Revolutionizing Employee Recognition and Startup Support
On July 1, 2025, Award of, a service operated by Ten Proxy and led by CEO Masayoshi Budo, will introduce a groundbreaking evaluation solution aimed at addressing common challenges in evaluating business plans and employee recognition. By harnessing the capabilities of Generative AI and rubrics, this innovative service seeks to tackle issues such as the need for domain-specific evaluators, extensive evaluation times, and the inherent biases in current systems.
Common Challenges in Evaluation
In the realm of startup awards and employee recognition programs within organizations, several consistent challenges emerge. The scarcity of evaluators with specialized knowledge makes it difficult to carry out assessments, while the lengthy review process often leads to inefficiencies. Furthermore, the subjective nature of evaluation criteria can hinder transparency and trust in the feedback process.
AI-Driven Solutions
Award of's new service incorporates a combination of Generative AI and rubrics to analyze business plans, new business proposals, and employee recommendations. This approach facilitates not only fair assessments but also ensures timely feedback. By integrating AI with rubrics, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and context-specific comment generation, Award of is set to create a high-precision evaluation system that synthesizes knowledge from past evaluations, leading to comprehensive and accurate assessments.
Through this system, human evaluators can achieve a level of impartiality and inclusivity that was previously difficult to attain alone.
Expected Effects and Benefits
According to preliminary findings, this innovative evaluation process is expected to reduce assessment time by up to 50%, significantly streamlining the review workflow. Meanwhile, the provision of objective and in-depth feedback is likely to enhance the perceived fairness of evaluations by approximately 25%. Additionally, the standardization of evaluation procedures will help eliminate subjectivity, improving the efficiency of operations while promoting talent development through high-quality feedback.
Features of the Evaluation System
The service employs a multifaceted assessment system, evaluating submitted documents from various perspectives. For example, when assessing business plans, evaluation axes such as clarity of problem definition, uniqueness of solutions, feasibility, profitability, and social significance are established through rubrics. This approach allows for a well-rounded judgment of plans’ value.
Utilizing RAG technology, the system can reference historical data from previous evaluations of business plans, proposals, and recommendations, thus ensuring consistency and accuracy in assessments. AI is empowered to learn from past successful cases, thereby approaching evaluation outcomes akin to those of human experts.
Customizable Evaluation Criteria
A significant advantage of Award of’s evaluation system is its adaptability. Organizations can customize the rubric evaluation axes to match their specific needs. This includes creating criteria tailored to industry standards and organizational values, allowing for the inclusion of up to 10 evaluation items and sophisticated grading systems with more than five levels of detail. This customization promotes a unique evaluative framework that aligns with each organization’s inherent culture and objectives.
Unified Platform for Evaluations
The service operates on a common platform for evaluating various business plans, establishing a cohesive and consistent evaluation process across the organization. This centralized structure prevents discrepancies in assessment criteria across departments, ensuring fairness in evaluation.
The multi-language support powered by Generative AI enables evaluation regardless of the language of the submitted materials. Evaluation results can be presented in multiple languages, expanding the scope of the recognition system to accept diverse applicants and nominees regardless of linguistic background.
Furthermore, automatic feedback comments generated by the system provide high-quality, constructive insights efficiently. This functionality nurtures the growth of participants and fosters a robust culture of feedback within organizations. Detailed and constructive feedback can serve as motivation, encouraging further proposal submissions and enhancing performance.
Integration with Award Force
By partnering with Award Force, a leading global SaaS provider for recognition management, Award of enables the automated processing of applications, from initial submissions to feedback sharing, all within a unified system. This integration is poised to not only enhance the efficiency of the evaluation process but also significantly boost evaluation quality, achieving a balance between fairness and efficiency, as well as integrating quantitative and qualitative assessments.
Support and Implementation
Award of offers comprehensive support from implementation to operational management. Their expert team collaborates with organizations to optimize their evaluation processes continuously and provides insights for ongoing improvements. Regular review meetings will be conducted post-implementation to measure system effectiveness and swiftly adapt to new requirements. Continuous learning of AI models will also enhance evaluation accuracy over time, allowing the flexibility to evolve accordingly with each organization’s growth and changes.
For organizations interested in exploring these next-generation evaluation solutions and seeing demonstrations, trial evaluations for 'business plans' and 'recommendations' and the automatic generation of the most suitable rubrics are available on their demo site.
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This new approach by Award of promises to redefine how organizations handle employee recognition and business evaluations, leading to enhanced innovation capacity and organizational growth.