Pitch a local business to sponsor a real event
Sponsorship is a win-win puzzle: what does a local shop or service business gain from supporting your event? Build a professional pitch for a real event with AI as your copywriter, rehearse the objections, and present it to at least one real local business.
Posted by The AI Internships
The work brief
- 01Pick a real event you’re connected to (school fest, sports day, club drive) and build its honest budget: what needs funding.
- 02Design 2-3 sponsor tiers with benefits a local business actually values: banner placement, announcements, social mentions, or event space — priced sensibly in your local currency and market.
- 03Build the one-page pitch with AI + Canva: event, audience (real numbers — how many students/parents attend), tiers, contact.
- 04Rehearse first: make AI play the sceptical owner and drill your answers. Then present to at least 1 real local business owner. Record their questions, objections, and the outcome — a "no" with reasons is a passing outcome.
What you’ll produce
Submission standard
Submit the pitch document, the budget/tier logic, and the real pitch meeting log. Include your AI workflow: your drafting and rehearsal prompts and what you changed. Add dated proof the pitch actually reached a real business — a photo at the shop or the message/email thread where you sent it and they replied.
The one-page sponsorship pitch as presented
Image uploadRequiredThe budget and tier design: what needs funding, why each benefit is worth its price to a sponsor
Written responseRequiredThe real pitch: who you pitched, their exact questions/objections, the outcome
Name the real business, the owner, the date and place, and their verbatim questions/objections and the outcome. A reasoned 'no' passes; an invented meeting fails.
Written responseRequired
You’ll complete these inside your private workspace.
What you must submit as proof
This brief requires evidence an AI can’t fabricate.
Proof the pitch really happened — a dated WhatsApp/email thread sending the pitch and their reply, or a photo at the business (storefront, no faces)
The message thread is the better proof. It must be dated and identify the real business named in your meeting log — blur the owner’s personal number and any face before you upload.
Image uploadRequired
Submissions without this evidence cannot be submitted.
Protect other people in your proof. Blur faces, names, phone numbers and email addresses before you upload, and refer to anyone you worked with by role or number ("Listener 1", "the stall owner"). Your proof is only ever used to check your work — it is never published, never appears on your certificate, and is never shown in your public portfolio.
How your work is evaluated
The passing benchmark is 70/100.
Win-win design
29%The tiers offer benefits a local business would genuinely value at that price.
Really pitched
29%A real business owner really heard the pitch — the log has real objections.
Pitch craft
14%The document is professional: real numbers, clear ask, easy yes.
Evidence the pitch happened
29%There is dated first-party evidence the pitch reached a real named business (a photo at the shop, or a dated message thread), and the objections in the log read as that owner's, not generic. No evidence = fail even if the pitch document is polished.
How we grade your AI usage
Using AI is the point — it’s the skill this certificate proves. You’ll answer three short questions about how you used it: what you asked, what was wrong with its first answer, and what you changed. Specific, honest answers score high. “I pasted the brief and submitted the answer” scores near zero.