The ArchDesign World has enough problems.
Build Tools that Make Their Work
Better — Faster — Easier
Nine real problems across architecture, design, construction and the software behind them. Pick one, question the existing way, prototype something better.
One project.
Dozens of people.
Hundreds of decisions.
Thousands of messages.
Architect
Coordinates design intent across clients, consultants, vendors and execution teams.
Who could your idea help?
Eight audiences, one shared project. Open a card to see the day, the friction and the opening.
Don’t build another todo app. Build something the industry actually needs.
Choose one problem statement. You do not need to solve the entire industry.
Find one painful part.
Understand it deeply.
Build one intelligent intervention.
The problem statements
Kill the coordination black hole nightmare
Too many people. Too many handoffs. Too little visibility.
Make project communication intelligent, not overwhelming
The problem is not a lack of communication. The problem is that important information is buried inside communication overload.
What if you could talk to your project?
Less clicking. More doing.
Reinvent the timesheet
Nobody wants to fill one. Every business needs the intelligence behind one.
Build the marketing machine
Give a 10-person studio the automation of a 100-person company.
Build a modular app ecosystem that works as one
Each app should stand alone. Together they should feel like one product.
This is a real project week. Somewhere in here is a decision.
Six channels. Six versions of the truth. Nobody is wrong, and nothing is resolved. Press the button and watch what software should have been doing all along.
You don’t need to build the whole thing.
Build the part that makes us say: “that’s interesting.”
Six moves from confusion to conviction.
Understand
What is actually broken?
Question
Delve deep to find why the process works this way.
Imagine
Picture what today's technology makes possible.
Prototype
Make the idea tangible.
Demonstrate
Show us that it can work.
Explain
Tell us why you built it this way.
Yes.
Use AI.
CHATGPT · CLAUDE · CODEX · CURSOR · FIGMA · LOVABLE · WHATEVER HELPS YOU BUILD
We are not testing whether you can build without AI.
We are testing whether you can think with it.
Use AI aggressively. But understand what you submit. You should be able to explain:
- the problem
- your decisions
- your architecture
- your prototype
- what AI helped with
- what you would improve next
Problem understanding
Did you identify the real friction, or the obvious solution?
User–product sense & communication
Explain clearly why somebody would actually use this, and how it will be advantageous.
Technical execution
Did you make the idea tangible?
The format
Choose
Browse the problems. Submit your application.
Select
Lock one challenge.
Build
Prototype your intervention.
Your own scheduleSubmit
Prototype + short explanation.
12 September 2026Demo
Present how it works.
To be announcedInternship
Strong builders move directly into final conversations.
After demoA 60-minute open session on Q&A
9 September, Wednesday · 8–9 pm
Bring anything: how to read a brief, what counts as scope, what to skip, how the demo round works. Drop in on Google Meet — no registration needed for the session.
Four things. Nothing else.
Everything is due by midnight on 12 September 2026.
The idea
What problem are you solving?
The prototype
Clickable, working or demonstrated.
The walkthrough
3–5 minute explanation.
The build story
Tools used. What AI helped with. What you understood yourself. What you would build next.
What a strong build gets you.
Shortlisted builders go straight to a conversation with the team that will use what they built. No aptitude test. No group discussion.
Read the brief together, argue about it, build with a peer or a team if that helps. Registration is individual, and one person registers as the applicant.
Whoever applies is the person considered for the internship. The applicant details must match the person who claims the submission and presents the demo.
The industry will change.
The question is: who will
build what comes next — now!
Choose one problem.
Build one idea.
Show us how you think.