LAUNCH PAD $25K BUILD CHALLENGE

OFFICIAL RULES

NO PURCHASE, PAYMENT, MEMBERSHIP, OR SUBSCRIPTION IS NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. A PURCHASE OR PAYMENT WILL NOT IMPROVE AN ENTRANT’S CHANCES OR SCORE. VOID WHERE PROHIBITED.

These Official Rules govern the Launch Pad $25K Build Challenge (the “Challenge”). By submitting an application, each entrant agrees to these Official Rules and to the decisions of MetaNeer Labs, Inc. made in accordance with these Official Rules, which are final and binding to the fullest extent permitted by law.

1. Sponsor

The Challenge is sponsored and administered by MetaNeer Labs, Inc. (“Sponsor” or “MetaNeer”), a Delaware corporation, with mailing address at:

MetaNeer Labs, Inc.

3000-F Danville Blvd #121

Alamo, CA 94507

2. Challenge Period and Key Dates

The Challenge opens July 20, 2026. Initial applications must be submitted by Monday, July 27, 2026 at 11:59 p.m. Pacific Time. The scoring lock is Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 12:00 noon Pacific Time (the “Scoring Lock”). By the Scoring Lock, all entrant-controlled activity that may affect scoring, including application revisions, required scoring submissions, referral attribution, and other point-earning activity, must be complete. After the Scoring Lock, entrants may not submit new or revised scoring information or generate new Bonus Point-eligible referrals. Sponsor may continue reviewing and verifying timely submitted materials after the Scoring Lock and may correct administrative or scoring errors based solely on activity completed before the Scoring Lock. Sponsor expects to announce the Grand Prize winner on Thursday, July 30, 2026 at 12:00 noon Pacific Time.

The Challenge includes additional rounds. Sponsor will announce the prompts, requirements, and deadlines for those rounds through the Challenge website, email, or other designated Challenge communications. Entrants are responsible for monitoring those communications and completing each required round on time. Sponsor may make reasonable schedule adjustments when necessary and will announce any material change.

3. Eligibility

The Challenge is open only to natural persons who, at the time of entry, are at least 18 years old and legal residents of one of the 50 United States or the District of Columbia. The Challenge is void where prohibited or restricted by law.

Employees, officers, directors, contractors, and agents of Sponsor, and their immediate family members and household members, are not eligible. “Immediate family” means spouse, domestic partner, parent, child, sibling, and the spouse or domestic partner of each.

An individual remains the entrant even when the proposed project is intended for a company or other organization. At Sponsor’s discretion, Sponsor may enter into the project agreement with, and transfer eligible deliverables to, a United States business controlled by the winner. Sponsor may require proof of identity, age, residency, authority, ownership, eligibility, and any other information reasonably needed to administer the Challenge.

4. How to Enter

During the Challenge period, complete and submit the official Challenge application according to the instructions provided by Sponsor. Entry is free. No purchase, payment, membership, or subscription is required to enter or win, and none will improve an entrant’s score or likelihood of winning.

Each entrant may submit only one application and one proposed project. Sponsor-approved revisions to that application do not count as additional applications. Sponsor may reject or disregard additional applications submitted by the same entrant. All information submitted must be truthful, accurate, and complete. Sponsor may reject automated, incomplete, late, false, misleading, fraudulent, or otherwise noncompliant applications. Entries become effective when received by Sponsor’s designated system. Sponsor is not responsible for lost, delayed, corrupted, misdirected, or incomplete submissions.

5. Required Rounds and Participation

The initial application is the first required qualifying action. Entrants who advance may be required to complete Build Fit review, a revision opportunity for selected Not Yet applicants, a V1 refinement round, and a short finalist verification conversation. Sponsor may require other reasonable verification or administrative activities when necessary. Failure to complete a required step by its deadline may result in disqualification. Participation does not entitle an entrant to any consultation, brief, wireframe, roadmap, specification, Scope Sprint, or other deliverable unless expressly awarded as a prize.

The Grand Prize winner should be prepared to begin the build on August 3, 2026 and to participate promptly throughout the sprint. Sponsor may permit an August 17, 2026 start or another date only by exception. If a selected winner cannot participate on the required schedule, Sponsor may select an alternate using the same applicable selection criteria.

