AIM ORIGINALS
CODE KITCHEN S01
A national coding reality series
for India's elite working developers
Burn the standard CV. One title replaces it: Code Kitchen Season 01 Winner. Presented by Google Cloud, with a ₹10 Lakh prize pool and a national stage.
Prize Pool Episodes Finalists
Sandbox Challenges Glory
all coders
assemble
Professionals ready to step out
of the shadows. The qualifier is the way in.
The Show
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// The Format
MasterChef, but Tech and AI style.
India's first coding reality show, presented by Google Cloud. 10 teams of two digital architects build real applications across 8 episodes, judged by industry experts and a celebrity anchor, with an agentic AI co-anchor in the mix. The auditions are open to the country — the studio is reserved for the best.
10
Teams
2
Architects Per Team
8
Episodes
5
Rounds Per Episode
₹10L
Prize Pool
// Inside Each Episode
Five rounds. One build. No hiding.
Every episode runs five rounds that take a team from brief to working product under pressure. Here's the arc.
The AI Market
Teams are handed their app brief, then head to the AI Market to gather their ingredients: software, cloud credits, hardware. What you pick is as strategic as how you build.
The Build
Heads down at the coding stations. Real applications, real stacks, real deadlines — the heart of every episode.
“Mileage Kitna Deti Hai”
The efficiency round. Judges weigh ROI, cost-per-ping and cost-to-scale. The top two teams earn an advantage; the bottom two re-strategise and rebuild.
The Pitch
Shark Tank–style. Teams pitch the app and its features to a panel of thought leaders and industry titans who decide what ships and what sinks.
The Agentic Co-Anchor
A “Phone a Friend” for the AI era. An enterprise AI agent, in a custom avatar, steps in as the show's co-anchor and wildcard.
// The Way In
The nationwide auditions.
The only gate into the show. Quick-sprint hackathons, virtual tasks and interviews run across India to shortlist the talent that makes the studio. Register as an individual, get your pre-funded Google Cloud sandbox, and build at your own pace — no day-job disruption, no setup overhead. The strongest coders are paired into the 10 teams that step on stage.
Audition Flow
Register & Provision
Under 60 seconds. Your private, pre-funded Google Cloud sandbox spins up instantly.
Sprint & Submit
Take on the audition hackathons and virtual tasks on your own schedule.
Get Drafted
Clear the screening, get paired into a team, and claim your place on the show.
// The Season
From auditions to the grand finale.
The Nationwide Auditions
Sprint hackathons, virtual tasks and interviews shortlist the country's best coders.
The Team Draft & Main Stage
Finalists are paired into 10 teams and step under the studio lights for the first time.
First Builds
Five rounds, one working app, judged live. The eliminations begin.
The AI Market Heats Up
Sharper briefs and tighter ingredient budgets test every team's strategy.
Efficiency Wars
“Mileage kitna deti hai” — ROI and cost-to-scale separate the contenders from the pretenders.
The Pitch Rounds
Shark Tank–style pitches in front of industry titans raise the stakes.
The Semi-Final
The strongest teams ship their most ambitious builds yet.
The Grand Finale
One team is crowned Code Kitchen Season 01 Winner, lifts the Season Best Trophy, and claims the ₹10 Lakh prize pool.
// Your Brand
Your all-access pass to 20M+ Indian builders.
Code Kitchen puts your brand inside the build — coding stations, AI stations, the AI Market and the rounds themselves — in front of a highly engaged community of Indian developers, coders and AI builders. Product placements and integrations that read as part of the show, never as a logo wall.
Secure your spot. Claim your glory.
The auditions are the only way in. Don't watch another team lift the trophy on screen.