STEP 01
Submit
Upload your AI-made video, meme, game, animation, fashion piece, documentary, film or series — or enter your app with a short pitch video. If generative AI was a core creative tool, it qualifies.
ENTRY FEE — $25 PER WORK
AIS.SHOW // SEASON 2027
ENTRIES: OPEN SOON
ENTRIES: OPEN SOON
X 0000 · Y 0000
MODE: STANDBY
A.I.S.Hello — good to have you here. I'm the A.I.S., your host for the night.
THE AIs
The night AI creators get crowned.
Not another feed to scroll — a night to be part of. Ten categories, three live ceremonies, one ice-and-silver trophy.
FOUR WAYS INTO THE NIGHT — FINALIST · JUROR · SPONSOR · IN THE ROOM OR IN VR
10CATEGORIES
$35,000PRIZE FLOOR TARGET
03CEREMONIES IN 2027
Prize floor guaranteed once our anchor sponsor and 300 entries are confirmed.
A.I.S. — YOUR HOST · LIVE ON THIS STAGE
THE BIG NIGHT — SAT · DEC 11 · 2027 · COUNTDOWN TO THE GALA
THE LIST
Be first in when entries open
BROWSE THE NIGHT
Tonight's lineup
All ten categories, poster-style. Tap one to open it.
THE LIST // FIRST IN
Get on the list
Entries, finalist drops, gala seats and the podcast — the list hears everything first. One email when it matters, never a flood.
What the list gets
- Entries opening — 48 hours before the public announcement
- Finalist showcases and live-final dates, as they're locked
- Gala seats, virtual seats and podcast premieres
01 // PROTOCOL
How it works
Three steps between you and the stage. The system handles the rest.
STEP 02
Get seen
Finalists are showcased across TikTok, YouTube and Instagram — in front of the audience and the brands watching it.
SHOWCASE — TIKTOK · YOUTUBE · INSTAGRAM
STEP 03
Win
Two tracks decide it — Apps run a model of their own. Pop: the jury names the finalists, the public crowns the winner live. Craft: an expert jury decides — the live show is the reveal. Apps: the A.I.S. builds the case, founders decide, ties go to the public.
PUBLIC VOTE · EXPERT JURY — TWO TRACKS
02 // THE STANDARD
The craft standard
AI slop doesn't win here. Anyone can generate — winners author. Finalists are scored on Space, Text and Movement.
AXIS 01
Space
Composition, framing and negative space. Where the frame breathes — and where the eye is told to rest.
SCORED BY THE JURY — ALL FINALISTS
AXIS 02
Text
Typography and language with intent — titles, captions and dialogue that sound written, not generated.
SCORED BY THE JURY — ALL FINALISTS
AXIS 03
Movement
Pacing, rhythm and camera. Nothing moves by accident; every cut earns its place.
SCORED BY THE JURY — ALL FINALISTS
THE WORKFLOW: DEFINE YOUR VOICE ONCE → CREATE IN THE VOCABULARY → REVIEW & POLISH BEFORE YOU SHIP.
STANDARD ADAPTED FROM THE “IMPECCABLE” DESIGN PHILOSOPHY (PAUL BAKAUS) — VOCABULARY OVER SLOP.
03 // TARGETING
Categories — 2027 season
Ten categories, two decision tracks, three ceremonies. Tap a target to lock on — the entry form arms itself.
NO CATEGORY MATCHES — TRY ANOTHER WORD, OR TAP A FILTER ABOVE.
Q1 · 2027
The Pop Categories
DECIDED BY THE PUBLIC VOTE DIGITAL CEREMONY — LIVE
Q2–Q3 · 2027
The Craft Categories
DECIDED BY THE EXPERT JURY DIGITAL CEREMONY — LIVE
Q4 · 2027
The Grand Gala
DECIDED BY THE EXPERT JURY BLACK TIE — THE BIG NIGHT
◎ TARGET LOCKED
Film of the Year
PRIZE$10,000
SEASONQ4 · 2027
DECIDED BY—
CEREMONY—
ELIGIBILITY WINDOW: ONLY WORK RELEASED IN 2027 COMPETES. CREATE ALL YEAR — WIN AT THE CEREMONY.
03B // NEW TARGET
Apps — a category of its own
Not a film category. Apps are products — so The AIs judge them the way products deserve: the machine tests, the founders decide.
