Orbit for Higher Education

Your faculty buy software. Your grants expire. The licenses don’t.

Universities run the most decentralized procurement of any sector. Orbit gives IT the visibility to find grant-orphaned tools, duplicate departmental licenses, and compliance gaps — without fighting faculty autonomy.

Where the drift happens

Decentralized buying means software no one is watching.

In tech, buying software is a swipe of a corporate card. By the time it reaches a renewal report, you're paying for three of everything — and logging into none of it.

Grant-funded tools that outlive their grants

A research grant funds a SaaS tool for 18 months. The grant closes. The tool auto-renews indefinitely on the department budget.

11 moavg before grant-orphaned tools are caught

Department autonomy = invisible procurement

Every faculty member, every department, every research group buys independently. Central IT has no view.

56%of higher-ed SaaS purchased outside central IT

FERPA & HIPAA exposure

Every vendor touching student data is a compliance obligation. Most universities can’t name all of them.

400+SaaS vendors across a mid-sized university
AI-assisted

AI that reads every vendor agreement for you.

Orbit's contract AI extracts key terms, flags renewal and compliance risk, and surfaces savings across departments and grants.

Extract key terms

Orbit reads every uploaded contract and pulls out renewal dates, notice periods, pricing tiers, and obligations automatically — no manual data entry.

Detect risks

It flags auto-renewal traps, unusual clauses, and compliance exposure buried in the fine print — so nothing catches you off guard.

Identify opportunities

It highlights savings and consolidation opportunities across your contracts, giving procurement a clear place to act.

Every license. Every grant. Every vendor. One place.

Connect your systems and Orbit maps every tool to its department and grant in the first scan — then the agents keep it accountable.

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