Use Cases

Built for the decisions that matter most

From grant proposals to strategic hiring, Atlas supports research institutions across every workflow where expertise intelligence makes the difference.

Workflows

Six workflows, one intelligence platform

Atlas adapts to the way your institution already works. Every use case is backed by the same living knowledge graph of faculty expertise, research output, and collaboration.

Competitive grants & proposals

Assemble winning PI teams in hours, not weeks

Upload an RFP and let Atlas surface evidence-backed PI and Co-PI recommendations matched to the funder’s requirements. The system scores candidates on publication alignment, prior grant success, and collaboration history—so your office can respond to funding opportunities before the deadline passes.

Best for

Sponsored Programs & Research Office

Strategic hiring

Data-driven line requests with competitive impact forecasting

Build defensible hiring justifications backed by institutional data. Atlas lets you simulate a hypothetical hire and see how they would shift your institution’s competitive standing—filling expertise gaps, strengthening grant-eligible clusters, and improving program coverage ratios.

Best for

Provosts, Deans

Program planning & accreditation

Map learning outcomes to faculty expertise with staffing gap analysis

Atlas maps every program learning outcome to the faculty members qualified to teach it. When accreditation reviewers ask how your institution covers its curriculum, you have an auditable, evidence-based answer—along with clear visibility into where staffing gaps exist.

Best for

Academic Affairs, Department Chairs

Interdisciplinary initiatives

Discover expertise clusters and propose institute themes

Atlas reveals hidden connections between researchers across departments, colleges, and campuses. Discover organic expertise clusters, identify potential research center themes, and find collaborators who didn’t know each other existed—all backed by publication and grant evidence.

Best for

VP Research, Center Directors

External partnerships

Route requests to experts and generate capability briefs

When an industry partner, government agency, or nonprofit asks “Do you have anyone who works on X?”, Atlas gives you a confident, evidence-backed answer in minutes. Route incoming requests to the right experts and auto-generate capability briefs that showcase your institution’s strengths.

Best for

Industry Liaison, Tech Transfer

Institutional reporting

System-wide capability claims with audit-ready evidence

Atlas gives institutional leaders a single source of truth for research capabilities. Generate system-wide reports on expertise distribution, research strengths, and faculty capacity—with every claim linked back to verifiable evidence. Stop relying on self-reported surveys and start making auditable claims.

Best for

President’s Office, Board Relations

Who it's for

Designed for every role in the research enterprise

Atlas delivers the right intelligence to the right stakeholders, tailored to their workflows and decision-making needs.

Sponsored Programs & Research Office

Assemble competitive grant teams faster, match PI expertise to funder requirements, and track institutional research capacity—all from a single intelligence platform.

Grant team assembly
RFP matching
Faculty expertise search
Research capacity tracking

Provosts, Deans & Academic Affairs

Make strategic hiring decisions backed by data, plan program curricula against faculty coverage, and generate accreditation-ready reports on demand.

Strategic hiring simulator
Curriculum coverage mapping
Accreditation reporting
Succession planning

Department Chairs & Center Directors

Discover collaboration opportunities across departments, identify expertise clusters for new initiatives, and route partnership requests to the right faculty.

Cross-department discovery
Expertise cluster detection
Partnership routing
Faculty capability briefs
See Atlas in action

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