Run Your Design Awards,
From Open Call to Jury.
AwardKit is built for juried architecture and design competitions. Publish your brief, collect rich project submissions with drawings, boards, photography, and video, charge registration that lands directly in your account, score with your jury panel, and announce winners and honorable mentions. Self-serve from day one, no demo required.
No credit card. Build free, pay only to go live. No demo required.
- Unlimited design competitions
- Rich project uploads: boards, drawings, video
- Multi-round weighted jury scoring
- Public results pages and certificates
- Entry fees to your Stripe, 0% commission
Build for free, pay only when you go live. No demo required.
Architecture and design awards software, built for juried project competitions
AwardKit is architecture and design awards software for the studios, schools, publications, and institutions that run juried design competitions. It is purpose-built for the way design awards actually work: a published brief, an open call, large multi-format project submissions, and a jury panel that scores against your criteria.
From the open call through jury scoring to the winners and honorable mentions, you manage the whole program in one workspace. Build a submission form that accepts images, drawings, presentation boards, PDFs, and video, collect registration fees directly into your own Stripe account with zero commission, run multi-round weighted jury scoring, draw a shortlist, and publish a public results page.
There is no sales demo to schedule and no commission taken out of your entry revenue. Build and test the whole competition for free, then pay a flat annual price only when you are ready to open the call for entries.
From open call to jury,
one connected flow
A design award is a staged, juried process, not a single form. Every stage lives in one workspace, from the brief through the shortlist to the winners and honorable mentions.
- 1
Registration & brief
Publish the brief, set categories and registration fees, and open the call for entries.
- 2
Project submission
Entrants upload drawings, boards, photography, PDFs, and video with their project details.
- 3
Shortlist
A first round narrows the field to the strongest entries the full jury will review.
- 4
Jury scoring
Jurors score the shortlist against weighted criteria, aggregating into a live leaderboard.
- 5
Winners & honorable mentions
Publish winners, category honors, and honorable mentions on a shareable results page.
What design competition organizers tell us about their tooling
The jury is lined up. Then the platform gets in the way.
A sales demo just to find out the price
The incumbents hide pricing behind a Request a Demo button. You have a brief ready and a jury on standby, but you cannot even get a number without sitting through a call and waiting on a custom quote. Meanwhile the open call was supposed to launch this week.
Project uploads that fight the entrant
Design entries are not a paragraph of text. They are boards, drawings, high-resolution photography, PDFs, and walkthrough video. Generic form tools choke on the file sizes and formats, so entrants email you a Dropbox link and your submissions live in a dozen different places.
Wrangling the jury across spreadsheets and inboxes
Multi-round scoring against weighted criteria becomes a tangle of shared sheets, emailed PDFs, and manual tallies. Drawing a clean shortlist and reconciling jurors who scored different entries turns into a week of reconciliation no one signed up for.
How it works
From a blank workspace to published winners, without a sales call in between.
Build your program for free
Create the program, add your categories, build the entry form, set per-category fees, and configure your judging rubric. Everything is free to build and test before you go live.
Open submissions and collect entry fees
Share the submission link. Entrants complete your form and pay the entry fee, which lands directly in your own Stripe account with zero commission.
Judge with your committee
Assign judges to categories, run one or more rounds with weighted criteria, and watch scores aggregate into a live leaderboard. No spreadsheets, no manual tallying.
Publish winners and report
Announce winners on a public results page when you are ready, issue certificates, and export entries, revenue, and judge participation for your board report.
A submission experience built for design work
Entrants add project details, supporting media, and team members in one clean flow, uploading boards, drawings, photography, PDFs, and video without scattering files across email. No accounts, no clunky 2010s portal.
What your design competition looks like on AwardKit
Launch without talking to sales
Build the entire competition for free: categories, submission requirements, registration fees, and your jury rubric. You only pay when you take the program live and open the call. No demo, no quote, no waiting on an account rep.
Submissions built for real design work
Collect images, drawings, presentation boards, PDFs, and video alongside project details and team members. Entrants upload their work in one place instead of scattering it across email and file-sharing links.
