The problem: your jury is prominent, busy — and unpaid
Jurors lend your award their name and their time. You keep both only as long as the judging process respects that time. Four pain points recur in every manual process — and each one is a reason to decline next year.
Merging 40 spreadsheet versions
- Every juror scores in their own file
- All versions must be consolidated by hand at the end
- Errors surface only once the ranking already stands
Documents across five sources
- Entry texts by email, attachments in a ZIP folder
- Videos behind a cloud link, scoring sheet as a spreadsheet
- Questions in the inbox — the jury searches instead of judging
No view of your own progress
- Which entries are finished, which are still open?
- Without a system nobody knows — not the jurors themselves
- nor the organisers who would need to follow up
Fairness cannot be evidenced
- How the ranking came about is hard to reconstruct afterwards
- When entrants or press ask, the documentation is missing
- The proof is absent exactly when things get uncomfortable
The judging experience is not a comfort question but a retention risk. Prominent names carry your award's credibility. Anyone who walks away after a season of ZIP folders takes that credibility with them.
What the PDF adds
- How judging should feel from the juror's side
- Handling conflicts of interest without shrinking the jury
- Multi-stage rounds: preliminary, shortlist, final
- What you can concretely promise a juror when you invite them
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Factsheet Jury perspective
PDF · 4 pages · July 2026 (German) — ready to forward to your board.
More dossiers
The cost comparisonThe model calculation for 100 entries and 10 jurors: email & spreadsheets, online forms, custom development and award software side by side — including the internal staff cost that appears in no quote.
Product & pricing informationThe complete feature matrix across Starter, Professional and Sovereign — every price stated openly. Built to be attached to procurement comparisons and board papers.
The GDPR checklistTen points that make any prize competition data-protection-proof — from processor agreements to storage location and jury access. Applies with any software, Laureo or not.
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