires otherwise.
16. Sponsor
Applied Visions, Inc.
This promotion is administered by AVI and is not sponsored, endorsed, or administered by All Things Open unless expressly stated otherwise.