

Funding Navigator is an AI-powered discovery and intelligence system for faculty and research offices. It pulls from government agencies such as NSF, NIH, DARPA, and DOE, as well as corporate and foundation sources, then layers in additional intelligence like prior awardees, winning institutions, typical award sizes, deadlines, and fit signals. Faculty can build a rich personalized context around their research, so the system surfaces stronger, more relevant matches over time.

Funding Navigator is an AI-powered discovery and intelligence system for faculty and research offices. It pulls from government agencies such as NSF, NIH, DARPA, and DOE, as well as corporate and foundation sources, then layers in additional intelligence like prior awardees, winning institutions, typical award sizes, deadlines, and fit signals. Faculty can build a rich personalized context around their research, so the system surfaces stronger, more relevant matches over time. - Aggregates funding across federal, foundation, and corporate sources - Surfaces award history, winning institutions, and typical award sizes - Builds personalized researcher profiles using researcher CVs, papers, links and prior awards - Uses powerful AI models to surface high-quality matches and detail winning strategies
GRAIL is ushering in a new era of productivity for the university research office. Our co-founders come from the university system. We recognize that the administration and infrastructure underpinning our research activities is significantly under strain. Too often, the focus is on students and faculty, while other teams at the university playing an equally important role get overlooked. Not at GRAIL. We help research teams replace fragmented, legacy workflows with a unified, agentic platform that elevates their work. Our products are designed for all components of the research admin lifecycle: grant discovery, pre-award, research communications, and back-office automation. We work with each office to customize our agents and platforms specifically for their workflows. Although GRAIL is an AI company, each customer interaction remains uniquely human. Our products are trusted by both staff and faculty across 80+ institutions, including Carnegie Mellon, Cornell, UC Berkeley, and UCLA. Our enterprise-level pilots are currently active in top-tier R1 universities like USC, with several more underway. Ready to experience GRAIL in your research office?