Innovation programs that build capability, not just idea piles.
Untap Innovate is the only innovation platform where participants learn while they compete. Courses, mentorship and proctored assessment run inside the same program that collects and judges the ideas, so every campaign leaves your people measurably more capable.
Launch challenge
Templates and criteria reused from the last cycle
Upskill participants
Courses, mentors and clinics inside the program
Evaluate
Blind review, weighted rubric, proctored assessment
Compound
Certified innovators, winners and insight carry forward
Built for innovation leaders in large organizations
Your last challenge produced hundreds of ideas and zero new skills.
Innovation platforms are built to collect submissions and rank them. They do nothing to develop the people submitting, so the ideas arrive half-formed and your team spends the next quarter fixing them.
Ideas arrive half-formed
Participants submit without the framing, method or commercial context to make a proposal viable. Your team absorbs the gap, every round.
Participants leave exactly as capable as they arrived
The program ends, the leaderboard publishes, and nobody in your organization or your ecosystem is measurably more skilled than before it started.
Innovation and L&D defend separate budgets
Your CHRO runs learning, you run innovation, and the two never touch. At board review you can show that you ran an event, not that you built capability.
The only innovation platform with a capability engine inside it.
Most platforms in this category stop at intake and scoring. Untap carries a full learning stack, an events and mentorship stack, and proctored assessment natively, on the same participant records.
A full training stack, included
Courses, lessons, quizzes and assignments, certificates issued on completion, and learning history attached to every member profile. Quiz scores can gate progression into the next round.
See training capabilitiesMentorship, clinics and bookings
Always-on office hours, expert clinics and demo days with bookable mentor slots, session calendars, attendance tracking and automatic reminders.
See events capabilitiesProctored, verifiable assessment
Assess participants under proctoring when the outcome matters, so a certificate from your program means something to the person who earned it and to the manager who sponsored them.
See assessment capabilitiesWhat you get instead of a scoring spreadsheet with a portal attached.
Most platforms in this category are built to collect ideas and rank them. Untap runs the learning, the mentorship, the assessment and the evaluation on one engine, so the program develops the people inside it while it produces the ideas.
Comparison based on publicly available product documentation, August 2026.
Unlimited, at a flat price.
Enterprise innovation platforms in this category price per seat, per feature or by quote, and most will not publish a number at all. Untap publishes its pricing, and one flat price covers unlimited programs, participants, submissions and judges across Innovate, Talent and Compete.
Every ongoing innovation program, on one platform
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.
Research grants
Run structured calls for proposals with reviewer panels and funding decisions.
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 using one platform for every innovation program they run.
192 capabilities, not a starter tier
192 of the 203+ 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 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 run innovation programs that leave your people more capable?
Book a working session with our enterprise team. We will map your innovation portfolio, your stakeholders and your security requirements, then show how the learning, mentorship and evaluation layers run as one program.