ZANUS AI FOR UNIVERSITY & RESEARCH — BACK OFFICE

Research runs on documents.
Now the documents work.

Proposals, award budgets, progress reports, committee minutes, department policies: a university is documentation with a campus attached. The Zanus back office turns that archive into a working AI staff — drafting, cross-referencing and answering with sources cited, under your faculty’s sign-off.

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Private tenant or your own servers · unlimited users · FERPA-conscious handling

AI work session drafting a progress report with citations

A real session: an annual progress report compiled from award records — sources cited, PI decides.

What it does

Scheduled research-admin work

Progress report drafts, pipeline summaries, budget-versus-actual reviews — assigned to the AI like to a research administrator, executed on schedule, fully auditable.

Your prior awards, answerable

“What indirect rate did we use on the 2021 proposal?” “Which aims did the reviewers score highest?” The grants archive answers with the document attached.

Sign-off stays human

Every AI-drafted section lands in Output awaiting review. Nothing reaches a sponsor, a journal or the provost without a human decision.

The Friday deadline, without the blank page

The grants officer opens the proposal work session Monday: the AI has drafted the budget justification from three comparable prior awards and pulled the program outcomes into the narrative — with every figure cited to its source. The week goes to strengthening the science, not reconstructing boilerplate.

Sections drafted from your own award history
Every figure cited to the source record
Draft in Output, awaiting the PI and grants officer

Grant sections drafted from prior awards

Department documents tracked and prioritized

Department paperwork — drafted

The documents that eat faculty evenings: committee meeting summaries, annual review packets, accreditation-support narratives compiled from department records. Drafted in minutes, in your templates, sources attached.

Your letterheads and templates
Record excerpts attached automatically
Approval workflow before anything sends

Higher-ed software is procured module by module and seat by seat, research computing sits behind request queues — and the grants office still rebuilds every budget justification from scratch the week the proposal is due. Zanus AI: one AI operating system for grants, papers, policies and student services — unlimited users, FERPA-conscious handling, hosted in your private tenant or on servers the institution owns.

Questions, answered

Does the AI do the science?

No. It drafts, organizes, cross-references and cites from YOUR records — the research judgment, the analysis and the submission decision belong to your faculty.

Does it connect to our grants management system?

API connectors integrate with existing systems; documents and data flow through the intake pipeline under your handling rules. Bring your grants system to the demo and we map it.

The Back Office executes. Who answers the phone?

Front Office AI picks up every call and chat — books, quotes, follows up, 24/7 in 40 languages. Watch it run a business like yours, live.

Front Office live demos →Front Office for University & Research