The problem
Builders lose pitches they should win.
"The sharpest argument already exists — buried across Claude chats, docs, commits, voice notes, and late-night rehearsal takes. In the room, it still comes out generic." POSTER
The generic chat
Paste your whole brain into a chatbot and hope it understands you. POSTER
The wall of advice
A question bank, or feedback too broad to act on. POSTER
The polished deck
Polish it once, then hope it lands. POSTER
What is it
A private practice room that reads your own context instead of asking you to upload it — built for "early-stage AI founders who ship every week." POSTER
"The product works. Now users, customers, mentors, or investors still have to believe it." The rough takes that get you there are "awkward, half-formed, and commercially sensitive" — and the team's position is that this messy thinking is the input, and "it should never mean uploading your raw founder workspace to a normal cloud coach." POSTER
What it does
"See the loop, not a feature list." Take 1 → one repair → Take 2. POSTER
1 · Record Take 1
"Speak for 60–90 seconds. No form, no deck upload." POSTER
2 · Fix one thing
"One specific repair, drawn from the take and its private context." POSTER
3 · Record Take 2
"Apply the repair immediately and compare what changed." A repair loads with a 3-second count-in. POSTER
Each take is scored on the live evaluation surface — length, words per minute, fillers per 100 words — and the app "keeps the strongest line, chooses one fix, and loads Take 2." Feedback can come from people, too: for any take you can invite "the critic who matters" — AI eval, mentor, or friend — "not just another model score." POSTER
| Today | With PitchRotator |
|---|---|
| Paste your whole brain into a generic chat | Read only the excerpts this take needs |
| A wall of advice, or a question bank | One repair for this exact take |
| Polish the deck once, then hope it lands | Record Take 2 immediately |
Table reproduced from the poster's "What changes with PitchRotator" panel. POSTER
How it works
"The raw context behind your pitch stays behind a sealed reader." POSTER
Your context
"Only the selected excerpts reach the evaluation. Your full workspace is never uploaded as the prompt." The poster's sample receipt (marked illustrative): sent to the model — 2 chat excerpts, 1 README paragraph, your last take; kept private on your machine — full chat archive, full repo, unrelated files. POSTER
Built with: TypeScript · Next.js · MCP · TEE · ElevenLabs · IndexedDB. "Confidential context deployment with Synclave" — Synclave is a fellow cohort team building the confidential-compute stack. POSTER REGISTRY
The numbers
The team's own figures, as printed on their poster.
Who's building it
A solo founder, NYC. POSTER REGISTRY
Albiona Hoti
"Albiona Hoti — founder, design, engineering" is the poster's whole team block. Her public GitHub (display name "albicodes", bio "EIR @ Flashbots X") shows 97 public repos and 494 followers, active this week — as of 2026-07-22.
Traction
A shipped sister app that proves the loop, and a new product in early testing.
Elocute — the sister app
"Sister app · Elocute — same stack": 628 users in the first 4 days, 1,859 practice sessions, 147 power users at 3–40 sessions each. Live at elocute.fun ("Articulation training"). POSTER WEB
PitchRotator, early testing
110 founder practice sessions in early testing; one local founder trace held 3,287 prompts. POSTER
Demo Day
Pitched at the cohort's mock Demo Day (2026-07-17) and on the Demo Day lineup as "Pitch Rotator," Albi presenting — "watch this pitch get critiqued in real time" at the booth. REGISTRY POSTER
In their own words
From the mock Demo Day pitch (2026-07-17) and the cohort weekly (2026-07-13) — live-transcript excerpts, lightly punctuated, shared only with the founder's approval.
"So this is not a pitch, I'm just practicing." Pitching the app through the app — cohort weekly, 2026-07-13 PITCH
"Pitch Rotator is an app to help founders get better at articulating what they're building — in whatever stage they are in — so that they can onboard users and investors to invest in their journey."
"There's one similar behavior when you get to build something: you consistently need to articulate what you're building, you need to talk to the end user, you need to talk about what you're trying to do."
"It's designed to be an extremely fast loop — you seeing something that you did good and something that you can improve next, and take it forward again."
"I did 20 sessions on the first night and I figured out the loop — it's not just the pitch that I was trying to say; there's so much story behind what I was trying to build that comes after years of experience."
Try it & links
"Watch this pitch get critiqued in real time... Scan to try the mobile flow when you have 90 seconds." POSTER
| Surface | Where | Source |
|---|---|---|
| App | pitchrotator.vercel.app — "Practice the pitch people remember" | WEB Live · 07-22 |
| Sister app | elocute.fun — "Elocute. Articulation training." | WEB Live · 07-22 |
| GitHub | No public PitchRotator or Elocute repo found (api.github.com search, 07-22); the founder's account AlbionaHoti is public and active | WEB Repo private — confirm |
| X | @albicodes — from cohort records; matches her GitHub display name | REGISTRY Not live-checked |
| Contact | hello@albiona.dev | POSTER Confirm preferred |
Provenance ledger
Every load-bearing claim and where it comes from; decisions live in §11.
| Claim | Comes from | Tier | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Problem framing, loop, sealed-reader architecture, receipt | Cohort poster, July 2026 | POSTER | Team's own artifact |
| Naming: PitchRotator vs Elocute | Poster brands PitchRotator with "sister app · Elocute — same stack"; registry files the team under Elocute; Demo Day sheet says "Pitch Rotator" | POSTER REGISTRY | Pending approval |
| Figures (110 · 3,287 · 628 · 1,859 · 147) | Poster; the team's own measurements | POSTER | Pending approval |
| Elocute figure variants | Registry snapshot (538 users · 1,599 sessions · 40k views on one post) is lower and undated; the 07-17 mock telling differs again — likely different as-of dates, not a contradiction | REGISTRY AI | Confirm figures |
| Founder identity and solo billing | Poster team block; cohort registry (1 member); github.com/AlbionaHoti via api.github.com, 2026-07-22 | POSTER REGISTRY WEB | Corroborated |
| Synclave deployment credit | Printed on the poster; Synclave is a fellow cohort team | POSTER REGISTRY | Confirm wording |
| Links live (app, sister app, personal site) | pitchrotator.vercel.app, elocute.fun, albiona.dev — all fetched 2026-07-22 | WEB | Verified live |
| No public product repo | api.github.com search: zero PitchRotator repos; every "elocute" repo belongs to unrelated older projects (same-name trap), checked 07-22 | WEB | Repo private — confirm |
| X handle @albicodes | Cohort registry; not independently live-checked | REGISTRY | Not live-checked |
| Pitch excerpts (§08) | Mock Demo Day 2026-07-17 + cohort weekly 2026-07-13; lightly punctuated; the mock's transcript garbles the product name (rendered "FisherTrader" by the ASR) — excerpt selection avoids the garble | PITCH | Pending approval |
| Contact email | Printed on the team's own poster | POSTER | Confirm preferred |
Founder review
Five things before this page goes public.