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From Shortlist to Decision, on the Record

Run the selection meeting in IdeaScore, draw the line between selected and waiting, check every letter before it goes, and answer any question later with who decided what, when and why.

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Run the selection meeting, draw the line, check every letter before it goes, and know who decided what and why.

team per screen in a committee session
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votes: Accept, Waitlist and Decline
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steps to check and send decision letters
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letters sent twice, even when two admins send at once
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The Selection Meeting, One Team at a Time

Members vote Accept, Waitlist or Decline from a laptop or phone. The chair confirms each outcome, and any vote that differs is recorded as dissent.

Final round committee

Team 1 of 3

Halcyon Grid

#0142 · CleanTech · TRL 6

46.5 / 50

Rank 1

IdeaScore AI summary

Grid-edge storage for rural feeders, with two paid pilots live. The seed round depends on one utility signing.

Tally

4 of 5 voted

How the committee voted stays hidden until the chair confirms the outcome.

  • Ananya Rao · ChairVoted
  • Rohan MehtaVoted
  • Manav ReddyVoted
  • Priya NairVoted
  • Kavya Iyer · youYet to vote
Your vote

How Decisions Work

Committee

Every outcome and every vote, on the record

Schedule the session with a call link and calendar buttons. Afterwards, the Committee Report shows every outcome with dissent marked, ready to print or export.

  • Summarise opens each team's IdeaScore AI summary
  • Criteria evaluators flagged for the committee are listed
  • Export the overview and the sessions as CSV files
The summary of a final round committee: 12 accepted, 6 waitlisted, 8 declined and 2 with dissent, above a table of every team with its outcome, the votes and the date it was confirmed.
After the meeting: every outcome, every vote, and where a vote differed from the outcome.
Rounds

Draw the line, and see who sits on it

Promote by top N, a cut-off score or by hand. The Cut-Off Line shows who is selected, who is on the waiting list and who falls below the line.

  • The card says when the line splits a tie
  • Nothing is saved until Save decisions
  • Back to the rule returns the line to where the round put it
The Rounds page for Meridian Seed Fund 2026: Screening, Semi-final and Final with their teams, and the Screening standings below.
Every round side by side, with standings and one click to promote.
Decision letters

Check every letter before it goes

See every recipient, the exact letter each gets and why anyone is skipped. Send a test to me, then send now or schedule it.

  • {{waitlist_rank}} tells each waitlisted team its place
  • Two admins sending at once never email a team twice
  • Start from Formal, Warm or Plain, or Draft with IdeaScore AI
Seed Fund 2026 · Cohort III
Send lettersStep 2 of 2 · Check and send
  • Accept12
  • Waitlist6
  • Decline23
To Tessel Labs #0118Waitlist letter

Dear Tessel Labs team,

Thank you for pitching to the committee. You are number 2 on our waiting list, and we will write again by 7 November.

{{waitlist_rank}} filled for each team

Or schedule them for a date, time and time zone. Nothing is sent until the last button.

IdeaScore AI

A rationale for the record, with its sources

Two or three cited lines on why a saved outcome stands, from the panel's scores and notes. Keep or skip each line, then save it to the decision note.

  • The outcome, score and rank never change
  • Judges are sent as Judge A and Judge B
  • The note is for your committee and is never sent to the team
Seed Fund 2026 · Cohort III
Draft the rationaleFarmlight · Accepted

  • Farmlight's mean of 41.5 of 50 places it third in the round.

    Panel scores

  • Judges A and C both cite a signed farmer co-operative as proof of demand.

    Judge A's notesJudge C's notes

  • CaveatBusiness viability has the widest spread of any criterion for this team.

    Criterion scores

  • 1 line left out: it had no source

Every figure comes from your scores. The outcome, score and rank never change.

Delivery

Know that every applicant heard back

Every applicant as a square: delivered, bounced or waiting. Each bounce says why, and Fix address sends the same letter again.

