The collaborators a grant needs. Inside your institution, and beyond it.
Atom Collaborators makes every researcher, internal or external, searchable by expertise, and surfaces the right co-PIs the moment a grant calls for them.
Find your next collaborator
“I ran the same expertise search in Atom that I run on our internal directory to staff review panels. The results were completely different. Atom is much better!”
More than a faculty directory
Atom auto-builds a profile for every researcher, your own faculty and the wider research community alike, and makes both searchable by expertise. The right teammates surface exactly when an opportunity needs them, whether they're down the hall or at another university.
A faculty directory that builds itself
Atom auto-builds a profile for every researcher at your institution from publications, prior funding, ORCID, and your directory, with no faculty setup. Search in plain English and get a ranked list of the right people. Same semantic search engine that powers grant Discovery, pointed at your own faculty.
- Auto-built profiles for every researcher, 0 setup
- Semantic search over expertise tags, abstracts, and funding history
- Filter by department, college, career stage, or topic
Find collaborators across institutions
The same search reaches into a 1.2M-researcher graph indexed from across the internet. On every multi-PI or interdisciplinary grant, Atom surfaces complementary co-PIs ranked by topical overlap: researchers from your institution and from outside it, side by side, each tagged so you know who's already on the platform.
- 1.2M+ external researchers searchable alongside your own faculty
- Cross-PI suggestions on every grant, ranked by topical overlap not org-chart proximity
- Each match tagged Internal or External so you know who to email
Assemble the team and run the workflow
Once the right people are identified, Atom runs the rest. Invite anyone by email, internal faculty or outside collaborators, into a shared grant workspace. For limited submissions, Atom auto-detects the opportunity the moment it posts, ranks the eligible PIs at your institution, and emails the matched faculty, so your team starts the internal process with a shortlist instead of a blank spreadsheet.
- One-click invite from the internal directory or by external email, same flow
- One source of truth for the team's aims, files, drafts, and decisions
- Limited submission notifications the day they post, with eligible PIs ranked
Collaboration, in their words
“I was hacking together prompts, copy-pasting everyone's research interests, manually building spreadsheets, but it was taking forever. Atom Grants just does it.”
“It was about the low barrier to entry, quick implementation and low burden on faculty. That was a big deal for me.”
Before you book a demo
Atom auto-builds a profile for every researcher from public signals: publications, prior funding, ORCID, institutional directory, NIH RePORTER, NSF awards. This covers your own faculty and the 1.2M+ researchers indexed across the broader research community. Profiles update continuously as new papers and awards land.
No. Admins and grant developers can use Collaborators across the entire institution from day one, and search the external researcher graph too, without anyone setting up an account first. Profiles are built from public signals, and researchers (internal or external) can claim or refine theirs any time.
When a grant calls for multi-PI or interdisciplinary teams, Atom ranks researchers by expertise overlap with the RFP, using the same vector embeddings that power grant Discovery. Suggestions include both your faculty and external collaborators from peer institutions, each tagged so you know whether they're already on the platform. Suggestions appear inline on each grant, with the matching topic explained.
Matching runs on vector embeddings of each researcher's full body of work, not keyword overlap or seniority, so an assistant professor with three relevant papers ranks ahead of a senior PI whose recent work has drifted. For interdisciplinary grants, the same embedding approach surfaces complementary expertise across departments, which is usually where the org chart fails. Every suggestion shows the topical overlap that produced it, so the team can see why a match was made.
Yes. Once a team is suggested or assembled, you can invite collaborators by email, internal or external. External collaborators get a guest workspace where they can co-edit aims, share files, and draft proposal sections. No license required for outside team members.
No. The public profile Atom maintains for each researcher is built only from public signals (publications, prior funding, ORCID, institutional directory, NIH RePORTER, NSF awards). Anything you upload privately to your own Atom account, draft aims, internal notes, unpublished work, CV uploads, stays private to you and your team. It is never added to the public profile other institutions can search.
Collaborators is the connective tissue. Discovery surfaces the right grant, Collaborators assembles the right team, and Proposals turns it into a submission. From idea to written proposal, in one workspace.