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Internal Challenges with the Controls Procurement Expects

Internal challenges and external supplier calls, each with its own branding, access and audit trail.

An innovation team discussing prototypes around a table with a ranked board behind them
A cross-functional jury scoring prototypes against one rubric

Who Works in It

  • Innovation team lead

    Configures a challenge per business unit, sets who can see what, and answers for the audit trail when procurement asks.

  • Business-unit reviewer

    Scores proposals inside their own role's access, without seeing what other units are reviewing.

  • Employee or external applicant

    Submits an idea or a supplier proposal through the same portal, and tracks it through to a decision.

A Challenge From Launch to Purchase Order

The stages a corporate call already answers to, now with one auditable record behind them.

  1. Challenge opens

    A white-labelled call goes out to a business unit, or externally to suppliers and start-ups.

  2. Business-unit screening

    Reviewers with role-based access triage submissions inside their own remit.

  3. Cross-functional jury

    A rubric shared across business units scores the shortlist consistently.

  4. Pitch day

    Finalists present to the innovation committee, live, with a projector board.

  5. Purchase order or pilot approval

    The audit trail behind the decision is ready for procurement before a contract is raised.

Collect

One portal, branded per business unit or open to suppliers

Build a form for an internal employee challenge or an external supplier and start-up call, white-labelled to your organisation, with role-based access so each business unit sees only its own submissions.

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Seed Fund 2026 · Cohort III

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Pitch deckPDF · 20 MB
Review

An audit trail procurement can point to

Every triage decision — approve, reject, reopen — carries a reason and a timestamp. Notes, tags and mentions keep a review thread inside the record instead of an email chain, ready for whoever asks how a decision was reached.

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AllPendingApprovedRejected
SelectTeamTRLStatus
Halcyon Grid#0142
TRL 6Approved
Farmlight#0139
TRL 7Pending
Quorum Bio#0127
TRL 4Approved
Tessel Labs#0118
TRL 5Rejected
Kelpline#0096
TRL 2Pending
3 selectedApproveRejectTag
IdeaScore AI

Evidence on an Outside Applicant, Before You Meet Them

For a supplier or team call, IdeaScore AI reviews the application against your rubric, uses Deep Research on market position and competitors, and cites every source next to its score, alongside the reviewer's own judgement.

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46.5 / 50 (93%)

Halcyon Grid · #0142 · CleanTech · TRL 6

  • Innovation and novelty9.5 / 10
  • Customer desirability9 / 10
  • Team and execution9 / 10
  • Technical feasibility9.5 / 10
  • Business viability9.5 / 10

“Grid-edge storage for rural feeders is under-served; two comparable ventures found, neither targets sub-1 MW feeders. The founder's prior work at a state utility is verifiable.”

Sources (6)

Market sizing report, 2025Competitor scan, 4 companiesPatent search, IN and PCTTeam profileState EV and storage policyPitch deck, slide 7

IdeaScore AI may make mistakes. Use it alongside human judgement.

What Corporate Innovation Teams Use Most

  • White-label branding per organisation

    Your logo, colours and login copy on the call, whether it runs for one business unit or several.

  • Role-based access

    Platform admin, organisation owner, programme admin, evaluator and applicant each see only what their role allows.

  • Audit trail

    Every approval, rejection and edit is timestamped and attributable — the record procurement asks for.

  • Conflict-of-interest declarations

    A reviewer with a stake in a supplier declares it before assignment, not after scoring.

  • Multi-tenant console

    Run a challenge per business unit from one platform console rather than one deployment each.

  • IdeaScore AI supplier review

    Deep Research on an external applicant's market position and competitors, cited beside the human score.

  • Committee report export

    A ranked shortlist as Excel or HTML for the innovation committee meeting.

  • Cloud or your own infrastructure

    Run in our cloud or on infrastructure your IT and security teams already govern.

Questions Innovation Teams Ask

Yes. White-label branding and role-based access are set per organisation, so a business unit's call looks and behaves as its own without a separate deployment.
Every action — form change, approval, rejection, reopen — is timestamped and attributed, giving procurement a complete record behind a purchase order or pilot decision.
Yes, as separate programmes if you want different forms and access, or one call if the process suits both.
Yes. Google, Microsoft and domain sign-in are live, alongside role-based access and audit logging.

See Your Next Challenge Run in IdeaScore

A 30-minute walkthrough with a product specialist, using your challenge's form, panel and approvals.

An innovation team discussing prototypes around a table with a ranked board behind them
A cross-functional jury scoring prototypes against one rubric

Who Works in It

  • Innovation team lead

    Configures a challenge per business unit, sets who can see what, and answers for the audit trail when procurement asks.

  • Business-unit reviewer

    Scores proposals inside their own role's access, without seeing what other units are reviewing.

  • Employee or external applicant

    Submits an idea or a supplier proposal through the same portal, and tracks it through to a decision.

A Challenge From Launch to Purchase Order

  1. Challenge opens

    A white-labelled call goes out to a business unit, or externally to suppliers and start-ups.

  2. Business-unit screening

    Reviewers with role-based access triage submissions inside their own remit.

  3. Cross-functional jury

    A rubric shared across business units scores the shortlist consistently.

  4. Pitch day

    Finalists present to the innovation committee, live, with a projector board.

  5. Purchase order or pilot approval

    The audit trail behind the decision is ready for procurement before a contract is raised.

How IdeaScore Runs It

One portal, branded per business unit or open to suppliers

Build a form for an internal employee challenge or an external supplier and start-up call, white-labelled to your organisation, with role-based access so each business unit sees only its own submissions.

Explore applications
Seed Fund 2026 · Cohort III

Venture

Venture nameShort text
SectorSelect
Stage (TRL)Select
DepartmentSelect
Show when "Applying as" is Faculty
Pitch deckPDF · 20 MB
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