  • Retry failed letters from the toolbar, or one at a time
  • Change an outcome after sending and the row says Letter out of date
  • The Email Log lists every letter, test and resend
Seed Fund 2026 · Cohort III
Every Applicant Heard BackFinal round · 41 letters
  • Delivered 38
  • Bounced 1
  • Waiting 2

Orrin Health #0083

The mailbox does not exist. The address may have a typo in its domain.

Fix the address and the same letter goes again, then shows Delivered.

Decision Trail

Who decided what, when, and on what basis

Every outcome, who confirmed it, when and the score at that moment. Open a line for how it got there. Nothing in it can be edited.

  • A decision record PDF for one team
  • Every decision in a round as a CSV file
  • For a grievance or an RTI request; each export is itself recorded

Decision Trail

Final round · 10 decisions

Scores are those on record when each decision was made. Times in India Standard Time. Nothing in the trail can be edited.

Filter, search and open any line: who decided, when, and on what basis.

Committee

Every outcome and every vote, on the record

Schedule the session with a call link and calendar buttons. Afterwards, the Committee Report shows every outcome with dissent marked, ready to print or export.

  • Summarise opens each team's IdeaScore AI summary
  • Criteria evaluators flagged for the committee are listed
The summary of a final round committee: 12 accepted, 6 waitlisted, 8 declined and 2 with dissent, above a table of every team with its outcome, the votes and the date it was confirmed.
After the meeting: every outcome, every vote, and where a vote differed from the outcome.
Rounds

Draw the line, and see who sits on it

Promote by top N, a cut-off score or by hand. The Cut-Off Line shows who is selected, who is on the waiting list and who falls below the line.

  • The card says when the line splits a tie
  • Nothing is saved until Save decisions
The Rounds page for Meridian Seed Fund 2026: Screening, Semi-final and Final with their teams, and the Screening standings below.
Every round side by side, with standings and one click to promote.

More on decisions

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Everything in Decisions

  • Committee sessions

    A date, time, length, call link and place in the programme's time zone, with calendar buttons.

  • Votes from any device

    Members vote from a laptop or a phone, with an optional line for the chair.

  • Dissent recorded

    Any vote that differs from the confirmed outcome, in a With dissent tile and a Dissent column.

  • Promotion

    Top N, a cut-off score or the teams you choose, with ties at the line pointed out.

  • Suggested decisions

    IdeaScore suggests decisions from the standings for you to review before saving.

  • Round conditions

    Teams that don't match the round's conditions are listed apart, with the reason.

  • Letter templates

    One per outcome, previewed on desktop and phone; HTML for a letter designed in full.

  • Scheduled sending

    Send now, or at a date, time and time zone you choose.

  • Replies by a date

    In the final round, accepted teams accept or decline the offer by the date you set.

  • Email Log

    Every letter, test and resend for the programme, newest first.

  • Rationales in turn

    Draft rationales for several teams, saving or skipping each before the next.

  • Decisions in the Audit Log

    The same trail as a Decisions view on the Audit Log, read from the same record.

Questions Committees Ask

Yes. Members vote Accept, Waitlist or Decline from a laptop or a phone, with an optional line for the chair saved with the vote. The chair confirms each outcome and moves to the next team.
Any vote that differs from the confirmed outcome. The Committee Report marks it, with a With dissent tile, a Dissent column and a chip such as 1 dissent on the team.
No. Letters go only to teams with a saved decision and a lead email that have not already received the letter for their current outcome, and each letter is claimed before it is sent, so two admins sending at once never email a team twice. Letters cannot be recalled once sent, so a final check reminds you before they go.
Never. It changes only the note: the outcome, the score, the rank and who recorded the decision stay exactly as they were. The note is for your committee and is never sent to the team.
The Decision Trail exports a decision record as a PDF for one team (the outcome, who confirmed it and when, the score and rank, each judge's score, the note, how it got there and the letters) and every decision in a round as a CSV file. Each export is itself recorded in the audit log.
Committee mode works on a round's shortlist, so it needs the multi-round pipeline, on Growth and up.

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