Sponsored programs office software — the funding-intelligence layer
Upstream of your system of record: the portfolio read your OSP and a skeptical PI can both stand behind.
Strategic Pursuit doesn't manage your proposals — Cayuse, Kuali, and InfoEd do that. It's the funding-intelligence layer that tells you which opportunities are worth entering into your system of record in the first place. Name an institution and in about 8 minutes get a ranked, sourced dossier: defensible designation-based eligibility, HERD peer-percentile position, and the white space your true Carnegie peers overlook.
205 federal programs · 32 institution-eligible · every designation tied to the law behind it. We use only publicly posted FSA aggregates — no NSLDS, no student-level data.
3 dossiers, 1 seat, 30 days, no card.
In one sentence
Strategic Pursuit is sponsored programs office software that sits upstream of Cayuse, Kuali, and InfoEd: name an institution and get a ranked, sourced funding-intelligence dossier in about 8 minutes — designation-based eligibility tied to the law behind it, HERD peer-percentile position, and agency-concentration risk. It complements your system of record; it does not replace it.
Where it sits in your stack
It complements Cayuse, Kuali, and InfoEd. It does not compete with them.
Those are your systems of record for proposals, compliance, and post-award. Strategic Pursuit sits upstream of all of them. It is not a second source of truth for your proposal data — it is the strategic verdict on where your institution can compete, delivered before a single proposal is opened in your system of record.
- Upstream01
Strategic Pursuit — funding intelligence
Which opportunities are worth pursuing — eligibility, fit, competitive position, HERD-percentile, white space.
- Midstream02
Your system of record (Cayuse / Kuali / InfoEd)
Proposal development, routing, compliance.
- Post-award03
Your system of record
Award management, reporting.
“Not another place to enter data. The read that tells you what's worth entering.”
System-of-record product names are referenced in plain text only; we do not integrate with or replace your compliance system.
Built for the PI veto
Built for the PI veto. The receipts are exactly who we built them for.
A faculty member who has watched one keyword tool surface junk will not trust the next one. So we hold the line you hold. Eligibility is decided by the actual rules, not the AI. Solicitation codes, deadlines, designations, and HERD figures come straight from official sources, not the AI's memory — so a PI sees real solicitation codes and real deadlines, never a made-up funding announcement.
Tied to the law
Every designation is tied to the law behind it: HBCU per HEA §322(2) (20 U.S.C. §1061(2)), HSI per Title V §502(a)(5) at 25% Hispanic FTE, TCU per HEA §316.
Sourced & dated
Every program shows its source and last-verified date.
Gated
Anything past the freshness window is demoted or flagged rather than presented as fact.
Honest no-go
It tells faculty where they don't have standing as readily as where they do. That discipline is what rebuilds PI trust.
Junk matches come from keyword search dressed up as a recommendation. We check against the actual rules — and we say no.
The deliverable, panel by panel
What's in an institution dossier
Every capability here maps to a real panel — the promise is a verifiable method, never a claim of data parity.
Institutional profile
Carnegie classification, control, enrollment, and identity — the foundation every score is read against.
Designations with statutory citations
Your defensible designation-based eligibility as statute-cited chips — HBCU, HSI, AANAPISI, TCU, PBI, land-grant 1862/1890/1994 — each tooltip carrying the statute that decides it. Eligibility a VP for Research can defend in a strategy meeting.
HERD research expenditure + peer percentiles
Your HERD research-expenditure trend and federal-share, positioned with p25 / median / p75 percentiles against your true Carnegie peer group. The position no nonprofit-grant tool can produce.
Federal awards by agency + FFATA subawards
Your federal awards concentrated by agency, with FFATA subaward rollup — so you can read agency-concentration risk versus diversification, the core de-risking question through the 2025–26 upheaval.
NCES student outcomes
Publicly posted NCES College Scorecard cohort signals — completion, Pell share, outcomes — sourced, never invented.
Strategic signals
The EPSCoR / Title III white space rivals overlook, peer-benchmark callouts, and the limited-submission flags that keep a thin office from spending a slot on a longshot.
We'll be straight with you. The institution data is still filling in.
This product uses the Grants.gov API but is not endorsed or certified by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
The signature
Compete where your designations and research scale give you an advantage.
Every program is scored on eligibility, strategic fit, and competitive position — with thresholds tuned to institutional reality, not a generic match. A $250M-plus research base plus agency history reads as high competitive position; we flag the longshot before a limited-submission slot is spent on it.
