01Problem
The foundation’s competitions — Teoria (essays on architecture) and Praktyka (built and design work) — were judged the hard way: submissions collected over email, jurors scoring on spreadsheets, results tallied by hand. Two things were at stake in every edition: fairness — a juror should never know whose work they are scoring — and trust in the final ranking. Both are hard to guarantee with files and spreadsheets passing between people.
02Role
End to end. We brought the concept to the foundation, designed the entrant and juror experience, defined the data model and scoring rules, and delivered the working software using an AI-assisted development workflow — product, design and delivery under one roof. The same engagement covered the foundation’s public website.
03The judging platform
- Anonymous by construction. Every entry is stripped of personal data and given a code (e.g. SK2025-0041). Jurors read and score the work; the identity behind the code lives in a separate table they can’t reach. Blind review isn’t a policy here — it’s enforced by the database.
- Weighted, structured scoring. Instead of a single gut-feel number, each work is scored on five criteria that sum to 100: relevance & originality of insight (25), substantive depth (25), clarity & coherence (20), relation to the competition theme (20), sourcing (10) — each with a short guiding question, plus room for written justification.
- Every juror sees only their own votes. Row-level security guarantees a juror can read and edit their own scores and nothing else; one vote per work per juror, editable until closing. The office sees the aggregate.
- Two competitions, one system. Teoria and Praktyka run as parallel tracks — separate entry forms, juror rosters, PDF submissions and rankings — on the same platform, each isolated.
- The whole flow, not just scoring. Public entry forms with PDF upload to secure storage, e-mail confirmations, an office panel to flag out-of-rules entries, and a live ranking that assembles itself from jurors’ scores as they vote.
04The website
Around the platform, a new public site for the foundation: its mission, the PRAKTYKA competition, calls for entries and a lead-generation flow for young architects — the same quiet, typographic design language, built to be edited by the foundation’s team.
Website — home: mission-led, with an open call to the current competition.
Website — competition page: rules, timeline and entry call.
Website — gallery of past editions and laureates.
05Outcome
Entrants submit through one clean form; jurors score anonymized work against clear criteria from anywhere; the office watches the ranking build itself and exports the result. What used to be an email-and-spreadsheet process is now an auditable, fair, self-tallying platform — delivered alongside the website that fronts it.