2027 · NEW
App of the Year
AI BUILDS THE CASE · FOUNDERS DECIDE LIVE FINAL — TIES GO TO THE PUBLICFLOW 01
Enter the app
Submit your app — App Store, Google Play or web — together with a short pitch video. Only entered apps are evaluated: no nominations, no store charts, no shortcuts.
FLOW 02
The A.I.S. builds the case
The A.I.S. evaluation team runs every entered app: installs it, walks the core flows, logs crashes and performance, and reads the public signal — App Store and Google Play ratings. Every finalist arrives as a case dossier. Ratings inform; they never decide.
FLOW 03
Founders decide
The jury is successful startup founders — people who have built, shipped and sold products. They decide from the cases, not from the pitch. If the jury ties, the public decides in the live final.
SPONSOR SLOTS LIVE INSIDE APPS TOO — NAMING, A PRIZE BOOST AND A MOMENT WITH THE FOUNDERS' JURY, ALL AGREED IN ADVANCE.
04 // THE LIVE SYSTEM
Two tracks, one stage
Every category is decided one of two ways — never by view counts. The jury protects the craft; the people bring the noise. Apps run a third model of their own.
TRACK A
The people's vote
Viral Video, Meme, Comedy and Games. The jury selects the finalists; the winner is crowned by public vote during the live final. Votes cost $1–5 and feed a bonus prize pool — with a strict per-person cap, counted in public, so no one can buy the crown.
Q1 · THE POP CATEGORIES — PUBLIC DECIDES
TRACK B
The expert jury
Film, Series, Documentary, Animation and Fashion are judged by experts of each field, scored on the craft standard. The live final is the reveal, not the vote. Year-one jurors: leading AI creators and fashion names — announced before the season, never on the night.
Q2–Q4 · THE CRAFT CATEGORIES — JURY DECIDES
APPS RUN A THIRD MODEL: THE A.I.S. TESTS EVERY ENTERED APP AND BUILDS THE CASE — A JURY OF SUCCESSFUL STARTUP FOUNDERS DECIDES, AND A TIE GOES TO THE PUBLIC IN THE LIVE FINAL.
VIEWS ARE A SIGNAL, NEVER THE VERDICT — REACH CAN QUALIFY A WORK; IT CANNOT CROWN ONE.
THE FINALS STREAM LIVE ON YOUTUBE — WITH TIKTOK LIVE MOMENTS ALL SEASON LONG.
05 // REWARDS
The prizes
A $35,000 floor to lock in — and a pool that only grows. Until the floor is secured, prizes pay out as shares of the real pool. Plus the trophy — and the introductions money can't buy.
$10,000
Film of the YearThe headline prize — winner revealed live at the Grand Gala
$5,000
Viral Video of the YearThe people's champion of Q1
$2,500
Every other categoryMeme · Comedy · Games · Animation · Documentary · Fashion · Series · Apps
LISTED AMOUNTS ARE THE PRIZE FLOOR — $35,000 ACROSS ALL TEN CATEGORIES. THE FLOOR IS SECURED ONCE AN ANCHOR SPONSOR SIGNS AND 300 ENTRIES ARE IN; UNTIL THEN, EACH PRIZE IS PAID AS ITS SHARE OF THE REAL POOL, IN THE SAME PROPORTIONS. SPONSOR BOOSTS AGREED BEFORE A CEREMONY RAISE THE POOL — FINAL TOTALS ARE PUBLISHED BEFORE EACH CEREMONY, NEVER CHANGED DURING THE LIVE.
Q4 · 2027 — THE BIG NIGHT
The Grand Gala
Film of the Year and Series of the Year are crowned on one night — black tie, silver lights, and a holographic stage built for the first generation of AI filmmakers.
THE BIG NIGHT — SAT · DEC 11 · 2027 · COUNTDOWN TO THE GALA
06 // THE ICON
The trophy — crystal on silver
No golden statuette borrowed from another century. The mark is the acronym itself — and the ceremony around it is pure technology.
THE RELIC
The physical trophy
The letters “AI” as a faceted ice-crystal monogram on a polished silver base. Season one keeps it pure: just the acronym, nothing else. Winners lift it on stage — and keep it forever.
THE REVEAL
The hologram reveal
The relic is crystal; the reveal is light. At each live final, the winner's name materializes above the stage as a holographic twin of the trophy — the moment built to be clipped and shared.
ROADMAP
Next — the connected trophy
On the roadmap: a connected edition developed with Meta — a trophy that lights up, reacts and carries its winner's moment inside it. The physical icon comes first; the technology layers on.
