Set up any kind of programme in its own words
Choose what you run and every screen uses its words. Start from a template, your handbook or a blank page, and build a form applicants finish.
Product
Everything a Programme Team Does, in One Place
From the first form to the certificate and the cohort after it: one record for every application, one audit trail, and IdeaScore AI doing the reading while people make the decisions.
One record for every application, from the first form to the cohort, with IdeaScore AI reading while people decide.
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One Record From First Form to Final Report
An application enters once and carries its case number, scores, decisions and history all the way through, and into the cohort if it is selected.
Set up
ApplicationsReview
ReviewEvaluate
EvaluationDecide
Pitch dayFollow through
Portfolio
Every Part of IdeaScore
Set-up and events
Set up any kind of programme in its own words
Choose what you run and every screen uses its words. Start from a template, your handbook or a blank page, and build a form applicants finish.Choose what you run, from a start-up programme or grant to a hackathon, a case competition or awards, and every screen, email and public page uses the right words: teams, judges, nominees or jurors. Start from a whole-programme template, from your own handbook with IdeaScore AI, or from a blank page, and build a form applicants finish.
Review
Turn the pile into a shortlist
One table with saved views and filters you describe in a sentence. Bulk actions show who is affected first, and every action is in the audit log.The whole call in one table, with saved views and filters you can describe in a sentence. Originality signals help reviewers without deciding for them, and rejecting many or asking for more information shows exactly who is affected, and the email, before anything is sent. Every admin action is written to an audit log in plain language.
Evaluation
Scoring your committee can defend
Fair scoring by default, five ways to judge a round, conflict-aware panels, deck masking, and a forecast of when scoring will finish.Evaluators form their own view before they see anything IdeaScore AI wrote. Judge each round by rubric, ranking, head-to-head, live pitch or public vote; build a panel in minutes with conflicts kept apart; mask names and photos in decks; and know from Review Forecast whether scoring will finish before the panel meets.
IdeaScore AI
IdeaScore AI does the reading, people decide
Swift sorts, Pro reviews, Deep decides. Chat about one application or the cohort, Deep Research when you need the web, and helpers that draft for people to check.IdeaScore AI reads every application against your rubric in one of three tiers: Swift sorts, Pro reviews, Deep decides. Ask IdeaScore AI Chat about one application or the whole cohort, add Deep Research to search the open web as well as your programme, and let helpers draft feedback, rationales and funder updates for people to check. Names and contact details never reach it.
Decisions
Run the day, decide, and say so properly
Pitch day from one screen, letters checked before they go, a Decision Trail, certificates anyone can verify, and reports from the same record.Pitch day runs the room from one screen, with a projector board that keeps the last good view on a bad connection. Decision letters show every recipient and the exact letter before they go, the Decision Trail records who decided what and why, and certificates carry a QR code anyone can verify. Reports and a sponsor report in your colours follow from the same record.
After selection
Cohorts, mentoring and a portal applicants trust
Cohorts with tranches, milestones and mentoring after selection; before it, a status page with honest dates and no scores before a decision.Selected teams become a cohort with agreements, compliance, funding released in tranches, milestones, impact KPIs and mentoring, and founders answer from a member space on their phone. Before that, every applicant has a status page with honest dates, the letter as it was sent and an offer to accept, with no scores shown before a decision.
Platform
Connected to your tools, and safe underneath
Sign-in your IT team approves, custom roles and your branding; spreadsheets, calendars, Zapier, Make and the API; backups, export and a Trust Centre.Google, Microsoft and domain sign-in, custom roles, and your branding on what applicants see. Live links to spreadsheets and calendars, Slack and Teams, Zapier and Make, and the IdeaScore API v1.5 in public beta. Underneath, nightly encrypted backups, export whenever you like, deleted items restorable for 30 days, and a Trust Centre with the standards we follow.
Turn the pile into a shortlist
One table with saved views and filters you describe in a sentence. Bulk actions show who is affected first, and every action is in the audit log.
Scoring your committee can defend
Fair scoring by default, five ways to judge a round, conflict-aware panels, deck masking, and a forecast of when scoring will finish.
IdeaScore AI does the reading, people decide
Swift sorts, Pro reviews, Deep decides. Chat about one application or the cohort, Deep Research when you need the web, and helpers that draft for people to check.
Run the day, decide, and say so properly
Pitch day from one screen, letters checked before they go, a Decision Trail, certificates anyone can verify, and reports from the same record.
Cohorts, mentoring and a portal applicants trust
Cohorts with tranches, milestones and mentoring after selection; before it, a status page with honest dates and no scores before a decision.
Connected to your tools, and safe underneath
Sign-in your IT team approves, custom roles and your branding; spreadsheets, calendars, Zapier, Make and the API; backups, export and a Trust Centre.
Questions About IdeaScore as a Whole
IdeaScore is application review and evaluation software for programmes that choose who to back: incubators and accelerators, universities and research parks, grant makers, CSR teams, and the organisers of hackathons, competitions, awards and conferences. It runs a call end to end, from the application form through review, rubric scoring in rounds, IdeaScore AI with the evidence beside every score, pitch day and committee decisions, to certificates and reports. People make every decision. It is built by CMS Group in Dehradun, India.
No. When you create a programme, its features are cards you switch on or off, with the ones your kind of programme needs suggested first. A programme can stop at review, or run scoring without a pitch day.
Start-up programmes, grants and fellowships, open innovation and policy challenges, hackathons, business plan, marketing, design and moot court competitions, coding, data-science and hardware contests, awards, and anything else you describe. Each uses its own words throughout.
Yes: one on Starter, three on Growth, five on Professional, and as many as you like on Enterprise and Campus. Each has its own form, rubric, evaluators and leaderboard.
No. People decide. Evaluators do not see IdeaScore AI's notes unless you choose to show them, drafts from IdeaScore AI are never sent until a person confirms them, the Guide shows a change before it makes it, and applicants are told when IdeaScore AI helped.
Owners run the organisation, programme admins run the programmes they are given, and evaluators see only the teams assigned to them. Owners can add ready-made or custom roles for the whole organisation or one programme, and applicants only ever see their own applications.
In our cloud, set up by our team and kept current by us. Self-hosting on your own infrastructure, on request, is an Enterprise option.
See IdeaScore Run a Call with Your Own Rubric
A 30-minute walkthrough with a product specialist, using your programme's form and criteria.