How ProveIt Actually Works

When you register, you verify your email with an OTP (no password, no account to remember) and pick the category closest to your interest. That determines which mock client you'll talk to in Round 1 — but doesn't lock in your idea. In Round 2, you can pitch any startup idea you want, in any category, regardless of what you picked here.

The Challenge runs as a recurring monthly cohort, not a whenever-you-feel-like-it exercise. Entries you complete before the cutoff are judged together as one batch, with a real shortlist and results date — not a vague "we'll get back to you."

This cycle's dates: entries close — · shortlist — · results —. Miss the cutoff and your entry simply rolls into next month's cohort — nothing is lost.

You're now in a live text chat with your assigned client — a small business owner, farmer, school administrator, or similar, each with a genuine problem and a hidden constraint baked into their character. Your job is to ask good questions and uncover what they actually need, not to propose a solution yet.

Round 2 later lets you pitch any idea, not necessarily one that solves this client's problem — so why does this round matter? Because it's a compulsory test of one specific founder skill: can you understand a real customer before you pitch anything at all? Every idea in Round 2 fails eventually if the founder can't do this. Round 1 proves you can, before you're allowed to pitch.

Round 2 doesn't require your idea to solve the Round 1 client's specific problem — Round 1 was there to prove you can discover a real need through good questioning. Now you pitch your own startup idea, for any customer or category you want, to the exact same person you talked to in Round 1 — same name, same character. They'll say so openly at the start of this round: they're switching from playing your specific customer to acting as a general, practical stakeholder reacting to your idea on its own merits. They ask what problem your idea solves, for whom, and — importantly — how it makes money. A pitch with no monetization plan doesn't get approved, no matter how good the idea sounds.

This isn't a generic upsell shown to everyone. The moment your Round 2 pitch is approved, your actual 5-dimension score breakdown is checked against the SkillSprint workshop catalogue — same matching logic, same response, no second step. If one dimension is genuinely weak (below 14/20), that specific workshop is named on your results screen. If every dimension is solid, you still see the closest practical next step — matched to your trade (MMUY trainees) or your registered interest area, never left blank.

Once your pitch is validated, submit a pitch deck link and/or a written one-page concept note. This is the only round the AI doesn't grade in real time — it feeds your existing scores into a shortlist, and a human judging panel makes every final call.

Your Round 2 idea is scored on the same five dimensions a Startup India / MSME reviewer would actually apply — 20 points each, no floor. A generic, unfeasible pitch scores low on purpose; genuine standout ideas are rare, so most scores land in the 30–65 range.

These are genuine excerpts from completed sessions, shared with names anonymized. No scripted examples — this is what the conversation actually looks like.

Your certificate generates the moment Round 1 is approved — no waiting for the whole competition to end. Go further, and the tier upgrades automatically.

What it actually looks like

Sample

⭐ Certificate of Distinction

This certifies that

Ananya Sharma

has been recognized as a finalist in the
ProveIt — Mock Client Test conducted by PragatiPath 360

ID: SDH-9F3A21B8·Issued 14 Oct 2026

Sample data shown for illustration — your real certificate is generated and QR-verifiable the moment it's earned.