Real customer stories from teams using Dapple
See how creative organisations are streamlining submissions, judging, and communications with Dapple — and what changed after they switched.
Trusted by organisations running awards, open calls, fellowships, and exhibitions
Organizations that use Dapple
- No Place Art
- Thomas Keller Restaurant Group (TKRG)
- SIETAR Europa
- Palo Alto Online
- Embarcadero Media Foundation
- Starving Artists
- Evermay, Embassy for the Future
- The Birdsong Project
- Louisville Film Office
- Liberty London
- Salon Awards
- Collective Z
- CLMP – Community of Literary Magazines and Presses
- International Young Artist Concerto Competition
- The Manchester Grammar School
- Afritondo Media and Publishing
- Parapod Awards
- Kate Nash Literary Agency
- Visual Arts Scotland
- The French Laundry
EXHIBITIONS
No Place Art
No Place Art run contemporary juried open calls and exhibitions. As submissions and admin workload grew, they needed a cleaner way to manage artists, judging, and communications. Dapple helped:
- Increase artist submissions year-on-year
- Run structured judging workflows across their panel
- Manage artist communication in one place
- Handle post-selection logistics without spreadsheet chaos
Rowan Siddons
Founder & Curator
FELLOWSHIPS
Evermay
Evermay launched its Future Fellows Program and needed robust infrastructure for application intake, panel review, and multi-stage progression across cohorts. Dapple helped:
- Run multi-cohort fellowship applications in one system
- Manage independent panel scoring and comments
- Track candidates through shortlist and interview stages
- Keep the full candidate record intact across every stage
Allison Gent
Program Manager, Evermay Foundation
PUBLISHING
Vellichor Literary
Vellichor Literary are an independent literary magazine based in San Francisco, USA. With over 100k Instagram followers and thousands of submissions for their open calls, they needed a system to manage their growing audience. Dapple helped:
- Manage all their open calls in one place
- Hire and create an editorial team
- Assign submissions and collaborate across their team
- Communicate efficiently with their active subscriber base
Ben Ramakrishnan
Founder, Vellichor Literary