What's New

Papers, reviews and decisions

Authors submit with an anonymity check, reviewers score double-blind and declare conflicts of interest, and chairs record decisions and send letters.

Schedule and speakers

Build the programme schedule, manage speakers and publish a public programme page.

From eligibility to instalments

Eligibility checks, documents and referees, verification, blind scoring, a shortlist with amounts, then instalments and renewals.

Sensitive answers stay protected

Mark a question as sensitive and only people who verify eligibility see the answers, with a retention period you set.

Nominations

Juries see the nominee, never the person who nominated them.

Partners, committee and utilisation

Partner proposals with Schedule VII areas, a fit card and due diligence, a committee board, utilisation by financial year with a year-end lock, and impact and partner reports.

A view for your finance team

Finance members record releases and see each project's released and releasable amounts, without programme totals.

Every programme type in its own words

Tables, filters, comparisons and scoring pages use your programme's own terms, such as Track, Level of study, Award category or Language of argument.

Moot court blind rounds

Teams appear by case number in blind rounds.

Deleted programmes don't count towards your plan

Programmes in Deleted items no longer use up a place on your plan.

Blind review hides more

Affiliation, institution, author and ORCID answers stay hidden from blind reviewers on every programme type.

IdeaScore AI sees less personal data

Roll numbers, student and employee IDs and similar personal identifiers are left out of what IdeaScore AI reads.

A tour on every main page

Tours have a new look, with arrow buttons to move through them. Eight more pages now have one: Teams, Portfolio, Cohorts and each cohort, Mentors, Committee, Interviews and Settings, along with the organisation Dashboard. Open any tour from the page's three-dot menu.

Explore safely on an empty programme

When a programme has little data, tours show clearly labelled example data you can explore without touching your own. Choose Show my own data at any time. If you click something for real, the tour pauses with Resume, End and Try it yourself.

Create a Programme, all in one place

Every setting is available up front. Features appear as designed cards with the suggested ones first and a question-mark helper on each, and templates are filtered to the programme type you chose.

Set-up for all 15 programme types

IdeaScore AI set-up now offers all 15 programme types, so the suggested set-up fits the kind of programme you run.

IdeaScore AI Guide can make a change for you

The Guide now knows your programme by name. Ask it to turn blind review on or off for a round, check the preview, and press Apply. Undo is there if you change your mind, and each change is recorded in the audit trail. Only people who could make the change themselves can apply it.

Calmer chat answers

Source numbers are smaller, the toolbar under each answer is cleaner, and you can rename a chat in place. Deep Research answers list only the pages they actually cite.

Deck masking for evaluators

Decks, whether PPT, PDF, pitch decks or documents, can be shown to evaluators with names, contact details and team photos removed. Staff and teams keep the original.

Announcements in the bell

Announcements now appear in your notifications, with a gentle nudge when one is still unread.

A faster programme overview

The figures on the overview load together, and any card that does not load has its own Try again button.

Errors you can report easily

Error messages carry a reference you can copy and send to support.

Install the app

Staff can install IdeaScore on a desktop or phone and open it like any other app.

Sign in and return to your page

After you sign in, you return to the page you came from. What's new also has a media viewer for its pictures and videos.

A fuller Help Centre

Help now has walkthrough cards, a trust section listing the standards we follow, the Legal, Trust and Privacy centre, and a Status page with Report a problem and Contact support.

API v1.5 public beta

The public API v1.5 is in beta, with a version history so you can see what changed. More connector apps are also available to ask for.

Suggest evaluators for a whole round

IdeaScore AI proposes evaluators for every team in a round, with the reason for each match. Accept, swap or skip suggestions one by one, save when you are happy, and a single Undo puts everything back.

Names stay with you

The names and contact details of the people in your programme are never sent to IdeaScore AI. They are swapped for labels first, and come back only for the people allowed to see them.

The Public Pages card

See how your public pages are doing at a glance: visits over the last 30 days, where people come from, and a share kit with a link to copy and a QR code to download.

A fresh look for every card

Insight cards now stand clearly apart from the page in light and dark, and the ones IdeaScore AI works on carry a small label so you always know.

A quick tour of search

Press Ctrl K, or Cmd K, and a one-minute tour on sample data shows what search can do. It plays once, and you can replay it any time.

Calmer live screens

Live meetings, certificate issuing, exports and announcements update quietly in the background, and keep the last good view on screen if your connection wobbles.

Deleted items, restorable for 30 days

Deleted programmes, people, submissions and files wait in Deleted items for 30 days, and an owner can restore any of them in that time.

Sign-in that guards your account

Repeated wrong passwords now pause sign-in to that account for a while, and a password reset brings you straight back in.

Eleven helpers for the moment you need them

Turn my notes into feedback, Describe who you're looking for, Draft the rationale, Draft a funder update, Notes to action items, Why do judges disagree?, What are we missing?, Draft team intros, Suggest judges for this team, Summarise my week and Build a chart with IdeaScore AI. Each one drafts or suggests while you decide: nothing is saved, sent, assigned or applied until you confirm, and no helper ever changes a score or decides an outcome.

It tells you what it reads, every time

Each helper says in plain words what it reads, for example "Free · reads your form's questions, not applicants' answers". Open the link for a short How this works note. Suggestions and examples are built from your own programme, and applicants' contact details are never sent.

Rate and retry any result

Every helper result has Try again and a thumbs up or down, together in the window header. Tell us when an answer missed, or ask for another go.

A calmer Chat, with Deep Research

Each answer ends with one quiet row to copy, try again, rate or see more. The message box is longer, with its tools below it, and one Attach button adds an application from your programme or a file from your computer. Deep Research also searches the web as well as your programme, lists the pages it used, and shows its cost before you send.

Questions for This Round

On Submissions, a calm line suggests the best question to ask about the whole round, with more under Show more and an Ask your own box. A question opens IdeaScore AI Chat with it typed in, ready for you to send.

IdeaScore AI from search

Press Ctrl K, or Cmd K, and a Do with IdeaScore AI group offers suggestions built from your programme. Type Chat about and a team to open a new chat with that team attached. Nothing runs until you choose.

Time saved by IdeaScore AI

Under Usage and Credits, see the applications read, the reviewer hours given back, and the quotes and claims checked. The minutes per read are yours to adjust, and a sentence is ready to copy.

Review forecast

On Assignments, see whether scoring will finish before the panel meets, from each judge's own pace, with who is holding it up. Remind or reassign from the card.

Reminder effect

Compare reviews scored soon after a first reminder with those never reminded, and see the best time to send once there is enough to say.

Decision trail

On Decisions, see who decided what, when and on what basis, with the scores at that moment, the note and the letters. Download a CSV for a round or a PDF for one team.

Application funnel

On the Registration form, see how many applicants opened, started and submitted, which step most people leave, and a link straight to edit it.

Every applicant heard back

On Decisions, every applicant shows as delivered, bounced or waiting, with a plain reason and a likely fix for each bounce. Resend to a corrected address in one step.

Cohort health

On a cohort, see the month on one timeline and the three companies to look at first.

