Research Intelligence Reimagined

Map institutional expertise in hours—not months.

Atlas builds a living knowledge graph of faculty expertise, research output, and collaboration—so you can assemble grant teams, plan strategic hires, and respond to partners faster.

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Expertise Intelligence
Faculty Knowledge Graph
2,847 Faculty Mapped
Expertise Clusters
Machine Learning & AI
strong
184 faculty
Public Health Policy
strong
127 faculty
Materials Science
growing
93 faculty
Grant Team Match
PI Recommended
Dr. Chen — Computational Biology
12 related grants, 47 publications
Co-PI Match
Dr. Patel — Biostatistics
8 related grants, 31 publications
Team Suggestion
Dr. Williams — Data Ethics
5 related grants, 22 publications
Features

What Atlas delivers

From scattered data to institutional intelligence—structured, evidence-backed, and ready for action.

Faculty expertise mapping

Continuously updated profiles linking faculty to verified expertise areas, grants, publications, and collaborations.

Grant team assembly

Upload an RFP and get evidence-backed PI/Co-PI recommendations matched to requirements.

Strategic hiring intelligence

Simulate hypothetical hires and see their impact on institutional competitiveness.

Curriculum coverage analysis

Map program outcomes to faculty expertise and identify staffing gaps.

Partnership routing

Route external requests to qualified experts with auto-generated capability briefs.

Governance & audit trails

Role-based access, provenance tracking, and compliance-ready audit logs.

Comparison

The expertise bottleneck—solved

What used to take months of manual work now takes hours.

The Bottleneck

Traditional approach

  • Manual expertise discovery across siloed systems
  • Reliance on who-you-know networks
  • Weeks to assemble competitive grant teams
  • Fragmented data across HR, grants, and publications
  • Undefensible hiring justifications

The Atlas Advantage

Intelligence-driven workflow

  • System-wide expertise visibility across the institution
  • Evidence-backed team recommendations
  • Grant teams assembled in days, not weeks
  • Unified knowledge graph from all data sources
  • Data-driven hiring with documented ROI
Use Cases

Built for research institutions

From grant proposals to strategic hiring—Atlas supports the decisions that matter most.

Competitive grants

Assemble evidence-backed PI teams faster and respond to funding opportunities with confidence.

Strategic hiring

Justify new lines with data-driven gap analysis and forecast competitive impact before making offers.

Program planning

Map learning outcomes to faculty expertise and identify staffing gaps for accreditation readiness.

Interdisciplinary initiatives

Discover expertise clusters across departments and propose evidence-backed research institute themes.

External partnerships

Route industry and government requests to qualified experts with auto-generated capability briefs.

Institutional reporting

Generate system-wide capability claims with audit-ready evidence for boards and accreditors.

Built with feedback from research leaders

Atlas is designed for the workflows research offices, provosts, and deans actually use—evidence-backed outputs, audit trails, and institutional governance.

Institution-controlled infrastructure
Evidence-backed decisions
Auditable claims

Governance-first by design

Atlas is built for institutional governance requirements. Role-based access, SSO integration, and comprehensive audit trails ensure your data stays under your control.

Role-based access
SSO integration
Audit trails

Ready to unlock your institution's hidden expertise?

See how Atlas can transform how your institution discovers, assembles, and acts on faculty expertise.