RSynergy supports organisations from grant identification through to R&D delivery. We help shape strong proposals, facilitate university partnerships, and build the AI solutions your funding is designed to support.
We don't just write proposals and disappear. We stay involved — because we are the technical team that delivers what the grant funds.
We write technically rigorous, compelling grant proposals that match what Innovate UK and other funders are actually looking for. Our team has PhD-level depth across AI, engineering, healthcare, and infrastructure — so our proposals don't just say the right things, they demonstrate genuine technical credibility.
We handle the application end-to-end: identifying the right competition, shaping the project scope, writing technical and commercial sections, and reviewing against assessment criteria before submission.
Many of the most competitive grant programmes — especially Innovate UK collaborative projects — require or strongly favour partnerships between industry and academia. RSynergy has experience bridging this gap: connecting businesses with the right university research groups and structuring joint applications that satisfy both funder requirements and institutional constraints.
We understand how universities operate within grant consortia — IP agreements, cost recovery models, academic deliverables — and ensure the partnership is set up for success from day one.
This is where RSynergy is genuinely different. Many grant consultants help with the application, then step away at delivery. We stay involved as your technical R&D partner. Our ML engineers and researchers conduct the research, run the experiments, build the models, and develop the working software the project is designed to support.
Whether it's a computer vision system for defect detection, an NLP pipeline for document processing, or a predictive model for energy efficiency — we research it, we build it, we deploy it.
We work with you at every stage — whether you have a fully-formed idea or just a problem worth solving.
We understand your organisation, your R&D ambitions, and your current capabilities — then identify the best-fit funding opportunities across Innovate UK, UKRI, and sector-specific programmes.
We shape the project concept to match funder priorities, define the technical and commercial work packages, and identify university or industry partners where beneficial.
Our team writes all technical sections, builds the financial model, and ensures every assessment criterion is addressed — with iterative review before final submission.
Once funded, we deliver the agreed research and build the solution — providing the regular progress reports and evidence of spending that Innovate UK requires.
Post-project, we help you move from prototype toward production readiness — and identify follow-on funding opportunities for further scaling.
Collaborative grants between industry and academia unlock higher funding levels, stronger proposals, and access to cutting-edge research infrastructure. RSynergy facilitates these partnerships — and provides the technical credibility that universities want from an industry partner.
Collaborative projects typically access larger funding pots. Universities can claim 100% of their eligible costs — making the partnership financially attractive for both sides.
Having an academic institution on your consortium signals research depth to assessors — especially for Innovate UK projects requiring TRL 1–4 research activities.
University partners bring lab facilities, datasets, computing resources, and domain expertise that most SMEs simply cannot access on their own.
Academic partnerships create a direct pipeline for PhD researchers, postdocs, and graduates to join your team post-project — building long-term AI capability.
Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTPs) are one of the UK's longest-running innovation programmes, placing a recently qualified graduate — funded jointly by Innovate UK and your business — within your organisation to work on a strategic R&D challenge, supervised by a university team.
RSynergy can partner with you to identify, apply for, and deliver a KTP — acting as the academic partner or supporting your application as a technical collaborator.
These are the primary platforms where UK AI and software R&D funding is published. RSynergy monitors these on your behalf and alerts you to relevant opportunities.
The UK's national innovation agency and the single most important funding source for AI and software R&D. Competitions are published continuously across sectors including healthcare, energy, construction, digital, and defence. SMEs can receive up to 70% of project costs. Collaborative projects with universities can access significantly larger funding pools.
Browse open competitions →UK Research and Innovation spans seven research councils including EPSRC, MRC, ESRC, and NERC. The funding finder aggregates all open calls across every council — covering everything from fundamental AI research to applied technology programmes.
Browse UKRI opportunities →The official portal for UK public procurement above the legal threshold. Hundreds of AI, data, and software development contracts are published here annually across central government, NHS, local authorities, and devolved administrations.
Search active tenders →Covers smaller public sector contracts below the Find a Tender threshold. Useful for SMEs entering the public sector market — council-level AI pilots, NHS digital projects, and government innovation challenges often appear here first.
Find contracts →A Dynamic Purchasing System giving public sector buyers a pre-vetted route to AI suppliers. Registering on RM6200 puts RSynergy on the approved list for NHS, government, and local authority AI procurement — eliminating lengthy qualification stages for each contract.
View RM6200 framework →The UK's newest research funder, modelled on DARPA. ARIA funds high-risk, high-reward research with fewer constraints than traditional councils. Excellent fit for RSynergy's more ambitious federated learning, computer vision, and AI safety R&D work.
Explore ARIA programmes →DASA funds rapid innovation for UK defence and security challenges. AI, computer vision, NLP, and data analytics are all priority areas. Projects typically run 6–18 months with fast award timelines compared to standard Innovate UK competitions.
View DASA challenges →Independent platforms that aggregate UK grant opportunities with AI-powered matching. Useful for discovering niche sector-specific calls that don't appear prominently on official portals — including R&D tax credit opportunities alongside grant funding.
Explore Grantup →Whether you have a clear idea or just a problem worth solving, we can help you identify the right grant, structure a strong proposal, and deliver the R&D on the other side. No obligation — just an honest conversation about what's possible.