Data and privacy

In Settings under Security, see your retention rule, the next clean-up, legal holds, how quickly data requests were answered and where data is stored, with a summary to copy for your legal team.

Public vote reach

See how far a public vote travelled: people and votes, when they voted across the day, and which colleges or organisations took part once ten or more voters share one. Copy the summary for sponsors.

Cleaner originality and security cards

The Originality check is now compact rows and a dot chart, and Security posture reads as clear status tiles.

Arrange cards your way

Pin, hide and reorder the cards on six pages, just for you. A small pin marks pinned titles, and hidden cards come back any time with Show them.

Add cards from other pages

Bring any card onto a programme dashboard, grouped by page, with search and a phone-friendly list.

Sponsor and funder report

Choose the sections you want, download an A4 PDF in your organisation's colours, and share a read-only page by link. You can stop sharing at any time.

Every PDF on one design

The funder update, decision record, honorarium statement, impact report, committee pack, summaries, application copy, invoices and poster now share one calm A4 design, with Indian number grouping and times in plain words. Text copies and pastes cleanly.

Certificates you design

Choose from ten templates, add your logo, a partner logo and your colour, edit the words and signatures, pick portrait or landscape and see a live preview of the real certificate. Each certificate carries a QR code and ID so anyone can verify it, and the verify page shows the certificate itself.

Set-up guides on every page

Pages that start empty now open with a friendly guide of next steps. Once some steps are done, it folds to one quiet line that opens with a click.

A first week with IdeaScore

Five steps lead to IdeaScore AI's first read of an application, with progress in words and an honest "Done in N min" as each step finishes.

Moments worth marking

A warm card marks your first application, registration closing, all scores in, decisions sent and a cohort starting. Each appears once for each person.

The Monday brief

An email for each programme, at 8:00 on Monday in your organisation's time, with what needs attention this week and optional IdeaScore AI lines. Opt in or out in Settings under Notifications, with one-click unsubscribe.

Tips and shortcuts

Press ? on any page for one useful tip at a time, then every shortcut that works for you, this page's first, with a filter. It is also in the profile menu as Tips and shortcuts.

A friendlier page not found

A wrong or expired address now shows a clear way out: sign in, go to your dashboard, go back, search or open the Help Centre.

Gentler details

Icon-only delete, remove and close buttons are a plain red stroke rather than a red box, and on Submissions the detail now grows out of the row you opened.

Behind-the-scenes care for your data

More checks on who can see what, including judges' individual scores, and tidier handling of stored information.

Start a trial, rebuilt

Four short questions beside a live preview of your own IdeaScore. Your trial has 7 days on Professional features and 100 IdeaScore AI credits, with no card, set up by our team within one working day.

Clear trial endings

You are told 3 days before your trial ends, and can ask for one 3-day extension. If a trial ends, you see "Your trial has ended. Everything you built is safe." Your organisation stays open to view and export.

A warm billing card

When a renewal, an ending trial or low credits need attention, one card shows what your team has done with IdeaScore, the plan that fits and one clear next step. Remind me tomorrow hides it for the day.

Your application's status page

On a phone or a laptop, applicants see where their application is, with honest expected dates, the decision letter exactly as it was sent, and a way to accept or decline an offer. Key dates, what happens next, other open calls and the certificate are there too. Scores, ranks and judge names stay private before a decision.

Draft and Improve with a live preview

Draft a form, a rubric or a letter, or improve a paragraph, in one focused window with a gently moving backdrop. A preview shows the real form, rubric or letter as it takes shape, and you keep or skip each part, or each question, before anything is applied. The cost is stated up front. On a phone, the preview opens with a tap.

Set up a programme with IdeaScore AI

Describe your programme in your own words and IdeaScore AI proposes the stages, forms and rubric, so a first programme is ready in minutes. Rubric weights rebalance for you as you keep or skip criteria, and letters show their merge fields filled in.

Ask the IdeaScore AI Guide

The header now has an Ask the IdeaScore AI Guide half beside search, so help is one click, or Ctrl and /, away. On a phone, it is offered inside search. Questions about your own applications go to IdeaScore AI Chat, opened with Ask IdeaScore AI.

AI actions you can spot

The main IdeaScore AI action on each screen carries a soft, drifting pink, amber and violet rim, and Improve has its own wand mark so it is never mistaken for Draft.

Programme Settings that read like sentences

Programme Settings is now a wide, welcoming window with a side rail and search. Each setting reads as a sentence and its values open small editors in place. Features name their effect only when you change them, and one Save covers everything.

The same calm in other set-up windows

The round editor, Create a Programme, Add and Edit Resource, Invite people, the person and evaluator sheets, and interview slots share the new layout, with a one-sentence summary and a clear note of what happens when you save. Interview slots show the first start times live.

Time zones in plain words

Times now say where they are, such as India time (IST) or UK time (BST), everywhere in the app. Evaluators can choose whether to share their time zone, and programme settings show where your evaluators are as a friendly summary.

One name for the Help Centre

The Help Centre has one name throughout the app and in the assistant. Not you? on sign-in now opens Find Your Organisation, so you can reach the right workspace from any page.

Fair scoring and conflict-aware assignment

A Fair scoring card on the Leaderboard shows each team's rank before and after normalising, and how each evaluator leans from the panel average. Auto-assign shows which pairings were kept apart for a conflict of interest, with a real preview you can apply or undo.

A cut-off line you can see

On Decisions, the cut-off line shows who is selected, who is on the waiting list and who falls below, so you can see the effect of a change before you make it.

Live stage and research trail

The Pitch Day run sheet shows the live stage at a glance. The research trail lists the sources behind IdeaScore AI's research, sorted by how far each can be trusted.

Originality check

Submissions show an originality check that lists the closest matches first, quotes the passages that match as the applicants wrote them, and folds away when you do not need it.

Vote integrity, security posture and webhook pulse

A Vote integrity card shows how public votes are screened. A Security posture card answers what your IT team will ask, with a summary you can copy for them. A Webhook pulse card shows your integrations delivering, at a glance.

A certificate anyone can verify, and an impact report

Certificates can be checked by anyone, and the Impact report shows your programme's results in a form you can share.

Springier motion and a calmer switch

Menus, dialogs, sheets, tabs and lists now move with a soft spring that follows your pointer and can be interrupted. Phone sheets drag down to close. The switch is calmer, with its knob centred, and segmented controls stretch to the new choice with the label travelling along.

Clearer saving and gentler error pages

Save buttons show progress, then a tick, and if something goes wrong, Try again with the reason beside it. Pages that cannot be found, links that have expired and places you cannot open each have a clear page with a picture and a next step. Figures show a placeholder until the real number arrives, then roll to it.

New illustrations

Exports, public pages, booking confirmed, checked in, all scored and link not valid have new pictures, and first-visit hints and tours carry art too.

Delete actions in red

Every delete, remove, revoke and void control is now red, so the actions that need care are easy to recognise.

A scoring slider with a feel for it

The scoring slider has a springy thumb, a tick at every step, a value bubble and a check when a criterion is scored. On a phone, a number pad has a thumb that slides between values.

