Quadnux
Issue 01 · Pre-seed · Dublin · Ireland · Research-backed SaaS

AI infrastructure for
research & society
collaboration.

Universities hold the expertise the world needs. Quadnux is the operating system that lets industry, government and society actually find it, collaborate on it, and measure what comes out.

§ 01 The Problem

Research creates knowledge.
Society struggles to access it.

Across universities and research institutions, valuable expertise is disconnected from the people who need it most — industry teams chasing innovation, governments writing policy, NGOs solving civic problems, and the wider public.

Researchers, meanwhile, work against fragmented engagement systems, administrative burden, and almost no recognition or visibility for collaboration work. So they do less of it.

  • GAP / 01 No discovery layer Industry and government cannot find the right academic experts fast enough to act.
  • GAP / 02 No collaboration workflow Repositories and CRMs store outputs — none of them run the actual partnership.
  • GAP / 03 No engagement visibility Universities are accountable for impact they have no infrastructure to measure.
The result: knowledge stays trapped inside institutions instead of creating measurable societal impact.
§ 02 The Solution

An operating system for knowledge collaboration.

Quadnux is an AI-enabled SaaS platform that connects researchers with industry, government, NGOs and the public — and runs the partnership end-to-end. Discovery, matchmaking, project workflow, and the institutional reporting universities and funders actually need.

One platform. One audit trail. Engagement that is visible, accessible, measurable, and actionable.

01
Researcher profiles
Rich expertise profiles built for collaboration — not just publications.
02
Stakeholder matchmaking
AI surfaces the right researchers, partners, and projects across sectors.
03
Collaboration discovery
A live feed of opportunities — calls, problems, partnership briefs.
04
Project workflows
Project creation, communication, and milestone tracking in one place.
05
Engagement dashboards
Real-time visibility of who is collaborating, on what, with whom.
06
Institutional reporting
Impact 2030 and EU Horizon-ready reporting, auto-generated.
07
AI recommendations
Personalised suggestions surface partners, calls, and opportunities you'd miss.
08
Cross-sector workflows
University, industry, government and NGOs working in the same system.
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§ 03 Who It's For

Five audiences.
One collaboration layer.

Quadnux is built for the moment a researcher's expertise needs to leave the institution — and for the institutions, agencies and partners on the other side trying to find it.

01 Researchers Discover external collaboration opportunities, get recognised for engagement work, and turn projects into reportable impact.
02 Industry Find the academic expertise you need — fast. Run R&D collaborations with universities through one platform instead of cold emails.
03 Government Source evidence-based partnerships. Connect policy challenges directly to the researchers who can answer them.
04 NGOs Connect with domain experts on the civic and impact problems your organisation actually works on.
05 Universities Track measurable engagement outcomes across departments. Built-in reporting for Impact 2030, EU Horizon, and internal KPIs.
§ 04 Where We Are

Built on research.
Validated by the ecosystem.

Quadnux didn't start as a product idea — it started as an MLitt research thesis at Maynooth University investigating exactly why university–industry collaboration in Ireland breaks down. The platform is the commercial answer to that research.

01 / Origin
Peer-reviewed academic research at Maynooth University
02 / Product
Live MVP built with design-thinking methodology
03 / Recognition
Government acknowledgement & ministerial commendation
04 / Alignment
Mapped to Ireland Impact 2030 & EU Horizon mandates
§ 05 The Founder
UY
Founder · Quadnux

Utieyineshola Adeleke Yusuff

Thirteen-plus years inside innovation systems — running science policy and innovation studies at NACETEM in Nigeria, where he managed an €80M+ international innovation grant portfolio.

Now an MLitt researcher at Maynooth University, where his thesis investigated the systemic barriers to university–industry collaboration in Ireland. Quadnux is the commercial response to what he documented in that research — built by the person who wrote down the problem.

13+ yrs · Innovation Policy €80M+ Grants Managed Maynooth · MLitt NACETEM · Former Head Cross-sector · IE / NG
§ 06 The Vision
To make research engagement visible, accessible, measurable and actionable across society.
QUADNUX · MISSION STATEMENT · 2026
§ 07 Get In Touch

Building the operating system for knowledge collaboration.

Pre-seed. Looking for accelerator partners, pilot universities, and the right early backers. If you're working on the future of research, innovation, or public-good infrastructure — we should talk.

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