Send one message to [email protected]. A lead strategist scopes your funding goals, specialist agents handle the research, modeling, and drafting, and an industry expert reviews every piece of work before it reaches you.
Grants, contracts, and investment readiness · $250/month flat · Month to month, cancel any time
We run an after-school program in Sacramento County, 501(c)(3), two years of audited financials. Where should we start?
Thanks for the note. I've scoped three funding paths for a spring expansion and queued a funder scan, a budget model, and a readiness check with our specialists. First drafts are on their way to you.
Of funding expertise in the training set
Indexed funding opportunities the agents search, refreshed daily
Of client-facing work reviewed by an expert
Flat. Month to month. No percentage of what you raise.
Most tools stop at a list of grants. The agent team runs the four jobs a development office actually does, from the first plan to the last report, and hands each one to you as a finished draft.
Your strategist reads your goal, builds a brief on your organization, and writes the funding plan: which grants, contracts, or investment to go after, in what order, backed by a budget model and a readiness check. You get a document you can take to your board, not a list of links.
The Research & Analysis desk sweeps the OpenGrants index of 139,000+ funding opportunities plus public award histories and filings, then scores every candidate on eligibility signals, funder priorities, geography, and timing. You get the few that fit and why, with what the funder has actually backed before.
The Grants & Development desk writes the narrative to the funder's own criteria, Finance builds the budget and justification, and the attachments and deadline are tracked on your behalf. An expert reviews the whole package before it reaches you, and nothing goes out the door without your sign-off.
Winning is the halfway point. The Compliance & Stewardship desk sets up the award, builds the reporting calendar, tracks drawdowns and allowable costs, prepares you for audits, and tees up the renewal before the current award ends. You stay in good standing with the funder and ready for the next ask.
Nothing to install and no dashboard to learn. The agent team runs on email, works from a shared brief about your organization, and hands you finished drafts.
We run an after-school program in Sacramento County…
You only ever talk to your lead strategist. Behind that one conversation, five specialist agents divide the work the way a development office would.
Opportunity identification: market context, strategy frameworks, and a scored shortlist of funders that actually match your profile and timeline.
Budgets, models, unit economics, and runway so every strategy and every proposal is backed by numbers a funder will believe.
Proposal development: from grant readiness through submission-ready applications. Narratives, budgets, attachments, and deadlines tracked.
Investor readiness, pitch materials, data rooms, government contract responses, and plain-language explainers on securities and contract terms.
Post-award management: award setup, reporting calendars, drawdown tracking, audit preparation, and renewal strategy.
Owns your fundraising strategy. Reads your email, writes the plan, assigns the desks, and is the only agent that ever writes back to you.
The agents aren't a general chatbot pointed at grants. They work from three layers of context, stacked from broad to specific.
Automation does the legwork; people hold the pen. Three rules the system never breaks:
Your lead strategist, all five specialist desks, and expert review on everything they produce, across the whole funding cycle. Month to month. Cancel any time by replying to your strategist.
Want a named human strategist working with your team every week? The $2,500/month strategist retainer is the other way to engage OpenGrants, or book a 20-minute call to compare.
How the team works, what happens to your data, what the price covers, and what the agents will and won't do. If it isn't here, email the agent and a person will answer.
Your message is handed to Strategy, your lead strategist. Strategy replies with a scoped plan: what you're raising, the paths worth pursuing, and what work it has queued with the specialist desks. From then on, every reply you get comes from that one strategist, reviewed by an industry expert before it's sent.
Drafts from the desks arrive over the following days as each one finishes its sweep. Your strategist tells you what's in the queue and when to expect it, so you're never guessing.
Both. The research, modeling, and drafting are done by AI agents trained on OpenGrants' experience and public funding records. An industry expert supervises the agents and approves every message and document before it reaches you.
Agents always identify themselves as agents in writing. You'll never be left wondering which is which.
Yes, at any step. Reply to any thread and ask for a person, and the reviewing expert picks it up. If you'd rather talk before you start, book a 20-minute call.
You can also override any step the agents take. If the plan is heading somewhere you don't want, say so and it changes.
An email address and a sentence or two about your organization and what you're raising. Your strategist asks for anything else, such as financials, a program description, or past applications, as the work needs it.
If you don't know what you need yet, say that. Describing your situation is enough for Strategy to come back with options.
No. The whole engagement runs over email from whatever client you already use. Documents travel as attachments, and your strategist can set up a shared folder for larger files if you prefer.
An industry expert from OpenGrants reads every client-facing draft before it's sent. They check that the recommendation matches the funder's published criteria, that the numbers tie out, that sources are real and cited, and that nothing promises an outcome. If a draft doesn't clear that bar, it goes back to the desk, not to you.
Four things, which together are the job of a development office:
One lead strategist coordinates five specialist desks across that whole cycle. You can use all four or just the parts you need.
The Research & Analysis desk starts from your brief and sweeps the OpenGrants index of 139,000+ funding opportunities across federal, state, local, foundation, and corporate sources, refreshed daily, plus public award histories and filings. Each candidate is scored on eligibility signals, funder priorities, geography, and timing.