Approve from your notifications

Requests that need approval can be approved straight from the notification, without opening another page.

A results page that leads with the winners

Public results open with a spotlight on the leader, the second and third side by side, and the rest grouped by outcome, so everyone can see which side of the line they are on.

Contest results at a glance

Each contest task shows its leader, the spread of scores and submissions per day. Flagged votes are grouped by reason and team, with Void all and Undo.

Search settings wherever you are

Type what you are looking for at the top of your settings, a programme's settings or a facility's settings and the matching options appear. The command palette also lists settings, so you can jump straight to one from anywhere.

Notification preferences in clear groups

Notifications are grouped by what they are about, with a Set all switch for each group, so you can turn a whole kind of email on or off in one tap and still fine-tune single ones.

Programme settings at a glance

Features are now tiles you can switch on or off at a glance, the words your programme uses take one row each, and one Save covers the whole sheet. A new clocks card shows your programme's time zone beside your own and the next scoring deadline, and your profile is shorter and calmer.

Forms and rubrics that are easier to build

Rubric criteria fold away to one tidy row, and you can drag the dividers to set each criterion's share of the total. The field editor shows a live preview as you type, with folding blocks for visibility rules, and the form builder header is labelled, with an IdeaScore AI menu and a form check badge.

A quieter, clearer frame

The side menu no longer draws a line beside the page you are on. Your current place is marked once, in violet, and the highlight glides between items. The menu scrolls to show where you are, first-visit hints sit neatly in the corner, and announcements are easier to read.

Create anything from one menu

The New menu is grouped by kind, with a keyboard shortcut beside each option, so starting a programme, a form or a booking is a few keystrokes away.

Faster to open, clearer when something is slow

The page frame appears immediately while content loads, with placeholders in the shape of what is coming instead of zeros. If something does not load, the page now says so and offers Try again, rather than showing an empty list.

Notifications you can scan

Notifications take two lines, are grouped by day and can be marked as read. The command palette now remembers your recent searches and shows accurate key hints.

Small touches throughout

Cards lift gently under the pointer, ticks draw themselves when something is saved, copy buttons confirm with a small morph, status changes fade across and totals roll to their new value. Menus close faster, loading placeholders are softer, and inputs nudge you when something needs fixing.

Dashboards that show each figure once

Your programme dashboard shows every number a single time. A new programme opens with a short set-up guide, draft programmes show their opening date, and the Public Pages card shows real views. Status colours mean the same thing everywhere, and ratings are on a clear 1 to 5 scale.

Submissions and evaluators that stay tidy

Rows stay the same height whatever badges they carry, the Evaluators page has an IdeaScore AI strip, the Honoraria ledger loads with a placeholder in its own shape, and cohort figures are down to four clear cards.

Rounds, results and people

Each screen has one main action. Publish Results and Exports each have their own card, long email addresses wrap neatly, and every row has an actions menu.

An audit log in plain language

The audit log describes each change in words, names the person and the item, groups repeated actions and keeps the technical details in a Details section you open when you need them.

Work first on the evaluator home

The evaluator home opens with what is waiting for you, and the Evaluate table has fewer, clearer columns with counts that load smoothly.

Closed rounds stay readable

Once a round closes, your submitted evaluations show as read-only meters, so you can look back at your scores without risk of changing them. On a phone, a criteria strip keeps your place, and links take you straight to the right criterion.

IdeaScore AI, tidied

Usage charts have one toolbar above them, credit pack cards sit clear of the footer, and the Assistant icons are labelled.

Integrations that are easier to find

Integrations and API now has its tabs above the main card, and settings search takes you straight to the one you want. When you create an API key, you name it first.

Public pages that follow your theme

The pitch board now follows light or dark, so it looks right on a big screen in either. Registration pages show clearly what needs fixing, and the introduction and invalid-link pages are calmer and kinder.

Voting and contest pages

Public voting and contest pages are smoother to use, with several small improvements to how entries and events appear.

A calmer applicant portal

The header is simpler, with an account menu, and a short tour strip introduces the portal. Ended cards give one clear message, the needs count is shared across the page, and a refresh line shows when it last updated.

Your data in one place

A new Your data dialog gathers what you have shared in one place.

Certificates with one tab bar and a live preview

Certificate set-up has a single tab bar, and a live preview updates as you edit, so you see the certificate take shape before anyone receives it.

Team formation and Tracks, simplified

Team formation uses the same date pickers as the rest of the app and size steppers for minimum and maximum team size. Tracks has one save bar for the whole page, and the pitch day actions are labelled so you know what each one does.

Empty pages that point the way

Pages with nothing on them yet now offer one clear button for the next step, with a different picture for each kind of page.

Alumni outcomes in a drawer

Open an alumnus's outcomes in a side drawer and read them comfortably without leaving the list.

Logos where services are named

Where IdeaScore mentions Google, Microsoft, Razorpay, Zapier, Make, GitHub, social networks and other services, you now see their marks, so sign-in, security, API keys, imports and integrations are quicker to recognise. The marks follow light and dark themes.

Reset-password links checked as soon as you open them

When you open a password reset link, IdeaScore checks it immediately and tells you if it has expired, before you type a new password.

Voting links that explain themselves

If a public voting link is incomplete, the page now says what is missing instead of leaving you guessing. The contest leaderboard also has one name everywhere it appears.

See when batch results are arriving

The IdeaScore AI card now shows when results from a batch are on their way, so you know to check back shortly.

The API on Professional, Enterprise and Campus

Connect your CRM, data warehouse or your own scripts to your programmes on the Professional, Enterprise and Campus plans. Owners create API keys under Settings, Integrations and API, Developers, by choosing what the key is for, with test keys, a daily IdeaScore AI limit and a Check it works button that confirms the key connects.

Webhooks for Zapier, Make and your own tools on more plans

Signed webhooks are included on the same three plans, so new submissions, decisions and results can reach the tools your team already uses, including Zapier and Make through their webhook steps.

One page for Integrations and API

Spreadsheets, calendars, Slack and Teams, Zapier and Make, and the IdeaScore API now live together under Settings, Integrations and API, in three clear paths: Apps and automations, Spreadsheets and calendars, and Developers. The old API address takes you straight there.

Automate with Zapier or Make, step by step

Pick a goal, such as adding new applications to a spreadsheet or sending approved teams to your CRM, choose Zapier or Make, paste the address from your tool and IdeaScore sends a sample so you can finish in a few minutes. Zapier uses Webhooks by Zapier, a paid Zapier feature with a free trial, and Make uses its free custom webhook. Included on Professional, Enterprise and Campus.

Send a test event and see how it went

Owners can send a sample of any event to a webhook, see in plain words whether it arrived, and read the Activity for each webhook, with Turn back on if it paused. Tests never affect the real delivery record.

Each programme in its own time zone

Set a time zone for any programme in its settings. Deadlines, rounds, announcements, votes, mentor slots and emails show times in that zone with its name, and people elsewhere also see their own time alongside. Numbers follow Indian grouping by default.