- HIGH FIT
- MEDIUM
- LOW
- INELIGIBLE
Skip the longshots that burn a thin office. That restraint is the strategy.
The honest no-go protects a thin sponsored-programs office — and surfaces the EPSCoR / Title III white space where your designations actually give you standing. INELIGIBLE is a real answer, not a blank.
Procurement-grade
Built for a procurement office's bar
No student-level data
We use only publicly posted FSA aggregate data. No NSLDS, no student-level records, ever — the highest-sensitivity data class is out of scope by design.
SOC 2
Building directly toward SOC 2; enterprise terms include the controls your procurement office requires.
VPAT / 508
Accessibility conformance documentation available for institutional review.
SSO
Enterprise SSO for institution-wide rollout.
We respect the 6-to-12-month procurement cycle. The no-credit-card trial lets your OSP and a PI validate the output's accuracy while the formal review runs in parallel — so evaluation doesn't wait on procurement.
Transparent pricing
Transparent pricing — and the case against a retainer
Start free for 30 days — 3 dossiers, 1 seat, no credit card. Against an FTE or a Hanover-style retainer, the difference is speed and defensibility — an 8-minute sourced read any time the field shifts, versus a quarterly deliverable you wait for. Use it to make your FTE or your consultant sharper, especially while you de-risk the portfolio through the 2025–26 cuts.
The plan and its caps are identical either way. Seats are a ceiling, not a meter — share the tool across your whole team.
Practice
For the two-person grants shop, the single-practice firm, the lean sponsored-programs office — one team, one tool.
$15,000/ year~17% less than paying monthlyOne engagement, one grant, one well-aimed pursuit it helps you secure, and the year is paid for several times over.
Start a 30-day trial- 5 named users
- 30 dossier runs per month
- Unlimited congressional earmark browser
- Print-grade PDF dossier export
- Full three-axis scoring + statutory citations on every run
- Email support · 2-business-day response
- Recommended
Growth
For the multi-office firm, the dedicated federal practice, the research office running a real portfolio — more runs, more seats, the strategic layer.
$45,000/ year~17% less than paying monthly150 dossiers a month is roughly 1,800 a year. Convert one engagement off them and the ROI floor is in the tens-to-one — arithmetic you can run yourself.
Start a 30-day trial- 20 named users
- 150 dossier runs per month
- Everything in Practice, plus:
- Saved client / institution portfolios· coming soon
- Earmark + opportunity alerts — Slack, MS Teams, email· coming soon
- Comparative dossiers — score entities side by side· coming soon
- Quarterly DuBois practice review
- Support · 1-business-day response
Saved portfolios, alerts, and comparative dossiers are on the Growth roadmap — we mark what's shipped and what's coming, never the reverse. Today Growth is the higher run and seat ceiling plus the quarterly DuBois review.
Enterprise
For ENR Top-100 firms, university systems, and DuBois strategic partners — the controls, scale, and procurement posture a large organization requires.
CustomScoped to your seats, run volume, and security requirements.When the tool has to clear your security office, plug into your stack, and carry your name — this is the tier built to survive procurement.
Talk to us- Unlimited users
- 500+ dossier runs per month
- Everything in Growth, plus:
- SSO — SAML / OIDC· coming soon
- Read-only API access· coming soon
- White-label dossier branding· coming soon
- Custom data integrations
- Dedicated customer success manager
- Negotiated uptime SLA · same-day support
SSO, the read-only API, and white-label are Enterprise capabilities on our near-term roadmap, scoped into your contract. We write the SLA, we don't slogan it.
Every tier includes the full AI read, all 205 federal programs across more than two dozen federal agencies, the live congressional earmark feed, and an official source behind every claim. Seat counts are a ceiling, not a per-seat charge. Run caps reset monthly. Prices shown in USD.
Sponsored-programs questions
The questions an OSP director and a VP for Research ask before signing up.
01Is this a redundant fourth subscription on top of our system of record?
02Will the AI make up a solicitation number or deadline and burn my RAs' time?
03Our higher-ed data looks thin — some panels say 'not yet loaded.'
04We need SOC 2, VPAT/508, and FERPA assurances and have a long procurement cycle.
05Is this built for R1 research mechanisms or just nonprofits?
This product uses the Grants.gov API but is not endorsed or certified by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
De-risk the portfolio. Compete where you have standing.
Name your institution. Get the sourced portfolio read in about 8 minutes — an answer a VP for Research and a skeptical PI can both stand behind. Free for 30 days, no card.