Product
Field notes from building GrantOrb in the open.
July 2026
AI can generate endless art, but left alone it produces endless brands. Here's the GrantOrb workflow: write the brand down as a file the AI reads, let one look (our FIFA guide) seed it, borrow the font and palette from one page, and keep a human as creative director.
July 2026
Your AI chatbot is brilliant but generic. The GrantOrb connector turns Claude or ChatGPT into a grant specialist: every feature inside your chat, mirrored to the app, and grounded on verified data so it finds real grants instead of inventing them.
July 2026
The budget is where good applications quietly die — math that doesn't match the ask, missing funder categories, ineligible costs. GrantOrb's Budget Grid builds a funder-shaped table, fills it in, and makes the totals balance to the exact amount you requested.
July 2026
Why GrantOrb built multi-account workspaces for grant consultants: your ceiling shouldn't be the hours in your week. Run discovery, drafting, and deadlines across every client from one dashboard.
July 2026
How GrantOrb turns any funder's application form into a complete, reviewed draft — and lets funders launch a grant intake in two minutes. Why form automation changes the math for both sides of the table.
July 2026
Why GrantOrb's Validation Wizard is the killer feature: it reviews your draft against the funder's own assessment criteria and hands you prioritized, section-by-section fixes — not a score — so you submit knowing what a funder will see.
July 2026
Why we built GrantOrb's grant search to scan the live web in the background, verify every opportunity against the funder's own page, and never show you a closed deadline. The end of the $12,000-a-year directory.
July 2026
Why we built the GrantOrb MCP connector: it turns Claude or ChatGPT from a general-purpose assistant into a specialized grant writer. Find funding, draft winning proposals, and check procurement matches — every specialist feature, right in your chat.
July 2026
Why GrantOrb automates the creation of grant applications for funders: describe your grant in one sentence and get a complete application — the right questions, welcoming eligibility, and a fair scoring rubric — in about two minutes.
July 2026
Why GrantOrb is built to be absolutely stupid simple — one sentence in, real work out. The design philosophy behind every feature we ship, from a founder who believes complexity is a tax on your mission.
July 2026
Why GrantOrb's Ideas feature gives you exactly two project ideas — a Safer Bet and a Bold Bet — built at the intersection of what the funder wants and what your organization can honestly deliver.
July 2026
Governments spend billions buying services every year — and social-purpose organizations barely bid. GrantOrb's Supplier Passport turns unreadable tenders into plain verdicts: bid solo, bid with a partner, or skip.
May 2026 · on YouTube
A look at the full AI grant system: find, write, win, repeat. What it means when a small nonprofit team can credibly chase millions in funding.
May 2026 · on YouTube
The mission behind GrantOrb: free nonprofits from the grant-writing tax so they can spend their time on the work. A direct look at the why.
May 2026
You don't lose grants on the writing. You lose them on the idea. Here's how GrantOrb's new IDEAS feature moves your chances of winning upstream.
November 2025
Zero waste. Zero duplication. No worthy idea dies unseen. Four generations. Three planets. One network. ARIA — Allocation and Resource Intelligence Architecture.
October 2025
Early in my career, I read widely — sci-fi, social impact, tech, startups, philosophy. These 90 books shaped the vision for GrantOrb. They might ignite yours.
September 2025 · on YouTube
A walkthrough of GrantOrb's Template Wizard: drop in a funder's PDF or web form, and the AI fills it with your org's voice. Apply for more grants, faster.
February 2024
Introducing GrantOrb — an AI grant writer that crafts winning proposals in minutes from a brief outline. Save 95% of writing time. 10x your fundraising capacity.