EU Expansion Opportunity COS is expanding offices to Brussels, Belgium, signaling a strategic EU presence and potential partnerships with European open science initiatives. This creates a sales opportunity to offer regional collaboration tools, compliance solutions, data standards services, and EU-funded program alignment support.

Open Scholarship Training The launch of Open Scholarship Training for Researchers Series indicates a growing demand for structured capacity-building in open science. This presents a sales lead for educational platforms, content hosting, learning management integrations, and enterprise subscriptions for institutions seeking scalable training delivery.

FAIR Signposting Implementation of FAIR Signposting on OSF demonstrates COS’s focus on data interoperability and reusability. This opens opportunities to upsell data curation, metadata enrichment, data governance, and compliance tooling for research organizations aiming to meet FAIR/OPEN requirements.

Strategic Partnerships Multiple partnerships and alliances, including Grad Resources and the Metascience Alliance, show COS’s ecosystem-building approach. This suggests potential sales collaborations around integration partners, joint grant programs, and cross-promotional solutions for research communities.

Open Data & Funding Alignment COS funding and grants activity, including NSF POSE support and RWJF foundation investment, highlights a preference for open data, reproducibility, and sustainable ecosystems. This signals opportunities to offer data preservation, open-source tooling, grant management integrations, and funding-readiness services to research, non-profit, and institutional clients.