Run scholarships and events without the chaos.
Union Lab replaces the spreadsheets, scattered emails and manual reviews your team uses today — with one calm platform, built around the way your program actually runs.
- Built around your workflow
- Senior team end-to-end
- Real partner after launch
Illustrative preview — every Union Lab platform is designed around your program.
The hidden cost of running your program on spreadsheets.
These are the patterns we see almost every time we talk to a scholarship or event team for the first time.
Spreadsheets that broke last cycle
Versioning chaos, lost rows, formulas no one understands.
Reviewers losing the thread
Subjective scoring, no rubric, no audit trail.
Manual emails for every status
Hours each week answering "did you get my application?"
No visibility into the program
No real-time view of bottlenecks or how the cycle is tracking.
We replace all of that — with one calm platform, built for your program.
Six problems, one tailored platform.
Pick what hurts most — most teams need three or four of these, working together.
Problem
Event registration is fragmented
Solution
A branded event platform
One flow for registration, ticketing, schedules, speakers, comms and on-the-day check-in. Branded to your organization.
Problem
Scholarship review is chaotic
Solution
Structured reviewer workflow
Custom application forms, panels, rubric-based scoring and a clear decision flow — with a full audit trail.
Problem
Status emails eat your week
Solution
Automated applicant comms
Templated updates at every stage. Applicants always know where they stand — without your team writing each message.
Problem
No visibility into the cycle
Solution
Real-time program dashboards
Funnel views, reviewer workload, decision timing — so you spot bottlenecks before they hurt the cycle.
Problem
Tools that don't talk to each other
Solution
Integrations & automation
Stripe, Mailgun, Google Workspace, Slack, SSO, your finance system — wired into one workflow.
Problem
No one to call after launch
Solution
A real long-term partner
Hosting, monitoring, backups, security updates — and a direct line to the engineers who built your platform.
A boutique studio. A senior team. No template solutions.
We don't bolt your program onto a generic SaaS. We sit with you, understand the messy edges of how your scholarship or event actually runs, and ship software that fits exactly.
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Tailored, not templated
Each engagement starts from your workflow — not from a settings page.
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Senior engineers only
No handoffs to juniors. The person scoping is the person shipping.
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Clear, fixed scopes
You'll know the timeline, the cost, and what's in scope before we start.
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Long-term partner
We stay with the platform — monitoring, iterating, supporting your team.
Illustrative preview — your program's view will be unique.
A calm, predictable process.
Four phases from first call to first launch — usually 6 to 12 weeks, depending on scope.
Discover
A working session with your team. We map the workflow, the edge cases, and what success looks like.
Design
Clickable prototypes you can show stakeholders. We iterate until it feels right — before any code is written.
Develop
Weekly demos against the staging environment. You always see exactly where the project is.
Deliver
Launch, train your team, and hand over a documented platform — then stay on as your long-term support partner.
Less admin, more program
Teams stop firefighting spreadsheets and inboxes. They spend their week on the work that actually moves the program.
Decisions you can defend
Structured rubrics, anonymized review, and a full audit trail mean every decision can be traced and justified.
Applicants who feel respected
Clear status updates at every stage. People know where they stand — and that builds trust in your organization.
Let's build the platform your program deserves.
Tell us what you're running and where it hurts. We'll come back with a few good questions and a clear recommendation.