1. Problem & Audience

Professors, lab managers, and departmental research‐administration staff have to monitor hundreds of funding opportunities (NIH, NSF, foundations, internal seed funds, corporate calls for proposal, etc.). Each opportunity comes with:

• multiple dates (LOI, pre-proposal, full proposal, internal approval freeze dates, etc.)
• strict eligibility (career stage, citizenship, indirect-cost rules…)
• university‐specific compliance steps (COI, routing sheets, export‐control checks)

Most investigators still do this in Excel or a shared Google Sheet – evidence: the linked Reddit thread (r/Professors, May 2024 – several faculty share homemade spreadsheets and complain about missing dates). Similar posts appear on r/AskAcademia and HN when “how do you track grants?” is asked.

2. Existing Solutions / Competitors

Enterprise-level

• Pivot-RP (ProQuest) – database + save-search + deadline alerts; expensive site licence.
• Research Professional / Ex Libris – similar to Pivot (UK/AU heavy).
• GrantForward – SaaS DB + saved searches.
• InfoReady Review – internal competition workflows.
• Streamlyne, Cayuse, Kuali – full post-award/IRB suite; focus more on compli...