Application Pipeline

Kanban board for every application in your pipeline — drag between gated stages, score, push to CRM, and add new applications with venture auto-fill.

What it is

This is your working pipeline — every application to your Innovation Center as a card on a Kanban board, one column per stage. It's where you move applicants through the process day to day.

The board

Columns come from your configured pipeline stages (set in Application Settings), each with a count badge and a shield icon if the stage is gated. Drag a card between columns to change its stage, or use the arrow buttons on the card itself.

Stage gates

A gated stage won't accept a card until its entry requirement is met — a minimum score threshold or a committee quorum (a % of evaluators who've submitted a score). If you try to move a card that doesn't qualify, a dialog explains exactly what's missing and, if the stage allows it, lets you override with a written reason. Overrides are logged.

What's on each card

Applicant name, stage/market tags, a re-application badge with prior-rejection context if this is a repeat applicant, a Push to CRM button (if you have CRM access), the current score and decision status (with a shortcut into the Score page), a validation-score summary if the founder has logged experiments, and an AI Pre-Validation panel you can run or re-run on demand. A cohort picker lets you assign the card to a cohort straight from the board.

Rejecting an application

Moving a card to the rejected stage can trigger a review step: if the system drafted a founder-facing explanation, you'll see it in a modal before it goes out — edit it, save as a draft, send it, or skip founder notification entirely.

Board-level decisions

Applications that reach Board Review show a decision-review prompt for anyone who can view analytics, so a board call doesn't sit unconfirmed.

Adding an application directly

Add Application lets you register one manually — search and select an existing venture to auto-fill problem summary, market, and investor teaser link from their Idea Book and plans, or type in a new applicant from scratch. Assign a cohort (defaults to whichever cohort is currently accepting applications).

How it fits your workflow

This is your daily pipeline view. Use Application Settings to configure the stages and gates this board enforces, and Scoring Configuration to set up the templates evaluators use before you start moving cards through gated stages.

Getting started

Add or import your first applications, and confirm your pipeline stages and gate thresholds in Application Settings before you start moving anyone through.