What comes back is a short list, not a long one: the opportunities that fit, ranked, with what the funder has actually backed before and when the window opens. A match score is guidance on where to spend your attention, never a prediction of winning.
We draft. The Grants & Development desk writes the narrative to the funder's criteria, Finance builds the budget and budget justification, and the attachments and deadline are tracked for you. The package is expert-reviewed before you see it.
You review, edit, and approve. Nothing is submitted to a funder without your sign-off, and the final submission step stays with you unless you ask your strategist to handle it.
Everything after the award letter: setting up the award and its accounts, building the reporting calendar, tracking drawdowns and allowable costs, preparing the financial and narrative reports, getting you audit-ready, and teeing up the renewal or follow-on ask before the current award ends.
This is the part most organizations under-resource, and the part funders remember when the next application lands.
Yes. The Investment & Contracts desk covers government contract responses, investor readiness, pitch materials, and data rooms, and explains securities and contract terms in plain language so you can brief your counsel. It explains; it doesn't give legal or tax advice.
No, and anyone who says otherwise should worry you. The team never confirms eligibility or predicts an award. It shows you which funders have backed organizations like yours, what they asked for, and how to be ready. What we commit to is the work.
In a company-managed Google Workspace. Each client gets its own access-controlled folder that holds the brief, the documents you share, and every draft produced for you. Nothing about your engagement lives in a personal account or a public dataset.
Your lead strategist, the specialist desks assigned to your tasks, the industry expert reviewing the work, and a named backup person at OpenGrants who covers continuity if the primary reviewer is unavailable. That's the list. Access is scoped to your folder, and we can tell you who has had it.
No. Your brief and your documents are used to do your work and nothing else. We don't train models on them, they are never used in another client's work, and they are never sold or shared with funders without your say-so. The shared knowledge the agents draw on is OpenGrants' own experience and public records, not other clients' files.
Yes. Every engagement keeps a full decision trail: which agent did what, from which sources, and why. Ask your strategist for it at any time. Two commitments go with that: agents always identify themselves as agents in writing, and you can override any step.
Ask for an export of your folder first and you'll get everything the team produced for you. After offboarding, your client folder and the agents' working records for your engagement are purged. The work was yours; it stays yours.
Security and system alerts page a person at OpenGrants by email and SMS, and escalate to a named backup if they go unanswered for four hours. We hold ourselves to a 24-hour recovery target for client data and systems, and if an incident touches your information, you hear about it from us directly.
Not yet. We're building to an audit-ready standard and will publish attestations as they're completed. If your organization needs security documentation to proceed, such as a vendor questionnaire from a foundation, a university, or a procurement office, email your strategist and we'll supply it.
The published terms at opengrants.io/opengrants-legal/: the client terms and the privacy policy. There's no separate engagement letter to negotiate; you're covered by those terms from your first email. OpenGrants is operated by Egeria Corporation, a Delaware corporation.
$250 per month, flat. That covers your lead strategist, all five specialist desks, and expert review on everything they produce, across strategy, opportunity identification, proposal development, and post-award management. Month to month, cancel any time.
No. The price is $250 per month and nothing else. We don't take a percentage of what you raise, and there are no per-proposal or per-seat charges.
Email threads are unlimited. The desks work your queue in the priority order you set with your strategist, so if you're running several submissions at once, say which matters most and the plan is sequenced around it. A large simultaneous push, such as a dozen applications in the same month, is scoped with your strategist up front so nothing slips.
Yes. The plan is month to month. Reply to your strategist and say you'd like to stop; you keep access through the paid period and your data is handled as described above.
That's the other way to engage OpenGrants: a $2,500/month strategist retainer, where a named human strategist works your funding plan with your team weekly, makes introductions where their network genuinely fits your work, and the OpenGrants team writes the applications. Details and checkout are at portal.opengrants.io, or book a 20-minute call to compare the two.
Anyone raising grants, contracts, or investment: nonprofits and community organizations, startups and small businesses including SBIR/STTR applicants, for-profit companies pursuing government contracts and incentives, and government bodies and universities chasing federal and state dollars. If you have a program to fund and no development office to fund it, this is built for you.
Yes. Clients in Canada, the U.K., and other countries are welcome, and the team researches your local funding landscape directly rather than referring you elsewhere.
Often, yes. Many clients use the agent team for the parts their writer doesn't have time for: the funder research, the budget models, and post-award reporting, while the writer keeps the narrative. Tell your strategist who's already on the job and the desks work around them. Loop your consultant into the thread if you like; the agents are happy to be briefed.
That's exactly what the first step is for. Describe your organization, what you want to do, and roughly when, and Strategy comes back with the paths that fit: grants, contracts, investment, or some mix, in a sequence that makes sense. You decide which to pursue.
No questions in this category yet.
Email the agent and a person answers it. Or book a short call if you'd rather talk it through first.
Tell the team what you're raising and by when. You'll hear back from your strategist with a plan, not a sales pitch.
