InfoReady

What InfoReady does

InfoReady Corp. is a privately held SaaS company headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan, that provides a cloud-based process automation and decision-making platform purpose-built for higher education institutions. The platform centralizes application intake, automated workflow routing, reviewer scoring with rubrics, progress reporting, and compliance auditing for competitive programs including internal funding, limited submissions, fellowships, recognition awards, and research programs. The company serves more than 270 institutions and organizations, with named customers including Yale, Rice, UC Berkeley, UC Irvine, Northwestern, Rutgers, LSU, Texas A&M, University of Arizona, and several NCI-designated cancer centers.

The platform is built around a no-code architecture that allows administrators to configure forms, routing logic, and scoring rubrics without IT support. Core technical components include the Form Designer Template (a drag-and-drop form builder with conditional logic, pagination, and multi-page forms), automated workflow routing with category-based reviewer assignment, Progress Reports for multi-year outcome tracking with scheduled reminders, Reference Letter automation, Microsites for campus-wide deployment without individual licenses, an Engagement Hub for K-12 program registration, and Batch Operations for bulk reviewer assignment and notifications. The company maintains a monthly release cadence (Releases 3.69 through 3.83 between April 2025 and June 2026), indicating active ongoing product development.

InfoReady operates on a tiered institutional subscription model with annual billing that allows organizations to run unlimited competitions and opportunities. The go-to-market strategy combines direct enterprise sales (demo-led field motion) with webinar-driven inside sales, community-led growth through a peer-to-peer listserv and template sharing, and campus-wide expansion where one department introduces the platform to other units via Microsites. The company employs 11-50 people and has been bootstrapped with only $1.1 million of disclosed external capital raised in 2011 and a 2010 Ann Arbor SPARK grant, with no subsequent disclosed funding events or external investors identified.

Name

InfoReady

Legal name

InfoReady Corp.

Website

http://www.inforeadycorp.com/

Company type

Private

Founded year

2014

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

InfoReady is a cloud-based SaaS platform that helps higher education institutions manage selection and approval workflows for grants, awards, limited submissions, fellowships, and research programs. It serves 270+ institutions including major research universities and NCI-designated cancer centers.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Higher Education Workflow Automation Software

NAICS

Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (518)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

Workflow Automation for IT & Ops (Runbooks, Job Scheduling) (HDAEAHAH)

Keywords

• Workflow automation software
• Grant management platform
• Application review software
• Research administration software
• Higher education software

Headquarters

HQ city

Ann Arbor

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. SaaS Platform Subscription: InfoReady operates as a SaaS platform with institutional licensing. The company offers tiered plans (visible on their Plans page) and the licensing model allows organizations to run unlimited competitions and opportunities. Pricing is likely based on institutional size or scope of use, with annual subscription billing typical for enterprise SaaS in higher education.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

InfoReady is a cloud-based SaaS platform that automates submission, review, routing, and decision-making workflows for higher education institutions. It supports internal funding competitions, limited submissions, fellowships, recognition awards, and research programs, enabling administrators to manage unlimited programs without IT support.

Product overview

InfoReady offers a unified SaaS platform for higher education process automation, centering on the InfoReady Platform as its core product. The platform enables institutions to manage the complete lifecycle of competitive programs including internal funding, limited submissions, fellowships, awards, and recognition programs. Key modules include the Form Designer Template (FDT) for advanced form building with conditional logic, Progress Reports for outcome tracking, and Engagement Hub for K-12 program registration. The platform is designed for no-code administration, allowing users to create and manage workflows without IT support, with built-in reviewer management, automated notifications, and comprehensive reporting capabilities.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Arizona Cultivate: University of Arizona's branded instance of the InfoReady platform for managing internal funding programs, faculty awards, and campus processes.

Products and services

• InfoReady Platform A process automation and decision-making platform for higher education that manages submissions, reviews, and decisions for grants, awards, fellowships, limited submissions, and other competitive programs across campus.

Quantifiable outcome

• 3-5 weeks saved in application handling and review at Oklahoma State University
• +5 more outcomes

Named customers23 records

Segments8 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature8 records

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• Workday: Workday offers a broad cloud ERP suite for higher education including Workday Student and Grants Management. It is an incumbent that competes with InfoReady at the suite level rather than the point-solution level, but could displace point solutions through bundling.
• Salesforce Education Cloud: Salesforce Education Cloud provides student engagement, recruitment, and program management for higher education. It is a broad incumbent whose configurable workflows and AppExchange ecosystem overlap with InfoReady's application and review management.

Direct peers

• OpenWater: OpenWater is an awards management and application review platform used by associations and educational institutions for scholarships, grants, and recognition programs. It serves a similar use case to InfoReady with a slightly different buyer mix.
• Cayuse: Cayuse provides research administration, grants management, and compliance software to universities and research institutions. InfoReady's Director of Sales presented at Cayuse's 'Connect' conference, confirming direct overlap in serving research offices on campuses.
• InfoEd Global: InfoEd Global offers electronic research administration (eRA) software for higher education, including grants, IRB, and research compliance workflows. It competes head-to-head with InfoReady in the same research office buyer segment.
• WizeHive: WizeHive provides application management software for scholarships, grants, fellowships, and awards — directly overlapping with InfoReady's core limited-submission, fellowship, and award management use cases in higher education and nonprofits.
• SurveyMonkey Apply (Momentive): SurveyMonkey Apply (formerly FluidReview) is an application and review management platform used by universities for scholarships and admissions. It is a direct horizontal competitor to InfoReady's submission and review workflows.
• AcademicWorks (Liaison International): AcademicWorks, now part of Liaison International, manages scholarship and award processes for higher education institutions. It overlaps directly with InfoReady's scholarship and recognition-awards use cases.

Emerging players

• Element451: Element451 is an AI-powered student engagement and enrollment platform for higher education. While primarily focused on admissions and CRM, its expanding workflow capabilities partially overlap with InfoReady's program administration use cases.
• Smartsheet: Smartsheet is a collaborative work management platform increasingly adopted by higher education institutions for program management, application tracking, and review coordination. It competes as a horizontal workflow alternative to InfoReady's purpose-built higher ed platform.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/playlist?list=PLw-2syjGaBcgEWCOQ8RQ1FUZh0f5R6SM9
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/infoready-corporation
• Xx.com/InfoReadyCorp
• Facebookfacebook.com/inforeadycorp

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles8 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds2 records

Investors1 record

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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