Services

Capital Consulting has been a pioneer in providing the knowledge and expertise to manage the America COMPETES challenge process end-to-end. We provide end-to-end management of competitions, including:

• Convening expert panels and design sessions
• Providing bootcamps, intensive multi-day workshops, where users learn the foundation of innovative practice including:
  • Lean project startup
  • User-centered design
  • Customer discovery
• Developing challenge structural materials such as Rules and Regulations, FAQs and Evaluation Criteria
• Providing outreach and promotion
• Accepting and managing submissions through our proprietary platform
• Managing the review process
• Disbursing award funds

Our challenge portfolio has included healthcare innovations, IT solutions/hackathons, defense and public safety advances, and highly specialized scientific breakthrough efforts.

Capital Consulting offers our clients access to our proprietary Best-In-Crowd challenge platform. Our America COMPETES challenge platform provides a suite of secure project management and challenge implementation tools hosted in auto-scalable FedRAMP authorized cloud services. Clients also benefit from our vast rolodex of prior challenge participants.

The platform’s main features include:

• Document/video submission workflow and management with full auditing capabilities Role-based authentication and authorization to support collaboration and data storage/access by clients, Capital Consulting, and participants
• Tools to support challenge administration, evaluation, collaboration, private messaging, community building, solver/participant workflows
• Interface with the existing, secure document management system to provide all data to clients at the conclusion of a challenge
• Virtual storage/submission management feature that allows participants of the challenge to store, retrieve, access, and submit for review both data and videos