For research leadership
Grow research income.With the team you already have.
VPRs, deans of research, and institute directors use Atom for the oversight they’ve never had: a live proposal pipeline, engagement analytics by department, and ROI numbers ready for the provost.
Research leaders running on Atom
Proof
The data research leaders need to make the case
Most research leaders walk into provost meetings with engagement numbers their team built in a spreadsheet, and pipeline counts their OSP director rebuilt for the slide. Atom replaces both with a live system of record: same numbers, every meeting, by department and college.
See the admin platform<1 wk
From signed contract to live faculty digests
3×
Engagement lift at Denver Health vs. prior tool
5 min
To assemble a leadership-ready research report
“Our admin analytics give research leaders the data they need to make the case internally, including how our institution stacks up.”
Robert Kearns
Senior Manager, Business Solutions · NYU Langone Health
Oversight
From drafting to awarded. Across every college.
Every proposal (with PI, funder, amount, deadline, and decision date) in one place. The picture you used to ask OSP for in quarterly slides, ready when you open it.
“We are seeing more and more departments doing their own little thing, and we'd rather bring people together to the table and actually give them a tool that works for everybody.”
Adnan Rangwala
Senior Director, NYU Langone Health
Proposal pipeline · FY26
Drafting
47
$18.4M
Submitted
143
$48.2M
Under review
88
$31.7M
Awarded
27
$9.4M
Submitted YTD
College of Medicine
104 active
48
Engineering
77 active
37
Arts & Sciences
58 active
28
Public Health
42 active
20
Education
23 active
11
Analytics & ROI
Engagement by department, and what it returned
Atom's admin layer surfaces who's logging in, what they're searching, and which grants are landing, across the institution and per researcher. The metrics leadership actually reports on are first-class: weekly active faculty, digest opens, saved grants, and submissions tied to dollars.
“I just saw our uptake numbers compared to the old system and we are seeing 3x engagement uptick already.”
Amanda Breeden, CRA
Associate Chief, Research, Denver Health
Engagement · FY26 Q2
Active faculty
612
+25%
Digest opens
78%
+6 pts
Submissions
184
+26%
Last 12 weeks
112
+166% vs. W1
YoY · awarded $
Cardiology
$6.2M
+18%Oncology
$9.8M
+24%Neurology
$3.1M
+11%Public Health
$2.4M
+32%Surgery
$1.7M
-4%Quick implementation
Deployed in a week across your whole institution
Atom auto-imports your faculty directory from public sources, builds profiles from PubMed, RePORTER, and ORCID, and starts sending personalized weekly digests in days. No CRM migration, no data warehouse build, no analyst on retainer.
“It was about the low barrier to entry, quick implementation and low burden on faculty. That was a big deal for me. This is a no brainer.”
Heidi Grunwald, PhD
Associate VP of Research, North Dakota State University
Implementation
Day 0
Day 1
Day 4
Day 7
Faculty directory built
In progressFaculty pulled from public sources. SAML configured with your IT.
Profiles ready
UpcomingPubMed, RePORTER, ORCID auto-pulled. Review-and-publish.
Departments mirrored
UpcomingDeans and chairs get scoped views of their own people.
Faculty engaging
UpcomingDigests opening, grants saving, leadership dashboard live.
Why leaders pick Atom
Built for the office at the top of the research enterprise
Research leaders across universities, academic medical centers, and institutes use Atom for the visibility, engagement, and ROI numbers they couldn’t get before.
“Every institution is facing a research administration crisis. Atom is helping us make researchers self-sufficient.”
Katey Sackett
Research administrator · Rochester Institute of Technology
“This fiscal year we have set records for submissions and I attribute that to the fact people are engaging with Atom.”
Brian Evans, PhD
Assistant Director · University of Memphis
55+
research institutions building their research development programs on Atom.
Questions research leaders ask
A VPR grows research funding without new staff by getting more eligible faculty to submit proposals, and Atom automates the outreach that drives it: every researcher gets matched, eligibility-checked opportunities in a personalized weekly digest, with no setup on their part. Five-person offices on Atom support 600+ researchers, and the University of Memphis set a record year for proposal submissions on Atom.
The metrics that show research development software is working are faculty engagement (weekly active faculty, digest opens, saved grants) and the submissions that follow, broken down by department and college. Atom reports all of these as first-class metrics, with submissions tied to dollars, and its weekly digest averages a 78% open rate. When comparing vendors, ask each one what share of faculty use the tool every month.
Atom gives research leaders a live proposal pipeline across every college, with each proposal's PI, funder, amount, deadline, and decision date in one place, from drafting to awarded. It replaces the quarterly slides OSP rebuilds by hand, so the provost sees the same numbers in every meeting.
Atom builds the ROI case from live data: engagement by department, saved grants, submissions tied to dollars, and how your institution compares, assembled into a leadership-ready report in about 5 minutes. Robert Kearns, Senior Manager of Business Solutions at NYU Langone Health, says Atom's admin analytics give research leaders the data they need to make the case internally.
Atom deploys across a whole institution in under a week, from signed contract to live faculty digests. Atom imports your faculty, builds profiles from PubMed, RePORTER, and ORCID, sets up SAML SSO with your IT team, and mirrors your departments. There is no CRM migration, no data warehouse build, and no analyst on retainer.
Yes. Atom mirrors your department structure, so deans and chairs get scoped views of their own people while the VPR's office sees the whole institution. Atom also keeps an audit trail of administrative activity and signs users in through your institution's SSO.
Research leaders choose Atom because it reaches faculty who never log in: profiles build automatically from publications and prior funding, every match is checked against the researcher's eligibility, and matches arrive by email. Pivot-RP asks researchers to claim a profile first, and SPIN alerts run on saved searches. That engagement is what drives submissions, and Denver Health saw 3x the engagement of its prior tool after switching. Pivot-RP's broad curated database and SPIN's fit with InfoEd are real strengths, so offices already invested in either should compare faculty usage, not features.