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Find the grants that fit before the deadlines pass

To research grants with AI agents, give a Brainwrite bot your mission, location, budget size, and past funders. It reads public funder pages and programme guidelines in its built-in browser, records deadlines, amounts, and eligibility notes with links, and adds each match to a Google Sheet. You judge eligibility with the funder's own rules and decide what to apply for.

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Grant research

Every Monday, check the funders in my Grant sources sheet for open programmes that fund youth literacy in the North West of England, for organisations with a budget under 500,000. Add new ones to the Grants tracker tab with deadline, amount, and link, and tell me which close within 30 days.

Your Chief of Staff put a team on it

  • Nova· Chief of Staff
  • Atlas· Grant researcher
  • Sage· Fit checker
  • 4 new programmes found across 11 funder pages; 2 marked strong fit
  • Strong fit: Alder Community Trust, up to 25,000 for literacy projects, closes 14 November
  • Unlikely: Meridian Fund requires 3 years of audited accounts; you have 2 (rule quoted)
  • Closing within 30 days: 1 programme, highlighted in the tracker

DoneSaved as a routine: Mondays at 9:00. It starts paused until you turn it on.

An illustrated example. Your team works on your own files and apps.
Split scene: late at night a charity programme manager is buried in grant paperwork at her laptop; in the morning she reads a shortlist with illustrated AI agents Penny and Atlas.
NovaChief of Staff
7:40 am

Grant research: done. Nothing sent.

  1. 14 new programmes found across 11 funder pages; 2 marked strong fit
  2. 2Strong fit: Alder Community Trust, up to 25,000 for literacy projects, closes 14 November
  3. 3Unlikely: Meridian Fund requires 3 years of audited accounts; you have 2 (rule quoted)
3 bots on this job
Whether you are eligible, using the funder's own guidanceWaiting for your yes

The job

Doing it yourself, and handing it off.

Doing it yourself

Grant opportunities are scattered across foundation sites, government portals, and newsletters, each with its own format and deadline. Someone on a small team checks them when they have a spare afternoon, which is rarely. Promising programmes are found two weeks before they close, or after. Eligibility rules are buried in long guidance documents, so you only learn you do not qualify after reading twenty pages.

What the team does

  • Read public funder pages and programme guidelines
  • Record deadline, amount, focus area, and eligibility notes with the source link
  • Mark each programme's fit against your saved profile, quoting the rule
  • Point out deadlines in the next 30 days

What waits for you

  • Whether you are eligible, using the funder's own guidance
  • Which grants to apply for and who writes each application
  • Anything that needs an account, a payment, or a submission

The team

Who's on it.

Your Chief of Staff picks the specialists the job needs. Each has its own role, instructions, model, and app access.

  • NovaIllustrated example

    Chief of Staff

    Keeps your organisation profile, runs the search, and summarises the new matches.

  • AtlasIllustrated example

    Grant researcher

    Reads public funder pages and guidelines in its built-in browser and records the deadline, amount, focus, and eligibility notes with the source link.

  • SageIllustrated example

    Fit checker

    Compares each programme with your profile and marks it strong, possible, or unlikely, quoting the rule that decides it.

How it runs

A run, step by step.

  1. 01

    Describe your organisation

    Give the Chief your mission, location, legal status, annual budget, and past funders. It saves the profile in memory you can edit.

  2. 02

    Name the sources

    List the funders, portals, and directories to check. The researcher reads only public pages unless you sign in for it.

  3. 03

    Weekly search

    A Monday routine checks the sources and adds new programmes to a Google Sheet with deadline, amount, and link.

  4. 04

    Choose what to pursue

    Read the fit notes, check the funder's own guidelines, and decide which applications to start.

What you'll connect

Apps this job uses.

FAQ

Questions about Grant research

Can AI agents decide if we are eligible for a grant?

They can compare a programme's published rules with the profile you give them and quote the rule that seems to decide it. Funders interpret their own rules, and guidance changes, so a person on your team confirms eligibility from the funder's own documents, and the funder's decision is final.

Can the bots write or submit the application?

They can draft sections from your past applications and notes, in Google Docs, for you to edit. Submitting is yours. Portals usually need an account and a declaration from someone in your organisation, so a person reviews the final text and submits it.

Does it need my Mac on every Monday?

For a local routine, yes: Brainwrite must be running when the routine is due. Brainwrite Cloud runs your bots and routines on your own always-on cloud computer, so the weekly search runs even when your Mac is closed.

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