6. Build Fit Qualification

Build Fit is a pass/fail qualification gate, separate from the Competition Score. A project must pass Build Fit to win. Sponsor will determine whether the proposed concept can become a meaningful web-app V1 that Sponsor can confidently deliver within the two-week model.

Sponsor may classify an application as Build Fit, Not Yet, or ineligible. A Not Yet applicant may be invited to revise and resubmit by a stated deadline, but no entrant is guaranteed a revision opportunity or unlimited attempts. Sponsor will make Build Fit decisions in good faith using the criteria above and its reasonable delivery judgment.

7. Core Score

Build Fit-qualified applications that complete the required scoring submissions may receive a Core Score of up to 100 points using the following criteria:

Core Score criteria:

Sponsor determines all scores in good faith using the published criteria. Improving an application may improve its Core Score but does not independently earn Bonus Points.

8. Referral Bonus Points

An entrant earns two Bonus Points for each person the entrant refers whose completed, eligible application passes Build Fit. Bonus Points are capped at 10 total, making the maximum possible score 110 points. Entrants may not refer themselves. Each referred applicant may identify only one referrer, and the referrer identified in the referred applicant’s initial application controls. Referral attribution cannot be added, removed, corrected, substituted, or otherwise changed after submission, except to correct a documented Sponsor processing error.

Duplicate, false, fraudulent, manipulated, ineligible, or otherwise noncompliant applications earn no Bonus Points. Sponsor may verify attribution, deny or remove points, and disqualify entrants or referrals when necessary to protect the integrity of the Challenge. To qualify for Bonus Points, the referred applicant’s completed application and referral attribution must be received before the Scoring Lock. Sponsor may determine Build Fit after the Scoring Lock based solely on information timely submitted before the Scoring Lock. No new referral or point-earning activity may occur after the Scoring Lock. Sponsor may make administrative corrections needed to accurately apply timely pre-lock activity.

9. Leaderboard

Sponsor may publish and update a leaderboard approximately daily showing each applicant’s first name and last initial, project name, Core Score, Bonus Points, and total score. Scores and standings may change after review, revision, verification, disqualification, or correction of administrative or scoring errors. Entrants are not automatically entitled to a private scoring report.

10. Finalists and Grand Prize Winner

Sponsor may identify up to 10 finalists from the strongest eligible applicants when applicant quality supports doing so. Sponsor is not required to fill a finalist quota. Finalist selection may consider Build Fit, Core Score, Bonus Points, completion of required rounds, overall application quality, and compliance with these Official Rules. From the qualified finalists, Sponsor will select the Grand Prize winner based on those published factors and its good-faith judgment as to which project is most likely to produce the strongest meaningful outcome within the two-week model. No random drawing or other element of chance is used to select the Grand Prize winner.

The highest numerical score does not automatically win. An entrant’s willingness or ability to purchase Sponsor’s services is not required to win, is not considered in selecting the Grand Prize winner, and does not add points to the Core Score or Bonus Points. Sponsor makes all qualification, scoring, referral, finalist, and winner decisions in accordance with these Official Rules. Those decisions are final and binding to the fullest extent permitted by law.

11. Grand Prize

One Grand Prize is available: one complete Two-Week V1 Build Sprint with an approximate retail value of $25,000, plus Sponsor’s payment of approved third-party operating costs reasonably necessary to operate the delivered V1 for the first two months following initial production deployment, up to $500 total. The operating-cost benefit is not redeemable for cash. Total maximum approximate retail value is $25,500.

The sprint generally includes strategy, product definition, scope, UX and design, build, refinement, and launch of a tightly scoped web-app V1. Sponsor determines the final scope through its scoping process. The entrant’s application, concept, requested features, mockups, or descriptions do not establish or guarantee the final scope, functionality, design, integrations, schedule, or technical approach. Sponsor may decline, replace, constrain, or remove any feature or project requirement that Sponsor reasonably considers unlawful, unsafe, insecure, infringing, deceptive, technically unsuitable, inconsistent with third-party rules, impractical within the sprint, or otherwise incompatible with Sponsor’s delivery model.

