One desk for your whole academic role
Your public pages — office-hours booking, letter requests, seminars, lab intake — live on the Facultory front door, where students and colleagues find you. Behind them, Facultory is where you author everything else: research, teaching, service, mentoring, outreach, and the record that ties them together.
Research & funding
Weekly-scraped grant opportunities, a Kit-powered ideation workspace, and a pipeline from idea to submission.
Publications & CV
Auto-synced publications with citation tracking, plus one-click CV and NSF biosketch generation.
Teaching & students
Syllabi, rubrics with AI feedback, office-hours booking, and a full course scheduler.
Service & mentoring
Advisee tracking, a recommendation-letter portal, and a senior-design match directory.
Outreach & events
Public event pages, RSVPs, and seminar scheduling — all on your own handle.
Records & reporting
Annual reports, effort and travel logs, and a tidy record of everything you do.
Email, sent as you
Confirmations, decisions, reminders, and digests go out from your own address — editable templates, merge fields, and an outbox that keeps the record.
Calendar invites & meetings
Every booking lands as an Outlook-compatible calendar invite — office hours, time blocks, and group meeting requests that put a whole team on one invite.
Your public byline
Public pages on your handle: office-hours booking, letter requests, senior-design and lab intake, seminars, and events.
Everything on the desk
The full inventory — every tool below ships with every plan from AI-Free up (The Datebook keeps just the scheduling desk), and Kit drafts inside all of them.
Research & funding
- Grant Tracker — weekly-scraped funding opportunities, enriched with deadlines, award ranges, and topic tags
- Ideation threads with Kit on every pursuit, promotable into versioned drafts
- Proposal pipeline — kanban from idea to submission, with internal deadlines, document checklists, and personnel rosters
- Project tracker — awarded, gift, or unfunded projects carrying work products through to publication
- COA / conflicts generator — the NSF Collaborators & Other Affiliations spreadsheet, built from your record
- Collaborator CRM auto-seeded from your co-authorship graph
- Paper triage — a preprint feed ranked against your own work
Publications & the record
- Publication & citation tracker synced from OpenAlex and ORCID, cross-checked against Crossref, Semantic Scholar, Google Scholar, and DBLP
- Citation counts and h-index tracked per source, never blended
- CV, NSF/NIH biosketch, and current-and-pending rendered from one profile
- Annual report / FAR assembled from the year you actually had
- Reviewer & service tracker for reviews, panels, editorial roles, and committees
- Effort tracker with over-commitment warnings; travel organizer with receipt extraction
Teaching
- Syllabus builder & compliance checker with a reusable component library
- Rubric & feedback studio — AI feedback anchored to rubric cells, human-in-the-loop
- Teaching portal — each term’s courses, meetings, and materials in one hub
- Semester course scheduler — demand projection, auto-drafted sections, full conflict reports, and faculty availability surveys
Students & mentoring
- Advisee & progress tracker — milestones, funding, meeting notes, time-to-degree
- Letters of recommendation manager with a public request portal and grounded first drafts
- Senior design manager — team intake, slot caps, and presentation booking
- Prospective-student intake with typed-only answers and authenticity signals
Email, calendar & meetings
- Email sent as you — through the platform or your own Resend, SendGrid, Mailgun, or Postmark account, with editable templates and merge fields
- Booking confirmations, decision emails, 48-hour reminders, and recurring digests — every send recorded in an outbox
- Outlook-compatible calendar invites on every booking and time block; a reschedule or cancel updates the same entry
- Group meeting requests — a senior-design team requests a slot and books its presentation with everyone on one invite
- Office-hours booking on your public page, with meeting types, buffers, and Zoom / Teams / Webex / Meet locations
- Connect your Outlook calendar as a busy overlay so offered slots respect the meetings you already have
Outreach & events
- Seminar & event manager — speaker pipeline, public event pages, and RSVPs on your handle
- Share Out — per-platform post drafts in your own voice for LinkedIn, X, Bluesky, and Mastodon
- A digest that watches your new publications, projects, and events for things worth sharing
- BPC plan builder — broadening-participation plans and an activity ledger for NSF
Academic leadership
- Department dashboard — enrollment, credit-hour production, and workload distribution at a glance
- Faculty workload planner — per-term staffing scenarios balanced against targets
- Annual review hub — the whole cycle from self-report to released evaluation
- Faculty Match — a per-unit directory for committees, advisors, and experts, with bulk roster import
- Department seat blocks with volume discounts and invoicing
Kit, the built-in AI
- Drafts across every tool — narratives, letters, feedback, plans, and posts
- Three rails: platform credits, your own Anthropic key, or copy-and-paste with any web chatbot
- Claude Web Bridge — connect claude.ai to Facultory as a custom connector, or work by prompt packet
The platform
- Deadline & renewal radar — one prioritized timeline across every tool
- Lab vault — a searchable knowledge base of your lab’s SOPs and onboarding
- One login, role-based permissions, and self-serve tool selection
- FERPA-conscious by design — student records stay private to you
- Sync your content to your own GitHub repo; connected keys stored encrypted
- Request-a-tool — departments can commission new tools into the suite
Four levels, one desk
Start with the scheduling desk on its own (The Datebook), or take the full suite with as much of Kit, the built-in AI, as you want — from none at all (AI-Free) to metered platform credits. Yearly billing is two months free and, on AI-Free and up, unlocks the academic-leadership tools.
Bring your whole department
Facultory loads a department’s public roster at no cost — claimable faculty profiles, booking pages, and a free public directory with smart search. No obligation for anyone who never claims theirs. Already listed? Find your page on the front door →
Build your faculty story.
One login, every chapter — and a public byline your students and collaborators can actually use.