For researchers

Funding that finds you.More time on science, less time on grants.

Same support a top research development team delivers, on demand, the moment you need it. From finding a grant to writing the final draft, Atom is with you the whole way.

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Spend the hours you save on the science.

Most weeks, the only thing you’ll touch is the weekly digest, a short email with the right grants, ranked to your work. The rest of the lifecycle is right there when you need it: collaborator search for team grants, section-by-section guides when it’s time to write, and reviewer-style critique before you submit.

Read researcher case studies

78%

open rate on the weekly Atom digest

5×

better matches than keyword search

5+ hrs

back every week, on the work that pays

Jakita Thomas, PhD
Associate Professor · Auburn University

What you get on day one

Top-shelf research development support. Self-serve, on your schedule.

The same kind of support a senior grants officer would give you (finding the right opportunities, answering RFP questions, drafting and reviewing), available the moment you log in. No waitlist, no scheduling, no admin tax on your week.

Personalized weekly digest

A short email with the right grants, ranked to your work, eligibility-checked, ready to act on. Open it, click two, get on with your day.

Your Tuesday digest

New

For Dr. Sarah Chen · 3 picks

NIH

R01 Microglial dynamics

96%

DOD

CDMRP PRMRP Discovery

92%

NSF

CAREER Award

89%

Open in app · saved 3 hrs

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Semantic search that gets your work

Search the way you'd describe your work to a colleague, not in keyword soup. Atom finds grants you'd otherwise miss.

Semantic search

Top matches

Deep Research for the niche stuff

A small foundation, a niche mechanism, a one-off opportunity. Ask the question; the agent returns a qualified shortlist in minutes.

Deep research

Running

“What does NINDS fund in microglia?”

Scanning:RePORTERNSF AwardsPubMedbioRxiv

Funder priorities scanned

Reviewer patterns mapped

Collaborator leads found

Brief synthesized

Briefing ready

28 sources · 4 min

Ask anything about a grant

Page limits, allowable costs, indirect rates, the program officer's exact wording. Chat with the RFP for cited answers.

Ask · NIH R01 PA-23-272

Cited to the RFP · always sourced

Section-by-section proposal guides

Atom seeds a guide with eligibility, documents, budget caps, and section-by-section drafting prompts for the funder.

NIH R01 · Your guide

Specific aims

Generating

Aim 1: Mechanism

Aim 2: Therapeutic intervention

Research strategy

Budget & justification

Eligibility · forms · budget caps

Start →

AI review of your draft

Run your draft through a reviewer-style critique scored against the funder's review criteria, before a human reviewer ever sees it.

Reviewer-style critique

Live

Scored against NIH R01 review criteria

Why researchers run on Atom

More science.
Less searching, sorting, and rewriting.

Three things researchers ask of a system like this: finding the right opportunities, finding the right collaborators, and real help when it’s time to write.

Deep research, not keyword search

An agent that thinks about your funding the way you would.

Most researchers don't have time to read every RFP, scan every funder, or chase every emerging program. Atom does, and brings the few that actually fit. Every grant is eligibility-checked before it hits your inbox.

Living profile built from your publications and prior funding
Federal, foundation, philanthropic: at parity, ranked by fit
Niche questions answered by the Deep Research agent in minutes

Sean Higinbotham, PhD
Associate Scientist, Orthopedics · Denver Health

Find the right co-PIs

When the grant calls for a team, the team is one search away.

Center grants, MRIs, training programs, multi-PI awards: the bottleneck isn't the idea, it's the team. Atom surfaces co-PIs whose work fits, with the publications to prove it.

Collaborator search across millions of researcher profiles
Filter by methods, populations, instruments, and prior funding
See the publications and grants behind every match

Jakita Thomas, PhD
Associate Professor · Auburn University

Drafting and review built-in

When it's time to write, the agents are right there.

Linked an opportunity? Atom seeds a structured proposal guide with eligibility, required documents, and section-by-section prompts tuned to the funder, then runs your draft through reviewer-style critique scored against the criteria, before a human reviewer ever sees it.

Section-by-section proposal guides tuned to the funder
Reviewer-style critique scored against the RFP's review criteria
Cited answers to any RFP question: page limits, allowable costs, indirects

Dane Mataic, PhD
Assistant Professor · North Dakota State University

Researchers, in their own words

PIs across disciplines run on Atom

Researchers from R1s to PUIs, across fields and career stages: the common thread is more relevant opportunities, less time spent finding them.

“Without a doubt, I would recommend it. To have something that's just so straightforward at the onset is incredible.”

Erin Nelson, PhD

Associate Professor · University of Memphis

“I've been very happy with the grants it has pulled for me. I've found it useful. Thank you.”

Deborah Lee, PhD, RN

Professor & NHC Chair of Excellence in Nursing · Middle Tennessee State University

45+

more research institutions running on Atom, and the researchers inside them.

Bring Atom to your institution.

Many institutions on Atom got there because a researcher made the introduction. Tell us about yours and we’ll send what you need to make the case to your VPR or office of sponsored programs.