Bring back a replaced pitch deck

When a team replaces its pitch deck, the earlier one stays for 30 days. Open the team's Documents tab, choose Previous versions, view an earlier deck and restore it in one step. The deck it replaces becomes a previous version, and nothing is deleted.

Choose what you are running

Pick hackathon, coding contest, machine learning contest, hardware and robotics challenge, design competition, marketing competition, business case competition, moot court, policy challenge, open innovation challenge, awards, grant or fellowship, or a start-up programme. Your screens, emails and public pages then use the right words: teams or entrants, nominations or applications, judges or evaluators. You can change the type until you launch, and tune any word for one programme.

Nine new ready-made templates

Start from a template for a coding contest, machine learning contest, hardware challenge, design contest, marketing competition, policy challenge, moot court, awards or case competition, each with its form, rubric, rounds, letters and emails ready to edit.

Programme features, your choice

Switch team formation, checkpoints, tracks and prizes, judging modes, public voting (once your organisation turns it on), contest leaderboards and certificates on for the programmes that need them. Your side menu shows only what you use.

Set up from your handbook or website

Share a handbook, a call for entries or your website and IdeaScore AI drafts the programme with you: the type, form, rubric, rounds and letters, for you to review and change before anything goes live.

Add your programme's documents

Attach your rules, guidelines and briefs so IdeaScore AI answers with them in mind and cites them.

Improve with IdeaScore AI

Ask IdeaScore AI to sharpen a registration form, a rubric or a decision letter. You see the suggested changes beside your own words and keep what you like.

The Assistant in its own window, with history

Pop the Assistant out into a window you can move and resize, and keep working while you ask. Search and resume earlier conversations for 180 days, and delete any with Undo. Only you can see them.

Read this deck and Summarise

Open a pitch deck's key points from the dossier with Read this deck, and get a short summary of any committee card with Summarise.

Deep Research on by default

Deep Research, which also searches the web, lets IdeaScore AI check claims against public sources in chat, in questions about an application and, on paid plans, in evaluations. Owners and admins can switch it off under Settings, Connectors.

Team formation and a team finder

Participants make a team, invite people by email, accept join requests and find teammates in the team finder by skills and what they are looking for. Email addresses are never shown. Leads can list the roles they need, and organisers set team size and a lock date.

Schedule and checkpoints

Ask every team for what you need by a date: a GitHub repository, a demo video link, a deck, a document or a design file. See a grid of who has sent what, mark late work, share an agenda teams can add to their calendar, and let evaluators see each team's submissions while they score.

Repository checks

Public GitHub repositories show their status and commit activity beside each submission, so you can see progress at a glance.

Judge by ranking or head-to-head

Beyond rubric scoring and live pitch, evaluators can put their entries in order, or pick the stronger of two. Rankings and pairs are combined fairly, and evaluators can save a draft and return before the round closes.

Public voting

Where your organisation has turned it on, let the public vote for entries, with one-time email links and checks that keep the count honest. You decide when it opens, how many votes each person has, and whether it blends into the jury's score.

Prediction contests

Set a task, upload your answer file and teams submit predictions that are scored automatically on accuracy, F1, RMSE, MAE, ROC AUC or log loss. A public leaderboard shows the standing, while the rest stays private until you reveal it.

Leaderboard details, Summary tab

Open any entry on the leaderboard to a clear Summary tab with its scores and what IdeaScore AI noted.

Tracks, prizes and problem statements

Organise entries by track, list prizes and reveal problem statements on a schedule. Eligibility rules are checked as people register or join a team, with your own message when someone does not qualify.

Announcements

Write to everyone, one track or the teams still missing a checkpoint. Publish now or schedule it, and email goes out once.

A public event page

Share one page with your event's tracks, prizes, problem statements, agenda, community links and results, in your own words.

Certificates people can verify

Issue participation, merit and winner certificates from templates you write, with up to three signatures. Each carries a QR code that opens a public page confirming who it was issued to, and you can revoke one at any time. Participants download theirs from their portal.

Passes for a single event

Running one event? A pass covers a single hackathon, challenge or award for a fixed window, with its own limits and IdeaScore AI credits. Passes are arranged with our team on a quote; for current plans and prices, see ideascore.online/pricing.

Every plan runs every event type

All plans can run every kind of event, and each event counts as one programme. Starter can run one free event.

Legal, Trust & Privacy in one place

Find Legal, Trust & Privacy in your account menu and on sign-in, registration and results pages.

More guided tours

New tours walk you through the new pages the first time you open them.

A fuller audit log

Important events, such as certificates being issued or revoked, are recorded in the Audit Log.

Share cards

Share cards now show your programme's image reliably when you post a link.

Every application read in full, every score backed by evidence

IdeaScore AI has a new introduction and clearer descriptions: it reviews every application against your rubric, shows the exact words behind each score, checks claims against public sources, answers questions about your programme, takes the busywork and keeps your panel in charge. Swift sorts, Pro reviews, Deep decides.

Checks the claims against sources you can trust

IdeaScore AI researches the open web, with sources you can check, and prefers official and research sources: Startup India and DPIIT, the Ministry of Corporate Affairs, IP India, SEBI, RBI, the World Bank, patent offices and research indexes such as PubMed and arXiv. Every source is labelled Official, Research, Press or Other, and you can limit answers to official and research sources only. Two new help articles explain where it checks its facts and why you can trust it.

Pro 4: closer to your expert reviewers

Compared with expert reviewers' scores, Pro 4's recommendations match theirs in 84% of applications, up from 56%, and its scores land within one point of the expert's 85% of the time, up from 62%. Every quote is checked against the application before you see it, results arrive about 40% faster, and answers complete first time in the same structure every time. Descriptor anchoring, confidence for each criterion, interview questions, strengths and risks and the writing-pattern signal carry over.

Swift 4: sharper first reads

Built on the same new foundation as Pro 4, so every quote Swift cites is checked against the application. An estimated 3 in 4 recommendations match expert reviewers', up from about half, in under half a minute an application. Sharper first reads of large intakes, with a cited quote behind every score. It still powers summaries and drafts.

Deep 4.5: researched and reviewed twice

Everything new in Pro 4, plus focused research: claims are checked once, thoroughly, then every score is reviewed a second time against your descriptors and the round. The second review checks every score against your descriptors and the rest of the round, and changes a score only with a stated reason, shown beside the original. An estimated 9 in 10 recommendations match expert reviewers', and scores land within one point of the expert's an estimated 90% of the time. About a minute or two an application.

Good to know, on every model

The model pages now say who each model is for, what you get and when to step up, with a Good to know list in place of Limits.

Fair scoring by default: IdeaScore AI for evaluators

Owners choose whether evaluators see IdeaScore AI's notes on a team: hidden (the default, so every evaluator forms their own view first), shown after they submit their own score, or always shown. Programmes can make it stricter but never more open, blind rounds always keep the notes private, and IdeaScore AI's scores stay with organisers. The Reviewer Summary is now written from the application alone, and evaluators see it once an owner picks a mode that shows IdeaScore AI's notes.

