When AI is no longer exclusive to large enterprises, a practical competition based on real data to determine heroes is redefining the efficiency boundaries of growing enterprises. In 2026, the artificial intelligence application boom will sweep across all walks of life. However, as giants compete in the arms race of computing power and models, a more pragmatic question has surfaced: How can growing companies really make money with AI?

Created by Golden Finance, Twinkle and Dashu Finance, and co-sponsored by AllRouter.AI, the "AI Money Making Contest - Hardcore PK Game" has started registration on June 26, bringing together AI developers, entrepreneurial teams and small and medium-sized enterprise operators from multiple tracks such as clothing, beauty, tourism, catering, and e-commerce. Now, after fierce competition, the event has officially ushered in the ultimate "Night of Contest"! AI practitioners from all walks of life will compete on the same stage around real business scenarios, skillfully use AI to compress operating costs, and rely on algorithms to mine real profits.

After nearly three weeks of project solicitation and strict review by the jury, six strong projects stood out and were officially shortlisted for the video account live broadcast finals on July 22 based on comprehensive evaluations from five dimensions: cost reduction and efficiency improvement results, commercial value, practical difficulty of implementation, replicability, and innovation.

The shortlist is announced (ranked in no particular order)

1.Codetowork

Codetowork is an AI talent digital recruitment tool for enterprises, integrating the following core modules: authoritative scale talent assessment + AI analysis of job matching; in-depth analysis of resumes and customized interview questions, AI-HR initial interview + AI technical aspects of resumes. Complete resume, HR and technical aspects in one stop, reduce labor costs and unify selection standards

2. Crazy Fire Wheel AI

Crazy Wheel AI is an AI marketing application, mainly oriented to the field of brand marketing, serving Party A’s brand marketing team, Party B’s agency, media/self-media, independent marketing consultants, etc. The founding team members all have many years of experience in marketing, and have both front-line business understanding and AI product implementation capabilities. Since the public beta was launched in January 2026, Crazy Wheel has thousands of users and dozens of corporate customers, and is in a rapid growth stage.

3. Hi Dance Studio

Haiwu Dance Studio is an AI operation system specially built for dance studios. It automatically completes Douyin/Xiaohongshu video publishing, comment private message reply, student class scheduling management, and can also intelligently generate promotional posters and marketing copywriting. The boss saves 3 hours a day, and the enrollment conversion rate increases by 40%, allowing dancers to focus on teaching and leaving operations to AI.

4.Proofreading from Aituge

Enterprise digital governance and review tool based on asynchronous graph network Agent scheduling. Based on digital governance technology, we solve problems such as information dispersion, low manual review efficiency, and difficulty in accumulating knowledge in the process of enterprise contracts and system management. We build an intelligent review and governance platform to realize enterprise document risk identification, process management, and knowledge asset accumulation, and improve organizational compliance management capabilities.

5. Pick up the traces and create a journey

Shiji Chuangyou is a one-stop AI cultural tourism content generation platform. By building a digital asset library for scenic spots, it automatically generates personalized cultural creation, AI guides, real-life interactive games and other content, helping scenic spots create new digital consumption scenarios, improve visitor experience, and achieve dual growth in cultural communication and commercial value.

6.StoreVideo Studio

StoreVideo Studio is an artificial intelligence video production platform for stores, brand promotion and content marketing. It provides topic selection, title, script, material, cover, dubbing, clip synthesis and finished film download services. It also ensures safety, reliability, process transparency and flexible expansion through asynchronous tasks, service provider abstraction, private storage and full tracking.

Evaluation criteria: five dimensions, data is king

This review adopts a five-dimensional model to ensure that the results have both professional depth and business perspective:

It is not enough to have a cool technical demonstration. Whether it can produce quantifiable revenue growth or cost reduction in real business scenarios is the hard indicator.

Schedule Overview

The finalists will compete for honorary awards and win cash prizes, Token rewards, AI tool rights and full platform traffic exposure. The competition employs AI industry experts and entrepreneurial representatives to form a joint jury to conduct comprehensive evaluations based on five core dimensions.

About "AI Progressives"

This "AI Money Making Competition" is the first live AI live broadcast IP after the official launch of "AI Progressive Party".

"AI Progressive" is a vertical content account under Golden Finance that focuses on the AI track. It is positioned as "the strongest lever for transforming AI into personal and organizational evolution." In the future, AI combatants will continue to be invited to complete task challenges on-site - the competition is teaching, and the victory or defeat is practical information. The content closely follows hot trends such as AI agents, workflow efficiency improvement, and vertical industry applications in 2026, and attracts traffic to the community through high-frequency interaction.

The countdown to the finals has begun. On July 22, pay attention to the live broadcast room of the "AI Progressive Party" video account to witness the birth of the real AI money-making king.