Dapple
What is Dapple?
Dapple is a submission management and evaluation platform engineered to collect applications, automate administrative screening via autonomous software agents, organize multi-stage reviewer scoring, and centralize applicant record lifecycles.
Key Capabilities
- Custom Application Form Building: Constructs tailored submission forms to collect candidate information, supporting documentation, and file attachments, featuring dedicated applicant accounts for draft saving and submission status tracking.
- Agentic Workflow Automation: Deploys software agents to perform initial eligibility verification, synthesize application content into concise summaries, apply categorization tags, and route records to designated evaluation stages.
- Visual Stage Board & Workflow Routing: Tracks application progression across visual Kanban-style stage boards, supporting multi-phase Review Rounds and Review Groups with customizable scoring rubrics, qualitative feedback fields, and anonymized blind review options.
- Public Galleries & Audience Voting: Publishes selected candidate submissions to web galleries, supporting public audience voting and community evaluation cycles.
- Applicant Communication & Payment Ingestion: Facilitates direct candidate messaging and automated transactional email notifications while integrating Stripe for payment processing of submission fees.
- Integrations & MCP Endpoint Support: Connects to external systems via RESTful APIs, webhooks, and Zapier, while offering native MCP server endpoints and SSO authentication.
Audience & Use Cases
- Audience: Grants Officers, Program Managers, Foundation Administrators, University Academic Committees, Public Sector Funding Directors, and Creative Arts Panel Judges.
- Use Case: Managing open call submission cycles for research grants, administering academic scholarship and fellowship applications, coordinating panel judging for competitive awards, and automating applicant intake screening.
Technical Specifications
- Deployment Model: Cloud-based Software as a Service (SaaS).
- Payment Processing: Native Stripe payment gateway integration for submission fee collection.
- Authentication & Security: Single Sign-On (SSO) via OpenID Connect (OIDC) / SAML 2.0, role-based access governance, and blind review data masking.
- Extensibility Protocols: REST API, webhooks, Zapier integration, and MCP server connectivity for AI assistants (Claude Desktop, ChatGPT, Cursor).
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