Tip of the Week
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AI4RA Tip of the Week #8
June 5, 2026The Subaward Agreement Extraction workflow is a Vandalizer post-award tool that reads subaward agreements and pulls relevant data for award setup and monitoring all in one run. It processes subaward agreements, pass-through entity documents, and subaward modifications, handling documents of varying length, including attachments and referenced terms. -
AI4RA Tip of the Week #7
May 29, 2026Writing budget justifications is a common time-intensive pre-award task, requiring careful cross-referencing between budget figures, fringe rates, indirect cost calculations, and the project narrative. This workflow automates that process while maintaining accuracy. -
AI4RA Tip of the Week #6
May 22, 2026The RFA (Request for Applications) Checklist Extraction workflow is a two-step, AI-enhanced process that turns an agency RFA, FOA, or NOFO into a structured pre-award checklist for the proposal team. It runs six parallel extraction tasks against the document — dates and deadlines, eligible institutions, eligible individuals, award information, application components, and budget requirements and policies — then a consolidation step assembles the results into a single Markdown checklist organized in eight sections. Missing information is explicitly marked “Not specified in the document” rather than guessed, and strict de-duplication rules keep each fact in exactly one section. -
AI4RA Tip of the Week #5
May 15, 2026What is a workflow and how can it help me automate an RA process? A workflow is an ordered series of tasks which describe a process from start to finish. -
AI4RA Tip of the Week #4
May 11, 2026The eCFR MCP Server is a free, open-source tool created by Sabrina Woo and Nathan Layman of Artificial Intelligence for Research Administration (AI4RA) that connects AI assistants directly to the Electronic Code of Federal Regulations (eCFR) API. -
AI4RA Tip of the Week #3
May 1, 2026At the 2026 REACH Research Analytic Summit, the AI4RA (AI for Research Administration) team delivered a hands-on workshop titled “The Intersection Between AI and Data.” The full workshop (including slides, interactive tools, and a post-workshop guide) is now freely available online. -
AI4RA Tip of the Week #2
April 24, 2026One of the most difficult parts of incorporating AI into your daily workflow happens before you ever touch a computer: identifying the processes to be automated. -
AI4RA Tip of the Week #1
April 17, 2026What is Vandalizer, how do I get access, and how do I get support?

