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ThinkOnward Challenges

Achieve breakthroughs with the collective intelligence from our global data science community.

Leverage crowd wisdom. Gain new perspectives. Achieve breakthroughs.

Challenges enable you to explore new possibilities, build, troubleshoot, or optimize data science models with crowdsourced intelligence. These competitions are built by our team to target your problem with unique insights from our data science community. 

Wherever you are on the journey, we can bring fresh perspectives and approaches that accelerate your decisions, leveraging expert guidance and collective insight. We can build a solution to get you into the AI/ML game, unblock your team, or improve your existing model.

Expert Guidance

Our team has the energy industry background and AI/ML expertise to guide and deliver your challenge.

Collective Intelligence

Engage our community beyond and across specializations and industries for fresh perspectives and solutions.

Customized Innovation

Challenges are built for your specifications and unique problems.

How challenges work

Define the problem

Identify the challenge you want our community to tackle, whether it's getting unstuck, exploring new models, or out of the box thinking.

Launch your challenge

Collaborate with us to frame and launch a unique data science and AI challenge.

Promote your challenge

We post the challenge on our community platform and manage all the promotions. 

Get world-class solutions

We rigorously evaluate submissions (with your input, if preferred) to find winning solutions for your organization.

Let us help you move onward to:

  • Fine-tune solutions for better, faster performance
  • Bring new perspectives to the table
  • Break through roadblocks with fresh ideas
  • Solve the seemingly unsolvable with a curious community 
Get started

Case study

A challenge sponsor approached ThinkOnward with ambitious ideas for geophysics models. Our challenges team swiftly crafted and launched four distinct data science challenges, each tackling a different aspect of the central problem. Within five weeks, these challenges were ready. And, three months later, the sponsor was actively leveraging solutions from various community members to drive geophysical innovation.

Excellent coordination by the team — greatly valued them managing all contracts and related housekeeping behind the scenes, freeing up the Evaluation Team to ensure science based interaction & quality delivery, that is on time and according to spec.

Richard K. | Exploration Foundation Team Lead at Shell | Project Sponsor

It can be isolating to work independently and consult, and it was so nice to interact with other geoscientists and see other people's interpretations and approaches. It is a little scary to share an interpretation, because you always get something wrong or miss something. However, I have always found the experience to be positive, and to be an opportunity for growth, and this was no exception.

Jessica F. | Geologist | Project Participant

Technically an interesting project which facilitated me bringing to bear some of my key skills in terms of detailed interrogation of the data revealing details and insights maybe not previously seen.

Trevor J. | Exploration Specialist, GiB Inc. | Project Participant

Let us help.

With so many other challenges to solve, why not let our community take a few off your plate?

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