Built from firsthand experience
AllocBoard was born from years of helping manage research grants — and the spreadsheet chaos that comes with them.
Dr Alwyn Mathew
A researcher at the University of Cambridge who's seen firsthand how much time research teams spend tracking allocations, person-months, and expenses across spreadsheets.
The problem we kept seeing
I know what it's like to manage a portfolio of EPSRC and EU Horizon grants with nothing but Excel files and good intentions. Tracking who's allocated where, how many person-months remain, whether the salary budget will hold, what's been spent on travel and equipment — all across multiple projects with overlapping reporting periods.
Every reporting deadline meant the same fire drill: pulling numbers from scattered spreadsheets, cross-checking against HR records, and hoping nothing was missed before the audit.
I looked for a tool that understood how UK and EU research funding actually works — person-months, reporting periods, fEC cost categories, multi-funder projects. Nothing fit. So I built it.
The tool I wished existed
AllocBoard isn't a generic project management tool with research bolted on. It's built from the ground up for how funded research actually works — staff person-months and project expenses in one place, with reporting periods, overload detection, and funder-ready exports.
Whether you're managing EPSRC grants, EU Horizon projects, or UKRI-funded programmes, AllocBoard speaks your language. See every allocation on a timeline, catch overcommitments before they become audit findings, and generate funder-ready reports in seconds.
What drives AllocBoard
Built for Grants
Person-months, travel, equipment — tracking what funders actually ask for. Every view, every report, every export speaks the language of funded research.
Simple by Design
No complex project management features. If you can read a Gantt chart and fill in a number, you can use AllocBoard. Most teams are up and running in under an hour.
Audit-Ready by Default
Every change is logged. Every allocation is timestamped. When the funder asks for evidence, you export it — no scrambling, no reconstructing from emails.
Your Data, Protected
GDPR-compliant from day one. Data hosted in the UK. No third-party analytics tracking your team. Only the data you need to manage your projects.
Built for trust
Your data security is our priority. Every claim here is something we can back up.
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