Pilot
See where greater research visibility can lead.
A 60-day pilot of Research Hubs. Two rounds of fit-based funding matches delivered to each researcher. Measurable outcomes established with your team before day one.
WHAT THE PILOT INCLUDES
A full-fidelity deployment of Research Hubs on your own faculty.
Your faculty, your funding priorities, and in front of your research team. Long enough to see real outcomes before any license conversation.
A flexible pilot for up to 40 researchers.
60 days · $5,000 for 20 researchers · $10,000 for 40 researchers
Research Hubs for each researcher
AI-generated, researcher-validated faculty hubs for your full cohort.
Two rounds of funding matches
Each researcher receives 2 rounds of fit-based funding opportunities (1 per 30-day cycle).
Flexible 60-day pilot
Choose 20 researchers for $5,000 or up to 40 for $10,000 for a full 60-day deployment.
WHAT THE PILOT DELIVERS
Meaningful results for your institution.
- Consistent and comprehensive public research representation across your faculty cohort.
- Discoverability of each researcher's expertise and contributions to collaborators and funders.
- AI-powered funding matching grounded in each researcher's validated Hub—not a keyword guess, not a web crawl, but their real body of work.
- Faculty engagement, in practice—how researchers respond to a generated Hub, and how they engage with delivered matches.
- A virtually automated process that eliminates the burden of building and maintaining individual websites and profiles.
- Decision-ready evidence—match quality, researcher feedback, time saved, and opportunities surfaced you wouldn't have seen otherwise.
HOW THE PILOT RUNS
Researchers validate once. We handle the rest.
1.
Hub generation.
OpenScholar's AI Hub Generator automatically creates the Hubs from each researcher's public work.
2.
Validation.
The researchers review their Hub. They can also edit and regenerate Hub content.
3.
Match delivery.
Curated, high-confidence funding matches arrive in each researcher's inbox across 2 rounds over 60 days.
Frequently asked questions.
How many researchers can participate?
You select from 20 or up to 40 researchers. The pilot is structured around evaluating the system on a representative slice of your faculty — enough to produce real signal across departments and research areas.
Who picks the researchers?
You do. The pilot works best when the institution selects researchers across departments, career stages, and research areas.
What's the time commitment for our research administration team?
Minimal. OpenScholar generates the Hubs, runs the matching, and delivers opportunities. There is no ongoing operational lift.
What's the time commitment for the researchers themselves?
Roughly 10–20 minutes per researcher to validate their Hub. After that, Match deliveries arrive in their inbox and they choose what to engage with.
How are the funding matches generated?
Match reads from each researcher's Hub — their actual body of work, methods, projects, collaborators, and trajectory — and matches against active funding opportunities. It's fit-based, not keyword-based.
What happens to the pilot fee if we proceed?
The cost of the pilot applies in full toward your institutional license. Institutions that proceed don't pay twice.
What happens if we don't proceed?
The pilot ends. There's no ongoing commitment, no auto-renewal, and no obligation to license.
Can we evaluate Hubs without OS Match, or vice versa?
No, Match is a built-in feature, and its deliveries depend on the validated Hub layer.
If we decided to proceed, is it difficult to scale up?
Because everything is automated, scale-up is not operationally heavy: your researchers don't have new systems to adopt, and your admin team doesn't absorb a project.