Quicker answers, honest sources

IdeaScore AI answers chat and per-application questions faster, and a question that asked for Deep Research but found no pages says so plainly at the top of the answer, drawing on the applications only.

A new Growth plan

For incubators running two or three calls a year: three programmes, multi-round pipelines, pitch-day mode, cohort analytics, your logo and colours, and 6,000 IdeaScore AI credits a year.

More IdeaScore AI credits included

Professional now includes 25,000 credits a year and Enterprise 1,00,000, with a higher daily limit on Professional.

IdeaScore AI's helpers are free

Credits pay for IdeaScore AI's reviews and answers. Its helpers are free: set-up, importing, summaries, drafts and the Assistant. Free helpers have generous daily limits that keep IdeaScore AI fast for everyone.

Try the whole of IdeaScore AI for free

Try every IdeaScore AI tier, Swift, Pro and Deep, with Deep Research, on 150 free credits. Starter gets 150 free credits, once, with up to 50 evaluations a day. A 30-day trial includes 500 IdeaScore AI credits, enough to see a full review of your call.

Applicant accounts and tracker on the free plan

Every applicant can follow their application on Starter too, with the tracker included.

IdeaScore AI Plus does more

For as long as your Plus lasts, even after its credits are used, tuning is available on paid plans and you can run up to 500 AI evaluations a day. Monthly credits now last 60 days, and yearly Plus is the lowest price per credit.

Get credits shows what you get

Credit packs lead with what they buy, such as about 1,000 Pro evaluations, Plus sits beside them with its perks and the saving per credit, and yearly is chosen for you. The meter lets you know when 15% of your credits are left.

Longer trials, discounts to ask about

Trials are now 30 days. Ask about institutional and multi-year discounts on your plan.

Deep Research when you ask about an application

Ask About This Application reads the application itself. Switch on Deep Research for one question to check it against the web too; the button shows what it adds before you send.

Check before you send

Send Decision Letters now has two steps: choose who and when, then check everyone and the real letters before sending. Teams that are skipped are listed with the reason.

Submissions: audit log and bulk reject

The submissions audit log is a readable day-by-day timeline with one filter and a link to the full Audit Log. Bulk reject names the teams, previews the rejection email, and says what applicants see and how to undo.

Request more information shows the email

Before you send, see the exact email, the applicant's page and the reply path.

Evaluators in one sheet

Adding or editing an evaluator is one sheet: weightage explained with an example, expertise explained, the sign-in message shown before you add them, profile fields on add as well as edit, a "what will change" list on edit, and the result in the same sheet.

Import members

Import Members uses the same importer as applications and teams: five steps, a dry run you can read before anything is written, and a 7-day undo.

Interviews

Add Slots shows the day as a picture and warns about overlaps before saving; panels say who sees what; cancelling a booking shows the exact email.

Portfolio forms

Portfolio forms are sectioned with plain "what happens when you save" lines and an unsaved-changes guard.

One planner for assignments

Pick evaluators by hand as a list or a team-by-evaluator grid, or use Auto-assign and Balance in the same planner, with an After this panel, a check step and an undo for the whole change.

Safer assignments

Balance applies exactly the moves you confirmed; a failed save says how much was saved and finishes on retry without doubling emails; conflict cells explain themselves by tap or keyboard; the grid is quicker on big plans; dashboard assign no longer reports success when nothing was assigned.

Fixes in the new dialogs

Custom evaluator weightage keeps what you type, a letter can no longer be emailed twice from two tabs, panel progress counts only panel members, and Delete panel explains and blocks while interviews are booked.

Reject and request information

Bulk reject leaves teams that withdrew alone; Request more information skips teams with no lead email and says so before sending; Balance no longer treats another round's assignment or a resolved conflict as a blocker. Send Decision Letters shows teams "Being sent right now" by someone else.

Import applications and teams

Import applications or a teams spreadsheet with one five-step wizard: a dry run with exact counts before anything is written, duplicates and date formats decided for you to confirm, an optional note to IdeaScore AI, and undo for 7 days.

Uploaded files open again

Files uploaded to an application open straight from the dossier's Documents tab again.

Your application status

Your application page shows your stage in the programme, your next step and what comes after. Status emails show the same stages.

Tracker extras, each off until you switch it on

Per round, ask teams for a pitch deck (PDF or PowerPoint, with a due date and a size limit; a replaced deck is kept for 30 days). Ask selected teams to accept their offer by a date in the final round, and see accepted, declined and no reply for each team. Share feedback: averages for the criteria you choose, and evaluators' comments with no names, each shown only after you approve it and fixed when the team is told. Show each team its own pitch slot, and tell each team its place in the selection, such as Selected: 40 of 312.

Programme Settings

Programme Settings is a sectioned sheet: each status and each evaluator privacy switch says what it does, the logo link is checked with a live preview, a list shows exactly what saving will change, and closing with edits asks first.

One People sheet

Invite, create, edit, give extra roles and remove from one sheet that shows the email they will get and exactly what a change will do.

Sign-in names your organisation's domain

When your organisation requires its own domain or provider, the sign-in page names it after a refused sign-in.

Admins see when IdeaScore AI is off

On Evaluate, admins see up front when IdeaScore AI is switched off.

Uploads pause themselves

Uploads now pause automatically when file storage use looks runaway. The storage count says "at least" when it stops early, usage alert emails are retried, an organisation export holds at most 5 GB of files, and abandoned public uploads are reported (and, once switched on, archived after 30 days and restorable).

Storage safety

The abandoned-upload sweep skips profile photos and re-checks before archiving, the automatic brake no longer misreads a partial inventory night, and alert rows say "Logged (not sent)" when the email provider is the log. Operators can put a swept file back with a script.

Console follow-ups

Open the audit log at one entry from a link, Operations Monitor alerts link to their entry, and Busiest organisation can be ranked by IdeaScore AI credits.

Test keys and a daily IdeaScore AI cap

On the Enterprise plan, create test keys that never touch your real programmes or send real messages, and give each key a daily cap on IdeaScore AI runs so a script can't use up your credits.

Safe retries

Send an Idempotency-Key with a request and a retry returns the original answer instead of doing the action twice. Limits are shared across the whole service, and every answer carries a request id you can quote to support.

Public developer docs

The reference, with the full OpenAPI description, is now open to everyone at the developers page, with no sign-in needed. Keys, scopes and webhooks are managed from Settings by organisation owners.

Zapier, Make and webhooks for no-code tools

Connect IdeaScore to the tools your team already uses: IdeaScore events can start a Zapier or Make scenario, and signed webhooks stop on their own if the key loses access or the receiver says it is gone. The Zapier and Make apps are by invitation while they are in review.

Sign in only with your domain

On the Enterprise plan, owners can require members to sign in with the organisation's Google Workspace or Microsoft Entra domain. Preview who is affected before you confirm, name exemptions, and keep an owner who can always get in. Applicants are never affected.

Switch IdeaScore AI off

Owners can switch IdeaScore AI off for the whole organisation. Every IdeaScore AI action then says plainly that it is switched off, nothing is charged, and the rest of the app carries on as before.

