PRSMUnlock your story

Data for digital research and infrastructure is scattered across dozens of platforms. PRSM connects the graph — publications, software, people, institutions, dependencies — and reveals what no single source can.

The Challenge

Digital infrastructure has a visibility problem

01

Fragmented data

OpenAlex tracks research. GitHub tracks code. Ecosyste.ms tracks packages. And so on. No platform connects it all in a way you can use every day.

02

Invisible dependencies

The software you rely on has its own dependencies, and behind each one, people doing essential work that never surfaces in your tools or your reports.

03

Polycentric impact

Impact isn’t a metric, it’s a lens. How do you tell your story when the key points change depending on who’s looking and what they need to see.

Capabilities

What PRSM shows you

Your Impact

What’s built on top of your work — who’s using it, what for, and where. Across institutions, fields, and ecosystems, see who depends on your work, and who depends on them.

Dependency Visibility

What your work stands on — the software, libraries, people, communities and research it depends on, including what’s hidden below the manifests, in compiled code and wrapper packages.

Community Health

The people across your research and your software — authors, contributors, maintainers — what communities and organizations they come from, and whether they’ll be there tomorrow.

Your Full Story

700+ data points, custom algorithms, and interactive visualizations — the complete picture of what you’ve built, who it reaches, why it matters, and the tools to tell your story a thousand ways.

Built For (me... but also)

Who benefits

Funding organizations

Understand the full impact of what you’ve funded — trace dependency chains, see who’s using your outputs, and find where the gaps and risks are in the areas you care about.

  • What software came out of our grants?
  • Which projects risk maintainer burnout?
  • How are our dependencies connected?
  • Which funded outputs are used by industry?
  • What if a critical dependency loses funding?
  • Who sustains our investments?
  • Where are the single points of failure?

Research institutions

Tell the complete story of your institution’s output. Discover every repository and collaboration your people have contributed to. Measure impact beyond citations.

  • What software do our people produce?
  • Which outputs could produce a viable patent?
  • What’s our impact beyond citations?
  • Which external projects depend on our software?
  • How does our output compare across dimensions?
  • Who are our most connected researchers?
  • What collaborations are we missing?

Software foundations

Tell the stories of your ecosystem — citation reach, institutional adoption, dependency influence. Monitor health and sustainability across every project.

  • Who depends on our projects?
  • How healthy are our core communities?
  • Which institutions are adopting our software?
  • What research has our ecosystem enabled?
  • Where are the sustainability risks?
  • How do our projects influence each other?
  • What’s our true citation reach?

The community

Explore the shared knowledge graph. Discover projects, people, and connections across digital research and infrastructure. Contribute attestations. Build and share analytical tools.

  • What research cites my software?
  • Which institutions depend on my project?
  • Who else works in my corner of the ecosystem?
  • How healthy are the projects I depend on?
  • What’s the impact of my contributions?
  • What does my dependency graph look like?
  • Where does my work fit in the landscape?
Roadmap

What's coming next

PRSM is a living knowledge graph that grows with every use. Each enrichment discovers connected entities, each new data source adds depth, and every user's seeds foster growth for everyone else.

Custom impact algorithms

Define your own scoring formulas out of PRSM’s 700+ data points to measure what matters to your organization. Share them with the community or keep them internal.

Private data integration

Upload internal data and analyze it against the public graph — without exposing what you uploaded.

Institutional discovery

Automatically find all software affiliated with your organization across platforms, and add it to PRSM for analysis.

Community attestations

Validate and annotate entities in the graph — confirming affiliations, flagging inaccuracies, attesting to quality, and adding context that only the people closest to the work can provide.

Integrate additional APIs

Patents, datasets, grants, clinical trials, and more. Each new entity type deepens the graph for everything already in it.

PRSM is built and maintained by one person. The platform works today, but opening it up will be slow and deliberate. If you want to help shape this infrastructure, or speed things up, let's talk.

Want to try it?

If you want to test this thing, I've set up a waitlist and will let people on one at a time. Very. Slowly. You'll be able to add single entities, or up to 10,000 DOIs or GitHub URLs at a time, bringing them and their hundreds of thousands of related entities into the graph. You can then build portfolios out of any entities in the graph, and build and run queries across those portfolios.

Interested in supporting PRSM's development? Get in touch.