What problem does it solve? Hackathon teams often waste limited time building too many features without a clear story, then fail to demonstrate the one capability judges care about. This Skill turns a challenge brief, time limit, and judging rubric into a focused problem, a reliable demo path, and a credible pitch. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Problem and Scope Selection: Converts a brief, target user, and evidence into a one-sentence product promise with a clearly identified critical dependency. - Golden Demo Design: Defines a short, repeatable demo path with must-have, stretch, and cut features, plus a tested fallback ladder for live failures. - Timeboxed Planning and Pitch Structure: Allocates remaining time across setup, reliability, polish, rehearsal, and submission, and maps pitch emphasis to rubric weights. - Use Case: A team with 90 minutes and a broad wellbeing theme uses the Skill to narrow to one user moment, prove the recommendation engine end to end, map it to the rubric, and reserve the final 15 minutes for rehearsal and submission. ## Quick Start Use the hackathon-pitch-coach skill to turn our hackathon brief, team size, and 24-hour time limit into a scoped build plan, golden demo path, and three-minute pitch outline.
