Grants that fit you, deadlines on your calendar.
Only open calls you can apply for, ranked by fit.
How it works.
River finds who funds work like yours, checks open calls against your career stage, puts every sponsor and internal deadline on your calendar, and starts the plan for the best fit.
Describe your next study
A paragraph or a Doc, plus a rough yearly budget and when you’d like to start.
River maps the funders
Who funded similar studies on NIH RePORTER and NSF Award Search, then the calls open now.
Prep for the top pick
A requirements checklist, a timeline back from the internal deadline and funded abstracts to learn from.
What you get.
- A ranked Funding options Sheet of open calls you’re eligible for
- Every sponsor deadline, internal deadline and draft milestone on your calendar
- A prep Doc for the top pick, with a note to its program officer drafted
Start in three steps.
Get River
Download the app for your computer.
Sign up as a researcher
When River asks your role, choose Researcher.
- Playbooks
Researcher
Start a playbook and River works through it with you in the chat.
StartMap the literature on your questionRiver finds and reads the key papers on your question, compares them in a table and writes a cited summary.StartFind funding for your next studyRiver finds open grants that fit your project, puts every deadline on your calendar and preps the best fit.StartDesign and print your conference posterRiver designs your poster from your paper at the conference’s exact size and puts the print order in a cart.Start “Find funding for your next study”
Press + in your Dock, open Playbooks, and press Start. River reads your CV and papers, then asks about the project, budget and start date.
A few things to know.
Will River submit anything to a funder?
River prepares the plan and never submits anything. Its note asking the program officer about fit waits for your yes.
How does River check my eligibility?
River checks each call on the funder’s own page: career stage, citizenship, institution, amount, length, letter of intent and deadline, with the date it checked.
What does it cost?
It uses your plan’s AI credit, like everything else in River. It works with your university’s grants office pages and the calendar you already use.
View pricingMore for researchers.
All researcher playbooks
Try it on your own work.
Download River, choose Researcher, and press Start on “Find funding for your next study”.