For universities

Grow your university’s grant income.Without growing your team.

Discovery, collaborators, proposal development, and reporting run automatically, so your team spends its time on the work that wins awards.

Universities 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

Proof

Universities are using Atom to set submission records

Switching to Atom took Memphis from under 100 active faculty to 600+ in a year, and to a record year for proposals with only a 5-person team. Same team, same mission, more reach: Atom got the right opportunities in front of the right faculty, week after week.

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600+

Faculty engaged across the university in one year

10×

Lift in faculty engagement vs. prior platform

Record

Year for proposal submissions at Memphis

“This fiscal year we have set records for submissions, and I attribute that to the fact people are engaging with Atom.”
Brian Evans

Brian Evans, PhD

Assistant Director · University of Memphis

What Atom runs

The work of a research office, for every PI on campus

A weekly digest for every PI

Personalized to each researcher's work, ranked by fit, and eligibility-checked. Sent automatically, with zero generic newsletter 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 →

Funder strategy at any PI's depth

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

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

Outreach in your institution's brand

Your logo, your colors, your domain. Every email looks like it came from the VPR's office, because functionally, it did.

Middlebury

Auto-sending

Hi Dr. Reyes, this week’s picks:

NIH R01 · Microglia

DOD CDMRP · ALS

NSF CAREER

research@middlebury.edu

Every RFP into a PI-ready guide

Each RFP turned into a step-by-step guide for the PI: eligibility, documents, deadlines, and budget caps. Less back-and-forth.

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 →

Limited submission alerts

Every limited submission flagged the moment it posts. Eligible PIs surfaced for your office to coordinate the pick across every college.

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

Cross-college proposal CRM

Drafting, review, submitted. One pipeline across every college and department, with provost-ready visibility without spreadsheet duty.

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

How the work splits

Automation where scale matters.
Humans where judgment matters.

What Atom runs

  • Discovery & eligibility: every PI continuously matched and screened against every funder
  • Outreach: grant recommendations, deadline alerts, and funder updates
  • Proposal guidance & review: section-by-section drafting and AI review against funder criteria
  • Institutional reporting: dashboards and rollups by college, department, and funder

What your team owns

  • Strategic priorities: which funders to chase, which institutional bets pay off, and where to invest the team's hours
  • PI coaching: narrative, positioning, and the reviewer psychology that only comes from reading the room
  • High-stakes judgment: go/no-go on center grants, MRIs, and limited-submission picks that represent the institution
  • Stakeholder relationships: deans, provost, board, and program officers; trust-building that doesn't scale through software

Why universities pick Atom

Faster than hiring.
Smarter than building.

Atom is the research development engine your team would build, already shipped, already running.

The AI build trap

AI made it tempting. It didn't make it easier.

Spinning up a demo with AI is a weekend. Running discovery, eligibility, digests, and dean-level rollups reliably across every college and every PI is the part AI doesn't shorten.

  • Funder data, eligibility, and grant taxonomy already wired in
  • Faculty engagement proven across thousands of researchers
  • Years of production refinement across real institutions
“
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

Onboarding

Live in a week, not a year

Auto-imported faculty, auto-built profiles, SAML SSO, zero technical lift from your team. Send a CSV of names and emails, and we run your first pipeline in week one.

  • Faculty auto-imported and profiles auto-built
  • Compatible with any IT systems, top security practices
  • First digest hits inboxes in days, not quarters
“
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

Heidi Grunwald, PhD

Associate VP of Research · North Dakota State University

Why teams pick Atom

Built for innovative universities of all sizes

Research development teams across R1s, regional universities, and PUIs are scaling their funding without scaling their headcount.

“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

“I absolutely love your AI system. It correctly interprets my keywords and phrases and sends me relevant results. Great timesavings, quality results.”
Cat Albert

Cat Albert

Grants Officer · University of North Dakota

45+

more research institutions building their research development programs on Atom.

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Next step

See how Atom can help grow
your university’s research funding

We’ll walk you through how Atom runs discovery, PI outreach, and pipeline reporting across every college, and what that’s looked like at universities like Memphis.