# Accelerators & Programs

> Screen 200 applicants without reading 200 forms. An AI conversation that adapts to each applicant and returns structured, comparable data.

**URL:** https://unformal.ai/use-cases/accelerators
**Topics:** accelerator, incubator, application screening, cohort selection, applicant review

## Summary

For accelerators, incubators and programs running application screening. Traditional application forms return one-line answers that cannot be compared, drive roughly 33% completion, and still require follow-up calls with the shortlist. Unformal runs a two-minute adaptive conversation per applicant covering product, market, traction, team and differentiation, returning a structured Echo per applicant and Resonance patterns across the cohort. Completion rises above 80%, and reviewing 200 applications drops from 15-20 hours to 2-3. Screening 200 applicants costs roughly EUR 9-29.

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Use case: Accelerators & Programs

# Screen 200 applicants without reading 200 forms.

Replace your application form with an AI conversation that adapts to each applicant — and gives you structured, comparable data instead of one-line answers.

## Your application forms are giving you garbage data.

## How it works

### Describe your goal

"I want to screen applicants for our spring cohort. I need to understand their startup, stage, team, market, traction, and what they're looking for."

### AI builds the conversation

Unformal generates the right questions, follow-ups, and adaptive inputs (sliders for ratings, rankings for priorities, multi-select for sectors).

### Share a link

Send it to applicants by email, embed it on your website, or include it in your existing application flow.

### Review structured results

Each applicant's Echo gives you comparable data. Resonance shows aggregate patterns across all applicants.

## Form vs. Unformal

- Google Form
- Unformal
- "Describe your startup"
- "We're building a platform"
- 2-minute conversation covering product, market, traction, team, and differentiation
- Data structure
- Whatever they typed
- Structured Echo with defined fields, directly exportable
- Completion rate
- ~33%
- 80%+
- Follow-up needed
- Almost always
- Rarely - the conversation already went deep
- Applicant experience
- Homework
- A conversation that respects their time
- Time to review 200 apps
- 15-20 hours
- 2-3 hours (structured data, searchable)

## Pay per conversation. No subscription.

€ 9

100 conversations

€ 0.09 /each

€ 29

500 conversations

€ 0.058 /each

€ 79

2,000 conversations

€ 0.04 /each

For a program screening 200 applicants: €9-29. Compare that to the hours saved.

## Replace your application form

50 free conversations. Create your first Pulse in 60 seconds.

## Common questions

### How long does it take to review 200 applications?

Two to three hours with structured, searchable data, compared with 15 to 20 hours reading free-text form responses.

### What completion rate should we expect?

Over 80%, against roughly 33% for a typical application form.

### What does screening a cohort cost?

About EUR 9 to 29 for 200 applicants, on per-conversation pricing with no subscription.