Research funding, managed to deliver impact
Unlock a smarter, more connected way to manage and measure research grants. Unify processes, foster seamless collaboration, ensure compliance and report on your funding outcomes with one powerful, purpose-built platform.
$25B+ Funds Managed
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400K+ Users
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20 Years Experience
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From the first application to the final acquittal, Research Grant Managers and teams can seamlessly deliver funding programs using one powerful platform that enables custom workflows, real-time tracking, and built-in compliance.
Consolidating fragmented processes into one streamlined platform that adapts to your needs.
Seamless integration eliminates data silos, empowering you to generate accurate, real-time reporting and make confident, data-driven decisions.
Take control of ethics, compliance and reporting
Staying on top of compliance, ethics, and privacy doesn’t have to feel overwhelming. As expectations rise, gain clarity and control to respond with confidence.
Automated workflows that standardise data capture reduce errors and simplify reporting so your team can focus on results.
Tracking funding decisions in one platform ensures you’re always audit-ready and aligned with regulatory and ethical standards.
Collaboration that builds trust and drives results
Great outcomes happen when everyone’s on the same page. Bring funders, applicants, approvers and compliance teams together in one connected, transparent space.
Projects keep moving, and commitments stay on track with custom workflows that prompt teams at the right time.
Real-time reporting keeps everyone aligned and informed, while tailored access ensures data privacy and compliance across every user role.
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Manage your entire research grant lifecycle
Open rounds and take in applications
Every funding round carries its own eligibility rules, budget caps, and required attachments, and running several schemes or disciplines at once multiplies that complexity. Your branded client portal lets you configure and publish each round to its own requirements, enabling you to screen out ineligible or incomplete applications before they reach assessment, so what lands on your desk is ready to review.
Configure every round around its own rules
Set eligibility criteria, budget caps, indirect cost rates, and required attachments by scheme, discipline, or funder, and reuse those settings as a starting point for future rounds. A large multi-year program and a small internal seed round can run side by side without duplicating setup work, and without the risk of one scheme's rules being mistakenly applied to another.
Screen out ineligible and incomplete applications before they reach a panel
Apply eligibility and declaration checks at the point of submission, so applications missing a required approval, budget detail, or eligibility criterion are flagged or blocked before they're ever assigned to a reviewer. Applicants can be prompted to correct or complete their submission immediately, rather than being rejected after committee time has already been spent assessing it.
Coordinate multi-institution applications from the first draft
Each contributor works within their own section of the same application, so submissions arrive complete and consistent, rather than being collated by one person from a chain of separate emails and attachments.
Assess grants and notify applicants
Research grant review runs on relationships. The assessment process needs to be efficient for internal and external reviewers alike, and with expert pools small enough that conflicts of interest are routine, not exceptions, it needs to hold up to scrutiny just as much as it needs to be fast.
Surface conflicts of interest before scoring starts
Reviewers can declare a conflict of interest with an applicant or institution as soon as they see the assignment, allowing you to reassign the task to another panel member straight away, before it becomes a problem after the fact.
Score against the criteria for the program you're running
Build rubrics that mirror the assessment criteria for each initiative, whether it's a program you fund directly or one you administer on behalf of a government or philanthropic funder, so panel scores are comparable across reviewers and defensible if a decision is ever challenged.
Give reviewers everything they need in one place
Applicant track record, budget, ethics status, and prior funding history sit alongside the proposal itself, so panels aren't chasing down context in five different systems before they can score.
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Award funding and establish milestones
Research awards rarely end with one payment. Multi-year projects, partner institutions and conditional funding all need to be built into the agreement from day one, so everyone knows their obligations before any money moves.
Generate funding agreements in minutes
Build agreements automatically from application data, with the budget, milestones and special conditions pulled from the approved application. Send them for digital signature and track every version, so nothing is re-keyed and nothing gets lost in an email thread.
Set milestones that match how research runs
Link payments and reporting to research milestones such as ethics approval, progress reports or a mid-term review. Funding is released only when conditions are met, so multi-year projects stay on track without manual reminders.
Manage variations without starting over
Research plans change: timelines slip, investigators move and budgets shift between years. Record each variation against the original agreement, with its approval and full history captured, so the current terms are always clear and audit-ready.
Process payments and track outcomes
Paying out research funding means managing tranches, indirect costs and payments split across partner institutions, often over several financial years. Tie every dollar to its award and milestone, so finance and program teams work from the same numbers.
Release payments when milestones are met
Schedule each tranche against its milestones and approvals. Payments go out on time, and only once conditions are met, without anyone chasing sign-offs.
Connect to your finance system
Integrate with your existing finance system to process payments directly. This removes double entry and reconciliation between teams.
See spend and progress in real time
Track committed, paid and remaining funds across every award, scheme and financial year in one dashboard, alongside progress reports. Risks show up early, not at acquittal.
Acquit projects and demonstrate your impact
Final reports are where research funding proves its value, yet outcomes often arrive years after a project closes. Capture results consistently, close projects cleanly and build the evidence that shows what your investment achieved.
Collect final reports and acquittals together
Researchers submit final reports and financial acquittals through the same portal they applied through, using templates you set. Every project reports the same way, so you can compare results across schemes.
Capture outcomes beyond the final report
Record publications, patents, collaborations and follow-on funding as they emerge, so impact isn't lost when the grant ends.
Report impact to boards, government and donors
Turn project outcomes into portfolio-level reporting with built-in dashboards, or connect your own BI tools. Show how your funding links to national priorities and measurable results.
Knowledge articles
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