Risely for research universities
Stop buying the same research twice.
Risely's agents work inside the research administration system, human resources and the student information system a research university already runs. They do the work a staff member would do and bring it back finished for the research office or the graduate school to approve.
Research administration
Every award should recover the indirect cost it allows.
Risely's agents reconcile each award against the rate agreement on file and trace every unrecovered dollar to the cap, waiver, or rate election that created it. Your research office sees what each commitment costs, in time to decide which ones the next proposal repeats.
Advancement at campaign scale
A principal gift should open with finished research.
Risely's agents read the filings, the giving history and the alumni record behind a name, then bring back a sized ask with every line cited to its source. Your gifts officer opens the visit with the research finished.
Graduate and postdoctoral operations
An appointment should never lapse into a gap.
Risely's agents compare the award's funding dates against the appointment dates in the human resources system and draft the paperwork that closes the gap. Your graduate school finds a fourteen-day gap in March and decides which date moves.
Undergraduate progression at scale
Risk should surface somewhere other than census.
Risely's agents narrow a cohort of eight thousand to the names carrying more than one signal and route each to the adviser who already has her. Your advising office has the names in week five, long before census.
One scholar, three identities.
The student information system knows a doctoral student by campus ID. The research administration system knows the same person as personnel on an award. Human resources holds a third.
Risely Fabric joins them across the award and the appointment, so the person and the line item are finally the same record.
Higher education R&D spending reached $117.7 billion in fiscal 2024, and $30.2 billion of it was paid by the institutions themselves (NSF HERD, fiscal 2024). Negotiated facilities and administrative rates average 56.9 percent against an effective 44.3 percent recovered, a 12.7-point gap (COGR, 2024).
The recovery arithmetic behind this page is published, with sources, in Risely AI Research: Universities now pay for a quarter of their own research.