# Foresight Insight Pitch Competition - Grades & Feedback

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> Author: Aaron
> Date: 2026-02-08
> Last updated: 2026-02-11

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## Foresight Insight Pitch Competition Results

Thank you to everyone who submitted pitches! Below are grades and constructive feedback designed to help you strengthen your pitches for future opportunities. Each submission was evaluated on: **clarity of problem/solution, market opportunity, uniqueness, feasibility, and overall pitch quality.**

*Note: We've graded generously for early-stage concepts - a promising idea with limited detail receives credit for potential, with guidance on what to add for future submissions.*

### Summary Results

| Rank | Pitch | Submitter | Grade | Key Strength |
|------|-------|-----------|-------|--------------|
| 1 | Graphene + AI Sensors for Mold/IAQ | Jason Earle | **A-** | Domain authority + AI deep-tech expansion |
| 2 | VIVEA | Dr. Joshua Santos | **A-** | Well-structured health infrastructure |
| 3 | Celestial Commons | Philip Linden | **B+** | Thoughtful methodology, clear mission |
| 4 | AI Prediction Tournament | Richard Sedlmayr | **B+** | Clever AI + scientific rigor blend |
| 5 | YourThousandFaces | Michael Silberberg | **B** | Creative AI concept, strong experiential hook |
| 6 | Credible AI | Aki Kumar | **B** | Working AI product, clear utility |
| 7 | CerebrumDAO | Yatan Blumenthal | **B** | Real organization, AI + important mission |
| 8 | Benevolent AI Co-living | Jeremy Dela Rosa | **B** | Visionary human-AI cohabitation concept |
| 9 | AI Research Coordination | Chris Canal | **B** | Critical AI safety infrastructure |
| 10 | Swap.fm | Wiley Mathews | **B-** | Clear AI application, strong target market |
| 11 | Manufacturing Cell Therapies in Space | Maribella Domenech | **C+** | Scientifically compelling |
| 12 | The Hormonal Dynamics Project | Martina Marrali | **C+** | Strong underlying market |
| 13 | Space Medicine | Miguel Soto | **C** | Important domain with long-term potential |
| 14 | Speedrunning Interplanetary Governance | Philip Linden | **C** | Provocative framing, timely concept |
| 15 | Biohacker Scientist | Maia Adar | **C-** | Intriguing identity, needs definition |

### Detailed Feedback

**1. Graphene + AI Sensors for Mold Detection & Indoor Air Quality (A-)** - Jason Earle
*jason@gotmold.com*

A strong expansion of a credible existing business into AI-enabled deep tech with clear market pull. Jason Earle is the CEO of GOT MOLD?, an established company with mold testing kits, podcasts, virtual summits, and significant media presence. He's known as "America's Top Mold Detective."

**Strengths:** Major domain authority and distribution. Clear, practical use of AI + advanced materials (graphene sensors). Obvious customer demand (homes, landlords, insurers, health-conscious consumers). Natural upgrade path from kits → continuous monitoring → data platform.

**To Strengthen Further:** Clarify the unique technical moat: what can your graphene + AI system detect that others cannot, and how reliably? Address regulatory, calibration, and manufacturing considerations.

**Website:** [gotmold.com](https://www.gotmold.com/)

**2. VIVEA (A-)** - Dr. Joshua Santos
*viveapr@gmail.com*

A health technology infrastructure platform for Puerto Rico focused on integrative health. Six pillars: practitioner validation/certification, patient clarity through data transparency, student-to-practice pipeline, real-time clinical data ecosystem, professional interconnection network, and excellence standards.

**Strengths:** Addresses real fragmentation in integrative health. Clear multi-pillar architecture (rare at early stage). Strong geographic focus (Puerto Rico) enables piloting and defensibility. Obvious opportunities for AI in credentialing, outcomes, and data transparency.

**To Strengthen Further:** Identify the single killer use case that gets practitioners onboard in 90 days. Make the AI component more explicit.