No ongoing maintenance, support, service level, uptime commitment, or additional development is included. After the included two-month operating-cost period, the winner may choose whether to purchase an optional continuity service from Sponsor. If the winner declines, the winner may assume direct responsibility for available third-party services or allow the app to be taken offline. The winner will receive the custom source code, but moving, recreating, or independently operating the infrastructure may require additional technical work. Exact handoff and infrastructure terms will appear in the project agreement.

The prize has no cash value to the winner, is not redeemable for cash, and may not be sold, assigned, transferred, or substituted by the winner. Sponsor may substitute a component of comparable or greater value when reasonably necessary. The winner is responsible for equipment, information, approvals, access, content, and cooperation reasonably required to complete the sprint.

12. Ownership and Third-Party Materials

Subject to the project agreement, ownership of the custom project deliverables created specifically for the winner will transfer to the winner upon completion and delivery. Sponsor retains all ownership of its preexisting and independently developed intellectual property, reusable components, templates, tools, systems, methods, workflows, libraries, know-how, and general skills. Sponsor may continue using and developing those retained materials without restriction.

Deliverables may incorporate open-source software, third-party services, APIs, platforms, libraries, models, fonts, images, or other materials governed by separate licenses and terms. Those materials are not transferred beyond the rights granted by their applicable terms. The winner is responsible for third-party costs after Sponsor’s included contribution ends.

13. Potential Finalist Awards and Separate Commercial Offers

After the Grand Prize winner is publicly announced, Sponsor may, but is not required to, offer non-winning applicants additional awards or separate opportunities to purchase Sponsor services. Any commercial offer is separate from the Challenge, does not affect eligibility or scoring, and is not a prize unless Sponsor expressly identifies it as one.

14. Winner Verification and Acceptance

A potential winner must respond to Sponsor and return all requested documents within 24 hours after Sponsor first sends notice, unless Sponsor provides a different deadline in writing. Required documents may include proof of identity and eligibility, an IRS Form W-9, releases, representations, and Sponsor’s project agreement. The project agreement will address final scope, responsibilities, ownership, acceptable use, delivery, infrastructure, third-party services, and related implementation terms. The project agreement may not materially reduce the advertised prize.

If a potential winner cannot be contacted, fails to respond or provide documents on time, is unavailable for the required schedule, refuses the prize or project agreement, or is found ineligible or noncompliant, Sponsor may disqualify that person and select an alternate.

15. Taxes

All federal, state, and local taxes associated with a prize are solely the winner’s responsibility. A winner must provide a completed IRS Form W-9 and may receive an IRS Form 1099 reflecting the fair market value of the prize. Sponsor may report the prize as required by law. Sponsor does not provide tax advice. Entrants should consult their own tax advisers before accepting a prize.

16. Entrant Representations

Each entrant represents and warrants that:

17. Submission and Content Rights

Entries are not confidential. Do not submit information that you are unwilling or unauthorized to have discussed, displayed, or published. By entering, each entrant grants Sponsor and its affiliates, contractors, successors, and assigns a worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, transferable, and sublicensable license to access, reproduce, adapt, edit, summarize, display, distribute, publish, perform, and create derivative content from the entrant’s application, project name, submitted materials, Challenge participation, recordings, and screenshots for Challenge administration, evaluation, documentation, education, editorial content, case studies, marketing, publicity, and promotion in any media.

To the extent permitted by law, each entrant also permits Sponsor to use the entrant’s name, voice, image, likeness, biographical information, project information, statements, and Challenge results without additional payment, notice, review, or approval. For a resulting build, Sponsor may display and discuss non-confidential descriptions, screenshots, recordings, and demonstrations for documentation, education, case studies, marketing, publicity, and promotion. These rights do not transfer ownership of the winner’s custom project deliverables and do not authorize Sponsor to disclose passwords, credentials, personal data, customer data, or other information not intended for public display. Sponsor may not fabricate a testimonial or falsely state that an entrant endorses Sponsor.

