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Custom Awards Platform Development

Nemo

Clio is a 60-year-old New York-based organization that runs the world-renowned Clio Awards — one of the most prestigious advertising and creative excellence programs in the world, with entries from agencies and brands across the globe.

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Project

Overview

Clio retained Spruce to build Nemo — a brand-new, scalable Awards Engine and global entries management platform built from scratch on a modern technology stack. The project also included documenting the legacy platform, upgrading cloud infrastructure, and delivering a comprehensive cybersecurity evaluation.

Clio’s legacy awards platform had reached the limits of what it could support. As the Clio Awards program grew in size, scope, and global participation, the existing system created friction for entrants, limited the team’s ability to design new program structures, and posed infrastructure and security risks that needed to be addressed.

Our

Strategy

A Unified Digital Ecosystem, Built to Last.

Spruce engineered a best-in-class, enterprise-grade awards platform from the ground up — giving Clio the flexibility and scale to grow as a global creative excellence organization.



1. Custom Awards Engine

Spruce designed and developed Nemo entirely from scratch — a powerful, flexible awards management engine that allows Clio to design and build award programs exactly the way they always intended, with unprecedented configurability.

2. Cloud Infrastructure Upgrade

Spruce evaluated and upgraded Clio’s cloud infrastructure to support the scale and reliability demands of a global awards platform — ensuring performance during high-volume entry periods and award announcement events.

3. Cybersecurity Evaluation & Hardening

A comprehensive security assessment and remediation effort ensured that Clio’s platform and entrant data are protected to the highest standards — critical for a platform handling submissions and payment data from creative organizations worldwide.

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Results

& Impact

Nemo launched as a best-in-class awards management platform.

Nemo launched as a best-in-class awards management platform — dramatically improving the experience for Clio entrants worldwide and giving the Clio team unprecedented flexibility to design and manage award programs. The platform represents a transformational leap forward for Clio’s digital operations.

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Nemo is a best-in-class Awards platform, a powerful awards engine that represents a big leap forward for Clios. It allows us to design and build programs the way we always intended, creating tremendous flexibility and bolstering our ability to grow as a company. Spruce has been truly a strategic partner for us; we could not have done it without you.

Head of Product, Clio Awards

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