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Grant proposals grounded in your org's context, not templates

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Pre-launch

The Problem

Small nonprofits need grants to survive. A grant consultant costs $5,000. Generic AI produces slop that funders recognize immediately. The target user is the "Accidental Grant Writer": an Executive Director at a sub-$500K-budget org who never wanted this job but ended up responsible for funding.

What It Does

  • You upload your organizational documents: past proposals, 501c3 letter, impact data, financials
  • The system delivers submission-ready grant proposals, budgets, and compliance packages assembled from your actual org context, not from templates
  • Runs quality scoring across 5 dimensions before delivery: NOFO Coverage, Budget Coherence, Voice Match, Compliance, and Funder Alignment

What the AI Does

The AI parses funder requirements and maps them to your specific deliverables. It builds budget narratives aligned to your actual financial documents. It assembles everything from your verified org documents, not from templates.

Every competitor has access to the same foundation models. The advantage is what you do with the organization’s specific context: language from proposals that won, financial patterns that match this funder’s priorities, stats buried in impact reports from two years ago. Context beats prompting.

Generic AI produces grant slop. Org-grounded AI produces funded proposals. The model is table stakes. The org’s context is the competitive advantage.

Key Design Decisions

Org context is the moat, not the model

Every competitor has access to the same foundation models. The system is built around ingesting and leveraging the organization’s own documents.

A prompt-only approach produces generic output that funders catch immediately. The org’s history is what makes proposals authentic.

Quality scoring before delivery

Proposals are scored across 5 dimensions — NOFO Coverage, Budget Coherence, Voice Match, Compliance, and Funder Alignment — before the user ever sees them.

One compliance error kills the entire award. Catching it before delivery is the difference between a useful tool and an expensive time-waster.

What Happened

Landing page fully built and deployed. PostHog analytics with 11 custom events integrated. Waitlist capture with email and referral tracking is live. The grant-writing product itself is in development.

This is a landing page and a thesis, not a shipped product. The "Accidental Grant Writer" framing resonated in early conversations, and the four pain points — the Archaeology Problem, the Midnight NOFO, the Budget Trap, and the Compliance Cliff — are specific enough to land immediately with the right audience.

Measuring Success

Tracking via 11 custom PostHog events. Early data incoming.

Waitlist conversion rate

What share of visitors sign up

Referral-driven signups

Does the referral loop work

Proposal acceptance rate

The only metric that matters to the user once launched

Time-to-completion vs. manual

Does it actually save the 2+ hours of archaeology

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Designed & Built by Drew Miller

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