18. Prohibited Conduct and Disqualification

Sponsor may disqualify an entrant or application, remove points, refuse a project, or take other reasonable action if Sponsor determines that the entrant has:

19. Administration, Changes, Suspension, and Cancellation

Sponsor may interpret and administer these Official Rules, correct administrative or scoring errors, verify entries and referrals, adjust intermediate prompts or deadlines when reasonably necessary, and make other non-material changes needed to operate the Challenge fairly and effectively. Sponsor will announce material changes through a designated Challenge communication channel. After the Challenge opens, Sponsor will not materially reduce the Grand Prize or materially change the winner-selection criteria except when required by law or reasonably necessary to address fraud, manipulation, technical failure, or another circumstance that materially threatens the integrity or feasibility of the Challenge.

Sponsor may modify, suspend, extend, or cancel the Challenge, or select a winner from eligible entries received before the affected event, if fraud, manipulation, technical failure, an insufficient number or quality of eligible applications, legal or regulatory concerns, force majeure, or other circumstances outside Sponsor’s reasonable control materially impair the integrity, feasibility, security, administration, or intended purpose of the Challenge. Sponsor is not required to award a prize when doing so would violate law or when no eligible entry satisfies the applicable requirements.

20. Release and Limitation of Liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, entrants release and hold harmless Sponsor and its affiliates, officers, directors, employees, contractors, agents, successors, and assigns from claims, losses, liabilities, damages, costs, and expenses arising from or related to participation in the Challenge, acceptance or use of a prize, publication or use of submitted materials, technical failures, unauthorized intervention, or any Challenge-related activity, except to the extent caused by conduct that cannot legally be released.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Sponsor’s total liability arising from or related to the Challenge will not exceed $100, and Sponsor will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, lost profits, lost data, loss of opportunity, or business interruption. Some jurisdictions do not permit certain exclusions or limitations, so portions of this section may not apply to a particular entrant.

21. Dispute Resolution and Class Action Waiver

Before filing a claim, the claimant must send Sponsor a written notice describing the dispute and requested relief to the Sponsor address above and allow 30 days for informal resolution.

Except for an eligible individual claim in small claims court, any dispute arising from or relating to the Challenge, these Official Rules, an entry, or a prize will be resolved by final and binding arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association under its applicable Consumer Arbitration Rules. Arbitration will proceed on an individual basis only. The arbitrator may award relief only to the individual claimant and only to the extent necessary to resolve that claimant’s individual claim. No class, collective, consolidated, coordinated, mass, or representative action or arbitration is permitted.

The Federal Arbitration Act governs the interpretation and enforcement of this arbitration agreement. The arbitration may occur remotely or in Contra Costa County, California, as the arbitrator permits under the applicable rules. If a court determines that a particular claim or request for public injunctive relief cannot lawfully be arbitrated, only that claim or request will proceed in court after all arbitrable matters are completed.

22. Governing Law

Except as governed by the Federal Arbitration Act, these Official Rules and the Challenge are governed by California law, without regard to conflict-of-law principles. Any permitted court proceeding must be brought in a state or federal court located in Contra Costa County, California, and each entrant consents to that court’s jurisdiction and venue.

23. Privacy and Communications

Sponsor may collect, use, store, and disclose application and participation information to administer, evaluate, score, publicize, document, and promote the Challenge, contact entrants, verify eligibility, assess Build Fit and readiness, discuss potential commercial opportunities, provide Challenge communications, prevent fraud, comply with law, and exercise the rights granted by these Official Rules. Sponsor may use service providers for those purposes. By entering, entrants consent to receive operational Challenge communications and application-related calls, emails, or texts. Any optional marketing communications remain subject to applicable law.

24. Platform Disclaimer

The Challenge may be promoted or discussed through third-party websites, community platforms, social networks, email services, or other services. The Challenge is not sponsored, endorsed, administered by, or associated with those third parties. Entrants remain subject to each third party’s applicable terms.

25. Severability and No Waiver

If any provision of these Official Rules is held invalid or unenforceable, it will be enforced to the maximum extent permitted and the remaining provisions will remain in effect. Sponsor’s failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of that provision or any other right.