Cayuse Award Management is a cloud-based suite for research organizations managing funding opportunities, proposals, awards, and post-award administration. Fund Finder searches opportunities and provides recommendations and alerts. Cayuse Proposals (S2S) supports federal forms with autofill and more than 1,500 smart validations, with a submission portal for over 30 agencies. Fund Manager provides portfolio views, spend tracking, multi-year forecasts, and configurable reports, and can connect to institutional ERP, general ledger, payroll, and eRA systems. Project Effort uses imported payroll and related data for effort monitoring and certification. Cayuse Agreements centralizes agreement information and sends notifications to support review workflows. Award Management Insights offers role-based dashboards for award data and trends. The Cayuse Platform adds single sign-on across applications, centralized task tracking, shared user data, and APIs for reporting; Report Connector can transfer platform data to external systems and business-intelligence tools. The suite is intended for research institutions across higher education, healthcare, life sciences, nonprofit, and government sectors. Pricing is available on request.
Who it is for
Cayuse suits research organizations that need to manage funding, proposals, awards, effort reporting, or agreement workflows. Its stated audience includes higher education, healthcare, life sciences, nonprofit, and government institutions.
What is good
- Funding search includes recommendations and alerts
- Proposal forms include autofill and smart validations
- Fund Manager connects with institutional finance systems
- Role-based dashboards show award data and trends
What to know first
- Pricing is available only on request
- Technical support is listed for weekdays only
Verdict
Cayuse covers multiple stages of research administration, from funding discovery to award reporting and agreement workflows. Organizations should request pricing and confirm that the suite’s workflows match their administrative needs.
Cayuse Award Management plans and pricing
All plansCompared on research administration software
- Grant lifecycle
- Yes
- Proposal management
- Yes
- Award management
- Yes
- Compliance workflows
- Yes
- Agreement management
- Yes
- Budget tracking
- Yes
- API access
- Yes
