AutoGrant™ for startups and R&D companies
Pursue non-dilutive funding that advances the company—not grant-shaped work that distracts it.
AutoGrant helps startups and R&D companies connect technical and commercialization milestones to credible non-dilutive funding, evaluate topic and agency fit, organize evidence, convert solicitations into complete requirements, coordinate founders and experts, and manage the path from pursue/pass through award and follow-on funding.
- Eligibility
- Topic fit
- Technical merit and readiness
- Team and facilities
- Commercialization
- Strategic value
Founder go/no-go recorded
The founder or leadership decision is captured before drafting begins.
Claims mapped to evidence
Every claim maps to verified evidence and a named owner.
Human-authorized submission
Nothing is submitted without explicit human authorization.
Resubmission history preserved
Reviewer feedback feeds the resubmission or next-phase plan.
The startup challenge
A topic can contain the right keywords and still be wrong for the company.
Common failure modes include:
- Forcing the technology into a topic it does not truly address
- Underestimating technical or commercialization evidence
- Treating the application as a generic pitch deck
- Failing to resolve principal-investigator, employment, ownership, or partnership requirements
- Building a project that does not advance the product roadmap
- Missing registrations, forms, letters, or internal deadlines
- Overcommitting technical milestones or market claims
- Losing reviewer feedback and resubmission history
The goal is not to chase every non-dilutive dollar. It is to find funding that strengthens the company and can be executed credibly.
Roadmap first
Map funding to the milestones the company already needs to achieve.
A technically eligible grant can still be strategically wrong. AutoGrant connects funding decisions to the company's development roadmap, evidence needs, commercialization path, capital requirements, and timing.
Define the milestone
What technical, clinical, regulatory, evidence, or commercial result needs to be achieved?
Define the capital need
What resources, partners, facilities, evidence, and timing does that milestone require?
Map non-dilutive funding
Which funding mechanisms can credibly support that work without reshaping the company around a solicitation?
Make the pursuit decision
Evaluate strategic value alongside eligibility, technical readiness, commercialization, evidence, burden, and timing.
AutoGrant should help finance the roadmap—not invent a roadmap to fit the grant.
Company and technology profile
Approved context may include:
Distinguish verified results from hypotheses, projections, and planned work.
Company context stays governed.
- Company, ownership, and eligibility attributes
- Technical problem and innovation
- Current technology readiness
- Intellectual-property position
- Founders and technical team
- Prior research and evidence
- Development roadmap
- Technical and commercialization milestones
- Target dates and milestone sequencing
- Capital requirements by milestone
- Target users and market
- Customer discovery
- Competitive alternatives
- Commercialization strategy
- Facilities and partners
- Prior applications, reviews, and awards
- Funding strategy and runway constraints
- Follow-on funding dependencies
AI Judge for SBIR/STTR and R&D
Eligibility
Company size and ownership, principal-investigator status, work location, subcontracting, research-institution relationship, registrations, agency, and phase requirements.
Topic fit
Does the proposed technology directly address the topic and expected use—not merely adjacent terminology?
Technical merit and readiness
Is the innovation credible, differentiated, supported by evidence, and appropriate for the proposed phase and period?
Team and facilities
Can the company and partners perform the work, manage the award, and provide the required expertise and resources?
Commercialization
Is there a credible problem, customer, adoption path, market, competitive position, intellectual-property strategy, and path beyond the grant?
Strategic value
Will the project advance the technical and commercial roadmap, create valuable evidence, strengthen an agency relationship, or divert the team from the business?
Workflow
From concept to authorized submission
- Define the technical concept, company strategy, and roadmap milestones.
- Identify the capital, evidence, partner, and timing requirements for each milestone.
- Map relevant topics, agencies, and non-dilutive mechanisms to those milestones.
- Score eligibility, topic fit, technical readiness, team, commercialization, competition, and strategic value.
- Record the founder or leadership pursue/pass decision and rationale.
- Extract every technical, business, budget, registration, attachment, and portal requirement.
- Map claims and planned work to verified evidence and named owners.
- Draft and review the technical and commercialization narratives from verified sources.
- Require authorized final submission and preserve the resulting award, decline, or reviewer outcome.
- Connect awards, evidence, milestones, and reviewer feedback into the resubmission, next-phase, or follow-on funding plan.
Guardrails
What AutoGrant should not do
AI handles the volume. People own the judgment.
- Invent technical results
- Exaggerate technology readiness
- Fabricate citations, customers, letters, or market evidence
- Make legal representations about ownership or eligibility
- Replace technical or commercialization judgment
- Treat every topic match as a pursuit
- Submit without explicit human authorization
Ways to get AutoGrant
Platform or Enterprise
AutoGrant Platform
Platform may fit a startup or R&D company that wants a guided hosted workflow and can use standard controls.
AutoGrant Enterprise
Enterprise may fit a larger R&D organization, portfolio company group, research network, regulated environment, or company requiring customer-controlled deployment, integration, or stronger governance.
See the work
Artifacts your team can inspect at every step
- Topic-fit scorecard
- Technical evidence map
- Commercialization evidence map
- Solicitation requirements matrix
- Technical and business review gates
- Resubmission history
Supporting a portfolio of technical companies?
See how AutoGrant can connect roadmap-to-funding intelligence across venture funds, accelerators, and venture studios.
Startups and SBIR/STTR
FAQ
Score the topic before your team reshapes the roadmap around it.
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