DataVita, Scotland\u2019s fastest-growing technology company and home to one of the UK Government\u2019s designated AI Growth Zones, has opened entries for its OpenClaw Challenge, a competition that replaces the traditional job application with building a working AI product.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Entrants are asked to create an AI tool with OpenClaw, the open-source AI agent that has amassed more than 310,000 GitHub users and become one of the fastest-growing open-source projects of 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The strongest submission wins a full-time, permanent position on DataVita\u2019s AI Solutions team, with a \u00a335,000 starting salary and a full benefits package.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There is no traditional application form, no CV, no cover letter and no prior experience required. Recruiters will look at what applicants have built, how they built it and why it matters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Submissions are judged on originality, technical thinking, business value, security and communication. The challenge is explicitly aimed at people starting out in their career: students, self-taught builders, career-changers, or anyone with an idea they can make work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cFor certain roles, AI has fundamentally changed what we\u2019re looking for in new employees,\u201d said Danny Quinn, Managing Director of DataVita. \u201cCritical thinking, self-learning and a fundamental understanding of how technology interacts are more important than ever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe\u2019re seeing it inside our own business \u2013 young, supposedly inexperienced people coming in and taking new approaches to age-old problems. It\u2019s a completely different way of thinking and those capabilities are showing up in places traditional hiring has not always looked. What someone can build on their own often tells us more than their background alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe picked OpenClaw because it brings together a range of different approaches and technologies, so getting anywhere with it means you can think across domains. And because it\u2019s so new, there\u2019s no textbook, no course and no short cut. The only way to learn it is to experiment, test and figure it out yourself. If someone has built something real with OpenClaw, we already know they think differently and they can teach themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThere are people out there right now, often building as hobbyists in their own time, creating genuinely brilliant products with OpenClaw. Most of them have no idea how valuable their skill set actually is. A CV will not tell us who they are, but a working product will.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cFor this role, we don\u2019t care about your experience. If you\u2019re straight out of school, have never worked, or are in a job with no connection to IT but are passionate about this technology, submit an idea. Anyone with the right attitude will get an unbelievable opportunity to work on the deployment of AI as part of one of the most exciting teams in the country.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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