Deep Research only when you allow it

Deep Research, which also searches the web, and its extra cost, now runs only when your organisation's switch is on and the run asked for it. It is off by default, and API runs never search the web unless you say so.

Legal pages and your agreement

Terms, privacy, data processing, sub-processors, API terms, acceptable use, cookies, refunds, AI use, security and the grievance officer now live inside the app, open without signing in. New staff accept the agreement the first time they sign in, and you are asked again if a text changes materially.

Files on secure storage, backups every night

Uploaded files now sit on secure object storage that survives restarts. Your data is backed up every night with encryption to separate storage, keeping 30 days of daily copies and 12 monthly ones.

Export your data, even at the end

Owners can export their organisation's data whenever they need it, including during a 90-day exit period after a plan ends, when the organisation is read-only. A refund takes back what it paid for.

Fair upload limits

Daily upload limits per organisation and per person protect everyone's service, and tell you plainly when you have reached one.

Applicant portal header on phones

The programme name now has its own line under the top bar on a phone instead of shrinking to a single letter, and other pages keep their headings readable too.

Steadier background work

Scheduled work such as digests, scheduled results and reminders now runs exactly once, even when the service runs on more than one server, and sign-in and request limits are shared across all of them.

Better IdeaScore AI answers and costs

Chat obeys the pause before anything is charged, retries keep your original choice about research, credit costs shown in the app come from the server, and evaluators never see draft rounds.

Fixes from a full bug pass

Concurrent refunds both come off, applicants of a read-only organisation can still sign in, the agreement never blocks the legal pages, Backups and sign-in history use clearer wording, and a phone shows the right meters and labels throughout.

Service monitoring

IdeaScore's own team now watches service health, storage and security signals in one place, so problems are found before you notice them.

IdeaScore AI Guide

Ask how anything works and get a short answer with the help article behind it, a button that takes you to the right page, or a tour that starts where you are. It is free on every plan and hands you over to support when it can't answer.

Set up with IdeaScore AI

Describe what you are running and IdeaScore AI interviews you, builds the draft as you talk, shows the cost up front and waits for your confirmation. Use it for a registration form, a rubric, rounds, letters or a whole programme.

Deep Research in chat

Turn on Deep Research for a question and IdeaScore AI searches the web, cites its sources and marks the answer as searched. You see the cost before you send, and owners or admins switch it on for the organisation.

Guided tours

Quick tours for every role walk you through the real pages, open dialogs and tabs, wait for you, pick up where you left off and end with something to try. Evaluators and applicants have their own.

First-visit hints and Getting Started

A short hint appears the first time you open a new page, and a Getting Started checklist built from your real data shows the five steps to a first programme. Reopen it from the profile menu at any time.

A Help Centre that opens on its own

The Help Centre now has its own page, with search, and opens without signing in. Signed-out visitors see a short overview, and staff can show every article. More than a hundred articles cover every part of the app, with new ones for committee sessions, programme emails, scheduled results, failed letters, team archive and the API.

Whole-programme templates

Start from one of nine complete programmes: form, rubric, dated rounds, letters and an email sequence. Preview before you add it, or add just the rubric, rounds or letters to a programme you already run.

Committee sessions with times

Give each committee session a date, time, length, call link and place in the programme's time zone. Panel members see a Next meeting card with Join call and Google, Outlook and Apple calendar buttons, and calendar feeds carry the real times and links. Admins and the panel chair edit the schedule.

Scheduled results publishing

Choose Publish at to set the date and time, change or cancel it, and let IdeaScore publish once on schedule. Bell alerts tell you what happened, and every applicant can receive an email with the link to the results.

Programme email sequences

Switch on a sequence for a programme to send each applicant a welcome, reminders for unfinished drafts and follow-ups, once each, outside quiet hours. Send yourself a test first, and applicants can pick up a draft from the link in the email.

Form version history, redesigned

Every save of your registration form is kept with who saved it and when. See what changed, stage by stage, preview any version as applicants saw it, compare it with the live form, name the ones that matter and restore one after seeing exactly what will change.

IdeaScore API and webhooks

On the Enterprise plan, create scoped keys, read your programmes, teams, rounds and results from your own tools, take a few actions such as approving and opening rounds, and receive signed webhooks with automatic retries and a delivery log. A developer page holds the reference and your keys.

Custom roles now control access

The permissions you give a custom role are enforced on every page and action, and the navigation shows people only what they can use. Built-in roles work as before.

Team archive with restore

Archive a team to take it out of the working lists, then restore it, with its history, whenever you need it.

Weighted ranking everywhere

Leaderboards, dashboards, reports, promotion and pitch day all rank by weighted scores, so a team sits in the same place on every page.

Letters you can trust

A letter counts as sent only once the email is accepted. Failed letters show a Retry failed option, scheduled sends report how many went and how many failed, and a letter that no longer matches its template says it is out of date.

More privacy for evaluators

Evaluators see only their own teams, no one else's scores, and contact details only where the round allows them. Submitted scores stay read-only until you choose Edit my score, and a second open tab can no longer overwrite your work.

Faster sign-in and calmer pages

Sign-in is quicker, pages say plainly when something fails and let you retry, and tab titles end with IdeaScore.

Accessibility and phones

Clearer focus outlines, a skip link, tables you can open from the keyboard, sliders and segmented controls that work with the arrow keys, larger tap targets, and screens that fit a phone.

A better search palette

Exact and starting matches rank first, and results sit on a clearer panel.

Safer applicant pages and files

Applicants see only their own information, confirmation PDFs need the owner's sign-in or the emailed link, and uploaded files are checked and downloaded safely.

Safer sign-in and links

Sign-in links no longer reveal whether an account exists, the platform console sign-in is better protected, and links in emails are built from your own address.

Steadier everyday work

Credits are protected when an IdeaScore AI run fails, double submissions no longer create duplicate programmes or charges, and the app shows a friendly page instead of a blank screen if something goes wrong.

Form analytics

Views, starts, completion rate, where applicants drop off by stage and question, time to complete, devices and traffic sources, with tracked share links and a comparison with past programmes. No outside trackers, and IP addresses are never stored.

Nine form templates

Seed fund, hackathon, research grant, accelerator, innovation challenge, social impact, student competition, corporate open innovation and government scheme, each with stages, help text, conditions, eligibility checks and a matching rubric you can preview first.

Back, undo and redo

Undo your recent changes from the top bar or with Ctrl+Z: tags, assignments, rubric and round edits, promotions, decisions, publishing results and approvals. IdeaScore tells you when something, such as an email, can't be fully taken back.

Search that does things

Type / to create a programme, round or rubric, invite evaluators, publish results, go to any team or mentor, switch programme or theme, and open help articles.

A clearer Tuning tab

See how IdeaScore AI reads your programme in one sentence, adjust it step by step, preview the effect on real applications before saving, add a note per criterion, and restore an earlier version from the history.

Usage and credits at a glance

Credits left, your pool and packs, days until it refills, spend by week or month, the split by model and by kind, and a forecast of how long your credits will last.

Invoice details

Add a purchase order number, GSTIN and billing contact when you buy credits; they print on the invoice, and your GSTIN is remembered for next time.

