Higher Education & Research
Find the Research.
Preserve the Knowledge.
Research scattered across departments. Institutional knowledge that walks out the door. Grant documentation buried in email. RetrieveIT gives your institution one search across everything.
Sound Familiar?
Academic institutions generate enormous amounts of valuable knowledge — and lose much of it to poor organization.
Research papers scattered across departments
Published papers, working drafts, and datasets live in different faculty drives, departmental servers, and personal folders. Collaboration means emailing PDFs back and forth.
Institutional knowledge lost with faculty turnover
When professors retire or move institutions, decades of course materials, research notes, and administrative knowledge disappear. The next person starts from scratch.
Policy documents buried in legacy systems
Academic policies, HR procedures, and accreditation documents spread across SharePoint sites from 2015, Confluence spaces nobody maintains, and email attachments. Nobody knows which version is current.
Grant documentation spread across platforms
Grant proposals, budget justifications, progress reports, and renewal applications scattered across email, shared drives, and various submission portals. Finding last year's successful proposal is an archaeological dig.
Workspaces for Your Institution
Organize knowledge by department, research area, or function — and give everyone the access they need.
Department Knowledge Base
Create a workspace for your department's research, course materials, and administrative documents. New faculty get up to speed in days, not months.
Research Continuity
Preserve institutional knowledge when faculty leave. Research insights, methodologies, and datasets remain searchable for the team.
Grant Success Library
Build on what worked. Search successful proposals, budget templates, and reviewer feedback to strengthen new submissions.
Policy Single Source of Truth
End the confusion about which policy version is current. One searchable place for all institutional documentation.
Real Scenarios. Real Answers.
See how researchers, administrators, and faculty use RetrieveIT daily.
Starting literature review for a new research direction
"Find our department's previous research on machine learning applications in climate modeling"Surfaces published papers, working drafts, presentation slides, and relevant datasets from across faculty drives — even finding related work by researchers who have since left.
→ Generate literature review summary with citations
Staff member asks about leave policy during sabbatical
"What is the policy for medical leave while on sabbatical?"Finds the current faculty handbook section, relevant HR policy documents, and precedent-setting decisions — with links to authoritative sources.
→ Generate policy summary for employee inquiry
Preparing syllabus for a course previously taught by another professor
"Show me previous syllabi and course materials for ECON 301"Returns syllabi from the past five years, reading lists, assignment templates, and exam banks — even if the previous instructor has retired.
→ Generate course material inventory
Writing proposal for federal research grant
"Find our successful NSF grant proposals in computational biology from the last 3 years"Surfaces funded proposals, budget templates, letters of support, and reviewer feedback — providing proven language and approaches to build from.
→ Generate proposal outline based on successful submissions
Connects to Your Stack
The tools academic institutions actually use — from research collaboration to administrative systems.
Google Drive
LiveResearch documents, course materials, departmental files
Gmail
LiveFaculty correspondence, committee discussions, administrative communications
Confluence
LiveDepartment wikis, policy documentation, committee notes
SharePoint
LiveInstitutional repositories, shared drives, team sites
OneDrive
LivePersonal faculty files, course materials, research drafts
OneNote
LiveMeeting notes, research notebooks, lecture preparation
Built for Academic Institutions
Universities handle sensitive research, student data, and intellectual property. RetrieveIT is designed with the security and access controls institutions require.
- Role-based access — faculty see their materials, not others'
- Every answer cites sources for academic integrity
- No training on your data — research stays private
- Data encrypted in transit and at rest (AES-256)
- SOC 2 Type II compliance (in progress)
When a new faculty member asks:
"What research has our department done on this topic?"
They find it. In seconds.
Preserve Your Institution's Knowledge
Connect your first integration in under 5 minutes. See results immediately.