Skild Platform

Peace of mind knowing that your event has been set up correctly and tested by a trained Skild associate.Screen reader support enabled. Peace of mind knowing that your event has been set up correctly and tested by a trained Skild associate.

You’ll understand the tools of the platform and learn how your event is set up and run.

Skild has designed and run hundreds of challenges. You can tap into our vast knowledge base to ensure your event is the best it can be.

Whether your event has 10 contestants or 100,000, Skild is ready to scale.

We can add drop down menus, radio buttons, check boxes. We can make fields that collect text, video, audio, and any type of file upload you can imagine.

Choose what you want users to submit at the point of registration.

Modify the language of page content, emails, error messages and so forth to establish a consistent tone throughout the app.

A clean dashboard and intuitive controls enable you to navigate and operate the platform confidently.

Access any entry or application at any time from the admin panel. You always have access to content, scores and comments.

Instantly know who’s got the highest score all the way down to the lowest.

Monitor your contest and build custom reports to measure results.

Skild’s built-in filtering system enables you to locate specific entries or users.

Effortlessly export all data collected during your contest including all user data, form data and files submitted during the competition.

Group and evaluate similar types of contestants and entries. Easily assign expert judges to review only specific categories if you choose.

Collect and evaluate data over any number of rounds.

Collect and evaluate new or revised submission data over the course of your event.

Accept and display videos

Allow entrants to upload any type of file.

Admins can approve or deny any user type (i.e. users who apply to compete or judge your contest).

Skild has three tiers of "OpenSkild," our out-of-the-box solution that helps a majority of our clients get up and running quickly and efficiently with the features listed here. For those who may need more we offer an API solution.

Design your event’s public facing pages to match your current branding. Create a seamless integration from your website to your event on Skild.

Brand a site and url completely as your own.

Save participants’ time by enabling instant registration and login.

Skip registration altogether and save participants' even more time

Display submissions publicly in an online gallery. Choose exactly what you what to be shown from the submission. If you choose, turn on Skild’s voting features to encourage the public to vote and/or comment on entries.

Allow entrants to self-organize, collaborate and submit as a team.

Collect registration or entry submission fees.

Skild is capable of displaying the contestant application in any language.

Build your own scorecards, customize the criteria, and assign different weights to each criterion.

Quickly assign entries to judges or judges to entries without wasting time creating complicated configurations offline.

Easily assign any number of entries to any number of judges. Use a weighted value system to score your own criteria.

Scores and comments can be shared with judges and contestants.

Hide the identities of entrants from judges or judges from entrants.

Share text, images, documents, videos (recorded or live) and external links with your applicants and contestants.

Skild automatically sends emails to users after certain actions are triggered, like when a submission is received, saving you valuable time.

Keep your participants updated with a dashboard timeline display.

Relax knowing your data is safe.

Feel confident that all files uploaded to our server are scanned for viruses.

Skild has settings that prevent “ballot box stuffing” by permitting voters to only vote once for a specific entry.

Skild complies with the US-­EU Safe Harbor Framework and the US-Swiss Safe Harbor Framework as set forth by the U.S. Department of Commerce regarding the collection, use and retention of personal information from European Union member countries and Switzerland.

You never have to worry about your event going offline for technical maintenance or upgrades.

Users can access the platform using most major browsers.

Skild looks great on phones and tablets.

Ensure your data’s integrity is preserved through automated backups.

Automatically logs users out of the system after a period of inactivity.

Contestants and applicants never have to worry about losing information they’ve entered into the submission form thanks to Skild’s autosave feature.