Everything you expect from idea management software. Without the enterprise overhead.
Capture ideas from employees, partners and the public, evaluate them fairly, and move the best ones forward. Untap Innovate goes live in days, not months, and one published price covers unlimited users, ideas, programs and reviewers.
Capture
Always-on idea boxes and time-boxed campaigns, side by side
Evaluate
Weighted rubrics, blind review, AI screening and voting
Advance
Stage-gated rounds, each shortlisted idea with an owner and a next step
Repeat
Forms, criteria and reviewer panels carry into the next cycle
Built for the teams that run idea programs
Idea management should not take a quarter to launch and a licence count to grow.
Most idea management suites were built for large rollouts with a vendor team behind them. If you want the same core jobs done without that weight, the tool is usually the problem, not your program.
Months before the first idea arrives
Enterprise rollouts typically run one to three months, with configuration your team later needs vendor help to change.
Pricing that punishes participation
Per-user and per-module licences mean every new business unit, partner or public campaign raises the bill. A successful year costs more than a quiet one.
Admins working for the tool
Settings spread across screens, reports stitched together from exports, design changes that need code. Your team spends its time on configuration instead of ideas.
What idea management software should do. All of it, included.
If you are comparing idea management tools, these are the jobs that matter. Untap Innovate covers each one natively, with nothing sold as a separate module.
1. Capture ideas from anyone, anywhere
Always-on idea boxes and targeted campaigns, custom forms with branching logic, team submissions, save-and-resume drafts, and branded portals in multiple languages, including Arabic.
2. Keep contributors engaged
Open ideas to employee or public voting with comments, and keep momentum with reminders, gamification and status updates on every idea, so people see what happened to their submission and come back for the next campaign.
3. Evaluate fairly, at any volume
Multi-round judging, weighted rubrics, blind review and AI that clusters duplicates and summarizes long submissions, with employee or public voting weighted alongside your experts.
4. Move the best ideas forward
Stage-gated rounds with their own criteria, reviewers and deadlines, plus automated rule-based shortlisting, so every promising idea has a clear owner and next step.
5. Report on what happened
A built-in analytics module covers participation, idea content and trends across campaigns, with exports and Google Analytics and Sheets integration, ready for the leadership update.
6. Fit your IT and security requirements
SSO, granular roles and permissions, IP and NDA gating, REST API and webhooks, ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification, data residency options and on-premise deployment.
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See how Untap Innovate compares on pricing, setup time and features.
The same jobs, without the weight.
Enterprise idea management suites do the core jobs well. They also bring long rollouts, per-user pricing and admin complexity. Here is where Untap Innovate differs.
Comparison based on publicly available product documentation and user reviews, October 2026.
Priced for participation, not per seat.
Most idea management software charges per user or per module, or will not publish a number at all. Untap publishes its pricing, and one flat price covers unlimited users, ideas, programs and reviewers across Innovate, Talent and Compete.
Every idea program, on one engine
Untap Innovate is built for always-on innovation ecosystems. A one-off challenge with no ongoing community goal is available as a lighter starting point in Untap Compete, but the same evaluation engine runs natively here too.
Internal innovation
Run always-on employee idea pipelines with sponsors, budgets and stage gates.
Academia–industry collaboration
Connect university research with corporate and government challenge owners.
CSR programs
Operate social impact and sustainability initiatives with measurable outcomes.
Idea management
Capture, score, route and track ideas from submission to implementation.
Open innovation
Source solutions from startups, SMEs and independent innovators around live business problems.
Co-creation
Work side by side with partners and customers from concept to pilot.
Citizen engagement
Invite the public into policy, service design and city-scale problem solving.
Crowdsourcing
Collect, cluster and prioritize input from large distributed audiences.
Evaluate with confidence, at any scale
Whether you receive 40 submissions or 40,000, Untap combines AI assistance, expert juries and public voting so decisions are fast, fair and defensible.
Multi-round judging
Design screening, shortlist, deep-dive and final rounds with distinct criteria and evaluator pools per round.
Panel management
Invite, assign and balance reviewer workload, track progress and chase incomplete scores automatically.
Blind review
Anonymize submitters, organizations and affiliations to keep scoring focused on the idea itself.
Weighted scoring
Configure rubrics per program, weight criteria by strategic priority and normalize across reviewers.
AI-assisted screening
Cluster duplicates, summarize long submissions and surface strong candidates for human decision-makers.
Public voting
Open a round to the crowd, employees or a wider community so people vote for their favorite submissions. Configure vote windows, one-vote-per-verified-user rules and fraud protection, then weight the popular vote alongside jury and AI scores.
Security and governance your procurement team already expects
Untap runs innovation programs for global enterprises, ministries and multilateral organizations, under their security, residency and IP requirements.
ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certified
An independently audited information security management system covering the platform and our operations.
GCP, AWS and Azure hosting
Deploy on the cloud your security team already approves, including single-tenant configurations.
Built for government buyers
Data residency options, procurement-ready documentation and accessibility standards for public sector programs.
IP protection for submitted ideas
Configurable IP and confidentiality terms, access controls and NDA gating so innovators submit with confidence.
“Innovate: faster, cheaper, constantly.”
One of the original hand-drawn panels behind Untap, sketched years before the platform existed. It still describes what an innovation ecosystem is supposed to do: pull ideas in from everywhere, continuously, at a fraction of the cost of running each program alone.
Who runs innovation on Untap
Enterprises, governments and ecosystem builders running every idea program on one engine.
198 capabilities, not a starter tier
198 of the 209+ capabilities on the Untap platform ship natively with Untap Innovate. Every job below runs on the same shared engine. Nothing here is an upsell, a bolt-on or a separate product.
Your 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 Untap
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.
See your idea program running this week.
Start a free trial and launch your first campaign today, or book a 30-minute walkthrough and we will map your current tool, your users and your security requirements onto Untap Innovate.