Contract AI for sponsored programs offices
goHeather is contract AI for the university office that negotiates research agreements, whether yours is called Sponsored Programs, Sponsored Research Services or Grants and Contracts. It reads each sponsor’s draft against your institution’s positions, drafts your outgoing CDAs and MTAs from your templates, and tracks every round of redlines in Word.
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Research agreement review, from industry sponsors to subawards
A sponsored programs office signs dozens of agreement types, most of them on someone else’s paper. goHeather reads each one in full and checks it against the positions your institution already holds.
- Playbooks
Your institution’s positions, checked on every sponsor agreement
Write down what your office asks for: the right to publish, who owns inventions, no indemnity from the university, your governing law. goHeather marks each rule compliant or non-compliant and quotes the clause it checked.
#01University keeps the right to publishNon-CompliantPublication requires the sponsor’s prior written consent, with no time limit.University shall not publish without Sponsor’s prior written consent.#04Background IP stays with its ownerCompliantClause 9.1 leaves each party’s background IP with that party. - Industry
Sponsored research agreements
Publication, invention ownership, licensing options, confidentiality and indemnity, pulled out of the sponsor’s draft.
Review readyNorthfield Therapeutics Sponsored Research Agreement: 15 findings, 4 high risk. - Clinical
Clinical trial agreements
Ask who pays for subject injury, who owns the study data, or how multi-site publication works.
Who pays if a study subject is injured?goHeatherClause 11.2 says Sponsor will reimburse reasonable medical costs for injuries caused by the Study Drug or by procedures the Protocol requires.Clause 11.2Subject injury - Subawards
Incoming and outgoing subawards
Flow-down terms from the prime award, invoicing and reporting dates, audit rights and termination.
- CDAs, MTAs, DUAs
The short agreements that pile up
Confidentiality, material transfer and data use agreements, reviewed in a couple of minutes each.
Draft outgoing CDAs and MTAs from your own templates
When the university sends first, start from your institution’s templates or a lawyer-made one. Answer a few questions about the other party, the project and the material or data, approve the outline goHeather proposes, and get a complete first draft to send.
Sponsor agreement review before it reaches the PI
Upload the sponsor’s research agreement, clinical trial agreement or subaward. goHeather reads every page, ranks each finding high, medium or low, quotes the clause, and puts a suggested rewrite beside the original with a plain-English summary of what the wording says.
Every round with the sponsor, tracked in Word
Accept the suggested edits or write your own, then export the redline to Word with track changes, or work in the Microsoft Word add-in. When the sponsor’s counsel sends their version back, compare it with the one you sent and see every change in a single list.
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Pick the document in front of you.
- Confidentiality
CDAs and NDAs
Check the confidentiality agreement a company sends before a PI shares unpublished work, and see what it says about publication.
Review a CDA or NDA
- Negotiation
The sponsor’s returned draft
Compare the version the sponsor sent back against the one you sent, including changes they did not mark.
Compare two versions - Drafting
Outgoing agreements
Draft MTAs, DUAs and outgoing subawards from your institution’s templates instead of editing last year’s file.
Draft from a template - Legal
Office of the general counsel
The escalations your office sends to counsel: see how goHeather helps a small legal team with first drafts and first-pass reviews.
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Unpublished research and sponsor terms, kept private
Research agreements carry unpublished results, sponsor budgets and the positions your office negotiates from. goHeather protects them with enterprise-grade controls, end-to-end encryption and trusted AI providers.
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Agreements a sponsored programs office handles, and what goHeather covers in them
Research administrators in a sponsored programs office work under deadlines they do not set: a PI wants to start, a sponsor wants a signature, and the agreement is on the sponsor’s paper. goHeather works on the documents themselves. It drafts your outgoing agreements from your templates, reviews each sponsor’s draft against your playbook, and shows what changed between versions. In a review, each clause below is quoted from your agreement with a plain-English summary of what it says and how it is drafted. What your institution accepts is a decision for your office and your counsel.
Industry-sponsored research agreements
A company funds research in a university lab, and its first draft is usually written for a commercial services deal. goHeather reports what the draft says on the points your office checks on every one.
- Publication. Whether the university may publish, how long the sponsor’s review period is, and whether the sponsor can delay or stop publication.
- Inventions and licensing. Who owns inventions made in the project, what happens to background IP, and whether the sponsor gets a license or an option to negotiate one.
- Confidentiality. What counts as confidential, how long the obligation lasts, and how it fits with the right to publish.
- Indemnity, insurance and governing law. Who indemnifies whom, what insurance is required, and which state’s law the agreement names.
Clinical trial agreements
A clinical trial agreement adds a protocol, a per-patient budget and obligations toward study subjects. goHeather reads the agreement and its attachments together.
- Subject injury. What the sponsor says it will pay for if a study subject is injured, and what is excluded.
- Study data and results. Who owns the data, and what the institution may use or publish, including in a multi-site study.
- Payment. How and when the site is paid, and what happens to payment for work already done if the study ends early.
- Protocol changes. How amendments to the protocol are made and whether the budget follows them.
Subawards
When part of a funded project moves to another institution, the subaward carries terms down from the prime award. goHeather pulls out the wording so you can check it against the prime award and your own requirements.
- Flow-down terms. Which terms of the prime award the agreement says apply to the subrecipient.
- Invoicing and reporting. How often the subrecipient invoices, and when technical and financial reports are due.
- Audit and records. What records must be kept, for how long, and who may review them.
- Termination. How either party can end the subaward, and what happens to costs already incurred.
CDAs, MTAs and DUAs
Confidentiality, material transfer and data use agreements are short, but there are many of them. There is more on confidentiality agreements on our NDA review page.
- Scope. What information, material or data is covered, and whether the agreement runs both ways.
- Permitted use. Whether use is limited to a named project or to non-commercial research.
- Results and publication. Who owns results made with the material or data, and whether they can be published.
- Return and destruction. What happens to the material or data when the agreement ends.
How goHeather fits your office
A sponsored programs office usually has more agreements in its queue than contract officers to read them, so the short ones wait behind the long ones. goHeather covers each stage. Draft outgoing agreements from your own templates, or upload the sponsor’s paper and get a review against your playbook. Send back a redline in Word with track changes, compare the version the sponsor returns, then collect e-signatures and store the signed copy. The agreements that need your general counsel are the ones that reach them.
goHeather is a contracts AI, not a law firm. It tells you what your agreement says and what to look at. It does not tell you what to accept. You can see how the review works on our AI contract review page, how drafting works on the AI contract generator page, or book a demo to go through one of your own research agreements with us.
Sponsored programs contract AI FAQs
What research administrators and contract officers ask before they start.
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Try goHeather on a sponsor agreement you have open now, or book a short demo and we will go through it with you.
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Check the next sponsor agreement against your playbook
Upload a research agreement and see what goHeather flags in a few minutes, or draft your next CDA from a template. Or book a demo and we will go through it with you.