Build innovation ecosystems that compound over time.
The infrastructure for open innovation, internal innovation, and idea management — trusted by enterprises and governments running ongoing innovation programs at scale.
Launch challenge
Templates and criteria reused from the last cycle
Engage community
3,482 innovators already in the ecosystem
Evaluate
Blind review · weighted rubric · 24 panellists
Implement & compound
Winners, insights and audience carry forward
400+
Programs run
60+
Countries
250k+
Ideas evaluated
Built for innovation leaders in large organisations
Innovation programs shouldn't reset every year
Most innovation tools treat each challenge as a one-off project. The portal closes, the community disperses, and next year's program starts from an empty page — again.
Fragmented point tools for every challenge
A new microsite for each challenge, a spreadsheet for scoring, a forms tool for intake and an inbox for judges. Nothing carries over, and procurement runs again next quarter.
Lost momentum between programs
The campaign ends, the portal is archived, and the team rebuilds from zero. Insight, criteria and evaluator panels disappear with the project.
No compounding community value
Innovators, startups, researchers and employees who engaged once are never re-activated. Each program pays again for an audience you already earned.
Not a project tool. An innovation operating system.
Untap Innovate is built for organisations that will run innovation next year too — where every program adds to the community, the evaluator bench and the institutional memory.
“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.
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.
Open innovation
Source solutions from startups, SMEs and independent innovators around live business problems.
Internal innovation
Run always-on employee idea pipelines with sponsors, budgets and stage gates.
Citizen engagement
Invite the public into policy, service design and city-scale problem solving.
Crowdsourcing
Collect, cluster and prioritise input from large distributed audiences.
Co-creation
Work side by side with partners and customers from concept to pilot.
Idea management
Capture, score, route and track ideas from submission to implementation.
Research grants
Run structured calls for proposals with reviewer panels and funding decisions.
CSR programs
Operate social impact and sustainability initiatives with measurable outcomes.
Academia–industry collaboration
Connect university research with corporate and government challenge owners.
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
Anonymise submitters, organisations and affiliations to keep scoring focused on the idea itself.
Weighted scoring
Configure rubrics per program, weight criteria by strategic priority and normalise across reviewers.
Conflict detection
Flag reviewer relationships and affiliations before assignment, with a full audit trail for governance.
AI-assisted screening
Cluster duplicates, summarise 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 favourite 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 organisations — 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.
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
Every job below ships on the same shared engine. Nothing here is an upsell, a bolt-on or a separate product — this is what you get when you run on Untap Innovate.
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
Upskill your innovator community with courses, lessons, quizzes and assignments, issue certificates on completion, and keep the learning history attached to each member's profile.
See training capabilitiesEvents, sessions and bookings
Run always-on office hours, expert clinics and demo days with bookable mentor slots, session calendars, attendance tracking and automatic reminders.
See events capabilitiesYour 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.
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 build an innovation ecosystem that grows with every program?
Book a working session with our enterprise team. We'll map your current innovation portfolio, your stakeholders and your security requirements, then show how Untap Innovate runs them as one compounding ecosystem.