Project-based crowdsourcing — for any project work you need delivered.
From consulting engagements, web and mobile app builds, and migration projects to R&D innovation, prize challenges, technology landscape analysis, AI evaluation, and IP discovery — delivered as scoped, milestone-driven engagements with named US-based project management. Powered by a vetted global network of solvers across 50+ countries, or by pre-formed freelance teams ready to start on day one. Platform plus services, on a patented platform.
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Why crowdsource?
Three reasons buyers come looking for us.
When the right people aren't in the room
Most projects — a software build, an R&D effort, a technology landscape study, IP discovery — move faster when the right experts, anywhere in the world, are pointed at them with the right incentive, rather than by adding more headcount.
When speed matters
A well-designed challenge can mobilize hundreds of specialized solvers in weeks, not months. Traditional consulting takes a quarter to staff. A challenge takes a fortnight to launch.
When you need breadth of approach
No single team produces 50 diverse solutions to the same problem. A crowd does — and the best of those 50 is almost always better than the best of one.
How we work
Two primary modalities
Modality 1
Crowd-based challenges & competitions
We design, launch, and operate prize challenges and competitions that attract specialized solver communities and produce evaluation-ready submissions.
How we source talent:
We mobilize our curated 100,000+ solver network — and go well beyond it, with targeted email campaigns, social-media outreach, and advocacy partnerships to bring the right specialists to each competition.
Modality 2
Pre-formed freelance teams
We identify, vet, and assemble a dedicated team and run the work to fixed, milestone-based deliverables — for problems better solved by a committed team than an open challenge.
How we source talent:
We draw on the same 100,000+ network — and beyond it, with targeted job postings — to find the exact experts your project needs.
Application areas
For federal R&D agencies & enterprise innovation teams
R&D innovation challenges
Mobilize technical experts to solve specific scientific or engineering problems — instrumentation design, algorithm development, systems engineering, technical surveys.
When to call us:
Hardware/software innovation, technology landscape analysis, engineering design challenges, applied research problems.
For IP litigation partners & in-house counsel
Crowdsourced prior art & IP invalidity
Tap a global community of practitioners, researchers, and attorneys to surface prior art and invalidity evidence that internal teams can't reach.
When to call us:
Patent litigation, invalidity analysis, IP due diligence, freedom-to-operate searches.
For frontier AI labs & enterprise AI teams
AI evaluation & red-teaming
PhD- and expert-tier evaluators score model outputs, run adversarial probes, design evaluation rubrics, and red-team safety properties — at a level gig labelers can't match.
When to call us:
RLHF expert evaluation, model red-teaming, custom benchmark design, multilingual & domain-specific evaluation.
For pharma, biotech & federal health agencies
Biomedical & life sciences research
Convene clinicians, public-health experts, and biomedical researchers to solve research-design, implementation, or community-engagement problems.
When to call us:
Research design, implementation science, public-health innovation challenges.
How we run a challenge
A disciplined, six-step approach — refined across years of mission-critical delivery.
Kickoff & alignment
Virtual kickoff to lock challenge structure, requirements, evaluation criteria, eligibility, and timeline.
Problem decomposition & design
Segment the problem across its real dimensions. Co-develop the challenge document, prize structure, rules, solver personas, and submission guidance. A pre-assembled SME team advises on design and evaluation criteria.
Platform configuration
A client-branded, accessibility-compliant competition site. Registration, multi-format submission intake, moderated Q&A, judging, and analytics — operational at launch.
Multi-channel outreach
Outreach begins with our curated 100,000+ solver network and extends well beyond it — targeted email campaigns, advocacy partnerships, and role-specific webinars. The pipeline is monitored continuously, with rapid course corrections when needed.
Evaluation & judging
A weighted scoring rubric co-developed with the client. Reviewer training, anonymized review, structured tie-breaking, and a formal dispute-resolution process.
Award, execution & closeout
Winner eligibility verified before disbursement. For multi-phase challenges, structured support carries top finalists into the implementation phase. Formal closeout and structured handoff of all outcomes.
How we build a pre-formed freelance team
A disciplined, six-step approach to standing up a dedicated, vetted team around your problem.
Kickoff & scoping
We work with you to define the problem, the deliverables, the skill mix required, and the timeline — so the team is built around your actual need.
Identify the right experts
We don't limit ourselves to a fixed roster. We source from our curated 100,000+ solver network and beyond it — recruiting through targeted job boards and direct outreach — to find the specialists whose domain depth and track record match the problem.
Vet & verify
Shortlisted experts are vetted for technical depth, relevant experience, and references — so every member of the team is proven before they join it.
Assemble the team
We assemble a complete, balanced team — the right mix of skills and seniority — with a designated delivery lead accountable end-to-end.
Contracts & IP agreements
Before any work begins, every team member signs IP-assignment and confidentiality agreements — so the work product, and your IP, are protected from day one.
Milestone-based delivery
The team executes against fixed, milestone-based deliverables, coordinated by a U.S.-based project manager, with regular reviews and a formal closeout.
Our differentiators
What makes us different from a generic crowdsourcing vendor.
Curated global solver network
A global community of PhDs, engineers, attorneys, and domain experts across 50+ countries — vetted for technical depth, not gig-platform breadth.
Pre-contracted SME team
Topical experts under signed contract before award. No scramble post-kickoff.
Patented, ready platform
3 U.S. patents + 1 overseas. Live and configured at kickoff; no build time, no ramp-up risk.
Federal compliance built-in
Accessibility, prize-competition law, and federal-contracting standards designed into the platform from day one.
Problem decomposition framework
Structured method to segment complex problems into solvable dimensions.
Milestone-based engagements
Pay only when work is complete. No long-fee retainers, no surprises.
What we deliver
Across both modalities — challenges and pre-formed teams — we deliver:
We also support micro-task delivery and hybrid or custom engagement models.
How the work gets delivered
Post your project and CrowdPlat scopes it into milestones, assigns a named US-based project manager, and draws on a curated global community of vetted experts and targeted outreach — or a pre-formed freelance team — to deliver against clear success criteria.
Customer success stories
A few of the problems we've helped solve through crowdsourcing.
Crowd-based challenges & competitions
NIH — LitCoin NLP Challenge
A two-phase NLP challenge to extract biomedical entities and relationships from scientific text — 200+ data scientists, 500+ submissions, $100K in prizes.
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NASA Ames — Airport Throughput Prediction
A national university competition to forecast airport arrivals 3–5 hours ahead, with full platform management and an expert judging panel.
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U.S. Bureau of Reclamation — PFAS Innovation Challenge
A dual-track challenge framework to accelerate PFAS sampling and detection, with nationally recognized PFAS experts embedded in the design and evaluation.
Read case study →Pre-formed freelance teams
NASA JSC — Lunar Map Super-Resolution
A pre-formed team built an AI/ML pipeline that turns LROC lunar imagery into high-resolution digital elevation models for south-pole mapping — delivered open-source.
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NASA — Wildfire Real-Time Processing
A specialized team of ML and embedded-systems engineers built real-time wildfire detection and spread prediction for UAS — cutting analysis from hours to sub-second.
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Post Holdings — Data Platform Migration
12 senior DBT/ETL engineers migrated 470+ legacy ETL mappings to modern DBT models, preserving business logic across the enterprise BI stack.
Read case study →Our solver network
PhDs and post-docs from leading research universities. Subject matter experts across health, defense, energy, IT, biosciences, IP law, and AI evaluation. Practitioners with real-world delivery experience.
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