Untap
Untap
Competition & awards platform

Launch any competition in days, not months.

Awards, hackathons, grants, scholarships and challenges — powered by AI screening and jury evaluation, with unlimited submissions and no per-program fees.

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Launch checklist Day 2 of 4

Program page & form

Template applied · branded

Eligibility rules

3 criteria · auto-checked

Jury panel

12 judges invited · 2 rounds

Go live

Submissions open in 4 days

3 days

Avg. setup

$0

Per-entry fee

Unlimited

Submissions

Who it's for

Built for teams running time-bound programs

Program managersMarketing & CSR leadsUniversity administratorsNonprofit teamsEvent organisers
The problem

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.

Speed to launch

From zero to launched in days

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.

01

Day 1–2

Setup & customise

Pick a program template, brand the landing page, build your application form and set eligibility rules — no developers, no microsite build.

02

Live in days

Collect submissions

Share one link. Applicants register, save drafts, upload files and video, and submit on any device. Unlimited entries, no per-submission fee.

03

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.

04

Ceremony ready

Announce winners

Auto-ranked leaderboards, exportable score reports, bulk decision emails and a public winners page — all from the same dashboard.

Program types

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 — 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.

Evaluation & judging

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 summarise long submissions before judges open them.

Multi-round jury workflows

Screening, shortlist and final rounds, each with its own criteria, judge pool and deadlines.

Anonymised blind review

Hide names, organisations and countries so panels score the work, not the reputation behind it.

Automated scoring & leaderboards

Weighted rubrics, reviewer normalisation 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.

Program spotlight

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, conflict-of-interest controls and an exportable audit trail behind every decision.

See it live: icc.untap.us — the public landing page and competition platform for the AUC International Case Competition.

Often missed

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 capabilities

Events, 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 capabilities
Judge experience

Your judges are volunteers — 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.

See the full judge toolkit
One platform

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.

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Ready to launch your next program in days, not months?

Start free and build your program today, or book a walkthrough and we'll set up your first competition with you.

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