Answers you can trust
Every answer is drawn from your own records, never guessed.
Alloc Intelligence
BetaAsk your portfolio a question. Get an answer you can check.
Ask about your grants and staff in plain English and get the answer in seconds, from your own records. It also keeps watch over every project and tells you what needs attention while there is still time to fix it. Two things in one add-on: Ask Alloc and Alloc Agent.
Answers in seconds, not an afternoon in spreadsheets
Ask Alloc takes your question the way you would ask a colleague, and answers from your own records.
Check it yourself
Every answer shows where it came from, so you can open the page and see for yourself.
Nothing changes by accident
Asking a question never changes your data.
It asks rather than guesses
If a name could mean two people, it asks which one you meant instead of answering about the wrong person.
Only what you can already see
Answers only ever cover the projects you already have access to.
Your questions are not kept
AllocBoard does not keep a record of what you ask.
A weekly review of every project, done for you
Alloc Agent is the review nobody has time to run. It happens every week without anyone running it, and you only hear about what is worth acting on.
Nobody quietly overloaded
Spot anyone committed to more than they can deliver across all their projects, before it turns into burnout or a missed milestone.
Overspends seen coming
Know a project is heading over budget while there are still months left to change course.
Overspends caught at once
Hear about spend that has already gone past its budget straight away, not at the next reporting deadline.
Funding put to use
Find money at risk of going unspent before the deadline, so it goes on the research rather than back to the funder.
Costs with a home
Catch work booked against a budget that does not exist, before it becomes a difficult conversation with finance.
Salary costs you can trust
Know when a staff cost cannot be relied on, and why, before it finds its way into a report.
No facility overbooked
Hear when a shared facility is booked for more hours than the month holds across all your projects, before two groups turn up for the same microscope.
Periods closed properly
Get a nudge when a reporting period has ended but was never closed off, so your remaining budget is always right.
Findings you can act on with confidence
See why, not just what
Every finding shows what it is based on, so you can judge it in seconds.
Know how long you have
Every finding tells you the last date it can still be fixed, and the most urgent rise to the top.
Always up to date
If things have changed since a finding was raised, you see it straight away, and one that has resolved itself says so.
Your judgement counts
Dismiss what you already knew about or have decided to accept, and it stays out of your way.
Only your projects
Everyone sees findings only about the projects they already have access to.
One add-on for your whole team
£83per month
With an annual subscription, £990 billed up front, a saving of 17%. £99 if billed monthly.
Ask Alloc and Alloc Agent come together, for your whole team, on the Group and Portfolio plans. Ask Alloc runs to 1,000 messages a month across the workspace on Group and 2,000 on Portfolio. Try both free during the 30-day trial before you decide.
- Plain-English answers about your portfolio in seconds
- A weekly review of every project, without anyone having to run it
- Available to everyone in your workspace, 1,000 Ask Alloc messages a month on Group and 2,000 on Portfolio
- Billed monthly or yearly alongside your plan
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