Competition rules

1. Who runs the competition

Start Your Story, round 1 ("the competition") is a promotional competition run by Austin Moyo, trading as AussyPrompt ("AussyPrompt", "we"), 128 Starling Street, Lenasia, Johannesburg, 1827. Questions about the competition go to hello@aussyprompt.com.

By entering, you agree to these rules. You can read them free of charge on this page at any time, and we email a copy to anyone who asks.

2. When it runs

• Entries open on 14 November 2026 and close at 23:59 on 15 January 2027 (South African time). Entries after that are welcome, but they are not part of this round.
• The public vote on the shortlist runs from 19 January 2027 to 23:59 on 24 January 2027.
• The winner is announced at the AussyPrompt Grand Opening in January 2027, and no later than 31 January 2027.

3. Who can enter

Anyone aged 18 or older who lives in South Africa and has a working email address. You don't need an AussyPrompt account, and you don't need to buy anything.

These people can't enter: directors, members, partners, employees, agents and consultants of AussyPrompt; anyone who supplies goods or services for this competition; and the spouses, life partners, business partners and immediate family of any of them.

4. How to enter

• Fill in the form on aussyprompt.com/start-your-story before entries close. Entering is free: there is no entry fee and no purchase, beyond the normal cost of your own internet data.
• One entry per person in this round. To add to your story, reply to the email we send you.
• Your story must be true and your own, about a business you run or plan to start. You may write it in any of South Africa's official languages, or a mix of them. Every story is judged the same way, whatever language it is in.
• Entries that are incomplete, copied, sent by automated tools or made in bulk are not valid.
• Your story stays yours. Entering gives us only the permissions in section 7.

5. How the winner is chosen

1. The shortlist. Our team reads every valid entry and picks a shortlist of 5. Each story is scored on four things, each counting equally: how clearly it shows how the business really works; how clearly it shows a real problem a system could solve; honesty and detail; and how original it is.

2. The public vote. Each shortlisted story is posted on AussyPrompt's official Facebook and LinkedIn pages, shown the way its owner chose (section 7). A vote is one reaction to a shortlisted story's post on either page. Votes on both pages are added together and counted when voting closes. Votes from fake, duplicated or paid-for accounts, or made by automated tools, are not counted, and an entrant who buys votes or uses such tools is disqualified.

3. The winner. The shortlisted story with the most valid votes wins, once our team has confirmed that its owner meets these rules. If two stories tie, the one with the higher shortlist score wins.

6. The prize

• The winner gets 12 months of AussyPrompt ONE Pro for their own business, at no cost. It covers everything in the ONE Pro plan at the time, with ONE Pro's normal fair-use allowances.
• The 12 months start on the day the winner activates the plan, which must be within three months of the announcement. We help with the set-up.
• If the winner already pays for an AussyPrompt ONE plan, they move to ONE Pro for the 12 months and pay nothing for that time.
• The prize can't be exchanged for cash or given to someone else. If ONE Pro changes during the 12 months, the winner gets the closest plan to it.
• The winner never pays anything, and never gives payment details, to receive the prize.

7. Contacting the winner

We contact the winner by email, and by phone or WhatsApp if they gave a number, before the announcement. The winner has seven days to reply and may be asked for proof of age and that they live in South Africa. If the winner doesn't reply in time or doesn't meet these rules, the shortlisted story with the next most votes wins.

8. How your story is shown

• When you enter, you choose how your story is shown if it's shortlisted: your first name and town only, or your full name and business name. We use only what you chose.
• We contact every shortlisted entrant before anything is posted. You can withdraw your story before voting starts.
• We may shorten your story or translate it so more people can read it, without changing what it says, and we show you the version we'll post first.
• The winner is announced the way they chose. The winner doesn't have to take part in any other publicity, such as photos, videos or interviews, to receive the prize.
• After the competition, we use your story in our marketing only if you ticked the optional box on the form. You can change your mind at any time by emailing hello@aussyprompt.com, and we stop using it from then on.

9. Your information

We use your name, contact details and story to run the competition, to contact you about your story and, only if you agreed, in our marketing. We never sell your information. We keep competition records for three years after the competition, as the Consumer Protection Act asks, and then delete them.

You may ask to see, correct or delete your information, or object to how we use it, by emailing support@aussyprompt.com. Our Privacy Policy explains your rights under POPIA, including complaining to the Information Regulator.

10. The results

The winner is announced on this website and on our Facebook and LinkedIn pages, under the name they chose. Anyone may ask us for the result of the competition, free of charge.

11. Everything else

• We change these rules or end the competition early only if something outside our control makes it impossible to run fairly. We announce any change on this page.
• This competition is in no way sponsored, endorsed or run by, or associated with, Facebook (Meta) or LinkedIn. By entering, you release them from any responsibility for it, and you give your information to AussyPrompt, not to them.
• The team's decision on the shortlist and on whether an entry meets these rules is final, as far as the law allows.
• Nothing in these rules limits your rights under the Consumer Protection Act. South African law applies.