Strategic visibility for research administration. Your whole institution, in one view.
Atom's analytics platform turns research activity into institution-wide visibility: onboarding faculty in a day, surfacing engagement by department, and quantifying the funding pipeline you're responsible for.
“Our admin analytics give research leaders the data they need to make the case internally, including how our institution stacks up.”
The strategic view of your research enterprise
Atom is the research intelligence layer for your institution. Admins see funding trends, the proposal pipeline, every researcher's activity, and engagement across faculty, department, college, and the whole campus. They make the case for research with data.
A CRM for your entire proposal pipeline
Every proposal is tracked with PI, funder, amount, deadline, and submission notes, at every stage from drafting to declined. Roll up by department or college, export for board reports, and never lose track of what's in motion.
- Live pipeline by stage: drafting → submitted → under review → awarded
- Per-PI, per-department, and per-college rollups for research office reporting
- Exports for board reviews, end-of-year reporting, and compliance
Every researcher, what they're working on, what they're looking at
A searchable directory of every faculty member with their interests, activity, and matched grants. Drop into any researcher's view to see what they're searching, the deep research they've run, and the eligibility they've checked. It is there to support faculty 1:1 or troubleshoot for offices with thin staffing.
- Search researchers by name, department, or research interest
- Profile, recent activity, saved grants, and submissions in one place
- Act as any researcher: search, deep research, and eligibility checks from their POV
Funding trends across your campus and the country
See active funding, win rates, and pipeline value by department, funder, and topic. Benchmark against national trends. Spot the rising areas where your faculty already fit, the at-risk legacy lines, and the funder concentration risks that boards ask about.
- Awards, win rate, and indirect cost recovery by FY, department, funder, and college
- National trend alignment shows where the field is moving and which of your faculty fit
- Funder concentration alerts (e.g. >50% from one source) before the board asks
See engagement at a glance
Atom's admin dashboard shows you who's logging in, what they're searching for, and which grants are landing across the institution, by department, and per researcher. The metrics admins actually report on are first-class: weekly active faculty, digest open rates, saved grants, and submission counts.
- Weekly active faculty, by department, college, or career stage
- Top searches and most-saved grants, an early signal on where the pipeline is forming
- Digest opens, click-throughs, and re-engagement on dormant profiles
Onboarding, permissions, and audit, built in
We build a rich profile for every researcher from public sources, including publications, funding history, expertise, and affiliations, so the platform is useful from day one with zero faculty setup. You review the directory, confirm, and you're live. Mirror your org chart for scoped admin access. Every search, save, invite, and submission is logged and exportable for compliance.
- Auto-imported faculty, auto-built profiles, SAML SSO, zero faculty setup
- Hierarchical departments with inherited permissions and scoped admin views
- Searchable audit trail · every event logged, attributable, and exportable
Analytics, in their words
“This fiscal year we have set records for submissions and I attribute that to the fact people are engaging with Atom.”
“We actually used to try to do that manually… just got to a point of diminishing returns.”
Before you book a demo
Every proposal is tracked from drafting → submitted → under review → awarded or declined, with PI, funder, amount, deadline, decision date, and ownership. The pipeline rolls up by department or college, so a research office can show the board what's in flight and what's likely to land. Exports are built in for end-of-year reporting and compliance reviews.
Yes. The researcher directory lists every faculty member with their interests, recent activity, saved grants, and submissions. Admins can drop into any researcher's view to run searches, eligibility checks, and deep research from that researcher's POV: useful for 1:1 support, dormant-profile outreach, or thin-staffed offices that act as proxy users for their faculty.
Awards landed, win rate, indirect cost recovery, and pipeline value, all broken out by fiscal year, department, funder, and college, with sparklines and year-over-year deltas. A department performance matrix surfaces stars, risers, and at-risk leaders. Funder concentration shows your dependency on any single source, with alerts when it crosses thresholds. National trend alignment maps your researchers' interests against where federal and foundation funding is actually growing.
Most institutions are live within about a week. We enrich every researcher's profile from public sources, including publications, funding history, expertise, and affiliations, so faculty don't have to set anything up. You review the directory, confirm, and it's live. SAML SSO is supported, and your team builds nothing on the technical side.
Yes. Atom mirrors your org chart: a college dean sees rolled-up engagement and pipeline for their college only, a department chair sees their own faculty, and the central research office sees everything. Permissions inherit through the hierarchy, and every action is logged in the audit trail.
No. Atom builds every researcher's profile automatically from publications, ORCID, prior funding, and your directory. Most faculty never touch their profile and the personalized matches still land. Admins get coverage, engagement, and pipeline metrics from day one.
Analytics is the cross-cutting view across all of them. Discovery shows what faculty are searching for, Collaborators shows the teams forming, Proposals shows the pipeline. Analytics rolls each up into institutional insights, the proposals CRM, and the researcher directory. It gives admins the controls and reporting on top.