Ten AI founders. One hot seat. Brutal honesty. Zero slides.

​Welcome to the AI House Product Roast, where we trade pitch decks for punchlines and demos for destruction.

​This isn't a demo day. This isn't a pitch competition. This is an evening of unfiltered, good-faith feedback on real GenAI products delivered by expert roasters in front of a live audience.

​Ten founders will each take the hot seat, demo their product for 2 minutes, and survive a rapid-fire roast from our panel of product leads, designers, and fellow founders. Then they clap back, defend, admit, or counter-roast.

​No waitlists. No Figma files. No pitch decks. Just live products and live burns.

​No AI was harmed. Just embarrassed. Temporarily.

​The Format (Speed Roast Edition)

​With 10 founders on the roster, we run a tight, high-energy format:

• ​2 min – Founder Demo: One live product flow. No slides. Strict timer.
• ​3 min – The Roast: Roasters burn the product (not the person). Specific, actionable, brutal.
• ​1 min – The Clapback: Founder responds — defend, admit, or counter-roast.
• ​1 min – Reset: Transition, audience reaction, next founder up.

​That's 7 minutes per founder. 10 founders. One high-octane evening.

​Who Should Apply to Be Roasted?

​You build at any layer of the GenAI stack:

• ​Foundation models & infra
• ​Model ops & developer tooling
• ​Horizontal AI applications
• ​Vertical AI solutions

​You have:

• ​A live product (no waitlists, no Figma files)
• ​Thick skin and a sense of humor
• ​A specific flow you want torn apart

​We select 10 founders for this event. Applications are reviewed by the AI House committee for roastability, stack diversity, and founder resilience. Not everyone gets the hot seat and that's the point.

​Who Should Attend as Audience?

• ​Founders building in AI who want to learn from other people's scars
• ​Product people who enjoy watching onboarding flows get dissected
• ​Anyone who believes the best feedback is the kind that stings for 5 minutes and saves you 5 months