Use case

Abstract & peer review

Score abstracts against a rubric, run real review rounds, and turn the winners into sessions.

Abstract and peer review is how an academic or technical event turns a pile of submissions into a defensible program: reviewers read each abstract, score it against a shared rubric, and the strongest entries advance. In AgendaForge, that whole loop lives in one system. Abstracts arrive through a branded submission form, land in a single pipeline, and get assigned to reviewers who score them against rubrics across one or more review rounds. The submitters who wrote them, the reviewers who judged them, and the speakers the accepted ones become are all the same records — so an accepted abstract carries straight into a session and a speaker profile without anyone re-typing a title, a bio, or an affiliation. The committee spends its time reading and deciding, not reconciling versions across an inbox and three spreadsheets.

The problem

Most review committees run on a form that empties into a spreadsheet, a shared drive of abstract PDFs, and an email thread arguing about who has read what. Scores live in five reviewers' private tabs, near-duplicate abstracts sail through unnoticed, and when selection day arrives nobody can see the whole field — or what it's missing — in one view.

In the box

Branded multi-page abstract submission forms Reviewer assignment per abstract Rubric-based scoring Review rounds One pipeline for submitters, reviewers, and speakers Accepted abstracts become sessions and speakers — no re-entry Duplicate detection on lookalike submissions

How it works

From first step to done.

Collect abstracts in one pipeline

Submitters enter abstracts through a branded, multi-page form with 16+ field types, conditional logic, and autosaving drafts. Every entry lands in a single pipeline with a clear status, and co-submitters can author one abstract together.

Assign reviewers and score against rubrics

Assign reviewers to abstracts, give them a shared rubric to score against, and run the review across one or more rounds. Scores live with the abstract instead of in private spreadsheet tabs, so the committee reads from the same page.

Decide, then promote the winners

Move abstracts through the status pipeline as the committee decides. Accepted abstracts become sessions and speaker records with no re-entry — the title, author, and bio are already in the system and ready for your agenda.

Backstage AI

Where the AI earns its keep.

Pipeline Pulse reads the entire submission pile and surfaces what the committee can't easily see by eye: content gaps ('nothing on reproducibility'), trending topics across the abstracts, and likely duplicates before two reviewers waste an afternoon on the same idea twice. It's a read on the field, not a verdict — every score, every round, and every acceptance is your committee's call. Studio Remix can also tidy a rough abstract or bio in place once it's accepted, so the published program reads like one editor passed over it. You approve every AI suggestion before it sticks.

Questions

Asked about abstract & peer review, answered.

Q.01 What is abstract and peer review?

Abstract and peer review is the process where an event collects submitted abstracts and has reviewers evaluate each one — typically scoring against a shared rubric — so organizers can select the strongest submissions for the program. In AgendaForge, submission, reviewer assignment, rubrics, rounds, and scoring all happen in one system.

Q.02 How does scoring work in AgendaForge?

You assign reviewers to abstracts and give them a rubric to score against. Scores are recorded with each abstract rather than scattered across private spreadsheets, and you can run the review across more than one round so a shortlist gets a closer second look before final decisions.

Q.03 Do accepted abstracts turn into sessions automatically?

Yes. Because submitters, reviewers, and speakers live in the same system, an accepted abstract carries straight into a session and a speaker record without re-entering the title, author, or bio. That continuity is the whole point of running review and program-building in one place.

Q.04 Does AgendaForge handle conflict-of-interest checks?

Not automatically. AgendaForge gives you the working parts of review — reviewer assignment, rubrics, rounds, and scoring — but it does not auto-detect reviewer conflicts of interest. Assigning reviewers around conflicts is still your committee's judgment to manage.

New to the terms? See Abstract management , Peer review .

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