1 min lesson
Live demo / technical presentation
Use "Live demo / technical presentation" to explain each part and the role it plays.
Step 1 of 2
This round asks you to demonstrate or present a product you know well, ideally Cursor itself, to a simulated audience. Sometimes the whole panel attends. They're watching how you tell a story under pressure as much as what you show.
Use this stage map to decide what evidence belongs in each round. Memorizing the order is the shallow version. For every stage, prepare one artifact, one story and one question that shows how you reason in the role.
What you're graded on
- Storytelling
- A narrative arc, not a feature tour. Problem, workflow, outcome.
- Tailoring
- Reading the room and adjusting depth for devs vs. execs in real time.
- Objection handling
- Staying composed when interrupted or challenged mid-demo.
- Technical command
- Knowing the product cold so a curveball doesn't derail you.
Build the demo as a tight narrative, not a tour of the menu bar. The arc is simple and it's the difference between a demo that lands and one that bores.
- 1Open on the problem. A concrete, expensive pain the audience actually feels - slow onboarding, review backlog, repetitive boilerplate.
- 2Show the workflow live. A real Cursor flow against real code: Agent making a multi-file change, Tab accelerating edits, Rules enforcing house conventions, MCPModel Context Protocol. A standard that lets an AI agent pull in context from outside the repo, like Jira tickets or internal docs. Press Enter for the full definition. pulling internal context.
- 3Land on a measurable outcome. Connect what they just saw to cycle time, PR throughput or onboarding ramp - the metric the buyer cares about.