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Tools

AI tools built for the research office — not retrofitted to it.

ReThink Higher tools start from public, openly licensed research data — ORCID, NIH RePORTER, NSF awards, OpenAlex, patents — so there's nothing to install and nothing to migrate. Your institution's researchers are already represented the moment you log in. Add your own data when you're ready.

Proposal Review

Upload a draft and get a structured review against the funder's actual criteria — significance, approach, innovation, broader impacts — before it leaves your office. Designed for the review-and-polish use that NIH explicitly permits, never for drafting applications from scratch.

Collaborator & Expertise Discovery

Find the right people — on your campus and beyond — by what they've actually published, funded, and patented. Built on an open expertise graph so your institution isn't locked into a proprietary index.

Funding Match

Surface opportunities matched to each researcher's real profile, with context on fit and deadlines. Fewer missed NOFOs, less inbox noise.

Governance Gateway

A policy layer that sits between your people and any AI model. Set institutional rules once — what data can leave, which models are approved, what must be logged — and every AI interaction across the platform follows them. Built for the HECVAT and SOC 2 questions your IT office is going to ask.

Principles

  • Zero-effort onboarding. Public data first; your data when you choose.
  • Policy-aware by design. The tools know what NIH and NSF allow and steer users accordingly.
  • You own your work. No claims on your outputs, your drafts, or your data.
  • Priced for the office, not the enterprise. Per-seat pricing scaled to fit within institutional purchasing thresholds.
  • Procurement-ready. HECVAT, VPAT, and SOC 2 roadmap documented.

We’re building this with 2–4 founding institutions.

Design partners get early access, direct input on the roadmap, and founding-partner pricing in exchange for honest feedback and a willingness to pilot. If your office wants to shape these tools rather than buy whatever ships, we’d like to talk.

Apply to be a design partner