**Website:** [VIVEA](https://tricky-heart-813982.framer.app/)

**3. Celestial Commons (B+)** - Philip Linden
*lindenphilip@gmail.com | Citizen Space Policy Initiative*

A participatory global survey using trust-based network sampling and AI synthesis to create citizen-driven space policy documents. This is the most methodologically sophisticated submission - you've clearly thought through the "how" and have a real website with a coherent theory of change.

**Strengths:** Clear purpose, novel methodology combining trust-based sampling with AI synthesis, well-articulated multi-step plan, democratizing access to policy input.

**To Strengthen Further:** Consider articulating a clearer sustainability model. Who funds ongoing operations? What's the path to institutional adoption by actual policymakers?

**Website:** [celestialcommons.org](https://www.celestialcommons.org/our-plan)

**4. Tournament for AI Prediction of Pre-Analysis Plan Outcomes (B+)** - Richard Sedlmayr
*richard@agency.fund | Equistamp*

A clever, high-leverage idea that blends AI, scientific rigor, and incentive design. Tournament/competition format for AI systems to predict outcomes of pre-registered research analysis plans.

**Strengths:** Directly addresses replication and prediction markets in science. Tournament format is engaging and testable. Strong alignment with AI safety and epistemic infrastructure. Backed by Equistamp, an organization already doing relevant AI safety research operations.

**To Strengthen Further:** Clarify who pays and why - funders, journals, or research institutions. Define success metrics: what does "better prediction" buy us?

**5. YourThousandFaces (B)** - Michael Silberberg
*michael@oppon.holdings*

An AI-generated adventure game that writes itself around you. Every choice you make becomes data that maps how you think, delivering a personalized psychological "reflection" at the end.

**Strengths:** Most creative concept in the batch. Strong experiential hook combining AI storytelling with self-discovery. Unique positioning - no other game offers this kind of personalized psychological mirror. Website exists and communicates the vision clearly. Excellent use of AI as core product differentiator.

**To Strengthen Further:** Define your primary market more clearly. Is this for gamers? Therapy/mental health? Self-improvement enthusiasts? Consider the retention story beyond the first "reflection."

**Website:** [yourthousandfaces.com](https://yourthousandfaces.com/)

**6. Credible AI (B)** - Aki Kumar
*ak@getcredible.ai*

A Chrome extension providing instant AI-powered credibility scores to help users identify reliable vs. unreliable information online.

**Strengths:** Very clear problem and solution. Working product available on Chrome Web Store. Obvious user value in an era of misinformation and AI-generated content. Timely application of AI for trust and verification.

**To Strengthen Further:** Identify a specific user segment where this is mission-critical (journalists? researchers? educators? enterprise compliance?) to sharpen go-to-market.

**7. CerebrumDAO (B)** - Yatan Blumenthal
*yatan@cerebrumdao.com | AI for Alzheimer's Care and Science*

A decentralized funding organization for brain health research, using DAO structure and AI/web3 to fund neuroscience research including Alzheimer's treatments.

**Strengths:** Real organization with an established presence. Tackles an enormous, important market (Alzheimer's affects 55M+ people globally). Innovative funding model. AI applications in healthcare are increasingly viable and impactful.

**To Strengthen Further:** Highlight specific outcomes this model has enabled. Case studies of funded research or AI applications in care would strengthen the pitch.

**Website:** [cerebrumdao.com](https://cerebrumdao.com/)

**8. Co-living with a Benevolent AI Collective Intelligence (B)** - Jeremy Dela Rosa
*jeremy.delarosa@gmail.com*

A concept for co-living spaces integrated with benevolent AI collective intelligence. An experiment in human-AI cohabitation and community.

**Strengths:** Novel framing of human-AI cohabitation. Timely exploration of benevolent AI governance. Could function as a living lab for alignment, coordination, and social AI. Visionary and philosophically aligned with Foresight's mission.

**To Strengthen Further:** Describe the first real-world experiment: one house, one AI system, one measurable outcome. Define "benevolent AI" operationally.

**9. AI Research Coordination (B)** - Chris Canal
*chris@equistamp.com | Equistamp*

Research operations and coordination for AI safety research.

**Strengths:** Critical pain point in AI safety: coordination and execution. Strong institutional credibility via Equistamp (a Public Benefit Corporation focused on AI safety). Could unlock significant efficiency and rigor gains.