Notification settings

Choose email, in-app, both or off for each kind of notification, get daily or weekly summaries at the hour you pick, and set quiet hours. Applicants and outside recipients can manage their emails from any message.

Retention and data requests

Set how long applications are kept after a programme ends, anonymise old applications with a clear preview first, and handle applicants' requests for a copy or deletion of their data from one queue.

Profile photos

Upload a photo and crop it to a circle, or keep your illustration. Photos appear everywhere people do, and organisation owners can take down an unsuitable one.

Integrations

Live spreadsheet links for Google Sheets and Excel, calendar feeds for Google, Outlook and Apple, and programme updates posted to Slack or Microsoft Teams.

Hundreds of refinements

Clearer programme states, leaderboards and tables that fit a laptop screen, read-only closed rounds for evaluators, calmer warning colours, tidier empty tables, and fixes to toasts and the connection notice.

Support without leaving the app

Open a ticket from the profile menu or straight from an error message, follow the conversation, attach files, and send audit entries to IdeaScore support when something looks wrong.

A Help Centre that answers questions

Short, step-by-step articles for owners, programme admins, evaluators and applicants, with highlighted screenshots and a search that understands typos and everyday words.

Walkthroughs

A short guided tour on the dashboard, submissions, assignments, leaderboard, pitch day, IdeaScore AI and the registration form, ready whenever you want it.

Custom roles

Build roles from a permissions grid and give them organisation-wide or for one programme. Built-in roles work exactly as before.

Plan and usage, at a glance

Your plan, renewal, IdeaScore AI credits and limits in one calm card, a branding editor that shows where your colours appear, and a security and privacy page that explains how your data is protected.

Export everything

Organisation owners can download every programme, application and score as one archive.

Safer by default

New evaluators and users set their own password from a one-time link, evaluators see only the programmes they belong to, and sign-in links and audit entries are better protected.

A registration form you can see as applicants do

Edit one stage at a time on a canvas, change a question in place, add ready-made blocks, and follow the form check's one-click fixes before you publish.

Publish results with confidence

Choose the round, who appears and what is shown beside each team, add a note, check for ties and missing scores, and see the public page before it goes live.

Rounds and promotion

A compact new round dialog, and promotion by top N, score cut-off or by hand with filters, range selection and undo.

Meetings in the apps you use

Join links, Add to Google Calendar and Add to Outlook on interviews, events and mentoring sessions, quick Meet, Teams and Zoom links, and sharing on WhatsApp and LinkedIn.

A richer IdeaScore AI tab

A scorecard with the verdict, how the application compares with the panel and the round, evidence and confidence, then sections for the assessment, criteria, what would change the score and research, with a section bar to move between them.

Everything in one place

What's new now sits inside the IdeaScore AI page, and the overview shows credits, runs and usage over time.

One icon for each idea

Icons no longer repeat across unrelated features, so the navigation reads at a glance.

Clearer empty pages and messages

Every empty list, tab and table now says what belongs there and what to do next, and notifications are easier to read and act on.

A dashboard that starts with submissions

Live pending, approved and rejected counts up front, a setup checklist until the programme is ready, charts chosen from your own form, and a branded programme summary PDF.

Built-in views and duplicate flags

Needs a second look, Resubmissions, Unassigned, Awaiting decision, Late, Top scored and more sit beside your own saved views. Likely duplicates are flagged for a closer look.

Teams you can filter and act on

Filter by round, sector, score, evaluator, tag or cohort, act on a selection, and open any team in a side sheet with previous and next.

One evaluator list for assignments

Workload, overdue and conflicts on each evaluator's row. Auto-assign previews the plan before anything changes, drag a team to reassign it, and a declared conflict is reassigned in one click.

A rubric builder

Start from a template or an IdeaScore AI draft, set weights with sliders and see each criterion's share of the total, describe the lowest and highest scores, and preview exactly what evaluators see.

An evaluator's day, made clear

Next up and continue where you left off on the home page, a criteria rail that shows what is still empty, a Submit that says why it is waiting, one-click conflict declarations, and a private scoring pattern once a round closes.

Schedule a pitch session in one place

Search, sort and select the lineup, drag the running order, set time per pitch, Q&A and breaks, choose jurors, and preview the projector before the day.

Audience and projector pages made for the room

The programme and pitch day names large at the top, the team on stage as the hero, a timer readable from the back row, and your organisation's branding throughout.

A form that saves as you go

Autosave with a visible Saved, progress by section, a review page before submitting, a countdown in the final 72 hours and a proper closed page that points to the next call.

A confirmation worth keeping

The case number, a PDF copy of the answers and what happens next with dates, by email too. The portal shows the journey from submitted to decision.

Share cards and link previews

Selected teams get a share card in your organisation's branding, and shared links show a proper title and logo on WhatsApp and LinkedIn.

Letters you can check before they go

Preview with a real applicant, send a test to yourself, schedule the send, and see what was sent and what bounced. Every applicant has an email log with Resend.

A summary before moving teams on

See who goes through, who doesn't and which letters will follow before you confirm a round transition. Settings sections show who changed them last.

Calm overviews for every area

Reports, Cohorts, Mentors, Portfolio and Committee open on key numbers and a chart or two, with the detail, saved views, export and a print-ready report one click away.

Custom fields and honoraria

Define your own fields for cohort members, evaluators and mentors, map them on import and filter by them. Track evaluator honoraria and produce statements for any period.

Search finds more

Ctrl+K now finds evaluators, cohort members, letters, audit entries and settings, with your recent items first.

Swift 3.5, Pro 3.5 and Deep 4

Choose the model per programme: Swift for fast screening, Pro for full rubric scoring with evidence, Deep for a second, calibrating pass on the decisions that matter most. Every result shows the model and version that produced it.

Credits you can see

Every run shows its cost before it starts. Plans include a yearly pool of credits, and packs can be requested any time from Get more credits.

The IdeaScore AI workspace

Evaluate, chat and settings in one place: tune the emphasis on each criterion, add examples of strong and weak applications, keep programme memory and reference documents, and choose what IdeaScore AI may use.

Chat across every application

Ask about the whole programme and get answers drawn only from its own applications, with a citation on every claim. Counts are worked out from the form, never estimated.

One Details view on the leaderboard

Score composition, panel agreement, every criterion with the panel range, the evaluators, IdeaScore AI's reasoning and the history, together in one calm modal. Re-run on Deep and compare side by side.

Signals for reviewers

Similar answers between applications and writing that reads as AI-assisted are flagged for the reviewer to look closer. They are never proof and never change the score.

One way of telling you what happened

Messages appear in one place, say what happened in plain words and what to do next, and long jobs such as PDFs show "Preparing…" until they are ready. Reversible actions offer Undo instead of asking first.

Confirmations that match the stakes

Actions that email people or change many records say exactly what will happen. Irreversible ones ask you to type the name and suggest a safer alternative, such as archiving instead of deleting.

Lists that work harder

Selecting items docks the actions to the bottom of the list, tags read "Manage tags" once added, tables keep their header and first column in view, remember your columns and density, and export exactly the view you are looking at.

