Build a Grant Management App for Research Labs
Track lab grants, funder records, spend deadlines, and report dates in a web app with logins and dashboards. Free to start.
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What it is
A grant management app for research labs is a web-based system that tracks the grants and contracts funding your lab, from budget periods and milestones through publications and closeout. It gives the lab director and grants manager one place to see every active award, its spending timeline, and its deliverables.
What your research labs grant management tracks
Every field below is one you can add, rename, or remove by chatting with Kleap — a starting point tuned for research labs.
Grant / Award Title
Names the funded project so lab members can find the award they are charging time or reagents to.
Funding Agency
Records the sponsor such as NIH, NSF, DOE, or a foundation, which sets the reporting rules.
Grant / Award Number
Stores the official identifier used on progress reports and publication acknowledgments.
Principal Investigator
Names the PI of record so labs with multiple investigators can separate each award's ownership.
Budget Period
Defines the current funding year so the lab can track spend against the annual allocation.
Milestone / Aim
Tracks specific aims and deliverables so the lab can show progress toward funded objectives.
Report / Renewal Due Date
Surfaces the annual progress report or renewal deadline that keeps the award active.
Co-Investigators / Personnel
Lists team members funded on the award so effort can be tracked against the budget.
Award Status
Marks the grant as active, no-cost extension, reporting, or closed.
What good looks like for research labs
One app, a view for everyone
Lab Director / PI
Which awards are active, budget remaining, and upcoming renewal deadlines
Grants Manager
Report due dates, milestone progress, and personnel effort per award
Postdoc / Researcher
The aims and milestones they are responsible for delivering
Buy a tool, or own one built for you
Off-the-shelf software makes you fit its mold. With Kleap you describe the grant management you actually want and own it outright.
A typical grant management
- Monthly per-seat fees that grow with your team
- Your data lives on their servers, in their format
- Fixed features — you adapt to the tool, not the reverse
- Generic, not shaped around research labs
Built with Kleap
- Free to start — no per-seat pricing
- You own the app and its database, data stays yours
- Change anything by chatting — fields, views, workflow
- Shaped around how research labs actually works
Build it in 3 steps
Describe it
Tell Kleap what your research labs needs, in plain words.
AI builds it
Get a real working app with records, forms, and a dashboard.
Publish
Refine it in chat, then publish. It is a live app you own.
Frequently asked questions
Can the app pull spending data from our institution's financial system?+
No. Kleap does not integrate with your grants accounting or ERP, so you enter budget-period figures and burn rate manually rather than syncing them. The value is a single lab-facing view of every award, its milestones, personnel, and reporting deadlines that your central finance system does not present in one lab-friendly place.
How does the app help us never miss a progress report or renewal?+
Each award record stores its report and renewal due dates, and the dashboard shows what is coming up so the grants manager can prepare in advance. The alerts appear when you open the app rather than being emailed or texted, so the lab reviews the dashboard as part of its routine.
Can we track specific aims and milestones against each grant?+
Yes. Every award supports milestone and aim fields plus document uploads, so you can record deliverables and attach supporting data. That makes it straightforward to assemble progress reports from a record that already holds the funded objectives.
Can a multi-PI lab keep each investigator's awards separate?+
Yes. Records carry a PI-of-record field and the app supports logins with per-user scoping, so each investigator sees their own awards while the lab director gets the full picture. Everyone shares one live database rather than trading spreadsheet versions.
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Ready to build it?
Describe your research labs grant management and watch it come to life. Free to start, no code.