Run the Research and Grant Lifecycle on One System
Kissflow runs the approvals that move a grant from proposal to closeout without replacing your existing systems.
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Trusted by leading research universities
Admin eats research time
Principal investigators spend 42 percent of their federally funded time on administration rather than research.
Funding on the line
US universities spent over $117 billion on research in 2024, and slow handoffs put some of it at risk.
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A miss costs a cycle
A proposal stuck in an internal queue can wait a full year for the next deadline.
Compliance is essential
Universities have paid over $100 million to settle poorly managed research.
Hours lost to paperwork
Researchers say better administrative support would give them back about four hours a week for active research.
The audit scramble
Federal audits demand a complete, verifiable trail, but most offices still assemble it by hand under deadlines.
Research and grant management run on workarounds
Truth 1: Dashboards report, workflows don't
Your research system tells you a proposal is stuck. But it can't move it forward or get the next approver to act before the sponsor deadline.
Truth 2: Email is the escalation engine
When approvals live in email, nothing gets tracked, and no one owns the next step.
Truth 3: Compliance lives in spreadsheets
Effort certifications and IRB records sit in shared drives until an audit sends everyone scrambling to find them.
This is where the research and grant lifecycle actually runs
Kissflow connects your research systems so approvals move across every office.
Research governance & compliance
Effort certification, IRB, and Uniform Guidance controls, audit-ready by default.
Kissflow execution layer
The workflow engine that carries proposals, reviews, and awards forward.
Systems of record
Your existing research systems remain untouched.
Built for how research administration actually runs
Everything a research office needs to run the grant lifecycle on one system.
Unified Action layer
Kissflow runs the cross-office workflow that carries a proposal, its review, and the award forward without delay.
Built for research and grant
Proposal routing, IRB and conflict-of-interest review, award setup, and effort certification, out of the box.
30 to 60 day rollout
Connect your systems, configure the workflows, run a pilot, and scale, with most offices live in 30 to 60 days.
Audit-ready governance built in
Audit-ready evidence generates straight from the workflow, with every approval logged, timestamped, and signed.
Connects to your existing tools
Kissflow connects to Cayuse, Kuali Research, Huron, Workday Grants, and Banner Finance, without replacing them.
Built for fusion teams
Researchers, sponsored programs, finance, and compliance share a single, governed workflow rather than trading emails.
“Kissflow became the college’s unified workflow and portal layer, consolidating 20 core school processes into a single, IT-governed automation hub.”
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