For ESOs, accelerators & incubators
Run your founder programs — and prove the impact.
Applications, judging, cohorts, events and a founder community in one place — under your name, on your founders’ phones.
And the numbers your funders and board ask for, without rebuilding a spreadsheet every quarter.
Nothing to download — it opens in any browser and adds to the home screen like an app.
Cohort · Summit Pitch Battle
First place.
Congratulations.
You took home $5,000 at Summit Pitch Battle. The judges’ feedback is just below — read it, then go build the next thing.
First place · Summit Pitch Battle
$5,000
This one is yours.
Judges’ feedback · Summit Pitch Battle 2026
NEWYour feedback
Private to you. Read it, sit with it, and then go build the next thing.
Judge 1
Judge
Strong presentation and a clear use of the funds — your early customer numbers made the case. Tighten the pricing story: show the math behind the $49 tier. The regional small-business center runs an export program worth a look; the program team can make the intro.
Congratulations — now go build!
Questions about any of this? The people who can help are one scroll down.
Built in the field
We run our own programs on it.
Ryan Jones
Founder · goodlync & Do Good Brands
Founders are building in isolation, and they’re looking for community more than ever. You’re the reason a lot of them find it — pitch nights, office hours, workshops, cohorts. Then you spend the rest of the week stitching together forms, spreadsheets and email threads to prove it to a board or a funder.
The Global Founder Community, hosted by Do Good Foundation, runs on goodlync. Our pitch battles — applications, judging, the written feedback every founder gets, and the cohort that keeps going after the night ends — all happen here.
The screens on this page are those same screens, shown with sample names. What you see is what your founders and your team get.
What’s inside
From application to alumni — one home.
Your organization’s own branded space. Founders see your name, your logo and your colors — goodlync is the engine underneath.
Live today— ready the day you launch
Applications
A public program page and your own application form. Every applicant lands in one list — no form exports, no copy-paste.
Judging & feedback
Judges score on their phones. Every founder gets written feedback — what stood out and where to push next — on their own page.
Cohorts & awards
Accepted founders get a cohort home: who's in, what's next, materials and their award — only what applies to them.
Events & check-in
Pitch nights, workshops and office hours with one-tap registration and phone check-in at the door.
Founder directory & resources
Real founder profiles, plus a shared directory of programs, funding and help founders can actually use.
Messages & broadcasts
Founders message each other and your team directly. You reach a cohort — or everyone — in one tap.
Set up with your organization— built and tested with your team during setup
Your founders, imported
Your current founder and alumni list brought in, so day one isn't an empty room.
Your rubric & forms
Your application questions and scoring criteria, set up to match how your judges already think.
Your funder report
The exact numbers your grants ask for, set up once so the report is ready when the deadline is.
What your founders see
Every founder hears back. Not just the winners.
Most pitch nights end with a handshake and silence. On goodlync, every founder gets the judges’ written notes on their own page, a way to ask a follow-up, and a next step — so the night turns into momentum.
Judges’ feedback · Summit Pitch Battle 2026
NEWYour feedback
Private to you. Read it, sit with it, and then go build the next thing.
Judge 1
Judge
Strong presentation and a clear use of the funds — your early customer numbers made the case. Tighten the pricing story: show the math behind the $49 tier. The regional small-business center runs an export program worth a look; the program team can make the intro.
Congratulations — now go build!
Questions about any of this? The people who can help are one scroll down.
Keep going
You’re not doing this alone.
The feedback is the map. These two are the next step.
Browse resources
Grants, financing, mentors, space and tools for founders in the region.
Sam Rivera
Program host · replies personally
Questions about the feedback, a warm intro to someone in the room, or a second opinion on the next move.
Spring Pitch Battle
Your Accelerator
You’re in.
Pitch night is a wrap.
Award
1st place · Audience favorite
Congrats, Maya — the room voted.
A note from the judges
Read your feedback — it’s new
OpenYour cohort
10 founders
What's next
Demo Day prep · Thu 6pm
Workshop · Downtown hub
Materials
The playbook
Pitch deck template · Office hours
…and the same page on their phone.
What your team sees
The whole program on one screen. The report on the next.
Summit Pitch Battle
Applicants
6 applicants
0
0
5
1
2026 cohort
5 finalists accepted
Maya Jordan
Rootline Foods
⌖ Asheville, NC
Devon Reyes
Ledgerlight
⌖ Knoxville, TN
Keisha Turner
Porch & Pantry
⌖ Roanoke, VA
Luis Santos
TrailMade
⌖ Boone, NC
Ana Patel
Brightpath Tutors
⌖ Bristol, TN
Admin
Programs
Cohorts, accelerators, and pitch competitions. Each program has its own workspace — sections, form fields, materials, applicants, and judge feedback.
Summit Pitch Battle
Pitch your business to a live room of founders, funders and neighbors.
TIMELINE
Applications open
Aug 1
Applications close
Sep 1
Program running
Sep 8
Pitch night
Sep 23
Complete
TBD
READINESS
All set
This year
312
registered
241
showed up
87
founders served
14
events
Attendance by month
- Judges score from their phones — no paper to chase
- Accept, decline, award and message founders from one workspace
- Who registered, who showed up, how many founders you served — ready for the grant report
Lync · your program assistant
Less paperwork. More founders served.
Lync is the AI assistant built into your platform. Hand it a photo or messy notes and it drafts the work — your team reviews and approves. Nothing reaches a founder without a person saying yes.
You give Lync
Photos of the judges' paper scorecards from pitch night.
Lync drafts
Written feedback for every founder — what stood out and where to push next — in the judges' own words, criticism kept honest. You review before anyone sees it.
You give Lync
“workshop thurs 6pm library pitch deck basics 30 seats bring laptop”
Lync drafts
A complete event — title, time, place, details and registration — ready to publish.
You give Lync
A rushed note to the cohort about Demo Day logistics.
Lync drafts
A clear broadcast to the cohort, in your voice, that you can make warmer or shorter in one tap.
You give Lync
A founder's rough application answer.
Lync polishes
Founders can tidy their own writing — applications, messages, their bio — with a monthly allowance built in. Their words, cleaned up.
Your founders, plus a bigger room.
Your space is yours. And any founder in your program can also join the Global Founder Community, hosted by Do Good Foundation — free — to meet founders beyond your region, find more resources, and keep going after your program ends.
See the founder communityWhat happens next
From first call to first program.
Kickoff
A 30-minute call — Your programs, your founders, what your funders need to see.
Set up
Your brand & people — Your name, logo and colors applied, your founder list imported, staff accounts created.
Build
Your first program — Public program page, application form, scoring rubric and judges invited — tested with your team first.
Launch
Applications open — Share one link. Founders apply, judges score on their phones, founders hear back on their own page.
Ongoing
Report & support — Pull the numbers for your next grant report any time. New features arrive automatically.
Pricing
Contact for pricing.
Every ecosystem is different. Pricing is a simple monthly plan set with you, based on how many founders and programs you run and what we set up together — fully branded, Lync included.
Get pricing for your organizationAlways included
- Hosting, security & daily backups
- New features as we ship them
- Any phone or browser — home-screen icon, no app store
- Your data stays yours — export anytime
Training for your team and judges, and day-to-day support, come with every plan.
See it live.
A 30-minute walkthrough of a real pitch competition on goodlync — from the application form to the feedback founders see. Tell us a little about your programs and we'll reach out.
goodlync is built, hosted and supported by Do Good Brands — a creative agency in Winston-Salem, NC, with roots in Southwest Virginia. When you reach out, you reach the people who built it.
Not a church, ESO or chamber? goodlync works for any community