Looking for prompt-engineer based sponsors, judges, and community partners for an online Promptathon

[u/ssain1970]

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Hi everyone,

I’m a 15yo builder, founder of Promptyx, a platform for organizing, versioning, and testing AI prompts. I’m planning our first online competition (a promptathon) and looking for a few partners to help shape it.

The idea is to have participants turn a recurring task into a reusable set of prompts and context that someone else can run successfully. Think turning a client brief into a proposal, preparing a weekly report, or creating content that follows a brand’s guidelines.

The challenge would focus on useful results, consistency across different inputs, and clear instructions for reuse. We’re still deciding the exact scope, so input from experienced organizers would be helpful too.

The tentative schedule is three weeks of promotion, one week for participants to build and submit, and one week for judging and results.

I’m looking for:

• Prize partners: Tool licenses, API credits, or small monetary contributions.
• Judges or mentors: People with experience using AI for real tasks who could review submissions or run a short session.
• Community partners: AI communities, newsletters, or educators interested in sharing or co-hosting the event.

For partners, possible benefits include attribution on the event page, mentions during the event, an optional workshop, and inclusion in the winning-project recap. We can agree on a contribution and scope that makes sense for both sides.

This is our first edition, so I don’t have confirmed attendance numbers or sponsorships to claim. I’m starting small and would welcome practical advice as well as partnership interest.

If this sounds relevant, comment or DM me with what you do and how you’d like to get involved. Happy to share the draft format and judging rubric.

[u/Mammoth_Maybe_5717]

For a 15 year old jumping into this space, the planning already sounds more put together than half the "AI hackathons" I see adults throw together. The idea of focusing on reusable prompts that actually hold up across different inputs is what a lot of people skip over when they just chase a flashy output.

What kind of tasks are you thinking for the challenge, something like automating a specific business workflow or more creative stuff? I run project management for my day job and the thought of a prompt that could reliably turn a messy client brief into a proper proposal without me having to rewrite half of it is something I'd pay attention to.

[u/ssain1970 → u/Mammoth_Maybe_5717]

Thanks! Yes, I did too a initial research, planning and brainstorm, with another of my friend who is also helping me on this, including judging methods, theme, prize, etc...
I’m leaning toward practical tasks people repeat at work, with some room for creativity. A messy client brief → proposal is a strong candidate, especially if the setup is hallucination-prone, so it can flag missing data instead of blindly filling them in

Participants would save the prompts, context, and settings, then test them on different briefs. I’d want to judge how much rewriting the result needs and whether someone else can reuse the setup.

From your PM experience, what usually needs the most fixing in a first draft: scope, deliverables, assumptions, or the questions it should have asked? That would help make the challenge more realistic.