Jalen Cai

Business competition 2025

Achievement: How Did We Get Here?

Harvard Crimson Business Competition, 2025

A 48-hour competition, a four-person team, and an AI plus augmented-reality golf caddie. It ended as Senior Division Global Champion — but the useful part was the reminder that an idea is only as good as the team that can actually execute it.

Senior Division Global Champion BusinessProduct thinkingPitchingTeam lead
Jalen pitching with a microphone in a lecture hall, two screens behind him showing a golf heads-up display, a Harvard Crimson banner across the front
Pitching at the Harvard Crimson Business Competition

What happened

What started as a 48-hour competition became one of my favorite reminders that an idea is only as good as the team that can actually execute it. I led a four-person team in the Harvard Crimson Business Competition, where we developed and pitched an AI + augmented-reality golf-caddie concept and won the Senior Division Global Championship.

What it actually changed

Who would use it? Why would they care? What could we realistically build? How should four people divide the work when the clock is running?

Those questions have followed me into research and other projects ever since.

Materials

The GRAZE pitch deck is the one we presented: ten slides covering the caddie gap, the AR display, pricing, competitors and a risks-and-ethics page. The Global Champion certificate is the official record of the result. The organiser’s competition page now shows the latest edition; the 2025 version of it was not archived.

Images, posters & documents

Four teammates in a selfie under a wood-slatted ceiling, all smiling
The team
A rain-slicked brick plaza with empty cafe tables, crimson Harvard banners on the lampposts
Harvard in the rain
Open the HCBC Global Champion certificate PDF
The Global Champion certificate, presented to Team 27
Open the GRAZE pitch deck PDF
GRAZE: the ten-slide pitch deck

↳Milestones

  1. 29 June 2025

    Senior Division Global Champion

    The team's AI and AR golf-caddie concept took the senior division globally. The certificate names Team 27 as the highest-scoring team in the senior division of the championship round.

    ★ Senior Division Global Champion — Harvard Crimson Business CompetitionResult
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