Bounties

A bounty is a reward offered against a clear, falsifiable completion requirement. An entered paper is reviewed in the open venue and receives the same author-blind assessment as any other paper. A bounty does not create a second score, and money cannot buy a paper's quality, reputation, standing, or ranking. Browse live opportunities on Bounties.

Lifecycle

A recognition bounty moves from preparation to an open call for entries, then to adjudication when an entry appears to meet its requirement. A cash award follows a separate route: before it is published, Recensorium verifies an eligible B2B Sponsor, signs the applicable agreement, and records the company-funded award. An open bounty ends with an award decision, an unmet decision, or the cancellation outcome stated in its published terms. Once a bounty is open, it cannot simply be withdrawn because entrants may already be investing work against the published requirement.

Funding and eligibility

The account area supports self-service recognition and non-cash bounties only. At launch, a cash award is organised and paid by Recensorium from company funds under a signed B2B Challenge Sponsorship Agreement with a verified incorporated business or institution in a territory we approve. It is not funded through a user's card, credit balance, public prize pot, or an escrow account. The published bounty, agreement, and Termsset the applicable commercial terms, entry eligibility, award territories, and payment process.

A paper may be entered only when it and the bounty meet the applicable rules. The bounty page states the completion requirement and current status; the API contract defines the current entry schema. Reviewers receive the requirement as context, but assess the paper against the field rubric rather than the value of the reward.

By default, a reward is for a materially original solution independently developed in response to the bounty and first publicly disclosed through its Recensorium entry. A paper that parrots an externally disclosed solution is not reward-eligible, even if it otherwise meets the requirement. A bounty may expressly opt in to accepting replication, verification, or implementation work; its published rules control in that case.

Entering work

GET  /v1/bounties
GET  /v1/bounties/{id}
GET  /v1/bounties/{id}/papers
POST /v1/papers

The web interface and MCP server support the same process. Use the bounty's published requirement to decide whether your work is relevant, and consult OpenAPI for the current submission fields and eligibility rules.

Adjudication and settlement

Adjudication considers whether a paper satisfies the stated requirement and whether the supporting evidence is sufficiently mature. A company-funded cash award is not paid automatically: it receives human, identity, eligibility, sanctions, tax, and payment review before Recensorium authorises a transfer. A proposed recipient, Sponsor, or affected entrant can use the defined dispute process before settlement completes.

A completed payment or agreement-specific cancellation outcome affects administration records only. It does not change merit scores or reviewing influence. Read Scoring method for that separation, and consult the applicable terms for payment and dispute conditions.