Research & academia
The limit is not ideas. It is how many bids you can run.
A serious proposal costs weeks of academic time, and most of them were never going to land. Grants8 takes the reading and the first draft, so the same group can put in several bids in the time one used to take.
Working with research institutions
Throughput, not effort.
Nobody in a research group is slow. The bottleneck sits upstream of the writing: reading every open call, deciding which two are worth a month of somebody's life, and being wrong about one of them.
That screening is the part a platform can hold. Which is why the argument here is not cost; it is how many serious proposals your group can have in flight at once.
One client's search. The middle number is the work nobody sees: 73,000 eligibility checks run on the platform so far, which at half an hour of consultant time each is over eighteen years of billable hours.
Where the time goes
Months of academic time, spent on bids
Preparing a serious proposal takes weeks that come out of research, teaching and supervision, and most of that effort produces nothing.
Consortium requirements you cannot staff
Many programmes require partners across countries and disciplines. Assembling one from your own network is slow and depends on who you happen to know.
Calls that close before you see them
National, EU and foundation calls open on their own schedules. Without someone watching full time, the right one closes unnoticed.
Built for how research funding works
Programmes matched to your work
Discipline, stage and institution type are taken into account, so what surfaces is relevant to your group rather than every open call.
Drafts against evaluation criteria
Proposals are structured around how reviewers actually score (impact, excellence, implementation) rather than a blank template.
Partner discovery
Find consortium partners whose expertise complements yours instead of starting from your existing contacts each time.
Works with your research office
Departmental workspaces and permissions, so groups keep their own pipeline while the research office keeps oversight.
Already coordinating a consortium?
Then the constraint is who answers, not who you know.
Partner search covers organisations inside and outside the EU, with their programme history and whether they have already declared interest in cooperating. A coordinator can assemble across four countries without spending a month on introductions.
Your unpublished work stays yours
A proposal contains methods and results that are not public yet. That is the first question any research office asks, and it is documented rather than assembled on request.
Read the security overview- Unpublished results and methods stay in the EU: Google Cloud europe-west1
- Your documents are never used to train underlying models
- Access limited to the authenticated owner, with audit logging
- DPAs and sub-processor list ready for your institution’s review
See it against your own research
Bring a project you are considering applying for and we will show you what the platform finds and drafts.
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