About HeroX

Where Organizations and Innovators Solve Big Problems Together

We help organizations crowdsource solutions from a global community of innovators — faster, more diverse, and more cost-effective than traditional approaches.

Create prize challenges in days, not months
Reach innovators in 200+ countries
Pay only for winning solutions

For Organizations For Innovators

Who we are

Empowering global problem-solving

HeroX is a global crowdsourcing platform where anyone can post a challenge or contribute a solution.

We connect people who have problems with people who love solving them. By opening problems to the world, organizations gain access to a wider range of ideas, perspectives, and skills than any single team or network can provide on its own.

We believe that breakthrough solutions can come from anywhere. Whether you are an established organization, a growing startup, or an individual innovator, HeroX makes it simple to tap into the creativity of a global community.

Our story

Centuries of innovation, modernized

Crowdsourcing may sound modern, but prize challenges have been shaping human progress for centuries. Reward-based competitions helped us learn how to navigate the open seas, preserve food safely through canning, and even accelerate the commercial space industry.

HeroX was founded in 2013 to bring this powerful model of open innovation to the world in a more accessible, digital form. Our goal is to make it easy for anyone, anywhere, to launch a challenge, participate in one, or build a community of solvers around the problems they care about most.

2013 Founded

200+ Countries

1M+ Innovators

What we do

Today, organizations use HeroX to:

Define challenges

Define clear, outcome-based challenges

Reach solvers

Reach diverse problem-solvers around the globe

Discover solutions

Discover unexpected, high-quality solutions

Build communities

Build lasting communities around innovation

Whether you're here to post a challenge or to solve one, HeroX is open to everyone.

How it works

Simple, transparent, rewarding

On HeroX, challenges are created around real problems, with clearly defined goals and rewards. Challenge sponsors describe what success looks like; the global community brings the ideas, insights, and prototypes that move those goals forward.

Easy to use

As a challenge creator

Design and launch challenges that match your objectives
Set criteria, timelines, and rewards
Engage directly with solvers and review submissions

As a solver

Discover challenges that match your skills and interests
Work independently or collaborate with others
Earn recognition, rewards, and new opportunities

Everything happens on a transparent, user-friendly platform designed to make participation simple, fair, and rewarding for everyone involved.

Our values

What drives us

The HeroX team is united by a shared belief: the world becomes better when more people can participate in solving meaningful problems. Our culture and values guide how we work with each other, with our community, and with our partners.

Hungry to Learn and Grow

Hungry to Learn and Grow – We are curious, always looking for better questions and better answers.
Discover over Create – We search for what already works before we reinvent it.
You grow by learning and applying – Insight matters only when it is put into action.
ShuHaRi – We honor the path from student to master: first follow the rules, then adapt them, then create new ones.

Abundance and Continuous Improvement

Abundance Mindset – We believe the future can be bigger than the past, for ourselves and for our community.
Continual Improvement – We capture our discoveries in systems so that learning compounds over time.
Manage Systems, not People – If it isn't a system and it isn't measured, it effectively didn't happen.

Courage, Ownership, and Action

Courage Precedes Growth – We say "yes" to challenges that stretch us and help others do the same.
Bring it on! – We embrace ambitious goals, knowing progress often begins with unreasonable expectations.
Honesty – We say what we really think, even when it's uncomfortable, and we invite others to do the same.
Ownership – We question actions that are inconsistent with our values and take responsibility for improving them.
Do it Anyways – Amateurs wait for inspiration; professionals show up and do the work, even on hard days.

Happiness and Fun

Be Happy and Have Fun – We treat work and life as a game best played with genuine enjoyment.
Happiness First – We know that sustainable success grows from well-being, not the other way around.
Enjoy the Journey – The process matters as much as the outcome.
Make it Fun – We look for ways to make collaboration lighter, more creative, and more energizing.

Simplicity and Focus

Be > Do > Have – We focus on who we are becoming, then what we do, and only then what we have.
Do it the Easy Way – We prefer elegant, simple solutions over unnecessary complexity.
Unique Ability – We strive to spend most of our time where we are naturally strongest and create space for others to do the same.
KISS – We remove what's unnecessary, while keeping what truly matters.
ROWE – We keep activities and collaboration tightly aligned with clear outcomes.
Law of Least Effort – We work in a calm, focused way and allow others to do the same.
Progress, not Perfection – We can always move forward; perfection is rarely required to create value.

Humility, Service, and Teamwork

Be Humble – We know we don't have all the answers and are open to being surprised and corrected.
We Serve – We create value for others first; it's about their results, not our ego.
Be Wrong – We treat being wrong as an opportunity: you can either be right or get results.
Team First – We succeed and fail together; no one wins alone.
Listen First – We listen to understand before we speak to be understood.
Be a Multiplier – We bring out the best in each other so that the whole community is greater than the sum of its parts.

HeroX exists because we believe that when more people are invited into the problem-solving process, better solutions emerge—and everyone wins.

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