For research administrators

Built for research administrators.Behind the offices winning grants.

Atom takes the help desk off your plate (eligibility, RFPs, guides, follow-up) so your team can focus on the work that wins awards.

Research offices running on Atom

University running on Atom
University running on Atom
University running on Atom
University running on Atom
University running on Atom
University running on Atom
University running on Atom

Five-person teams running on Atom are supporting hundreds of researchers

Research development offices running on Atom often support more faculty than they should have capacity for, and set record years for submissions doing it. The lift doesn’t come from heroics. It comes from giving the teams back the hours they used to spend on busywork.

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240+

Admin hours saved per quarter

600+

Researchers supported by a 5-person team

10×

Faculty engagement lift vs. prior platform

“Atom is taking the burden away from our pre-award unit because they’re guiding the PIs in the submission process.”
Lydia Perry

Lydia Perry

Grant Writer · UA at Little Rock

What Atom takes off your plate

The repeat tasks, on autopilot. So your team can do the work only they can do.

Limited submission alerts

Atom flags limited submissions the moment they post, with daily email updates for admins so you never miss a slot.

Limited submissions

Live

New LSOs flagged · PIs auto-notified

NSF MRI · 1 slot

Matches 6 PIs · Notified

New

NIH S10 · 2 slots

Matches 3 PIs · Notified

Sent

DOE Early Career

Matches 4 PIs · Notified

Sent

Automated personalized newsletters

Every PI gets their own weekly digest, ranked to their work, assembled and sent for you. No generic blasts.

Tuesday digest

Sending

For Dr. Sarah Chen · 3 picks

NIH
R01 Microglial dynamics
96%
DOD
CDMRP PRMRP Discovery
92%
NSF
CAREER Award
89%

412 PIs · individual digests

Auto-sent →

Deep research as any researcher

Step into any PI's seat and run deep research from their perspective: funder priorities, reviewer patterns, and collaborator leads.

Deep research · Dr. Chen

Running

“What does NINDS fund in microglia?”

Scanning:RePORTERNSF AwardsPubMedbioRxiv

Funder priorities scanned

12 sources

Reviewer patterns mapped

8 studies

Collaborator leads found

5 matches

Brief synthesized

3 angles

Briefing ready

28 sources · 4 min

Emails in your branding

Your logo, your colors, your voice. Every email Atom sends looks like it came from your office, because it did.

Middlebury

Auto-sending

Hi Dr. Reyes, this week’s picks:

NIH R01 · Microglia

DOD CDMRP · ALS

NSF CAREER

research@middlebury.edu

Section-by-section RFP guides

Every RFP turned into a guide your PIs can follow: eligibility, required documents, deadlines, and budget caps.

NIH R01 · Application guide

Specific aims

Drafting
Aim 1: Mechanism
Aim 2: Therapeutic intervention

Research strategy

Budget & justification

Eligibility · forms · budget caps

Send to PI →

CRM for proposal tracking

A proposals board your whole team works from: drafting, review, submitted. See what's moving, what's slipping, and what to push next.

Proposals · Fall cycle

Live

Drafting

3

NIH R01

Dr. Chen

NSF CAREER

Dr. Okafor

DOE BER

Dr. Kim

Review

2

K99/R00

Dr. Patel

NSF MRI

Dr. Nara

Submitted

2

DOD PRMRP

Dr. Reyes

NIH R21

Dr. Liu

Why admins pick Atom

Less busywork.
More superpowers.

Atom is the headcount you can’t hire, built to handle the parts of the job that drain you, so you can do more of the parts that make you irreplaceable.

Automate the noise

Stop being the search engine for your faculty

You shouldn't be the human eligibility checker, the human deadline reminder, or the human RFP-formatter. Atom handles the repeat tasks (matching, parsing, digests, follow-up) that quietly eat 80% of an admin's week.

  • Hundreds of faculty onboarded in a day
  • Weekly faculty digests with ~80% open rates
  • Eligibility, deadlines, and follow-up on autopilot
“
If you're at a PUI or a small office like mine, Atom makes operations far more efficient. It's a labor-saving device.
Dr. Rene Munoz

Dr. Rene Munoz

Director, OSP · Franklin & Marshall College

Amplify the signal

Spend your hours on what wins awards.

The judgment, mentorship, and relationship work is what makes a research office great, and it's the part that doesn't scale through software. With the busywork gone, your team gets that time back to coach PIs, build funder relationships, and shape strategy.

  • Pre-award stops being the eligibility help desk
  • Research development directors spend their week on PI 1:1s, not inbox triage
  • Dean reviews built on real data, not spreadsheets
“
Every institution is facing a research administration crisis. Atom is helping us make researchers self-sufficient.
Katey Sackett

Katey Sackett

Research Administrator · Rochester Institute of Technology

Frequently asked

The questions every research office asks

Talk to our team

Next step

Get your week back,
while keeping the parts you love

We’ll walk you through what Atom takes off your plate in week one, and what admin teams at universities like NDSU and USF did with the hours they got back.