AI4Grants is a consulting and training firm. We sit down with your grant team, work the funding notices you are chasing, and set your people up with AI that does the paperwork. Your team still writes every word.
For nonprofits, foundations and mission-driven organizations.
Every rule, attachment and deadline on one checklist, with a page number and an owner.
Your staff learn where AI saves hours and where it has to stop.
AI handles the administrative work. Your people write the story funders read.
more applications reached 12 major research funders in 2025 than in 2022.
of applications fell below the quality bar in 2025, down from 20% in 2018.
applications per investigator per year. The new NIH cap.
Sources: Rees & Wilsdon, Nature, 27 April 2026 (Research on Research Institute). NIH notice NOT-OD-25-132.
Miami, Florida
Most AI training happens on a webinar and is forgotten by Friday. Ours happens at your table in Miami, on the funding notice you are actually chasing, with the people who will write it. You keep the checklist, the brief and the workflow when we leave.
Start with one working session on a notice you are already chasing. Add training and a prompt library once your team has seen the difference.
Start hereBring the funding notice you are chasing. We work it live with your team, on your real deadline.
Your staff are already using AI. This workshop sets the rules before a client record ends up in a chatbot.
AI reads the notice and checks the numbers. People write the story. We teach the workflow that keeps it that way.
A secure AI workspace loaded with your best past grants, logic models and impact data. Your voice stays consistent when staff change.
We start with your calendar and your next deadline, not a software demo.
We learn your grant calendar, your team, and where the hours go.
We work a live notice with your staff, so the value is real on day one.
Leaders set the policy. Writers learn the workflow.
Your team keeps the tools and the prompt library after we leave.
Four tools for the administrative work around a proposal. None of them writes it.
Every rule in a 100-page notice on one checklist, with a page number and an owner.
Every place the budget and the narrative disagree, with both sides shown.
Match, eligibility, audit history and reporting load, checked before 40 hours get spent.
An approved paragraph cut to the portal's exact character limit, with every number kept.
They come with every engagement and stay with your team afterward.
Our tools do the reading, checking and counting. They never draft proposal text, and they never hand you a score or odds.
NIH will not consider applications substantially developed by AI. Your narrative stays in your own words.
NIH notice NOT-OD-25-132, 2025Every finding cites its page in the notice, so anyone on your team can check it against the source.
Documents are processed, then deleted. They are never used to train a model.
Funder rules, how-tos and policy templates. Short enough to read between deadlines.
NIH now refuses applications substantially developed by AI and caps how many each investigator can submit. Here is where AI still fits.
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Almost every application now clears the quality bar. The small misses decide more than they used to.
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A seven-step routine for pulling every rule, attachment and deadline onto one owned checklist.
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Six decisions that protect beneficiary data and keep your grant writing on the right side of funder rules.
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Send it in. The best questions become the next guide.
Suggest a topicIn July 2025 NIH published notice NOT-OD-25-132, "Supporting Fairness and Originality in NIH Research Applications." It took effect on September 25, 2025, and it changes two things every grant office should know.
NIH says it will not consider applications that are substantially developed by AI, or that contain sections substantially developed by AI. If a model wrote your Specific Aims or your Research Strategy, the application is at risk.
NIH now accepts no more than six new, renewal, resubmission or revision applications per principal investigator per calendar year. Training grants (T-series) and conference grants (R13) are excluded.
That is administrative work. The science, the aims and the story stay with your people. With only six shots a year, each one should be complete and compliant.
Source: NIH notice NOT-OD-25-132 (July 17, 2025). Read the full notice before you rely on any summary, including this one.
In April 2026, James Wilsdon and colleagues at the Research on Research Institute reported data from 12 research funders in Nature. Applications rose 57% between 2022 and 2025.
A second number matters more for your team. In 2018, about 20% of applications fell below the funders' quality threshold. By 2025 that share was 5%. Almost everything that arrives is now competent.
Our view: spend AI on the work that protects you from easy rejections, and spend your people on the work that makes the case.
Source: Rees and Wilsdon, Nature, 27 April 2026 (Research on Research Institute, 12 funders).
Long notices hide short rules. This is the routine we use in working sessions, and it works with or without AI.
Our NOFO Shredder does steps two through six automatically and exports the checklist to Excel. A person still reviews every row.
Your staff is already using AI. A short policy turns that from a risk into a practice. These are the six decisions we work through in our Executive Workshop.
One page is enough. A policy your team can remember beats a long one nobody reads.
One working session on your real notice. Your team leaves with the checklist, the brief and the plan.
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