Faculty Consulting
Supporting faculty in professional consulting opportunities.
Beginning January 5, 2026, the Faculty Consulting Program will transition from CU Medicine to CU Innovations. This change is designed to maintain the exemplary service currently provided while leveraging new tools and resources to improve efficiency, transparency, and deal quality for both faculty members and administrative staff.
Our goal is simple:
to support your consulting work with a streamlined, reliable process that makes required steps for external opportunities easier to manage and less cumbersome.
Please continue to use the existing CU Medicine workflow for new agreements and/or work with your current administrative staff for in-progress agreements. We are working through the transition and will notify you before anything changes. We will continue to update this page with more information as it becomes available.
What’s Staying the Same?
- The commitment to faculty consulting opportunities remains unchanged.
- For faculty members, support from your administrative staff continues — they will still be your primary resource for navigating the process.
- Compliance and approval standards are not being reduced or compromised.
What’s Changing?
CU Innovations will be moving the consulting agreement process from ContractLogix to Ironclad, a new contract lifecycle management platform. Ironclad is trusted by over 2,000 customers, 20% of which are in higher education, healthcare and the public sector. This new tool offers:
- Improved Transparency & Tracking: Gain real-time visibility into where your agreement is in the review and approval process.
- Enhanced Usability: Ironclad is designed to be intuitive and user-friendly for both faculty and administrative staff. Training, FAQs and user guides will be provided before launch.
- A Central Repository: All consulting agreements will be stored in one secure, searchable platform, ensuring easier access and consistent recordkeeping.
- Streamlined Approvals: Built-in workflows will help route agreements to the right reviewers, reducing bottlenecks and saving time.
Timeline
- Fall 2025 (September - November): Stakeholder input and system configuration.
- Winter 2025 (December): User testing.
- January 5, 2026: Official transition to CU Innovations and Ironclad, alongside launch resources and training sessions.
