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AwardScience
What AwardScience is
AwardScience is a workspace for running award, grant, scholarship, and nomination programmes from application through review. Teams can set up forms, stages, deadlines, and rules without code, then route submissions to reviewers. AI can suggest application scores with written reasoning, while judges can use blind and multi-round reviews. Additional AI tools support programme generation, document extraction, chat with data, and professional matching. Applicants can save drafts, upload files, track progress, and download their applications as PDFs. The platform supports email campaigns; SMS and WhatsApp availability depends on the plan. Enterprise lists API and LLM integrations, while the service documentation covers REST API, SSO, and webhooks. AwardScience is available on the web and through an API. It describes encryption at rest and in transit, AWS hosting, daily backups, role-based access controls, and EU data residency. The Free Trial allows 50 applications per year and 1 GB storage. Essentials costs $149 a year, billed annually, and Pro costs $499 a year, billed annually.
Who it suits
AwardScience suits program managers, applicants, judges, sponsors, and auditors running grants, scholarships, awards, or accelerator programmes. It may fit teams that want application management and review workflows in one workspace.
What it does well
- Build forms, stages, deadlines, and rules without code
- AI scoring includes written reasoning
- Supports blind and multi-round reviews
- Applicants can save drafts and track progress
- Enterprise lists unlimited applications and custom storage
What to know first
- No free plan
- Free Trial is limited to 50 applications per year
- SMS and WhatsApp availability varies by plan
Limits
The Free Trial includes 50 applications per year, 1 GB storage, 5 AI credits, and 200 automation runs. Essentials allows 500 applications per year, 10 GB storage, 500 AI credits, and 2,000 automation runs; Pro allows 5,000 applications per year, 70 GB storage, 2,000 AI credits, and 8,000 automation runs.
Plans
| Plan | Billed and limits | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Free Trial | 30-day evaluation; up to 50 applications per year · 1 GB storage · no-code forms/workflows · 5 AI credits · 200 automation runs · multilingual UI | Free |
| Essentials | billed annually; displayed monthly equivalent · 500 applications/year · 10 GB storage · 500 AI credits · 2,000 automation runs · email campaigns · judging portal | $149 a month |
| Pro | billed annually; displayed monthly equivalent · 5,000 applications/year · 70 GB storage · AI judging · document extraction · SMS and WhatsApp campaigns · 2,000 AI credits · 8,000 automation runs | $499 a month |
| Enterprise | custom quote · Unlimited applications · SSO and API access · private label/custom domain · audit logs and SLA · dedicated success manager · custom credits/storage | On request |
As awardscience.com lists them, read 15 Oct 2026. The maker's own page has the final word.
Getting started
- Open the AwardScience website.
- Start with the 30-day trial or select an annual paid plan.
- Build programme forms, stages, deadlines, and rules.
- Route submissions to reviewers and configure the judging workflow.
- Invite applicants to submit and track their applications.
Verdict
AwardScience brings application collection, review, AI tools, and applicant communications into one programme workspace.
Questions
Does AwardScience have a free plan?
No. It offers a 30-day trial priced at $0, with 50 applications per year, 1 GB storage, 5 AI credits, and 200 automation runs.
Which platforms does AwardScience support?
AwardScience is available on the web and through an API.
What does Enterprise include?
Enterprise lists unlimited applications, custom AI credits and storage, SSO, and API access. API and LLM integration are listed for Enterprise.
What security and data controls are described?
The service describes AES-256 encryption at rest and in transit, AWS hosting, daily backups, and role-based access controls. It also describes EU data residency, configurable retention and deletion, and an enterprise Data Processing Agreement.
Facts from AwardScience's own pages
- AI data policy
- The company says customer data is not used to train models and AI does not make outcome decisions. · awardscience.com, 15 Oct 2026
- AI judging
- AI proposes application scores with written reasoning, while judges can conduct blind and multi-round reviews. · awardscience.com, 29 Sept 2026
- AI scoring
- The platform proposes scores for submissions and attaches written reasoning that judges can accept or override. · awardscience.com, 15 Oct 2026
- AI tools
- AI capabilities include program generation, document extraction, chat with data, and professional matching. · awardscience.com, 29 Sept 2026
- Analytics
- Program managers get more than 20 live charts covering entries, conversion, geography and judging progress. · awardscience.com, 15 Oct 2026
- API and webhooks
- The help material describes REST API, service and user keys, SSO endpoints, webhooks and HTTP request logs. · doc.app.awardscience.com, 15 Oct 2026
- API availability
- API integration and SAML-based SSO are Enterprise-only capabilities. · awardscience.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Applicant features
- Applicants can save drafts as they type, upload files, track progress, and download a PDF of their application. · awardscience.com, 29 Sept 2026
- Audit trail
- Every action and API call is timestamped, searchable and exportable, while audit entries are append-only. · awardscience.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Automation
- Rules support conditional branches, scheduled jobs, event triggers and automatic deadline enforcement. · awardscience.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Communications
- Email, SMS and WhatsApp notifications and campaigns are managed from the platform. · awardscience.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Company founding
- KY & Company’s LinkedIn profile says it was founded in 2018. · linkedin.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Company size
- LinkedIn lists KY & Company as privately held with 11–50 employees and 35 visible employees. · linkedin.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Data handling
- The site describes EU data residency, GDPR-ready handling, configurable retention and deletion, and an enterprise Data Processing Agreement. · awardscience.com, 29 Sept 2026
- Data residency
- Customers can select EU, US or Asia-Pacific hosting regions, with six AWS regions providing in-geography recovery. · awardscience.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Documentation
- A public help guide covers setup, applications, studio, administration, analytics, payments and integrations without requiring an account. · doc.app.awardscience.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Document extraction
- Uploaded documents can be read automatically and mapped into related application fields. · awardscience.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Headquarters
- Hong Kong · awardscience.com, 23 Sept 2026
- Integrations
- Capterra lists Salesforce Sales Cloud, Zapier, SAP BW/4HANA and Azure Active Directory External Identities as integrations. · capterra.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Intended users
- The product is presented for program managers, applicants, judges, sponsors, and auditors running grants, scholarships, awards, or accelerator programmes. · awardscience.com, 29 Sept 2026
- Judge tools
- Judges receive personal queues, blind scoring, anomaly views, similarity checks, voting and progress tracking. · awardscience.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Licence
- The software is proprietary and protected by copyright; trial users receive no source-code rights. · awardscience.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: bulk operations
- A reviewer says bulk reassignment and mass emailing during peak periods take extra clicks. · capterra.com, 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. · capterra.com, 15 Oct 2026
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