ATTEND FROM ANYWHERE
Virtual seats — be there in VR
The gala has two rooms: the theater, and everywhere else. A virtual seat puts you inside the ceremony — front row, in your headset.
In the room
Black tie at the Grand Gala — Dec 11, 2027. Limited seats, silver lights, the hologram reveal live above the stage.
The virtual seat
Put on your VR headset and take a front-row virtual seat at the Grand Gala: the holographic stage all around you, the live reveals in real time, and the pop vote in your hand where your category allows it.
VIRTUAL SEATS ARE BOOKED IN ADVANCE, LIKE EVERYTHING AT THE AIS — SALES OPEN WITH THE GALA PROGRAM, NEVER DURING THE LIVE.
06 // ALLIANCE
For sponsors
Put your brand in the title of the moment everyone shares — agreed in advance, produced properly, never improvised on the night.
Category naming is open
Every partnership is negotiated and scheduled before the ceremony it appears in — so your moment is produced, not improvised. Nothing is sold, added or announced during the live final. The audience: the creators defining AI content — and the millions who watch them.
- Category naming — your brand in the title, all season
- Prize boost — raise a category's prize, announced with your name
- Live moment — a produced spot in the broadcast, or a scheduled on-stage chat; creators and influencers join as guests, not ads
- Apps slots — “presented by” naming on App of the Year, plus a sponsor moment with the founders' jury: the room where platforms meet builders
Meme of the Year
presented by YOUR BRAND
presented by YOUR BRAND
SPONSORSHIP CLOSES BEFORE EACH CEREMONY — NO DEAL IS MADE ON THE NIGHT OR DURING THE LIVE.
ON AIR // THE PODCAST
The AIs Podcast
The voice of the ceremonies, all season long. Hosted by the A.I.S. — the same voice that walks this site with you — with the creators, jurors, founders and brands building the night.
THE HOST
Hosted by the A.I.S.
One host, no cold reads: the A.I.S. interviews finalists about how the work was actually made, presses jurors on the craft standard, and sits founders and sponsors down in the same room. New episodes across the 2027 season, wherever you listen.
LIVE DAY
On gala night, it goes live
December 11, 2027: the podcast becomes the live companion of the Grand Gala — backstage audio as the finalists wait, the room as each winner is revealed, and interviews with the winners minutes after they lift the trophy. The same live feed reaches every virtual seat.
DEC 11 · 2027 — LIVE FROM THE GRAND GALA
EP 01
PREMIERE · Q1 2027
How the night is built
The A.I.S. walks the whole machine: ten categories, two tracks, one trophy — and why views never crown a winner.
EP 02
Q1 · 2027
The craft standard
Space, Text, Movement. Jurors and designers on how authored work is scored — and why slop scores low.
EP 03
Q3 · 2027
Apps, judged like startups
Inside the Apps model: the A.I.S. test bench, the case dossiers, and the founders' jury that decides.
EP 04
Q4 · 2027
Road to the Gala
The finalists, the trophy, the hologram reveal — the last word before the big night, recorded with the season's winners.
EPISODES PREMIERE ACROSS THE 2027 SEASON — THE FULL SCHEDULE IS ANNOUNCED WITH THE SEASON CALENDAR.
07 // TRANSMISSION
Submit your work
Entries for the 2027 season are open. Put your name on the finalist list.
Before you transmit
One entry per work, released in 2027, with generative AI as a core creative tool. Disclose your tools — no shame, it's the point.
- Entry fee: $25 per work — fees are non-refundable
- Two tracks decide the pop and craft crowns — and Apps run their own model: A.I.S. cases, a founders' jury
- Winners take cash, the ice-and-silver trophy and brand introductions
08 // REGULATIONS
Official rules
The fine print, in plain language. Entering The AIs means playing by these — the A.I.S. enforces them without blinking.
ART. 01
Eligibility
Only work first released in 2027 competes in the 2027 season. Each work may be entered once, in a single category.
ART. 02
AI disclosure
Generative AI must be a core creative tool, and every tool used must be disclosed on the entry. Work that misrepresents how it was made is disqualified.
ART. 03
Entry fee
$25 per work, paid with the entry. Fees are non-refundable — every paid entry is reviewed by the jury team and considered for the finalist showcase.
