Send us an idea
before it’s ready.
The hardest part of doing original work as a student is finding someone serious to read your draft. Early-Stage Feedback is GQC’s free, year-round critique service. Submit any time, in any language we can read — we’ll return a written response within fourteen days.
The point of getting feedback early.
Most of the work in a GQC entry is decided before anyone presses submit: the choice of question, the framing of the user, the methods used. By the time a project reaches a judging panel, those decisions are usually too cemented to change. Early-Stage Feedback exists to apply pressure where it’s still useful.
You can use the service without ever entering GQC. You don’t have to be on a team yet. Some of the strongest cohorts we’ve seen began as a single student who sent in a draft brief in October and built a team off the back of the critique.
Three steps.
One page is plenty. Tell us the problem you’re thinking about, who it affects, and what you’ve tried so far. A scrappy Google Doc is better than a polished PDF.
One subject-matter expert close to the problem area, one generalist who can challenge framing. They read independently — no consensus required.
Each runs roughly 400–600 words. We aim for fourteen days. You decide what to do with the advice — we don’t expect or require a reply, and submitting doesn’t commit you to entering GQC.