# The Podium

- **Event:** [Meta Global AI Developer Hackathon](https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/meta-ai-developer-hackathon)
- **When:** Oct 26, 12:00 PM – Nov 4, 9:00 PM (EST)
- **Where:** Online
- **Team:** [Randall Seigler](https://cerebralvalley.ai/u/BBLHUNT3r)
- **GitHub:** https://github.com/419to808-byte/The-Podium-Demo
- **Demo video:** https://youtu.be/-9rKuAtq7pY
- **Gallery:** https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/meta-ai-developer-hackathon/hackathon/gallery
- **Page:** https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/meta-ai-developer-hackathon/hackathon/gallery/4597

The Podium is a citizen-to-government portal. Citizens post ideas and concerns; the community upvotes. Each week, the highest-voted post plus one randomly drawn post are read aloud word-for-word by a representative and discussed in the weekly briefing, with follow-through tracked until resolved.

Its core guarantee is the Verbatim Rule: selected posts must be read aloud word-for-word, with no editor between author and nation. AI may suggest wording before publishing, but only the author can accept it, and nothing is edited after posting.

The composer gate, similarity check, and comprehensibility help run on Muse Spark via the Meta Model API, live, with local checks as fallback. Committee answers start as drafts from Muse Wonder, then are voted on by the committee as written — approve or decline, never edited — with the committee as the answerer of record; Wonder never delivers a final answer alone and never touches a citizen's post. The draw uses NIST Randomness Beacon math and is recorded read-only. This demonstrates the mechanism; the Verbatim Rule's MUST is a design rule, not a law, and no government has adopted it — adoption is a policy step, not a code step. The demo video is about three minutes.

Judges' Model API key (fresh, for judging only — revoked after Nov 9, 2026): https://gist.githubusercontent.com/419to808-byte/8f1648e1bed8ba3fe1ec2fe677215147/raw/78e0975eb1a107dd6e25d090f9bb5e95d1ed9a05/podium-judges-key.txt
Paste this key into the key control in the app footer. It enables the live Muse Spark gate/translation and Muse Wonder drafts. The key lives in session storage only and vanishes when the tab closes. Without it, the app falls back to its local checks and the seeded answers, and the demo video shows the live AI on camera.

## More from Meta Global AI Developer Hackathon

- [Econna](https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/meta-ai-developer-hackathon/hackathon/gallery/4594)
- [Crazy Diamond](https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/meta-ai-developer-hackathon/hackathon/gallery/4595)
- [Blindaje](https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/meta-ai-developer-hackathon/hackathon/gallery/4596)
- [ISee Team](https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/meta-ai-developer-hackathon/hackathon/gallery/4598)
- [NARAK](https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/meta-ai-developer-hackathon/hackathon/gallery/4599)
- [Setvia](https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/meta-ai-developer-hackathon/hackathon/gallery/4600)

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