Guided Program Setup
Launch structured programs through a 5-step wizard with clear progress tracking. Move from configuration to live submissions without rebuilding workflows manually.
Associations don't lack innovation and awards programs.
They lack a platform that carries them forward without exhausting the people involved. New Empact Work is built exclusively for associations to capture member ideas, evaluate them through expert review, advance finalists, and recognize winners year after year while respecting volunteer time and minimizing staff burden.
Program Architecture
Built lifecycle-first for structured, repeatable, and defensible programs.
Tracks, review phases, and advancement pathways are designed within a coherent framework that supports decision quality and institutional confidence year after year.
Program architecture is intentional, not incidental.
Configurable by Design
Programs can be configured to reflect your governance standards and operational needs. Define tracks and review phases, reuse business-scoped evaluation rubrics and submission schemas, enforce eligibility screening before reviewer assignment, and manage advancement between phases with clarity. Configuration persists across cycles, providing continuity and reducing structural reinvention year over year.
Reusable Evaluation Rubrics
Create evaluation criteria once and reuse them across programs and cycles. Maintain consistency in how submissions are assessed year after year.
Reusable Submission Forms
Define structured submission schemas that can be reused across tracks and future programs, preserving clarity and standardization.
Eligibility Screening Controls
Staff can document eligibility decisions before reviewer assignment, ensuring ineligible submissions never enter evaluation workflows.
Passwordless Access
Secure, frictionless authentication for both applicants and reviewers. No passwords to manage, no unnecessary barriers to participation.
AI Assistance Without Abdication
AI generates briefing cards with citations, supports draft comments, and highlights reviewer variance. It never scores submissions or determines advancement.
Program-Based NDA Enforcement
Require reviewers to sign a program-specific NDA before accessing confidential submissions. Signatures are tracked and audit logged automatically.
Comprehensive Audit Logging
Every configuration change, review submission, advancement decision, and state transition is recorded and traceable.
AI Assistance Without Abdication
As submission volume grows and review discussions become more complex, staff and volunteer time is consumed synthesizing information, reconciling reviewer disagreement, and drafting feedback. These are the moments where decision quality is most at risk.
AI supports reviewers and chairs by surfacing structure, clarity, and insight without influencing scores or advancement decisions.
Controlled by Design
AI outputs are clearly labeled, editable, and traceable to their source content. Briefing cards include direct citations. Reviewer comment drafts are optional and can be modified or ignored. Variance summaries highlight meaningful disagreement without prescribing a resolution. Every AI interaction is logged and visible within the program record.
No automation occurs without human review and approval.
Briefing Cards with Citations
AI summarizes submissions with direct references to source content, enabling faster orientation without replacing full review.
Reviewer Comment Drafting
Optional AI-assisted drafting helps reviewers articulate high-quality feedback efficiently.
Variance Summarization
AI highlights meaningful scoring discrepancies to support more focused and productive review discussions.
Feedback Generation
Optional AI-assisted feedback drafting for applicants, subject to human approval before release.
Oversight and Analytics
New Empact Work gives program directors and staff real-time visibility into submission flow, reviewer engagement, evaluation progress, and advancement outcomes. From intake to final decision, you can see what is moving, what is stalled, and where attention is needed.
Oversight is built into the workflow, not reconstructed after the fact.
Operational Visibility
Dashboards surface submission volume, review execution, scoring trends, advancement status, and feedback delivery in one place. Staff can monitor reviewer participation, track deadlines, export structured reports, and access audit-ready data without assembling separate documents. The result is clearer workload management, fewer status meetings, and more predictable program execution.
Program Summaries
High-level visibility into submission volume, reviewer participation, and overall program status in a single view.
Review Execution Tracking
Monitor reviewer progress, completion rates, and phase deadlines in real time to identify bottlenecks before they affect outcomes.
Evaluation Quality Insights
Surface scoring patterns and variance across reviewers to support informed discussion and stronger decision confidence.
Audit & Exports
Export structured data and access complete audit history for reporting, board updates, and compliance needs.
Security and Data Governance
New Empact Work is designed with role-based access controls, comprehensive audit logging, and controlled data visibility across every stage of the lifecycle. Infrastructure is hosted on AWS with redundant storage and monitored availability.
Security is not an add-on. It is foundational to how the platform operates.
Access by Design
Access to submissions, reviews, and administrative functions is governed by defined roles and enforced permissions. All configuration changes, review submissions, advancement decisions, and AI interactions are audit logged and traceable. Program administrators can require reviewer NDAs when confidentiality is necessary. Organizations retain ownership of their data and can export structured records at any time.
Role-Based Access Control
Granular permissions across staff and reviewers ensure controlled visibility and clearly defined authority at every stage of the program lifecycle.
Comprehensive Audit Logging
Every configuration change, review submission, decision, advancement, and AI interaction is recorded and traceable within the program record.
Program-Level NDA Enforcement
Confidential submissions can be gated behind required reviewer acknowledgment, with signatures tracked and versioned automatically.
Data Ownership & Portability
Organizations retain full ownership of their program data, with structured export capabilities and support for GDPR-aligned data management practices.
Integrations and Platform Continuity
Association programs operate within broader technology environments.
New Empact Work is designed to integrate within broader association technology environments, including Association Management Systems (AMS), CRM platforms, and internal reporting tools. Structured exports and API access support data synchronization while preserving governance controls.
The platform is maintained and iteratively improved to support long-term operational continuity.
Designed to Integrate
Program data remains accessible beyond the interface.
Secure API endpoints enable controlled retrieval of program configuration, submission content, review activity, advancement decisions, and audit history. Structured exports preserve full program records for reporting, synchronization with Association Management Systems, and long-term institutional archiving.
Integration capabilities are available on qualifying plans. The platform is supported by structured monthly releases, ensuring ongoing refinement and stability.
Support and Onboarding
High-stakes programs require more than software. They require clarity at launch and confidence during execution.
New Empact Work includes guided onboarding to ensure program architecture, review phases, and governance controls are configured correctly from the start. Staff are oriented to platform workflows so programs launch with structure and predictability.
Reviewer interfaces are intentionally designed to minimize training requirements and reduce administrative friction.
Accessible Support
Support is available by email and scheduled phone calls during business hours. Inquiries receive a same-business-day response.
Onboarding includes configuration guidance and launch readiness review. Ongoing support addresses operational questions, program adjustments, and evolving execution needs.
Built for High-Stakes Programs
Innovation, awards, and grants programs shape institutional reputation, member engagement, and long-term credibility.
They deserve infrastructure designed for decision quality, structured execution, and defensible outcomes.
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