Run the award. We run the rest.
Startup boosters, pitch battles, innovation awards — launch a competition that recruits the right applicants, fills its own forms, scores every entry, and never lets a deadline slip. The work that sinks an awards program, handled by agents.
A competition is a marketing campaign, a judging panel, and a deadline machine — all at once.
Thin, last-minute pipeline
Applications trickle in until a panic spike the night before the deadline — and half of them are off-brief.
Manual chasing & reminders
Someone on your team is personally emailing applicants and judges to finish, submit, and review on time.
Scoring in spreadsheets
Hundreds of entries, a dozen judges, inconsistent rubrics — and no defensible way to rank them.
Wrong audience, wide net
Blasting the whole list wastes reach and floods you with applicants who were never a fit.
Forms that scare people off
Long application forms are abandoned mid-way. Great companies drop out simply because applying is a chore.
No story to show sponsors
Backers want proof: applicant quality, reach, conversion. You lack one clean narrative of how the program performed.
Six agents that run your competition end-to-end
Each one owns a stage — from inviting applicants to publishing winners — and reports back in plain language.
Timeline setup
Define your stages once — open, deadline, shortlist, judging, finals — and the whole program runs to the calendar automatically.
- Milestone-aware stages with automatic gating
- Time-zone aware deadlines, no manual cutoffs
Automatic reminders
Behavior-triggered nudges to applicants with open drafts and to judges with pending reviews — so nothing stalls and nobody chases.
- Fires on real behaviour, not blanket blasts
- Escalates as the deadline approaches
Deep email filtering
Go far beyond tags. Slice your marketing audience by industry, stage, funding, geography and intent so invitations only reach a real fit.
- Enriched, multi-signal audience segments
- Suppresses off-criteria and duplicate contacts
AI scoring
Every entry scored against your rubric the moment it lands — consistent, explainable, and ranked. Judges start from a shortlist, not a slush pile.
- Scores against your criteria with rationale
- Auto-shortlists finalists for human judges
Outreach campaigns
Recruit applicants the way sales recruits pipeline — multi-step, personalised sequences that invite the right founders and follow up on their own.
- Personalised, multi-touch invitation sequences
- Auto follow-up until they apply or opt out
AI form completion
The agent pre-fills applications from a company's website, deck and CRM record. Founders review and submit in minutes instead of abandoning a long form.
- Drafts answers from public & CRM data
- Applicant edits and confirms — no busywork
Before and after mytradeshow.ai
Before: a manual scramble
- A coordinator hand-emails applicants and judges to chase every deadline.
- Long forms get abandoned; quality founders never finish applying.
- Hundreds of entries ranked by inconsistent spreadsheets and gut feel.
- Invitations blast the whole list, flooding you with off-brief applicants.
After: a program on autopilot
- Reminders fire on their own; applicants and judges stay on track.
- AI pre-fills forms — founders apply in minutes, completion jumps.
- Every entry is scored and ranked instantly against your rubric.
- Deep filtering + outreach bring in founders who actually fit.
Most awards tools are a form and a deadline. Ours is a team.
| Capability | mytradeshow.ai | Generic awards platforms | Forms + spreadsheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Timeline & stage automation | Milestone-aware stages that gate themselves | Static dates you police by hand | A calendar reminder, if you remember |
| Email reminders | Behaviour-triggered, automatic, escalating | Scheduled bulk blasts to everyone | Manual one-by-one emails |
| Audience filtering | Deep filters: industry, stage, funding, intent | Basic tags and lists | None — one big list |
| Application scoring | AI scores & ranks instantly, with rationale | Manual judge forms, averaged later | Spreadsheet sums and gut feel |
| Applicant recruiting | Built-in multi-touch outreach campaigns | Bring your own marketing tool | Post a link and hope |
| Time to apply | AI autofills the form — minutes, not hours | Long manual form, high drop-off | Long manual form, high drop-off |