The Modern Alternative To Award Force
Stop wrestling with configuration menus that go nowhere. AwardScience is built AI-first so your team can launch a full award program in minutes, not weeks, and your judges can actually focus on the work that matters.
This Is What Modern Award Management Looks Like
Powerful shouldn’t mean painful
Award Force is a legacy platform built for a different era of software. It works, but the cost is your team’s time and patience. Admins burn through days, sometimes weeks, digging through dense settings menus just to get a basic program live. Judges are handed raw PDFs and a portal that treats them like data processors rather than experts. The platform wasn’t designed to be fast or intuitive. It was designed to be thorough, and those are very different things.
Enter AwardScience. Built for speed. Powered by AI.
AwardScience was built from scratch to be AI-native. Not AI-sprinkled-on-top, not a chatbot bolted onto a form builder: a platform where intelligence runs through every layer of the product. Program managers describe an award and the system generates the workflow. Judges open a submission and find scores already proposed, with reasoning. Applicants get a guided, autosaving experience that works on any device. Where Award Force asks your team to configure their way to a result, AwardScience starts from the result and works backward.
Compare Solution Side-by-Side
| Feature | AwardScience | Award Force |
|---|---|---|
| Program Setup | AI-assisted: describe your award, get your forms, rubrics, and workflow generated instantly | Steep learning curve, weeks of backend configuration |
| Judging Experience | AI scoring with written reasoning, semantic similarity detection, and field-level AI chat so judges start informed, not overwhelmed | Manual review of applicant PDFs |
| Platform Flexibility | Visual drag-and-drop workflow builder with conditional branching, 30+ form field types, and no-code automation | Highly specialized for standard award structures |
| Admin Interface | Clean dashboard with 20+ analytics charts, a no-code form builder, and AI insights on your applicant pool | Heavy, menu-dense backend |
| Process Changes | Edit live programs visually in seconds, publish when ready | Requires digging through settings to update live programs |
Why Program Managers are switching to AwardScience?
A platform that actually fits your process
Award Force locks you into its own phase structure. If your program doesn’t fit the standard model, you spend days bending the tool to approximate what you need. AwardScience’s drag-and-drop visual workflow builder lets you design exactly the stages your program requires, from a single review round to a complex pipeline with conditional branching, financial audits, and VIP judging. Every path is visible on the canvas, every condition is set without code, and when you need to change something mid-cycle, you publish the update in seconds. No settings menus, no support ticket, no consultant.
Your judges deserve better than a PDF queue
In Award Force, judges log in to a stack of PDFs and a scoring form that gives them no context. AwardScience approaches judging from the other direction. Before a judge reads a word, the platform has already proposed a score with written reasoning, flagged look-alike submissions using semantic vector comparison, and surfaced scoring anomalies across the panel. Judges can ask follow-up questions on any field via built-in AI chat, triage with color-coded flags, and get WhatsApp or email reminders when reviews are waiting. It is the difference between a judge who finishes the cycle and one who ghosts you after round one.
Launch a season before lunch
Setting up a new Award Force season typically means a training manual, settings spread across multiple menus, and days of back-and-forth before anything goes live. AwardScience cuts that to minutes. Describe the award you are running and the AI builder generates your forms, rubrics, and workflow as an immediate starting point. The 30-plus field types cover everything from file uploads to AI-powered document extraction that reads uploaded files and auto-fills form fields for applicants. Review what the system proposes, adjust what needs changing, and publish. No consultant required.
Every stakeholder gets what they need, nothing more
Award Force gives you broad role buckets. AwardScience’s permission engine works at a completely different level of precision. Sponsors get a live analytics dashboard with AI-powered insights into their funded programs but cannot touch a single application. Auditors get a complete, timestamped trail of every action and API call, read-only access to every submission, and form version history that shows exactly what was live at any point, all without any ability to alter records. Judges see only the submissions assigned to them at their stage. You define access by account type, process, stage, and field values, combined with AND/OR logic. Enterprise-grade security that takes minutes to configure, not a dedicated admin to maintain.
Reach applicants and judges on the channels they actually check
Most award platforms send emails and hope for the best. AwardScience has a full multi-channel communications suite built in, covering email campaigns, SMS, and WhatsApp, with delivery, open, and click tracking on every message. Program managers design templates in a rich editor, schedule automated reminders on a cron-based system so no one has to manually chase judges before a deadline, and send targeted broadcasts to specific segments. For applicants, deadline countdowns, a notifications center, and a calendar widget sit right inside their dashboard. The result is fewer missed deadlines, better completion rates, and a program that feels professionally run from the outside.