Your First Week with IdeaScore

Ask for a 7-day trial and our team sets you up, usually within one working day. Here is the whole first week.Ask for a 7-day trial and our team sets up your organisation, usually within one working day. Here is the whole first week: what happens on day 1, days 2 and 3 and day 7, what to have ready, and where each guide fits.

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on Professional features: 7days
IdeaScore AI credits, no card: 100
to set you up, usually one working day: 1day
an optional extension, once: 3days

The First Week, Day by Day

A suggested pace, built from what the product really does.A suggested pace. Every step is something the product really does; go faster or slower as your call needs.

Before day 1

Ask, and our team sets it up

A few short questions, and our team sets up your organisation for you.Answer a few short questions about your organisation and the programme you run, beside a preview of your own IdeaScore. Our team sets up your organisation, with your data kept apart from everyone else's.

Send the request; no card needed
Our team sets up your organisation, usually within one working day
An email arrives at your work email to set your password

The Start a Trial page: organisation, name, work email, organisation type and expected submissions, beside an illustration of a review queue and the line Run your next call on IdeaScore. — A few short questions beside a preview of your own IdeaScore. Our team sets it up, usually within one working day.

What to Have Ready

None of it is needed to start, but with these to hand set-up takes about ten minutes.None of it is needed to start: IdeaScore AI can draft the form and rubric from your call. With these to hand, set-up takes about ten minutes.

0 of 6 ready

The call documentEligibility, dates, what is on offer and how decisions are made.
Your logo and primary colourThe colour as a hex value; check the logo on light and dark.
The application questionsRoughly grouped into stages an applicant can finish in one sitting.
The rubricCriteria, weights and what a low and a high score mean for each.
The evaluator listNames, email addresses and the sectors each one knows.
Your datesWindow opens, window closes, scoring deadline, decisions out.

Only you see these ticks; nothing is saved or sent.

Every step, with screenshots:Setting Up Your First Programme

Try Professional or Start Free

Try Professional for 7 days, or start free on Starter. Our team sets up either.Two ways in, both set up by our team, usually within one working day: a 7-day trial on Professional features, or Starter, free for as long as you like.

Try every feature

The 7-day trial

Every Professional feature on your own call, set up by our team.

7 days on Professional features
100 IdeaScore AI credits, no card
Set up by our team, usually within one working day
One optional 3-day extension
Read-only when it ends; nothing deleted

Start a 7-day free trial

Or start free

Starter, free

One programme, for as long as you like.

One programme in total, up to 100 entries
3 evaluators and 1 programme admin
150 IdeaScore AI credits, given once
Single-round scoring
Set up by our team, usually within one working day

Start free

Need more rounds, panels or programmes? Paid plans are yearly, with 10% off until 31 January 2027.Compare plans

Help on Every Page

You are never left with a blank screen.

A tour on every main page
Walks through the real page and ends with one thing to try. It never starts by itself or changes your data.
Example data on empty pages
Clearly labelled, never saved or sent, with Show my own data one click away.
Getting Started
The organisation's checklist, which folds to one line when every step is done.
A set-up guide on every programme
From the application form to decision letters, in any order.
Moments worth marking
A short card at each milestone, with the real figures and the next step.
Press ? for a tip
One useful tip at a time, then every shortcut. Ctrl K searches everything.

The Keyboard Shortcuts window on Submissions: a tip to step through the list with J and K, then the shortcuts for this page and everywhere, with a filter. — Press ? on any page for one useful tip at a time, then every shortcut that works there.

The Meridian Seed Fund 2026 dashboard opening with a warm card: Cohort III has started, 12 companies begin a 12-month programme and the first milestone reports are due on 22 October. — A warm card marks the milestones, such as a cohort starting, once for each person.

Open the Help Centre

Thirteen Guides for the Rest of the Way

Step-by-step playbooks for every stage of a programme.Step-by-step playbooks for every stage of a programme, from the first form to the board report.

Set Up

The programme, its look and how entries are scored.

Collect

The form applicants fill in, and the window it is open.

Building a Multi-Stage Application FormAbout 12 minutes · 6 steps

Review

Evaluators, conflicts, blind rounds, scoring and IdeaScore AI.

Decide

Pitch day, the committee, decisions, letters and results.

Follow Through

Reports for the board and data for your other tools.

Admin

Privacy, retention and where IdeaScore runs.

All guides

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Before You Start

No. A trial is 7 days on Professional features with 100 IdeaScore AI credits, and no card. Our team sets up your organisation, usually within one working day.

Yes, once: our team can extend a trial by 3 days.

A trial has no grace period: the organisation becomes read-only until you choose a plan, and IdeaScore AI stops. Nothing is deleted, and everything you built is there when you open it again.

Yes. Starter is free for one programme in total, with up to 100 entries and 3 evaluators, and 150 IdeaScore AI credits given once. Choose Start free and our team sets up your free workspace, usually within one working day.

Start Your First Week

Seven days on Professional features, 100 IdeaScore AI credits and no card. Our team sets it up, usually within one working day.

Start a 7-day free trial Book a demo