Your awards.
Your upside.
Zero work.
A branded award program with your name on it — and none of your time in it. Pick the door that sounds like you:
Recognition as a Service is a done-for-you, branded award program from Business Intelligence Group — built for influencers who want to monetize an audience, associations that want a member benefit without staff work, and B2B companies that want customers to become approved case studies and advocates.
Tell us who you are and we'll show you what your award program could look like.
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Which one are you?
Make it pay
Sponsorships rent you out one post at a time. Your own awards season pays you back — entry revenue, a year of content, real authority. Evan Kirstel already runs his on a 550K-follower network.
Make them stay
Awards are the benefit members brag about — and renew for. Run under your brand, by us. Your staff lifts nothing. The National Apartment Association already does it.
Make them talk
Every winner steps forward as an approved case study, reference, and advocate — ten assets per nomination. Sales and marketing finally pull in the same direction.
Every program ships
with the machine
Whoever you are — creator, association, or company — your program is built on the same four pillars, managed end-to-end by us:
Easy-to-Use Nomination Platform
Streamline the nomination process with a user-friendly platform for both nominees and judges — built and managed by us.
Fair, Credible Judging
Volunteer industry judges or survey-based scoring — never a paid panel. Recognition that's earned, not purchased.
Pre-Built Content Calendar
Suggested content themes and social messages for the entire program lifecycle — every stage is a reason to publish.
Comprehensive Marketing Support
We handle promotion and exposure for the program — press, social amplification, and winner content included.
This isn't our first award program.
It's our twelfth.
Business Intelligence Group has been running award programs for more than a decade, using a crowd-sourced judging model — volunteer industry judges instead of paid panels — so recognition is earned, not purchased. Today that's 12 annual programs, spanning broad business excellence and industry-specific categories.
AI Excellence Awards
Breakthrough AI products and implementations
BIG Innovation Awards
Companies bringing new ideas to market
Best Places to Work
Workplace culture, decided by employee survey
Fortress Cybersecurity Awards
Excellence in cybersecurity products and services
Excellence in Customer Service Awards
Outstanding customer experience
Stratus Cloud Computing Awards
Innovation in cloud technology
Sustainability Awards
Environmental and social responsibility
Herizon Awards
Women in business and leadership
BIG Award for Business
Broad business excellence recognition
The Sammy
Sales and marketing excellence
NAA Top Employers
Built for the National Apartment Association
We ♥ Tech Awards
Built for B2B influencer Evan Kirstel
Let's turn it on
Tell us who you are and what you want to build — we'll walk you through your own branded award program.
Fresh thinking on recognition that pays
Sponsorships Pay Rent. Your Own Award Program Builds Equity.
You built the audience, and somehow the sponsors are the only ones building equity on it. An award program flips that. Your name goes on the trophy, our team runs everything behind it, and a season of content and revenue comes back every single year. Here is how the math actually works.
The Member Benefit Your Staff Never Has to Run
Your members keep asking what the dues are for, and your staff has zero hours to spare. An industry awards program answers both, honestly. We run the whole thing under your brand, members get recognition they brag about, and renewal season gets a little friendlier every year.
The Best Sales Campaign Is a Trophy With Your Customer's Name on It
Your buyers decide long before your reps get in the room, and what they trust is proof from people like them. A branded award program manufactures that proof at scale. Ten assets per nomination, customers who talk you up, and sales and marketing finally pulling together.
Apple, Google, and Salesforce Already Run a Corporate Award Program. So Can You.
Apple hands out the Apple Design Awards every year. Google runs its own Play Awards. Salesforce built an entire Trailblazer recognition system. None of that is an accident, and none of it needs an Apple-sized budget to copy. Here is what a corporate award program actually does for a business, and how a B2B company with a fraction of that budget can run one too.
Why Most Customer Advocacy Programs Fail Before They Ever Start
Sales guards its accounts. Marketing needs real proof. Most B2B companies try to bridge that gap with a one-off case study push, and it usually dies quietly. Here is why a formal customer advocacy program works instead, and where most attempts go wrong.
Case Studies Aren't Stuck Because of Writing. They're Stuck Because of Sales.
Marketing teams keep hiring writers to fix a case study backlog that writing never caused. The actual blocker sits inside sales, in account access and incentives. Here's why that distinction matters, and what a repeatable pipeline actually looks like.