Companies, government agencies, and nonprofits: share a challenge your organization actually faces. Student teams build AI-enabled answers — and later in the semester or academic year, you come back to see the solution and give feedback.
A partnership has two parts: you provide a challenge, and later in the semester or academic year you come back to see what students built and tell them what you think.
Share a real problem your organization faces. We help you shape it into a brief and match it to a course or team.
Later in the semester or academic year, students present what they built for you. You see the work and give feedback.
The best challenges are problems you would pay to solve but haven't gotten to. They don't need to be technical — the most interesting ones are about customers, operations, or decisions.
Real. A problem your organization actually faces today, not a hypothetical.
Scoped. Small enough that a student team can show meaningful progress.
AI-shaped. Somewhere AI could plausibly change how the work gets done.
Data-ready. Your own data, or a public dataset that mirrors the problem.
Owned. A named person who can answer questions and cares about the answer.
| When | What you do | Time |
|---|---|---|
| Start | Scope a short brief with us and introduce the challenge to students | A few hours |
| Along the way | Optional check-ins with student teams | As you like |
| Later in the semester or year | See the solutions and give feedback | A few hours |
Timing follows the academic calendar — we'll match your challenge to a course and let you know when students are ready to present.
Several teams, several approaches to your problem — each one a working artifact, not a slide deck.
See how students think and build under real constraints — and meet future hires and collaborators.
Cross-disciplinary teams bring business, design, and engineering eyes to the same problem.
Tell us about it. We'll help you shape it into a challenge.