Score with your jury panel
Configure weighted criteria, run multiple rounds, and assign jurors to the categories they cover. Scores aggregate automatically into a live leaderboard, so the jury debate starts from ranked results and a clear shortlist.
Registration fees land in your account, in full
Fees are collected through your own Stripe account via Stripe Connect. AwardKit takes zero commission on entries, so the program revenue is yours. No middleman holding the money, no per-submission cut.
One flat price, every competition you run
A single $1,995 per year workspace covers unlimited programs. Run your architecture awards, your interior design award, and your student competition side by side without per-program fees.
Winners and honorable mentions, published
Publish a polished public results page when the embargo lifts, with winners, category honors, and honorable mentions ready for your press release and socials. Recognition that reflects the quality of the work.
Every design competition, one workspace
Run as many of these as you like at no extra cost. Each gets its own categories, submission requirements, registration fees, rubric, and jury.
Architecture award
Juried recognition for completed buildings and architectural projects, with category entries, drawings and photography uploads, and a panel of practicing architects.
Interior design award
A competition for residential, commercial, and hospitality interiors, with rich image and board submissions scored against your design criteria.
Urban & landscape design competition
Open calls for masterplans, public realm, and landscape projects, with PDF proposals, plans, and renderings reviewed by a multidisciplinary jury.
Student & academic design competition
Briefs for studios and schools, with discounted student registration, supporting media uploads, and a jury drawn from faculty and practice.
Product & industrial design award
Recognition for product, furniture, and industrial design, with photography, spec sheets, and video walkthroughs judged on a weighted rubric.
Sustainability / built-environment award
A program spotlighting low-carbon, regenerative, and sustainable design, with project documentation and performance evidence scored by an expert panel.
Built for juried design competitions
The pieces a project-based, juried program actually needs, ready out of the box.
Rich project submission forms
Define your submission requirements with the fields, file uploads, and eligibility questions your brief calls for. Images, drawings, boards, PDFs, and video are all supported.
Registration fees via Stripe Connect
Set per-category registration fees and early-bird or final-deadline pricing. Payments route directly to your own Stripe account with zero commission.
Weighted, multi-round jury scoring
Custom criteria and weights, multiple rounds, and per-category juror assignment for panels of any size, all aggregating into a live leaderboard.
Friction free for entrants and jurors
Entrants submit and jurors score without fighting the tool.
A modern submission experience
A clean, fast entry flow that reflects the design quality you are recognizing, not a 2010s portal entrants dread logging into.
Jurors score from any device
Jurors open a personal link and review assigned entries from a laptop, tablet, or phone, with a simple scoring interface that needs no training or accounts.
Early-bird and student discount codes
Offer early-registration pricing, student rates, or comped entries for invited participants with discount codes you control.
After the jury decides
The follow-up work that usually eats a week, handled.
Public results and winner pages
Announce winners, category honors, and honorable mentions on a shareable results page you publish when the embargo lifts, ready for your press release.
Certificates for honorees
Every winner and honorable mention can receive a verifiable certificate they can share with their own network and clients.
Entry and participation reports
Export entries, registration fees collected, and juror participation for your post-program report and next year’s planning.
See what you would pay elsewhere
Most platforms charge per program or take a commission on entry fees. Estimate your cost across every major platform against AwardKit’s flat $1,995 a year.
Keep exploring
Award program planning guide
A step-by-step guide to scoping, launching, and running an award program end to end.
Compare AwardKit to alternatives
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How judging works
Weighted rubrics, multiple rounds, judge assignment, and live results explained.
Pricing
Flat $1,995 per year, unlimited programs, zero commission. Build free, pay to go live.
Questions design competition organizers ask
Open Your Call for Entries This Week, Not Next Quarter.
Build your design competition for free and pay only when you go live. Flat $1,995/year, unlimited programs, zero commission on entry fees. No demo required.
No credit card. Build free, pay only to go live. No demo required.