ATOM Grants
Atom Grants provides an innovative, AI-powered platform that allows faculty and researchers to create customized grant opportunity searches that match current or future faculty interests. Unlike traditional keyword-based searches, researchers can now find relevant funding opportunities by using natural language descriptions of their research—including the ability to input abstracts from existing papers directly into the search system. The platform automatically generates researcher profiles by analyzing existing public outputs and can deliver personalized email alerts on a preferred scheduling basis with matching funding opportunities. Additionally, powerful AI features assist throughout the application process by extracting key requirements, generating submission checklists, and automatically assessing eligibility criteria, ensuring researchers can focus more on their work and less on administrative tasks.
Key features:
- AI-powered semantic search
- Extensive funding opportunity database
- Personalized funding opportunity newsletter (weekly to monthly frequency)
- User-friendly interface with advanced search filters
- Time-saving grant eligibility and submission checklists
- "Chat with proposal" feature to learn more about funding opportunity details
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Atom Grants 2.0
New features
1. Deep Research Mode
The new Atom 2.0 discovery engine goes beyond basic matching to find grants that truly align with your research, reducing irrelevant results and saving you time.
2. Redesigned "For You" Section
Personalized recommendations now account for different funder types (federal agencies, foundations, industry partners) with context about why each opportunity matches your profile.
3. For Administrators
You can now view grant listings exactly as researchers see them, including all eligibility explanations and criteria. This helps you better understand what faculty are seeing and provide more targeted support.
Learn more about Atom Grants 2.0
November 2026 Updates
New feature - Projects
A project is one line of research you're pursuing funding for. Each project has its own research interests, eligibility and grant filters, and Atom matches grants to each one separately. If you work on two different things, they no longer compete for space in one feed.
- Switch projects from the top of your Dashboard, and the feed follows
- Draft research interests with Atom, or pull them from an uploaded CV, research statement or biosketch
- Project-specific eligibility, for facts about the project rather than you (a partner institution, a foundation that administers the award, a target region)
- Saved grant filters such as funder type, award size and career stage, applied to your Dashboard, grant emails and Deep Research while that project is active
- Invite colleagues to a project to share its feed and its saved-grants list
- Run Deep Research from any project, right from the project card or page
Learn more about projects in Atom's docs.
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