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Alt AI Labs is where Central Asia learns by doing real work. Pick a challenge, take the lesson, ship the task, and get paid when your work wins.
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- $200
- Challenges
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Season 0 partners
Companies that put real work and real prizes into the first season.
Why we exist
Instead of certificates and pretend projects, you get a real task, a lesson that prepares you for it, and a prize when your work is the best on the table.
How it works
- 1
Base camp
Learn
Every challenge opens with a lesson: a video, a written guide, hand-picked resources. Finish it and the task unlocks.
- 2
The climb
Do
Then the real task from the brief: an edit, a design, a plan, a feature. The acceptance criteria say exactly what counts.
- 3
The ridge
Get judged
Submit a link and a short write-up, or a repo for code. AI pre-scores it against the criteria. A person makes the call.
- 4
The summit
Win
Winners are paid the prize shown, and their work goes in front of the organization behind the challenge.
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Challenges you can start today
For points
Warm up. Earn points.
Short skill challenges you can play right now in the Arena app. There is no prize money: you earn points and get faster.
Any discipline
Code, design, video and more
Challenges cover the creative and business work companies need. What one can look like:
- EngineeringShip a feature in a real appWrite the missing test suite
- AIBuild an agent for a support inboxEvaluate and tune a prompt
- DesignRedesign an onboarding flowMake a brand kit for a launch
- VideoEdit a YouTube videoCut an AI-generated promo
- MarketingPlan a launch campaignWrite landing-page copy that converts
- BusinessWrite a hiring plan for a bank teamMap a sales process
- WritingWrite a technical explainerScript a product walkthrough
- DataBuild a dashboard from raw dataClean and analyse a dataset
Illustrative examples, not live challenges.
Judging
Judging you can trust
The criteria are public before you start, and they do not change once judging begins.
Criteria published up front
Every challenge lists its deliverables and acceptance criteria. Prize, split and criteria freeze when judging begins.
AI pre-score against the criteria
Code is scored directly. For links, the AI reads your write-up and says what it cannot verify; it never pretends to have watched or opened your work.
A human makes the final call
A person reviews the work itself and chooses the winners, never the model alone.
Entries stay private until award
Nobody sees other entries before the challenge is awarded. Then winners and their work are shown publicly.
Original work only
Work has to happen during the challenge window. Copied or plagiarised work is disqualified.
For organizations
Teach a skill. Get real work. Meet the people who did it best.
Post a challenge with a lesson, a task and a prize. We run submissions, judging and payouts.
Sponsors
Put your brand on a challenge, teach people your tools, and reach the ones who ship.
Schools
Run private cohorts on the same challenges. Lessons and acceptance criteria become graded assignments.
Employers
Hire from finished work, not CVs. See how a candidate handles a real task in your field.
FAQ
Questions
Do I need experience?
No. Every challenge starts with a lesson that teaches what you need for the task. Some challenges are harder than others; the effort estimate on each one tells you what to expect.
Who can enter, and is it free?
Anyone with a free account. There are no entry fees. Complete the lesson, do the task before the deadline and submit.
How do I submit non-code work?
Share an https link to your work (YouTube, Google Drive, Figma, Notion, a live site) and a short write-up of what you made and how it meets each criterion. Code challenges take a GitHub repository instead.
How are winners chosen and paid?
An AI pre-scores entries against the published criteria, then a person on the challenge team reviews the work and picks the winners. Winners get the prize shown; each payout is sent manually and recorded with a transfer reference.
Who owns my work?
Entries that do not win stay yours. What happens to winning work (for example a licence to the organization that posted the challenge) is stated in each challenge’s rules before you start.
Can I use AI tools?
Yes, unless a challenge says otherwise. What matters is that the work meets the criteria and is done during the challenge window. Copied work is disqualified.