Open Tooling Partnerships Leverage eLife's active work on developing JATS XML tooling with PKP as a foothold to offer integration services, hosting, validation, and ongoing support for open-access publishing pipelines across journals and funders seeking standards-compliant workflows.

Analytics and Metrics The shift to a reviewed preprint model and changes in indexing create a demand for robust analytics, alternative metrics, and transparent editorial insights. Position a managed service offering dashboards and reporting for authors, funders, and indexing partners to demonstrate impact and provenance.

Sustainable Funding Partnerships eLife benefits from long-term funder support and multi-organization backing. This creates opportunities to propose sponsored tooling, hosted solutions, or open-source initiatives under the eLife Pathways framework to extend impact while delivering predictable, mission-aligned value to funders and research institutions.

Collaborations Expansion With existing collaborations like Imperial Enterprise and Kriyadocs, there is a clear pathway to offer enterprise integration, API access, migration and onboarding services, and training as publishers expand their open ecosystem participation.

Platform Modernization eLife maintains a modern tech stack (Docker, Ansible, Angular, React) and could benefit from scalable, cost-effective hosting, security hardening, and CI/CD improvements. Position as a cloud-native publishing partner to attract similar mid-size scholarly publishers seeking open science aligned modernization.