AwardScience
AwardScience is a web and API workspace for running award, grant, scholarship, and nomination programmes from applications through judging.
What AwardScience is
AwardScience is a web and API workspace for running award, grant, scholarship, and nomination programmes from applications through judging. Teams can build forms, stages, deadlines, and rules without code, then route submissions to reviewers. AI can propose application scores with written reasoning; judges can also conduct blind and multi-round reviews. Other AI tools support programme generation, document extraction, chat with data, and professional matching. Applicants can save drafts, upload files, track progress, and download a PDF of their application. The platform supports email campaigns, while SMS and WhatsApp availability varies by plan. The Free Trial allows 50 applications per year, 1 GB storage, 5 AI credits, and 200 automation runs. Essentials costs $149/mo on an annual term and allows 500 applications per year; Pro costs $499 a year. Enterprise lists unlimited applications, custom AI credits and storage, SSO, and API access, but no price is listed. The site describes AES-256 encryption, AWS hosting, daily backups, role-based access controls, EU data residency, and configurable retention and deletion.
Good
- Builds forms, stages, deadlines, and rules without code.
- Supports blind and multi-round judging.
- Applicants can save drafts and track progress.
- Includes email campaigns and application PDFs.
- Describes encryption, role-based access controls, and EU data residency.
Watch out
- Free Trial is limited to 50 applications per year.
- Free Trial includes 1 GB storage.
- Essentials costs $149/mo on an annual term.
Who it suits
AwardScience is aimed at program managers, applicants, judges, sponsors, and auditors running awards, grants, scholarships, or accelerator programmes. Its plans and workflows cover both smaller programmes and Enterprise use.
Verdict
AwardScience brings programme setup, applicant tools, judging, and communications into one workspace. Compare the plan limits and annual billing terms against the size and needs of your programme.
Plans and prices
From AwardScience's own pricing page, checked 15 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Free Trial | Free | 1 GB storage · no-code forms/workflows · 5 AI credits · 200 automation runs · multilingual UI · 30-day evaluation; up to 50 applications per year |
| Essentials | $149 a month | 500 applications/year · 10 GB storage · 500 AI credits · 2,000 automation runs · email campaigns · judging portal · billed annually; displayed monthly equivalent |
| Pro | $499 a month | 5,000 applications/year · 70 GB storage · AI judging · document extraction · SMS and WhatsApp campaigns · 2,000 AI credits · 8,000 automation runs · billed annually; displayed monthly equivalent |
| Enterprise | Priced on request | Unlimited applications · SSO and API access · private label/custom domain · audit logs and SLA · dedicated success manager · custom credits/storage · custom quote |
The facts
Each one read from AwardScience's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- AI data policy
- The company says customer data is not used to train models and AI does not make outcome decisions.checked 15 Oct 2026
- AI judging
- AI proposes application scores with written reasoning, while judges can conduct blind and multi-round reviews.checked 29 Sep 2026
- AI scoring
- The platform proposes scores for submissions and attaches written reasoning that judges can accept or override.checked 15 Oct 2026
- AI tools
- AI capabilities include program generation, document extraction, chat with data, and professional matching.checked 29 Sep 2026
- Analytics
- Program managers get more than 20 live charts covering entries, conversion, geography and judging progress.checked 15 Oct 2026
- API and webhooks
- The help material describes REST API, service and user keys, SSO endpoints, webhooks and HTTP request logs.checked 15 Oct 2026
- API availability
- API integration and SAML-based SSO are Enterprise-only capabilities.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Audit trail
- Every action and API call is timestamped, searchable and exportable, while audit entries are append-only.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Automation
- Rules support conditional branches, scheduled jobs, event triggers and automatic deadline enforcement.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Communications
- Email, SMS and WhatsApp notifications and campaigns are managed from the platform.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Data handling
- The site describes EU data residency, GDPR-ready handling, configurable retention and deletion, and an enterprise Data Processing Agreement.checked 29 Sep 2026
- Data residency
- Customers can select EU, US or Asia-Pacific hosting regions, with six AWS regions providing in-geography recovery.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Documentation
- A public help guide covers setup, applications, studio, administration, analytics, payments and integrations without requiring an account.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Document extraction
- Uploaded documents can be read automatically and mapped into related application fields.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- Capterra lists Salesforce Sales Cloud, Zapier, SAP BW/4HANA and Azure Active Directory External Identities as integrations.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Intended users
- The product is presented for program managers, applicants, judges, sponsors, and auditors running grants, scholarships, awards, or accelerator programmes.checked 29 Sep 2026
- Judge tools
- Judges receive personal queues, blind scoring, anomaly views, similarity checks, voting and progress tracking.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Licence
- The software is proprietary and protected by copyright; trial users receive no source-code rights.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: bulk operations
- A reviewer says bulk reassignment and mass emailing during peak periods take extra clicks.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: navigation
- A reviewer reports that menus hide unauthorized sections without explaining why, which can make missing features look like navigation errors.checked 15 Oct 2026
Where it runs
- Applicant features
- Applicants can save drafts as they type, upload files, track progress, and download a PDF of their application.checked 29 Sep 2026
The company
- Company founding
- KY & Company’s LinkedIn profile says it was founded in 2018.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Company size
- LinkedIn lists KY & Company as privately held with 11–50 employees and 35 visible employees.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Headquarters
- Hong Kongchecked 23 Sep 2026
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