انطلاقIntilaq
Draft saved Closes 12 Oct 2026 · About 10 minutes
الانطلاق · Cohort one

Apply for one of
five funded seats.

There is no pitch deck here. We ask what you are building, the one number you are willing to be judged on, and how a stranger could check it. Answer plainly. Reviewers are engineers, operators, and investors, and they read the evidence, not the adjectives.

Your team

Teams of two or three. At least one of you has to be able to build the thing. Any LAU student, plus anyone who graduated in the last three years.

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Name the person and say what they have built before. One line is enough.
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The seat you want

You apply to a seat, not a theme. Three verticals are set; two seats are open to any field that carries a number we can measure.

Plain words. No category names, no adjectives.
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What do you know or have access to that most teams applying do not?
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The number

This is the part that matters. Propose the single measurement you are willing to be judged on at week twelve. It is fixed with the expert panel before week one and it does not move afterwards.

Your win condition, as it will be published
One quantity with a unit. "Energy per inference, in joules." Not "performance".
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The rig, the instrument, the dataset, the conditions. Enough that someone could repeat it without asking you.
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A lab, a utility, an operator, a professor. Name them even if you have not asked yet.
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The honest answer. Teams that name the real risk score better than teams that claim there is none.
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What exists already

A half-built prototype is a strong application. A polished deck with nothing behind it is a weak one.

Include what does not work yet. Say "nothing yet" if that is true.
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You on camera, showing whatever exists. Unlisted YouTube, Drive, or Loom. No editing needed.
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Practicalities

Twelve weeks, 2 November 2026 to 25 January 2027. Measurement day is public.

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We supply rig time, licences, and introductions. Ask specifically.
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Intilaq takes no equity, so this does not disqualify you. We just need to know.
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Read it once, then send

This is exactly what the panel receives. Sending opens your own mail client with the application addressed and filled in, and copies it to your clipboard at the same time.

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Your application is on file.

We stored every answer. A copy is on your clipboard if you want one. We reply to every applicant, including the ones we turn down.