Pilot
Drive New Funding. Drive Collaboration. Fast.
See OpenScholar at work in your institution with a trial over the next 90 days.
What the pilot includes.
A full-fidelity deployment of OS Research Hubs and OS Match on a representative slice of your faculty, your funding priorities, and in front of your research team. Long enough to see real outcomes before any license conversation.
10
OS Research Hubs
AI-generated, researcher-validated, evergreen faculty profiles.
3
rounds of OS Match
Curated, high-confidence funding opportunities, delivered directly to each researcher's inbox.
450
funding matches surfaced*
across 10 researchers, across 90 days. Up to 150 per 30-day cycle.
*up to 450 total, accounting for up to 15 matches per researcher, per 30-day cycle.
0
heavy lift
OpenScholar creates the Hubs. Funding opportunities are delivered automatically. No maintenance required.
$5,000
for 90 days and no ongoing commitment
The pilot fee applies in full toward your institutional license if you proceed.
What the pilot delivers.
- Consistent public research representation across 10 of your faculty.
- 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.
- Decision-ready evidence—match quality, researcher feedback, time saved, and opportunities surfaced you wouldn't have seen otherwise.
How the pilot runs.
No heavy lift on your side. No large project team required. No researcher training.
1. Hub generation.
OpenScholar's AI Hub Generator creates builds the Hubs from each researcher's public work.
2. Validation.
The researchers review and approve. The Hubs are finalized by OpenScholar and go live.
3. Match delivery.
Curated, high-confidence funding matches arrive in each researcher's inbox across three rounds over 90 days.
Frequently asked questions.
How many researchers can participate?
Ten. 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, OS Match deliveries arrive in their inbox and they choose what to engage with.
How are the funding matches generated?
OS Match reads from each researcher's validated 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 $5,000 applies in full toward your institutional license. Institutions that proceed don't pay twice.
What happens if we don't proceed after 90 days?
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?
The 90-day pilot is structured to evaluate both products together — the Match deliveries depend on the validated Hub layer, and the institutional outcome data is more meaningful with both running.
If we decided to proceed, is it difficult to scale up?
Because both products are largely automated (AI-generated Hubs, automated matching), scale-up is not operationally heavy: your researchers don't have new systems to adopt, and your admin team doesn't absorb a project.
Contact our team.
10 Hubs. 3 Match rounds. Up to 450 funding matches. 90 days.
Real faculty. Real matches. Real results.