Every programme. One plan.

Intelligence at every stage

Most of the work in a programme isn't judging. It's checking, chasing, sorting and moving entries around. Dapple's agents handle that, at every stage, so your team and reviewers spend their time on the work itself.

• Set up in minutes: Describe your programme and the AI form builder drafts your form.
• Eligibility checks: Against criteria you set in advance, with missing information flagged.
• Entry summaries: A summary of every entry, written for your reviewers.
• Automatic tagging and routing: To the right stage, review round or reviewer.
• Claude and ChatGPT: Connect Dapple and ask questions of your data — build reports, charts and board updates in seconds.

Built around your workflow

Evalato is built around awards. Dapple is flexible enough for awards, grants, residencies and open calls — because you build the stages.

• Custom stages: Each with its own automations and review rounds.
• Board or list view: See every entry and where it is.
• Tags, owners and filters: Keep your team on top of every entry.
• Multiple forms per programme: Each fully customisable.
• Automations: Tag, move and message entries automatically as they arrive or change stage, on Growth and Pro.
• Bulk actions: Move, tag or message hundreds of entries at once.

Galleries in minutes

Turn any stage into a public gallery in a few minutes — a shortlist, your finalists or this year's winners. Add public voting if you want your audience involved.

• Create a gallery from any stage: In a few clicks.
• Field control: Choose exactly which fields appear publicly.
• Public voting: Optional, to engage your audience.
• One link: Share it with entrants, sponsors and press.

Judging that fits your programme

Set up as many review rounds as you need, each with its own scoring, criteria, guidance and notifications.

• Rating or rubric scoring: With voting options you define.
• Slideshow judging: Built for visual entries.
• Review pools: Share entries out between reviewers automatically.
• Anonymous review: Hide any field, and reveal names only when you need to.
• Entrant-facing feedback: Feedback fields reviewers can fill in for entrants to see.
• Drag-and-drop judging: Move entries between stages on a visual kanban board.

Beautiful entry forms

Every Dapple form is fully customisable. Start from a template or let the AI form builder draft one for you, then shape every field, step and rule to fit your programme, and brand it with your logo and colours.

• Fully customisable: Every field, step and rule, branded with your logo and colours.
• AI form builder and templates: A working draft from a short description, or start from a ready-made form.
• Conditional logic and form steps: Show the right questions to the right entrants, and break long forms into steps.
• Embedded images and video: Show guidelines and examples right inside the form.
• Payment tiers and entry baskets: Different prices for different categories, and several entries in one payment.
• Draft reminders: Bring unfinished entries back before the deadline.
• Other languages: Duplicate your form and translate it in a few seconds, one version per language.

After the award

Dapple's fund management tracks what happens after the decision, so grant-makers don't need a second system.

• Budgets and funds: Set up per programme.
• Awards: Linked to each successful application.
• Payment tracking: From approval to paid.
• Payment-ready exports: For your finance team.

Entry fees, handled properly

Connect Stripe and take entry fees in minutes, with the tax and invoicing tools awards teams actually need.

• Cards, Apple Pay and Google Pay: At checkout.
• Payment tiers and entry baskets: For multi-category awards.
• Tax and invoices: Stripe Tax, invoices and in-platform refunds.
• Abandoned-checkout reminders: Bring entrants back automatically.

Security and support

Dapple is Cyber Essentials certified, runs on SOC 2-certified AWS hosting and is compliant with UK and EU GDPR. A range of permissions lets you tailor exactly who can see and do what, so everyone gets the access they need and nothing more.

• Tailored permissions: Give administrators, managers, members and judges exactly the access they need.
• Judges kept separate: Judges only see the entries assigned to them, with no access to your dashboard or final decisions.
• Hidden fields: Keep entrant names and personal details away from judges.
• SSO, API and webhooks: On Pro.
• Free onboarding and live chat: From people who know awards.
• 30-day money-back guarantee: On paid plans.