Run your pitch competition from application to demo day

Collect team applications with pitch decks, review them in stages you define, let finalists book their pitch time, and handle RSVPs and consent without a single spreadsheet.

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Sound familiar?

Applications arrive through a form plugin and get copied into a spreadsheet
Scheduling pitch times takes dozens of back-and-forth emails
Parent permission slips for high school teams are printed, signed, and scanned

Start from the Student pitch competition template, then change anything: stage names, questions, who receives each form, and what happens next.

Example setup

Stages

SubmittedUnder reviewSemifinalistFinalistPitch scheduledIn person, all set

Forms

ApplicationTeam lead, up to six members, school and level, idea questions, pitch deck upload
Pitch time sign-up15-minute slots across two days, one per team, with room names
In-person RSVPEach member confirms attendance and an emergency contact
Parent or guardian consentSent to the guardian of each high school member

Automation

Moving a team to Finalist sends the pitch time sign-up
Booking a slot moves the team to Pitch scheduled
Pitch scheduled sends the RSVP and the guardian consent form

AI Operator

Ask instead of clicking

Operator, the built-in AI assistant, answers questions about your program and makes changes after you allow them. For pitch competitions, directors ask things like:

"Which finalists have not booked a pitch time?"
"Add a second day of slots on Friday, 1 to 4 PM."

How Operator works

Operator proposing a change for approval

Features pitch competitions rely on

Time slot sign-ups

Pick a day, a time range, a slot length, and spots per slot. Applicantly builds the slots.

Custom stages and automation

Add, rename, reorder by dragging, and delete stages. Teams in a removed stage move to the one you choose.

Guardian consent and e-signatures

Guardian forms go to the guardian email on file for each minor.

AI Operator

Operator looks up teams, stages, forms, and responses before it answers, so it never guesses.

Questions

Can judges score inside Applicantly?

Staff review applications and move teams between stages. A dedicated judging scorecard is not built in today.

Can we run high school and college divisions?

Yes. School level is collected on the application, and minors are detected from it.

Run your pitch competition on Applicantly

Start with a template, make it yours, and share your application link. Free for 14 days.

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