One of the best ways to determine whether a system is right for your team is to test it. That’s why OpenScholar offers 90-day pilots. Select 10 researchers and they will receive three rounds of funding matches–up to 45 relevant opportunities each–from OS Match, OpenScholar’s fund matching service. They’ll also get a sneak peak into Research Hubs, scheduled for release in July.

Pilot Outcomes:

• 10 OS Research Hubs. Created by our proprietary AI Hub Generator, these auto-created, researcher-validated sites match funding opportunities to the research and are evergreen.
• 3 rounds of OS Match. Up to 15 high-confidence funding matches per researcher, per round, delivered straight to their inbox.
• Up to 450 funding matches surfaced across the pilot. Up to 150 per 30-day cycle.
• 0 heavy lift. OpenScholar creates the Hubs. Researchers validate the content. Funding opportunities are delivered automatically.

Investment:

• 90 days. $5,000. Move forward with an institutional license, and we’ll apply this to your subscription.

Why a pilot

Choosing research infrastructure can feel like a leap of faith. Choosing it after faculty experience it and confirm its value makes it a straightforward decision.

The 90-day pilot is a deployment of the platform with a small, representative slice of your faculty. Long enough to see real outcomes before any license conversation.

Why now

OS Match is available now, and by participating in a pilot today, your researchers not only receive valuable funding opportunities, but their Hub content will be ready for our July rollout.

Institutions that open a pilot now will finish their 90-day evaluation at roughly the moment of our public launch—positioned to make a fall licensing decision with decision-ready evidence in hand. The $5,000 pilot fee is applied to the full subscription.

Who the pilot is built for

• R1 and R2 universities
• Academic medical centers and teaching hospitals
• Research institutes and translational research programs
• Any institution evaluating modern research infrastructure before committing

What you'll see

Over 90 days:

• Consistent public research representation across 10 of your faculty.
• AI-powered funding matching grounded in each researcher's validated Hub, not a keyword guess or a web crawl.
• First hand faculty engagement—how researchers respond to a Hub built for them, and how they engage with delivered funding matches.
• Decision-ready evidence—funding match quality, researcher feedback, time saved, and opportunities surfaced you wouldn't have seen otherwise.

How to start

A 20-minute talk with our team. No pitch deck, no commitment. Let us show you what OS Match and OS Research Hubs can do for you.