Silly Pitches at Build Club Perth 1st Birthday
June 2026 • Lil's Rooftop & Bar, Perth CBD

Silly Pitches at the 1st year celebration: the results are in 🏆📸
Thanks for the teamwork on this post: Massive credit to Arlen Brower for the photography on the night — shooting six live pitches in a room with basically zero light! And huge thanks to Belinda Harris and Jay Nicholson for capturing the intel on all six pitches as they happened! Special thanks Nicholas Jerrat for hosting the pitches.
Six teams. Six silly AI ideas. One shot at LinkedIn immortality. Who takes home Silliest of them all?
Silly Pitch descriptions
- Grant-Hunting Agent (Luca, Vladimir) — An AI agent that hunts down governments handing out "silly grants." The pitch was pure performance — Luca stripped off his top and belt just to grab the room. The idea itself? That was the punchline: there wasn't one. All hustle, no product.
- Guilt to Go — "Grow Your Guilt" (Sonu, Sam, Aman, Jay) — Emotional blackmail as a fitness app. Snaps a guilty photo of you skipping the gym and threatens to send your "dirty laundry" to family and friends if you don't go. Biggest risk: getting hacked and having your own laundry leaked back at you. Competitor: Snapchat. Already planning an enterprise tier and "going IPO" on one person's yes.
- Excuse Me (Bright, Joshua, Jimmy, William) — A brain-implanted AI that says "no" for you — silently. Plant a chip, let the AI live in your head, and it beams a wave straight to the other person's brain so they get their answer without you saying a word. Monetization: pay per message.
- Silly Paws (Jehan, Nithula) — An AI trained to predict the exact moment your pet's about to do something silly, so you can catch it, go viral, and monetize the fame. Biggest blocker: owning a pet that's actually well-behaved. Silly fish, though? That's money.
- Disgusting Food Combos (Krish, Sophie) — A rating-and-challenge app for the worst food combinations imaginable. Rate the horrors, challenge friends to top them, monetize via brands brave enough to sponsor the chaos. Ethos: embrace disgust.
- The Sushi's (Issy, Harry, Sophia, Rohan) — A marketplace for celebrity look-alikes — because real celebrities are too expensive, but a Matthew McConaughey look-alike is a bargain. Monetized via tokens and API credits.
🥇 Silliest Silly Pitch: The Sushi's 😂 Funniest Silly Pitch: Excuse Me (Brain-Chip "No" Agent)
Huge thanks to our judges, Alex Jenkins and Kristina Gagalova, Ph.D., for sitting through six rounds of chaos and somehow picking winners.
And a special guest shoutout to Taylor Fox-Smith from Airwallex, who joined us for the night.
Prizes proudly backed by Perth Angels and Nicholas Jerrat.
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