The open field
Real questions, open to work on.
Organisations, founders and investors bring the questions they are actually working on. Small teams pick one and build an answer. This is the shape of what gets posted.
01 / Challenges
Three kinds of questions.One place to work on them.
Every challenge carries who posed it, what it is about, and whether it is still open.
Problem Statements
Posed by leaders and operators
AI · Strategy
How can regional businesses use AI without weakening the human side of customer relationships?
OpenIndustry leader
Consumer · Product
What would make a first-time digital investor trust a financial product enough to stay with it?
OpenIndividual or team
Talent · Culture
What does a hybrid workforce need from its middle managers that it isn’t getting today?
OpenHR leader
Organisational Challenges
An organisation directly behind the work
Banking & Financial Services
Reimagining how emerging businesses can be assessed for credit beyond conventional signals.
Applications openBusiness + Technology
Retail & Consumer
Building a more useful demand signal for regional stores with limited historical data.
OpenData + Retail Strategy
Insurance
Rethinking the first thirty days of a policy for customers who have never owned insurance.
Applications openCustomer + Design
Innovation Challenges
Where the answer isn’t obvious yet
Enterprise AI
Can AI help frontline teams make better decisions while preserving human judgement?
OpenTechnology innovation
Future Commerce
What could the next operating layer for small merchants look like across payments, credit and inventory?
OpenCommerce + FinTech
Health · Access
How can specialist care reach smaller cities without waiting for specialists to arrive there?
OpenHealth + Delivery
These are examples, shown to give the shape of the field. The challenges open to you appear once you have joined.
Where a strong answer can go: The Studio
02 / How it is run
A few things that hold for every challenge.
- You choose
- A team picks the challenge it wants. Nobody is assigned one.
- Judged blind
- Evaluators see a team's name and its work, not who is in the team.
- Read by who asked
- The organisation behind a challenge reads what teams submit on it.