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What you can do here

Every page below walks through one job with the real screens, the plan it needs, and where it sits in the Helikon Method. Filter by who you are or by the phase you’re in.

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Find a research partner from an abstract or a problem statement

Paste what you're working on. Get ranked researchers with a match score and the reason, saved as a shortlist you can reopen.

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Find the right expert inside your own organization

Filter 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.

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Find your next advisor, lab, or research group

Compare groups by what they've published, patented, and been funded to do, and see who has said they're open to mentoring.

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Match → Unite

Staff a funded project: co-investigators, subcontractors, and facilities

Post the work with the expertise it needs, read the recommended researchers, and bring people in with roles. See what facilities a partner can offer.

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Map a technology area: who publishes, who patents, who's funded, and what innovation builds on

Walk from a CPC subclass to the patents, the papers they build on, the people behind both, and the companies that own them.

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Get funding opportunities matched to your research

Open US federal calls ranked against your profile, a browse by agency and deadline, and the award histories of the people in your area.

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Be found: your expertise, publications, patents, funding, and the patents that cite your work

Claim your record, import what's missing, write the profile once, and let people searching your expertise find it instead of a stale faculty page.

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Unite → Steward

Manage an R&D collaboration project with milestones, files, and a shared record

One 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.

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Match → Unite

Manage your partnership pipeline from first contact to signed agreement

Six 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.

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Find a university partner for your SBIR/STTR proposal

Run Partner search from your specific aims, read who has been funded before, and set up the project with the SBIR/STTR agreement type.

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Find a corporate sponsor for a thesis, capstone, or fellowship

Put the project where sponsors look, read what industry members say they sponsor, and go to the companies whose record fits the work.

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Find companies and researchers already active in your technology's area

Start 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.

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Keep up with the researchers, organizations, and technologies you care about

Follow researchers and see their new papers on your dashboard. Save patents, papers, and organizations with notes and tags. Bookmark the searches.

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