# Piestar > Publicly sourced profile assembled by Optimly, in the Optimly AI Brand Index. Last refreshed 2026-10-04. - **Business Profile:** https://optimly.ai/brand/piestar - **Dataset:** https://optimly.ai/brand/piestar.json - **Markdown:** https://optimly.ai/brand/piestar/llms.txt - **Official website:** https://piestar.com - **Slug:** piestar - **Categories:** collaboration-productivity ## Overview - **Tagline:** Piestar is purpose-built to accelerate research program objectives by automating complex data collection and reporting, ensuring agency-specific compliance, and centralizing data in a user-friendly interface to provide actionable insights into scientific impact and program growth. Source: Brand's website (https://piestar.com) · 2026-10-04 - **Description:** Piestar is a software platform designed to streamline global research program administration, longitudinal data collection, monitoring, evaluation, learning (MEL), and stakeholder reporting. It helps research programs and centers, including those funded by agencies like NIH, NSF, USAID, USDA, and NGOs, manage their data, navigate compliance, and demonstrate scientific impact. Source: Brand's website (https://piestar.com) · 2026-10-04 ## Offerings - **Core capabilities:** - A software platform for research program administration - longitudinal data collection - monitoring - evaluation - learning (MEL) - and stakeholder reporting. Key features include grant management - agency-specific compliance (e.g. - NIH reporting) - scientific output tracking - capacity-building - student engagement tracking - and research ROI measurement. Source: Brand's website (https://piestar.com) · 2026-10-04 ## Audience - **Target industry:** Research programs and centers, universities, non-profit organizations (NGOs), and institutions receiving funding from agencies such as NSF, NIH, USAID, and USDA, particularly those involved in biomedical research like COBRE, INBRE, and CTR programs. Source: Brand's website (https://piestar.com) · 2026-10-04 Page last updated 2026-10-17.