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Grandomastery Random AI STARTUP Activity – Dual Synergistic AI Pitch Battle for C1–C2+ Business English Mastery

The ultimate future-of-tech pitch challenge: two wildly different yet secretly complementary AI startups are randomly generated (names always containing “AI”). You have 8–12 minutes to simultaneously

  • decode and passionately explain each startup name (e.g., “ChaintainAI” + “FreelAI”),

  • invent their groundbreaking concepts,

  • reveal their hidden synergy,

  • and deliver a flawless joint-pitch to imaginary VCs begging for combined investment.

Mandatory rule: sprinkle sophisticated “AI”-containing words throughout (e.g., ailurophile, mosaic, portrait, villainaire) for linguistic sparkle.

The result is a dazzling 3–5-minute performance that sounds like Y Combinator Demo Day scripted by Neal Stephenson.


Target Audience

  • C1–C2–C2+ business & tech English learners, native speakers

  • Startup founders, venture capitalists, product managers, tech presenters

  • BEC Higher, IELTS 9.0, C2 Proficiency, and MBA communication training


Mode & Duration

Solo or pair spoken/written pitch – 10–15 minutes per round


Key Skills Developed (True C2+ Level)

  • Masterful storytelling & visionary narrative transportation – selling not just products but entire transformative futures

  • Advanced/proficient tech-business English – seamless jargon, hedging, emphasisers, and investor-friendly rhetoric

  • Synectics & trisociation – discovering and articulating non-obvious synergy between apparently unrelated AI concepts

  • Creative etymology & linguistic play – turning “AI” constraint into elegant wordplay and memorable branding

  • Systems thinking with emergent properties – showing how 1+1 becomes 11 in real time

  • Persuasive charisma under pressure – maintaining executive presence while inventing on the fly

  • Metaphorical sophistication & speculative fabrication – painting believable near-future worlds with zero preparation


Core Theoretical Principles This Activity Is Built On

  1. Trisociation (Min Basadur) – deliberately connecting three frames (two startups + their synergy) for hyper-novel outcomes

  2. Synectics (William J.J. Gordon) – using forced analogy and linguistic constraints to generate breakthrough business concepts

  3. Speculative Fabrication (Dunne & Raby) – prototyping desirable futures through performative storytelling rather than literal design


Used by Silicon Valley accelerators, top European business schools, and C2 examiners as the gold-standard exercise for visionary tech communication and investment-ready fluency.




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