Funding that finds your researchers. Not the other way around.
Most research offices still find grants by hand. Atom Discovery learns each researcher, watches every funder, checks eligibility, and delivers the right opportunities straight to the inbox.
What type of grants are you looking for?
“Faculty receive tailored recommendations they actually use. For a single-person office managing a high volume of research, it's a labor-saving device.”
More than just a search box
Atom builds every researcher's profile, matches grants by research fit, checks eligibility against every RFP, and delivers by email. Each piece does its part autonomously. Together, they give research offices back the hours lost to manual work.
A personalized feed that knows the work
Atom automatically builds a living profile for every researcher from publications and prior funding, with no faculty input. Then it ranks every new opportunity against every profile, every day. The result is a feed that's genuinely tailored, not a keyword dump.
- Profiles auto-generated from public signals at 94% accuracy, validated by faculty
- Updates continuously as new publications and grants land
- Every match score comes with an explanation of why the grant surfaced
A weekly digest that curates itself
Most researchers will not log into a grants tool every week. So Atom delivers. The weekly digest is the entire interface for many faculty, and the open rates prove it: 78% across our customer base, across disciplines.
- Top matches inline in the email, with deadlines and award size
- Triggers re-engagement when a relevant deadline approaches
- The one notification a busy PI will read
Search that reads the substance, not the surface
Researchers describe their work in plain English, from a single sentence to a full abstract, and Atom finds funding that matches the substance. Faculty don't need to know the right keywords; they describe the science and Atom does the rest.
- Vector embeddings on every grant and every researcher profile
- Paste in an abstract, get a ranked shortlist with eligibility highlighted
- Surfaces grants worded differently than the query, not just keyword matches
Eligibility, decided before the researcher reads a thing
Atom parses each RFP and checks each researcher's profile against every requirement: career stage, institution type, citizenship, prior funding history, mechanism limits. Faculty stop wasting time on grants they can't apply for, and admins stop fielding eligibility questions.
- Every RFP parsed end-to-end, including footnoted constraints
- Researcher profiles checked against funder rules, with each criterion shown
- Edge cases (ESI status, R01 history, citizenship) flagged with a one-line explanation
Discovery, in their words
“Atom has the best search results by far. I am absolutely applying for two of these grants and may even apply for four once I hear back from my collaborators.”
“Being able to guide people into using natural language search to formulate their ideas has been really helpful. They can brainstorm directly in the system and refine their thinking as they go.”
“We've had a few folks find opportunities through the platform and move forward with grant applications.”
“I absolutely love your AI system. It correctly interprets my keywords and phrases and sends me relevant results. Great timesavings, quality results.”
“I've been very happy with the grants it has pulled for me. I've found it useful. Thank you.”
30,000+ funders, watched every day
Atom monitors every federal and state agency, private foundation, international funder, professional society, and corporate giving program that funds research. The moment a new RFP posts, it's read, tagged, and routed to the researchers whose work fits.
- Federal & state agencies
- Private foundations
- International funders
- Associations & societies
- Corporate giving
- Anywhere else grants post
Before you book a demo
No. Atom auto-generates a profile for each researcher from public signals: publications, prior funding, institutional affiliation. The researcher can refine it any time, but they don't have to. Most never touch their profile and the matches still land.
A traditional funding database is a searchable list: someone has to know the right keywords, run the search, and read every RFP to judge fit. Atom is a set of AI agents: they read each RFP end-to-end, check eligibility automatically, build a profile of every researcher, and deliver matches without anyone needing to log in. Customers who've used other tools consistently tell us Atom returns far more relevant results, with zero faculty setup.
Atom parses each RFP for the rules a research office actually checks: career stage (ESI, postdoc, senior), institution type, citizenship, prior funding history, mechanism limits, geographic constraints. The check shows every criterion side-by-side with the researcher's profile. Edge cases get a flag with a one-line explanation, so faculty and admins can confirm in seconds.
Yes. Atom tracks every federal agency (NIH, NSF, DOE, DOD, USDA, NASA, NEH, DARPA, and more), 20,000+ private foundations and associations, plus industry and limited-submission sources, and matches each opportunity to the researchers at your institution.
Daily, not weekly or monthly. Grants.gov, NSF, and every tracked funder site are re-checked every day, so new opportunities typically land in Atom within a day of posting. Changed deadlines, archived calls, and cancelled grants are flagged automatically, and forecasted grants surface before they post publicly.
A short email per researcher with their top matches that week, including deadlines, award amounts, and a one-click path to the full grant view. It's tuned to land at the time of week researchers actually read it. Open rates run 70–80% across our customer base.
Most institutions are live within a few weeks. Bulk invite handles thousands of researchers in a day; SSO is supported; profiles auto-generate from a CSV of names and emails. Your team builds nothing. Atom arrives ready, with every funder source connected.