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A research graph made useful for R&D collaboration

Our platform reads what 546,000+researchers have published, patented, and been funded to do, to help your R&D projects succeed: who to call, what to sign, how it’s going, what it produced. Built on the Helikon Method and on open data. Free stays free.

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The Helikon Method

Match, Unite, Steward, Evaluate: each phase of a collaborative R&D project

Match

Find a partner and the funding, and map the field. Partner search from an abstract; Discover across researchers, literature, patents, organizations, funding, and projects; dashboard match suggestions; Matched to you funding; the patent-to-paper citation trail in both directions.

Unite

Turn a conversation into a structure both sides recognize. Projects with one of 42 agreement types, roles, and visibility; NDA, IRB, and contract requirements with an activation guard. The Partnership Pipeline, on Pro and above, tracks a partnership from first contact to signed agreement.

Steward

Track progress where both sides can see it. Milestones with owners and reminders, files with a per-file audience, a threaded discussion, an activity log, and meetings that send a calendar invite.

Evaluate

See what your portfolio produced. Institutional adds institution analytics: partnerships, active projects, seat use, research areas, department comparison, retention, and an anonymized peer benchmark, with CSV export. These plans are set up with us directly.

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Use cases

Thirteen examples of how to use the platform

Find a research partner from an abstract or a problem statementPaste what you're working on. Get ranked researchers with a match score and the reason, saved as a shortlist you can reopen.Read the walkthrough →Find the right expert inside your own organizationFilter the whole research record by your organization, including people who haven't signed up, and staff the proposal from a list instead of a memory.Read the walkthrough →Find your next advisor, lab, or research groupCompare groups by what they've published, patented, and been funded to do, and see who has said they're open to mentoring.Read the walkthrough →Staff a funded project: co-investigators, subcontractors, and facilitiesPost the work with the expertise it needs, read the recommended researchers, and bring people in with roles. See what facilities a partner can offer.Read the walkthrough →Map a technology area: who publishes, who patents, who's funded, and what innovation builds onWalk from a CPC subclass to the patents, the papers they build on, the people behind both, and the companies that own them.Read the walkthrough →Get funding opportunities matched to your researchOpen US federal calls ranked against your profile, a browse by agency and deadline, and the award histories of the people in your area.Read the walkthrough →Be found: your expertise, publications, patents, funding, and the patents that cite your workClaim your record, import what's missing, write the profile once, and let people searching your expertise find it instead of a stale faculty page.Read the walkthrough →Manage an R&D collaboration project with milestones, files, and a shared recordOne workspace both sides can see: members with roles, milestones with owners and reminders, files with an audience, a discussion, and the log of what happened.Read the walkthrough →Manage your partnership pipeline from first contact to signed agreementSix stages, a next action with a due date on every card, links to the researcher and the project, and a convert button when the agreement is signed.Read the walkthrough →Find a university partner for your SBIR/STTR proposalRun Partner search from your specific aims, read who has been funded before, and set up the project with the SBIR/STTR agreement type.Read the walkthrough →Find a corporate sponsor for a thesis, capstone, or fellowshipPut the project where sponsors look, read what industry members say they sponsor, and go to the companies whose record fits the work.Read the walkthrough →Find companies and researchers already active in your technology's areaStart from the CPC class on a disclosure, see who is patenting there and whose papers they build on, and find the people at those companies.Read the walkthrough →Keep up with the researchers, organizations, and technologies you care aboutFollow researchers and see their new papers on your dashboard. Save patents, papers, and organizations with notes and tags. Bookmark the searches.Read the walkthrough →

Built on open data

546,000+

researcher profiles, built from the public scientific record

34 million

publications, with the patents that cite them

3.3 million

granted US patents, with the scientific literature they build on

Profiles, organization pages, and the citation trail are built from OpenAlex, USPTO, the Research Organization Registry (ROR), Grants.gov, and funder award databases. A researcher’s page exists before they sign up, claiming it adds the parts no database holds, such as a bio, expertise keywords, facilities, and collaboration preferences.

Our matching algorithm analyzes that record. Partner search, dashboard suggestions, funding matches, and project recommendations rank researchers on their publications, patents, bio, and keywords, and every researcher match shows its score breakdown on every plan. Our AI collaboration analysis suggests how a researcher’s work can complement your needs.

Built for every side of an R&D partnership

For researchersUniversity faculty, PIs, and lab researchers seeking industry partners.For industry & tech scoutsCorporate R&D and innovation leads sourcing university partners and talent.For research offices & TTOsTech-transfer officers, deans, and program managers orchestrating partnerships.For students & postdocsGraduate students, postdocs, and emerging researchers building their network.For investors & advisorsConsultants, advisors, and investors engaging with the research ecosystem.

Free is permanent. Pro, Team, and Institutional add scale.

Free includes unlimited searches across every Discover tab, 4 suggested researchers on your dashboard refreshed weekly, 10 AI match explanations a month, your top 3 funding matches, and 2 active projects, with no card and no expiry. Pro, at $29 a month, adds unlimited explanations, the top 20 funding matches, 10 projects with private visibility, and the Partnership Pipeline. Team, at $19 a seat a month, widens the Partnership Pipeline from the personal board on Pro to one shared across your organization, and makes projects unlimited. Institutional, from 25 seats, adds departments, the full analytics dashboard, the compliance roster, and the template library, and is set up with us directly.

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Built on primary research

“Catalyzing Strategic Partnerships: Digital Transformation of University–Industry Collaborations for Synchronized Innovation”

Flowers & Roadman (2024). R&D Management Conference, Stockholm.

The Helikon Method is the framework the paper describes; the platform is its working form.

Start with the record you already have

Claim your profile, run one Partner search, and see who you should be working with.

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Free plan · No credit card required