GBI is a domain-safe AI co-pilot built for the consultancies that write grant applications professionally. It enforces structure, neutralizes the failure modes of generic LLMs, and validates every claim and reference — so your team ships reviewer-grade applications faster, with materially less senior review time.
It's almost never the innovation. It's how the application is written — and the shortcuts most teams reach for to fix it.
of grant applications fail
for reasons that have nothing to do with the innovation or the technology itself — and every one of those reasons compounds the hours your team puts in.
Strong technologies buried in confusing structure that reviewers can't follow.
Critical evaluation criteria left unanswered or only partially addressed.
Bold statements made without referenced evidence to back them up.
Contradictions across sections that make the proposal feel disjointed.
Vague writing that hides the real innovation behind buzzwords.
Mismatch with the program's priorities and impact criteria — a quiet killer.
Source: industry experience as an EU and IIA expert evaluator and grants consultant.
Junior consultants reach for generic LLMs to lift the quality of their grant text — and the output usually looks great. Beneath that polish, generic LLMs introduce six severe failure modes. Catching them is exactly the senior-review work that erodes your margin — and the ones you miss are the ones that show up in the rejection letter.
Generates false facts confidently — and presents them as truth.
Different answers to the same question across different sections.
Validates the writer's opinion instead of telling them the truth.
Unaware of program changes, deadlines, or events past its training cutoff.
Fails at the multi-step reasoning a grant application demands.
Cannot fact-check its own output — and won't tell you when it's wrong.
GBI doesn't just generate text. It manages the full application process — enforcing structure, neutralizing known LLM failures, and validating every claim and reference against your own evidence.
Manages the application end-to-end — outline, drafting, refinement, submission. Your consultants stay in control; GBI handles the choreography.
Mandatory question/answer sequence. Nothing important is skipped, and nothing is written before its supporting context exists.
Domain guardrails neutralize hallucination, inconsistency, sycophancy, and topical drift — the failure modes that erode senior review hours.
Every claim verified against your own documents and supporting evidence. No more bold statements that don't survive due diligence.
Every URL and citation checked end-to-end — to the source's actual content. Broken or fabricated references get caught before submission.
GBI estimates the call's context and proposes targeted, evaluator-grade improvements — the kind of feedback a senior consultant would give.
Eight concrete reasons a grant-writing consultancy invests in mastering GBI — covering capacity, profitability, quality, risk, and growth.
Process orchestration removes the slowest writing steps. Same team, more applications per quarter.
Validated claims, verified references and call-aware suggestions raise the quality of every submission.
Same fee, lower delivery cost. Profit per engagement goes up directly.
Junior consultants produce work close to senior quality. Less senior review time required.
Every claim and reference is checked. Fewer compliance gaps and a clear audit trail.
The tool guides new hires through the right structure — they become billable sooner.
Each engagement's documents and learnings become reusable assets for the next application.
Higher win rates pull clients back for the next round of funding — recurring revenue.
Capacity · Profitability · Quality · Risk · Growth — the consultancy P&L story.
GBI is currently in private beta and we're working hands-on with a small number of consultancy partners. Firms that onboard during the beta receive a free month of usage when the platform officially launches — and the system is free to use throughout the beta period.
If you'd like a tailored discovery call to see how GBI fits your practice — your typical grants, your team structure, your client portfolio — please reach out.
A pragmatic onboarding designed for working consultancies — short, hands-on, and focused on a real client engagement.
A 30-minute Zoom session: we map GBI's capabilities to the grants your firm typically writes, your team's seniority mix, and the workflow you want to preserve.
We help you set up consultant accounts, configure each user's encrypted Claude API key, and walk your team through the wizard's structured order.
Your team applies GBI to a live client engagement — outline through submission. We co-pilot the first run and you measure the time and review-effort delta yourself.
Once GBI proves itself on the first engagement, roll it out across your team and client portfolio. Each new application adds to the firm's reusable knowledge base.
Curious whether GBI fits your practice? Book a discovery call, and I'll walk your team through the platform with examples drawn from grants you actually write.
I'm Arnnei Speiser — IIA and EU expert evaluator, four-year grants consultant, and the architect of GBI. I respond personally to every consultancy enquiry.
Sign in and explore GBI free of charge. No commitment, no sales pressure. The wizard's structured order will tell you within one application whether it's right for your practice.
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