Scholarly Software

Scholarly Software builds an AI-native faculty lifecycle platform for higher education. Founded in 2023 by Rusty Cowher and Kelly Sutton, the company addresses administrative inefficiencies in how universities manage faculty, from annual reviews to promotion and tenure workflows. Its platform consolidates faculty data from five or more disparate systems into a single secure environment, replacing manual data entry with AI-assisted tooling and surfacing real-time insights through dynamic dashboards.

The product covers annual reviews, promotion and tenure processes, and faculty workload tracking, with breakdowns across dimensions such as rank, gender identity, and race/ethnicity to support institutional equity goals and accreditation requirements. The company targets a range of academic units, including medical, business, law, engineering, and art schools, as well as colleges of arts and sciences. The Harvard Graduate School of Education is among its institutional customers.

The company's technical work spans AI-native tooling, data integration and aggregation from disparate systems, analytics and dashboarding, and workflow automation. The product was developed through direct customer discovery with faculty members, deans, and administrators, and the company places emphasis on security in its centralized data handling.