Exact results for bulk actions

Bulk actions and reminders report what happened, for example "Approved 18, skipped 2 (already decided)", with a link to the skipped ones. Reminders never email the same evaluator twice in a day.

Teams stay in sync on their own

Team records update from their submissions automatically, with "Synced 2 min ago" and a Sync now button for peace of mind.

Your preferences follow you

Theme, sidebar and table settings are saved to your account and follow you to every device. Press ? for keyboard shortcuts and / to jump to search.

Two-step sign-in

Protect your account with an authenticator app and recovery codes. Owners can require it for owners and admins, see who has it on and reset it for a member.

Stronger passwords and sign-in history

New passwords are checked for strength and against known breaches, lock-outs say when to try again, and Settings shows your recent sign-ins and lets you sign out other devices.

Stay signed in without losing work

IdeaScore warns you before your session ends, and if it does end you sign in again right where you were, with anything you typed still there.

Much faster reports

The reports overview and committee pack are built in a fraction of the time, and dashboard numbers show when they were last updated.

Interview scheduling

Set up interview panels and time slots, online or in person, and see every booking on a schedule board.

Interview score sheets

Each panel member gets a score sheet per interview and a "My interviews" list of their own.

Book, reschedule or cancel an interview

Applicants book an interview slot, reschedule it up to 24 hours before, or cancel it, from the applicant portal, with reminder emails along the way.

Programme templates

Start a programme from a template — Seed fund call, Hackathon, Faculty grant or Corporate innovation challenge — complete with its form, rubric, rounds and letter templates; or clone one of your own programmes (settings only, never applications).

Bulk import from CSV

Bring applications in from a CSV, including a Google Forms export: map columns to form fields, run a dry run with per-row errors, then import as pending without sending emails; duplicates are skipped by lead email.

Compliance

Export the audit log as CSV or Excel for a date range, set an audit retention window per organisation (off by default), and handle applicant data-deletion requests under India's DPDP Act 2023 — requested from the applicant portal, then approved (personal details removed, scores kept anonymised) or declined with a reason; the applicant is notified either way.

Ask across a programme

Ask a question across every submission in a programme or round and get an answer that cites the applications, linked back to the dossier, with history and suggested questions.

Draft letter templates

IdeaScore AI drafts accept, waitlist and decline letter templates with merge fields intact; nothing is ever sent automatically.

Reviewer summary

A one-paragraph, editable reviewer summary appears on the dossier and the evaluate page for every application.

Draft a rubric

Draft a rubric — criteria, weights and descriptors — from the programme description, then edit it before saving.

Reviewer-consistency note

After a round, a consistency note explains where the panel disagreed, which evaluators ran lenient or strict against the panel, and which criteria drove the ranking; the statistics are computed exactly, IdeaScore AI only writes the prose.

Resilient live board

The live board and the public audience page say "Live" only when their data is fresh, otherwise "Reconnecting…" with standings dimmed rather than stale numbers; the countdown keeps running through a dropped connection, and a pending-scores chip shows any score still waiting to send, with "Retry now".

Billing add-ons and discounts

Subscriptions can now carry add-ons (an IdeaScore AI evaluation pack per 1,000, storage per 50 GB, onboarding and migration, an extra sending domain) and discounts (DPIIT-recognised incubator, state mission, NAAC-accredited university or custom); invoices itemise add-ons and apply the discount before GST.

Trials with a sample programme

A new trial can start with a sample programme — about 40 submissions, evaluations, a round, a leaderboard and a cohort — clearly marked as sample data with a banner and one-click removal.

Status page

A public status page shows the current state of the app, API, database, email and IdeaScore AI, with 90-day uptime bars, incidents and an embeddable uptime badge; incidents are managed from the platform console.

Demo files

Seeded demo files — agreements, utilisation certificates, expense sheets and pitch decks — now download properly from the demo.

Committee mode

A live meeting view for the decision committee shows one team per screen with scores and spread, flags, the IdeaScore AI summary and evaluators' comments; members vote accept, waitlist or decline from a laptop or phone; the chair confirms and the decision is recorded; a summary shows outcomes and dissent.

Impact KPIs

Each cohort collects jobs, revenue, follow-on funding, patents, women-led and SC/ST founder figures every quarter from its members, with totals and gaps at a glance.

Funder impact report

A print-ready report per cohort and quarter is available as a page or a PDF.

Mentoring

A mentor directory with expertise, capacity and ratings; suggestions match mentors to members by expertise and load; availability slots members book themselves; ratings both ways; a monthly digest for mentors.

Events

Demo days, masterclasses, investor connects and office hours with RSVPs and attendance.

Instruments

SAFE, CCD, equity, convertible notes and grants per investee, with caps, discounts and the organisation's stake.

Request routing

Lab access, equipment and IP counsel join the request kinds; each kind goes to a named approver with a service level, and overdue requests are flagged.

Member portal

Members submit quarterly KPIs, RSVP to events, book mentor time and rate their sessions, all from the phone.

Cohorts as a first-class home

Every selected group gets its own page with members, health, disbursed against planned, compliance and reports due.

Run a cohort without a call

Import winners, grantees or incubatees from a spreadsheet and manage them in IdeaScore even when the selection happened elsewhere.

Agreements and compliance

Track each member's agreement with signed and expiry dates, and a checklist of statutory documents with reminders.

Utilisation certificates per tranche

Members upload a UC and an expense sheet after each release; the programme approves or asks again, and a ledger export is ready for funders.

Milestone reports

Members report achievements, blockers and metrics per milestone; accepting a report closes the milestone and keeps cohort health honest.

Alumni and outcomes

Graduate members with a one-line outcome and keep a searchable alumni directory.

Member portal

Selected teams sign in with the same magic link and see their agreement, checklist, tranches, milestones, sessions and documents, with a clear view of what needs them now.

What would change the score

Three concrete pieces of evidence show the criterion and likely movement.

Cohort comparison

See where an application sits against the round for every criterion, with the median marked.

Sources you can weigh

Every source carries its kind and confidence, and can be filtered.

Ask IdeaScore AI

Ask a question about one application and get a sourced answer, with suggested questions.

Run settings that stick

Depth, Deep Research, explanation length and pre-screen settings are stored per programme.

Live public board and audience link

The pitch day board and leaderboard are published with the programme name, juror progress and a timer you can pause, reset and resume.

Notification centre

Mentions, assignments, replies and member submissions in one place, on desktop and phone.

Saved views everywhere

Save filters on Teams, Assignments and Evaluators as well as Submissions.

A faster command palette

Jump to any page, programme or team by name or case number and run actions from the keyboard.

Programme avatars and a calmer header

Every programme carries its own avatar and the header is cleaner and more focused.

Applicant preview personas

Preview now switches between personas such as Student, Faculty and Seed fund to see exactly what each applicant sees.

One-page programme summary

A summary for boards and funders is available as a page or a PDF.

Redesigned console

Every console page is redesigned: trial requests, plans, billing, announcements, users, settings and emails.