**To Strengthen Further:** Frame this as a specific coordination tool or protocol, not a general capability. Specify AI's role (automation? agent coordination?).

**10. Swap.fm (B-)** - Wiley Mathews
*wiley@swap.fm | AI Podcast Growth and Discovery*

An AI-powered podcast growth and discovery platform.

**Strengths:** Clear target user (podcasters). Obvious pain point (growth and discovery are hard). Technically feasible. AI-native approach to content discovery is a strong angle.

**To Strengthen Further:** Articulate your unique insight or unfair advantage. What does your AI do differently? Specific features or early traction would help differentiate from existing tools.

**11. Manufacturing Cell Therapies in Space (C+)** - Maribella Domenech
*maribella.domenech@upr.edu*

Manufacturing cell therapies in microgravity environments.

**Strengths:** Scientifically compelling concept. Clear use of space-native advantages (microgravity enables different cell growth patterns). High potential upside if breakthroughs occur. Academic credibility from UPR affiliation.

**To Strengthen Further:** Articulate the commercial path. Who's the first customer? What's the near-term milestone that proves the concept? Consider partnerships with commercial space companies.

**12. The Hormonal Dynamics Project (C+)** - Martina Marrali
*mmarrajli@eliovive.com*

Hormone health monitoring and dynamics research.

**Strengths:** Hormone health is a large and growing market. The broader space (see Eli Health's $12M+ raise) validates strong investor interest. Personalized health monitoring is increasingly viable.

**To Strengthen Further:** Clarify what THIS specific project is building. What's your unique angle vs. existing players? A clear problem statement and solution would strengthen significantly.

**13. Space Medicine (C)** - Miguel Soto
*miguelsoto@medinnovaspacemedicine.com*

Healthcare for space applications.

**Strengths:** Space medicine is a legitimate and increasingly important field as commercial space expands. Long-term potential is significant with NASA, SpaceX, Blue Origin, and others expanding human spaceflight.

**To Strengthen Further:** Narrow to one specific medical problem (bone density loss? radiation exposure? psychological health? telemedicine for astronauts?) and one specific solution. Who's the customer - space agencies? Commercial space companies? This concept could easily be a B+ with more specificity.

**14. Speedrunning Interplanetary Governance Before It Exists (C)** - Philip Linden
*lindenphilip@gmail.com*

Proactively building space governance frameworks before they're urgently needed.

**Strengths:** Provocative and timely framing. The idea of "speedrunning" governance before crises force reactive policy is genuinely interesting. Pairs well with your Celestial Commons work.

**To Strengthen Further:** Explain what you're actually building. A framework? A simulation? A policy organization? A game? The concept is strong - the pitch just needs the "what" and "how." Consider whether this should be part of Celestial Commons or a separate initiative.

**15. Biohacker Scientist (C-)** - Maia Adar
*maia@cosimores.com*

Biohacking and science exploration.

**Strengths:** Biohacking + science is a culturally relevant and fundable space. Could evolve into a media brand, research platform, or productized insight engine. Early-stage personal brands are acceptable in this competition.

**To Strengthen Further:** Define one concrete outcome: What does this produce - tools, protocols, data, community, or products? Add an AI application angle if relevant.

## Key Takeaways for All Submitters

**What separated the top pitches:**
- Clear problem/solution articulation
- Evidence of execution (working website, real product, existing business)
- Specific target customer and market
- Unique angle or differentiation
- Strong AI/technology application

**Top performers this round:** Jason Earle's graphene + AI sensors and Dr. Santos's VIVEA platform both earned A- grades for combining domain expertise with clear AI applications and real execution.

**For future pitches, always include:**
1. The problem you're solving (and for whom)
2. Your specific solution
3. Why you're uniquely positioned to build it
4. What traction or progress you've made
5. What you're asking for (funding? feedback? partnerships?)

**Encouragement for early-stage concepts:** Several submissions showed promising ideas that just need more development. A C or C+ here means "interesting concept, tell us more" - not rejection. We encourage resubmission with additional detail.

Congratulations to all participants, and good luck with your ventures!