Launch any competition in a day, not months.
Awards, hackathons, grants, scholarships and challenges, powered by AI screening and jury evaluation, with unlimited submissions and no per-program fees. Set it up yourself in a day, or have our team launch your first program in under an hour.
Program page & form
Template applied · branded
Eligibility rules
3 criteria · auto-checked
Jury panel
12 judges invited · 2 rounds
Go live
Submissions open today
1 day
Typical setup
$0
Per-entry fee
Unlimited
Submissions
Built for teams running time-bound programs
One-off programs deserve fast, not fragile, tools
When a program runs once, every week of setup and every per-entry invoice comes straight out of the outcome. Most teams end up improvising with forms, inboxes and spreadsheets.
Manual judging in spreadsheets
Scores scattered across tabs, judges emailing PDFs back and forth, and a frantic reconciliation the night before the ceremony. One broken formula and the shortlist is wrong.
Per-submission fees that punish success
A great campaign should not create a budget problem. Most tools charge per entry or per program, so the more people apply, the more your program costs.
Weeks of setup for a one-time event
Custom microsites, developer tickets and procurement cycles for a program that runs once. By the time it is built, half your promotion window is gone.
From zero to launched in a day
Everything a program needs (landing page, applications, judging and results) runs end to end on Untap Compete. No developers, no separate tools, no rebuild next time.
Hour 1
Setup & customize
Pick a program template, brand the landing page, build your application form and set eligibility rules. No developers, no microsite build. Our team can do this with you in under an hour.
Same day
Collect submissions
Share one link. Applicants register, save drafts, upload files and video, and submit on any device. Unlimited entries, no per-submission fee.
Rounds 1–n
Evaluate with juries & AI
AI pre-screens for eligibility and quality, then your panels score against a weighted rubric across as many rounds as you need.
Ceremony ready
Announce winners
Auto-ranked leaderboards, exportable score reports, bulk decision emails and a public winners page, all from the same dashboard.
What you stop paying for when a campaign goes well.
Most tools in this category price the thing you actually want more of: submissions, programs and reviewers. Untap does not.
Comparison based on publicly available product documentation, August 2026.
Unlimited entries. Flat price. Discounted for the organizations that need it most.
Every plan includes unlimited submissions, unlimited programs and unlimited judges, with no per-entry fee.
Small nonprofits under 10 full-time employees
Foundations and educational institutions
Every time-bound program, one platform
Untap Compete is built for time-boxed programs: awards, hackathons, grants. If your hackathon is meant to build an ongoing community or feed a hiring pipeline, that same engine is available directly inside Untap Innovate or Untap Talent, with no separate purchase needed.
Awards
Industry, employee and excellence awards with categories, nominations and jury rounds.
Hackathons
Team registration, project submissions, mentor tracks and live judging in one place.
Grants & scholarships
Eligibility screening, document collection, reviewer panels and funding decisions.
Student competitions
Campus-wide or national contests with institution verification and cohort reporting.
Creative & casting calls
Portfolio, video and audio submissions with gallery review and public voting.
Entrepreneurship challenges
Pitch decks, financials and demo-day shortlists with investor jury access.
Proposals (CFP & RFP)
Structured calls for papers and proposals with blind review and scoring rubrics.
Research calls
Abstract intake, peer review assignments and committee decisions with an audit trail.
Public campaigns
Time-bound community contests with promotion pages, deadlines and winner reveals.
Judge with confidence, at any volume
Forty submissions or forty thousand, the workflow is the same. AI clears the noise, your jury makes the call, and every decision is recorded and exportable.
Unlimited submissions
Promote as widely as you want. Your plan never charges per entry, so a viral campaign costs the same as a quiet one.
AI pre-screening
Automatically check eligibility, flag incomplete or duplicate entries and summarize long submissions before judges open them. AI produces a shortlist, never an outcome. Every decision stays with your jury.
Multi-round jury workflows
Screening, shortlist and final rounds, each with its own criteria, judge pool and deadlines.
Anonymized blind review
Hide names, organizations and countries so panels score the work, not the reputation behind it.
Automated scoring & leaderboards
Weighted rubrics, reviewer normalization and live rankings that update as scores come in.
Defensible decisions
Full score history, judge progress tracking and one-click exports for governance and appeals.
Your model, your key
Connect your own AI provider with your own API key. You choose the model, you write the prompts, and your program data is never used to train ours.
AI is optional, and can be switched off
Every AI capability can be disabled entirely, per program or across your whole platform. Run a fully human-judged program if your policy or your funder requires it.
AUC International Case Competition
A student competition by the American University in Cairo run end to end on Untap Compete, from a branded entry site to jury scoring and winner announcement.
Branded entry site
A public microsite with eligibility rules, timelines and multi-format submissions, live in days.
Screening then jury
Initial screening cleared incomplete and out-of-scope entries before expert reviewers scored the shortlist.
Transparent results
Weighted rubrics, blind review and an exportable audit trail behind every decision.
See it live: icc.untap.us is the public landing page and competition platform for the AUC International Case Competition.
Built for programs that have to stand up to scrutiny.
Awards, grants and scholarships get appealed, audited and reported on. Untap runs them under the security, privacy and governance standards public institutions and enterprises review before rollout.
ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certified
An independently audited information security management system covering the platform and our operations.
Sensitive applicant data, handled properly
Encryption in transit and at rest, role-based access, and consent, retention and deletion workflows for the financial, identity and eligibility data grant and scholarship programs collect.
A decision trail you can defend
Full score history, blind review, judge progress tracking and one-click exports, so an appeal or an audit is answered with a record rather than a recollection.
Deployment on your terms
GCP, AWS or Azure with data residency options, plus single-tenant and on-premise deployment for public sector programs.
Who runs competitions on Untap
Award bodies, enterprises and public institutions launching time-bound programs without per-program fees.
193 capabilities, not a starter tier
193 of the 203+ capabilities on the Untap platform ship natively with Untap Compete. Every job below runs on the same shared engine. Nothing here is an upsell, a bolt-on or a separate product.
Two things teams do not expect to find here
Most platforms in this category stop at intake and scoring. Untap also carries a learning management stack and an events and bookings stack, natively, on the same participant records.
A full training stack, included
Prepare entrants before they submit: bootcamp courses, lessons, quizzes and assignments with progress tracking and completion certificates for finalists.
See training capabilitiesEvents, sessions and bookings
Run kick-offs, mentoring hours, pitch days and award ceremonies with bookable slots, mentor calendars, attendance tracking and automatic reminders.
See events capabilitiesYour judges are volunteers, so treat their time that way
Recruiting a strong jury is easy. Keeping them through round two is not. Untap gives evaluators a workspace built for people who did not read the manual.
Evaluator dashboard
One place for every assigned evaluation activity.
Instant login
One-click evaluator access with no complex password setup.
Evaluation table
View and manage assigned submissions.
Live judging
Score without ever leaving the evaluation table.
Instant evaluations
Score in a pop-up view.
Card view
Browse submissions as cards with thumbnails.
The rest of the Untap platform
Talent, Innovate and Compete run on one shared engine. Start with the product that matches your primary goal, and every capability (hackathons, challenges, judging, pipelines) is available natively, not gated behind a separate purchase.
Adding a product unlocks a different primary workflow: always-on community management in Innovate, a structured hiring pipeline in Talent, time-boxed program operations in Compete, not features you already have.
One flat price covers unlimited programs across all three products, see pricing.
Ready to launch your next program in a day, not months?
Start free and build your program today, or book a walkthrough and we'll set up your first competition with you.