Open the call. Hear from the whole field.
Run open calls, challenges, market research, and an innovation hub in one place, with every submission scored and recorded from open to close.
Hundreds of submissions. A handful of reviewers. One clock.
Submissions arrive through portals, inboxes, and slide decks. Reviewers score in separate files. When the call closes, the reasoning is scattered, and the next call starts by rebuilding the last one.
What changes for your program
Reach past the usual names
Open a call to industry, academia, the public, or the organization’s own people, on a site in the program’s own branding. A company can apply without a government credential, so the field that answers isn’t limited to whoever already knows where to look.
Market research straight from the field
Put a question to industry through surveys and standing channels with suppliers, and keep what comes back on the same record as the calls that follow. The office learns what exists before it decides what to ask for.
Every submission scored the same way
Reviewers score in place against the criteria the call set, with every submission and every score in one record. Nobody reconciles exports, and nobody scores from a different version.
A community that’s there for the next call
The people who submitted, reviewed, and partnered stay connected in a standing innovation hub, so the next call opens to a field that’s already engaged instead of starting cold.
Built for programs looking for a breakthrough
Program offices
Open calls to industry, force-wide programs where every member can submit and vote, and the report that goes up the chain when the call closes.
Agencies and labs
Prize competitions, internal innovation programs, and reviewers spread across the agency scoring against the same criteria.
Companies
Idea campaigns with their own employees, and co-creation with customers and partners.
From the first post to the final pick
Calls
Set the rules: dates, eligibility, what a complete submission includes, and the criteria it will be scored against. Publish it to a closed group, a whole organization, or the open market, on a site in the program’s own branding.
Submissions
Participants register once, submit, and refine. Where the program allows it, they comment on, vote on, and build on each other’s work, so the field gets stronger before review begins. Side-by-side voting lets the community compare ideas two at a time.
Scoring
Reviewers score in place against the criteria set at launch. Every score stays on the record next to the submission it was about.
Market research
Surveys and standing channels with suppliers put a question to industry and gather the answers on the same record as everything that follows.
Innovation hub
A standing home for the program’s community: several communities under one roof, articles and events, and a reason for people to come back between cycles. Participation earns credits, so the people who show up get recognized for it.
Customizable design
A flexible workflow and tasking system shapes Source around the way the program already runs. No-code design tools make every site look like the program’s own, without a developer.
Reports
Each round closes into a report the program office can hand upward: what was asked, what came in, who advanced, and why.
The AFWERX Challenge has run on Collaboration.Ai software continuously since FY18, with 57 Challenges launched. The program reports 200 contract awards.
Software and a team that’s run hundreds of calls
Mission Success designs the call with the program office, scouts the companies it should reach, runs the review sessions with live capture, and keeps the community active between calls.
Runs where your program needs it
Some calls are open to the public and some never leave a government network. Source runs both, so a company can apply without a government credential and a closed program stays closed.
Impact Level 2 and Impact Level 4, by deployment, hosted in the United States
CAC on .mil deployments; account sign-in on public sites
Available
Questions programs ask
Does it replace what we already use?
It replaces the scatter, not the program’s people or process. The office keeps its own criteria, reviewers, and rules. Source puts the call, every submission, every score, and the report in one place, so nothing gets stitched together afterward, and a program with past calls can bring that history with it.
Can it run on our own infrastructure?
Yes. On-premises deployment is available for Source, alongside government deployments at Impact Level 2 and Impact Level 4.
How does a program buy it?
Collaboration.Ai’s prior SBIR work makes it eligible for sole-source Phase III awards. Under 15 U.S.C. § 638(r)(4), those awards may be made without further competition. Where Phase III does not apply, we’ll work with your office to find the contracting pathway that fits.
How is it different from Acquire and Intelligence?
Source runs open calls and idea campaigns from open to close. Acquire runs funding programs from topic to award. Intelligence handles the research around both, at any point in the cycle: who is working on the problem, what has been funded, and who could deliver, with every finding traced to its source. All three run on NetworkOS.
Your next call could be your best one
Build a solicitation, open it to the market, and collect every submission in one place through to reporting.
Contracting vehicles
Direct award pathways, no new competition required.
Collaboration.Ai’s prior SBIR work makes it eligible for sole-source Phase III awards. Under 15 U.S.C. § 638(r)(4), those awards may be made without further competition.
Where Phase III does not apply, we’ll work with your office to find the contracting pathway that fits. Contracting vehicles →