AI-NATIVE FULL-STACK PLATFORM

Every research administration process in one platform.

Research administration is the invisible engine behind every funded proposal, every compliant study, and every successful award. Kuali helps your team spend less time coordinating work, and more time moving research forward.

THE RESEARCH LIFECYCLE AND BEYOND

A single proposal moves through too many disconnected systems.

Every stage matters, and each one usually lives in its own tool. Kuali connects the entire lifecycle on one platform, so work moves without switching systems.

Research
Idea
Funding
Opportunity
Proposal
Development
Proposal
Management
Compliance
Review
Internal
Approvals
Award
Negotiation
Post-Award
Management
Subaward
Management
Closeout

Most of your work happens outside the lifecycle.

Every research office runs critical processes that live outside traditional research administration software. Most teams juggle them in email, spreadsheets, PDFs, and point solutions. Kuali changes that.

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No Cost Extension Request

Advance Account Request

Gift & Contract Reporting

F&A Waiver

Office Registration

Review
Checklist Form

Controlled Substances Repository

Controlled Substance Registration

eRA Commons ID Request

Reimbursed Travel Form

Prior Approval Request

And dozens more...

Whatever your office needs to manage, you can build it on the same platform.

VISIBILITY AND ANSWERS

Research administration, without limits.

Everything research professionals need, plus the flexibility of a platform that lets you build and automate every process unique to your institution.

Sponsored Programs

Manage the full lifecycle from opportunity to closeout.

Human Ethics Review (IRB)

Streamline protocol reviews and ongoing compliance.

Conflict of Interest (COI)

Centralize disclosures and manage conflicts with confidence.

System to System (S2S)

Validate and submit proposals electronically with real-time status.

Export Control

Manage export requests and compliance requirements.

Animal Ethics Review (IACUC)

Ensure animal research compliance with efficient reviews.

Animal Management

Track animal protocols, housing, and inventories.

Biosafety

Manage biosafety protocols, inspections, and training.

Export Control

Manage export requests and compliance requirements.

And any other process.

Build forms, workflows, and applications for the processes that are unique to your institution.

One platform across the research lifecycle

Governance

Workflow Automation

Compliance Oversight

Security

Integrations

NO-CODE FORMS AND WORKFLOWS

Turn the paper requests into routed workflows.

Program change requests, no-cost extensions, PI eligibility, gift routing. The forms and approvals your office runs every week that never fit a bought system. Scan the form, say who approves it, and it becomes a routed digital workflow your team changes itself.

TODAY

Research offices improvise.

Email chains and manual follow-up

Spreadsheets to track approvals

PDFs with no visibility

Shared drives and sticky notes

Homegrown databases

Disconnected point solutions

WITH KUALI

One intelligent platform brings it all together

Connected workflows across the entire research lifecycle

Visibility for every proposal, protocol, and disclosure

AI that helps you find answers and move work forward

Automated processes that reduce manual work

Build any other process your office needs

NO CODE, NO LEARNING CURVE

Talk to Kuali like it is part of the team.

Simply ask what you need and Kuali AI builds it. More than an AI assistant, Kuali understands your work, answering questions, generating forms, creating workflows, and helping research move forward.

WHITE GLOVE SUPPORT

Support that moves at the speed of campus.

When issues come up, research professionals need answers quickly. Kuali pairs purpose-built technology with a responsive customer success team that helps institutions keep work moving.

URGENT SUPPORT

3 min

Average response time on urgent tickets.

High-priority tickets

15 min

Average response time on high-priority issues.

Customer satisfaction

99%

Of customers who left feedback said they were satisfied with Kuali’s response.

Responsive by design

Kuali delivered 100% SLA achievement in 2024, helping institutions get the support they need without waiting days or weeks for answers.

PROVEN IN PRACTICE

Research administrators modernize on Kuali, and the numbers show it.

From research universities to community colleges, hundreds of institutions rely on Kuali for the operations they can't afford to get wrong.

12M

processes automated

350+

institutions served

20 years

in higher education

$118B

total grants managed

25M+

transactions

“The Kuali Research interface is so much more intuitive than our previous system, and the time to train end users has been cut in half.”

Janet Simons

Director, Research Policy and Training, University of Maryland, Baltimore

"One of our biggest problems was everything was paper. Everything was a PDF, a DocuSign, or actual paper that was brought from office to office. There was no automation between all these forms." 

Carol Jenkins

Associate Director for Post Award Services, Southern Connecticut State University

"We changed something that typically took about two weeks for users to submit to about a day. Then a process to verify, which used to take at least a couple days, now takes about 10 seconds." 

Madeline Besant

Data Architect, University of Maryland, College Park

Carnegie R1, and a 43% higher win ratio

After modernizing research administration on Kuali, Utah State reached Carnegie R1 classification and created 10,000 proposals, with a 43% increase in award win ratio and record award volume three years running.

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Grant Administrator Onboarding Guide: Training New Research Admin Staff

This guide walks through the essentials of onboarding research administration staff and highlights structured training to ease steep learning curves and reduce risks.

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BEYOND THE SOLUTION

A long-term partner, not just a platform.

Successful transformation goes beyond go-live. Kuali brings collaborative discovery, process optimization, change management, training, and dedicated customer success, so your office keeps getting more from the platform over time.

Onboarding and change management

Collaborative discovery and process optimization to get you live and adopted.

Training and certifications

Role-based training and professional certifications for your team.

Dedicated customer success

A named team invested in your outcomes, not just your renewal.

Community
and Kuali Days

An active higher-education community and an annual user conference.

BUNDLES

Start with the package that fits your office.

Buy the capabilities you need, or start with a package and expand on the same platform.

ERA Essentials

A streamlined foundation for sponsored research and human subjects review.

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ERA Professional

The comprehensive research administration suite, with full compliance built in.

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START THE CONVERSATION

See where connected research operations could take you

Book a walkthrough, and we'll show you what your institution's operations look like when they work together, with AI running inside the systems your teams already trust.