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Every allocation, budget and deadline in one place.

AllocBoard is an allocation board for the PIs, project managers and research administrators running EU, EPSRC and UKRI grants. Track every person-month and every travel, equipment and consumables line, and catch an overcommitted postdoc or an overrunning budget before an auditor does.

A hand-drawn figure pointing at a wall board of staff allocations. Three rows have filled cells; the fourth is circled in red.

Spreadsheets were never built for research grant management

A hand-drawn figure buried up to the shoulders in a leaning stack of loose paper.

Today

  • Allocation data spread across dozens of spreadsheets. When the PI asks for a quick update, it takes hours to piece together an answer.

  • A postdoc on four projects, but working out their total commitment means opening multiple files and cross-referencing by hand.

  • Travel, equipment and consumables tracked in a different file to the allocations, so an overspend or a stranded underspend only shows up once the period has closed.

  • Every reporting deadline, the same fire drill. Pulling numbers from scattered files and hoping nothing was missed.

With AllocBoard

  • Every allocation in one place. When the PI asks for an update, you have the answer in seconds.

  • A postdoc on four projects? See their total commitment instantly. Overloads are flagged before they become a problem.

  • Expenses on the same timeline as the allocations, with the projected over or underspend named in cash while there is still time to act on it.

  • Reporting deadline? Audit-ready data in a click. No fire drills, no scrambling.

See it in 3 minutes

One research grant, followed from the bid to the final report. With captions and chapters, and short enough to pass to whoever signs off.

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Everything you need, one platform

From high-level dashboards to granular timelines: manage projects, track staff allocations, expenses and facility bookings, and oversee multiple research groups in one place. The full app works on desktop, tablet and mobile, with every feature available on each.

  • Active projects, staff counts and monthly spend per project at a glance
  • Allocation status across the team, with overloads separated out
  • Projects at risk, with the projected over or underspend named in cash
AllocBoard dashboard showing active project and research staff counts, a 48 percent utilisation rate, a staff allocation status bar split into under, normal and over, a projects at risk card reading 114.8 thousand pounds under budget with a low risk verdict, monthly operating spend charts per project and a queue of submitted expense estimates

Ready to see your whole portfolio in one place?

Purpose built for research teams. Swap spreadsheet chaos for complete project visibility. Start a free 30-day trial with every feature switched on, and no credit card to get in the way.

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  • GDPR compliant