BrickQuest Finals D-5 — Pitch Deck Done, Now Just Practice

The pitch deck is finally done. Barely.

🔬 Racing the Deadlines

Hit the exhibition panel deadline (3/9) by a hair, and submitted the pitch deck (3/13) yesterday. Both finished on the due date. Not once did I have a comfortable margin.

Built the pitch deck in Google Slides — 5 minutes to cover what BrickQuest is, why I built it, and what makes it technically interesting. Sounds easy, but 5 minutes is brutally short. Cutting content was harder than creating it.

🎨 Pitch Structure

Settled on this flow:

1. Problem — Buy a LEGO set, lose the instructions, bricks get mixed up, and they end up sleeping in a box

2. Solution — Take a photo, AI recognizes your bricks, suggests new models from what you already have

3. Tech differentiator — Gemini + physics engine feedback loop for spatial consistency

4. Demo — Live brick recognition → model suggestion → 3D assembly guide

5. Vision — Beyond LEGO, the potential of 3D spatial reasoning

I debated whether to include a live demo. If it crashes on stage, it's worse than not having one. But the judges' comments hinted at wanting to see the actual user experience, so I'm going for it. Got a backup video just in case.

🛠️ A1 Exhibition Panel

Each project gets an exhibition booth at the venue, so I had to make an A1-sized panel. Designed it in BrickQuest's color scheme with feature screenshots and an architecture diagram.

Submit the panel design and Google Cloud handles the review and printing. They're also reviewing the pitch deck. Much appreciated.

😰 The Real Challenge

Materials are ready, but the actual presentation is the scary part. I have to pitch in Japanese for 5 minutes. Casual conversation and a technical presentation are completely different beasts. I'm the type whose mind goes blank under pressure, so I'll basically need to memorize the script.

What's left for the next 5 days:

🎯 Finals Day

March 19th, Agentic AI Summit '26 Spring. 9 out of 10 teams get a prize. "Just don't finish last" is the mindset... though honestly, I'd love to do better than that.

Everything's prepared. Now it's just practice. Time to give it everything on stage.