ART. 04
Judging & voting — two tracks
In the pop categories (Viral Video, Meme, Comedy, Games), the jury selects the finalists and the public decides the winner by paid vote ($1–5) during the live final; votes feed a bonus pool, are capped per person and counted in public. In Film, Series, Documentary, Animation and Fashion, an expert jury decides on the craft standard — the live show is the reveal. Apps run their own model: only entered apps are evaluated; the A.I.S. evaluation team runs each app — core flows, crashes, performance — and builds a case dossier for every finalist; a jury of successful startup founders decides from the cases, and a tie is broken by the public in the live final. View counts never decide a winner.
ART. 05
Prizes — the floor, and its condition
The listed prizes — $10,000 for Film of the Year, $5,000 for Viral Video of the Year, $2,500 in every other category ($35,000 in total) — are the prize floor. The floor is secured once two conditions are met: an anchor sponsor is signed and 300 entries are in. Until then, each prize is paid as its share of the actual prize pool, in the same proportions. Sponsor prize boosts agreed before a ceremony raise the pool; final totals are published before the ceremony. Every winner also receives the ice-and-silver AI trophy and brand introductions.
ART. 06
Your work, your rights
You keep full ownership of your work. By entering, finalists grant The AIs the right to showcase the work across the awards' channels during the season.
ART. 07
Sponsorship
All sponsorship is agreed and contracted in advance — naming, prize boosts, broadcast spots, stage chats and guest appearances are scheduled in the run of show before the ceremony. No sponsorship is sold, added or improvised during a live final.
09 // DATABASE
Questions, answered
Any video where generative AI is a core creative tool. Disclose your tools — no shame, it's the point.
Two tracks — plus one model of its own. In the pop categories, the jury names the finalists and the public crowns the winner by vote in the live final. In film, series, documentary, animation and fashion, an expert jury decides — the live show reveals it. In Apps, the A.I.S. tests each entered app and builds the case; a jury of successful startup founders decides, and a tie goes to the public in the live final.
Only work released in the eligibility year — for this season, 2027. The window is the game: create all year, win at the ceremony.
Entry fees are non-refundable. Each $25 entry is reviewed by the jury team and considered for the finalist showcase.
On the craft standard: Space, Text and Movement — a designer's vocabulary. Generic AI slop scores low; authored work scores high.
No — and that's by design. Every sponsorship is agreed before the ceremony, so spots, stage chats and guest appearances are produced and scheduled properly. Nothing is sold or added during the live.
The listed amounts are the prize floor — $35,000 across the ten categories. The floor is secured once an anchor sponsor is signed and 300 entries are in. Before that, each prize is paid as its share of the real pool, in the same proportions — and sponsor boosts agreed before a ceremony can raise it above the floor.
10 // LEGAL
Privacy, terms & the mark
Everything a serious site owes you, in plain language: how your data is handled, the terms you browse under, and who owns the AIs name.
PRIVACY
Privacy policy
This site sets no advertising trackers and no marketing cookies, and it collects nothing behind your back. The forms here don't submit to a server — they open your own email app, addressed to us, with your message pre-filled; you send only what you choose to send. We use what you send for one purpose: running the awards — judging entries, answering you, producing the ceremonies and the podcast. We never sell personal data, and we share it only with the service providers who help us reply and produce the show. Questions or requests: hello@ais.show.
DATA RIGHTS
Your data, your rights
Wherever you are — GDPR in Europe, LGPD in Brazil, CCPA in California and equivalents elsewhere — you can ask us at any time to see the data you sent us, correct it, delete it, export it, or withdraw your consent to be contacted. One email to hello@ais.show and we act on it: deletion is permanent, and we confirm when it's done. If we ever change how we handle data, the change is published on this page before it takes effect.
TERMS
Terms of use
Browsing ais.show means accepting these terms. Entries, judging, voting and prizes are governed by the Official Rules on this page — including the prize-floor condition — and where the two ever conflict, the Official Rules win. Ceremony dates and the prize floor are targets published in good faith and updated here first. Nothing on this site is an offer of securities or employment.
TRADEMARK
The AIs mark
THE AIS, A.I.S., the ice-and-silver AI trophy design and the AIS.SHOW wordmarks are trademarks of The AIs. Using them — in a name, logo, thumbnail, domain or merchandise — requires prior written permission: sponsors@ais.show for partnerships, press@ais.show for editorial use. The press may use the marks to report on the awards, with credit. Creators keep full ownership of the works they enter (Official Rules, Art. 06) — the mark protects the name of the night, never your work.
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