Grant Finale Analysis

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  AI Assistant for proposal structure

Inspiration

I fell ill in 2007; my recovery took 17+ year. I never fully recovered, but I stubbornly crafted out a strategy to build a remote first company. Inclusive to people who don't look like the perfect startup entrepreneur. So, I made a little joke, fun and created Makea (me in corporate form). It runs an experiment: build an artful social tech startup from the ground up with random people.

Now, I have something cooking an ethical social media platform without nasty features. However, with my pockets becoming empty; I needed to raise funds. That's where the old status quo meets l'enfant terrible. Now, what. I decided boldly to accept the challenge and go for real EU funding. Picture me tiny nocking on the door of the EU. Grant mania, brutal and overwhelming. I am not going to survive, unless I cheat a little. Hackathon - Bolt to the rescue. Let's make this litmus test. I grew bold with Bolt; I had some tech skills; and decided to jump into the hackathon. Make an application that could help out with writing grant proposals professional style.

This user pain point of figuring out the process of proposal writing and analysing the huge amount of data that comes with it while doing all kinds of time-consuming tasks, that propelled me in doing my first hackathon.

What it does

Grant Finale Analysis helps you with the analysis of grants. This process is tedious, fraught with little black holes that shallow your proposal when your inexperience catches up with you. Now, let's automate that a little for the sake of sanity.

You can take a call for proposal or a document/image/or URL and upload it. The application will analyse the main information that is vital for submitting for funding. The next step is to understand the process of proposal writing and how it relates to other parts. This is done by QA of the document and the generation of a structured template. This information can then be used as inspiration; a concept to work from.

How we built it

That I leave that to my teammates. I am a good storyteller with prompt skills; and I know exactly when I want something and how it should look like and above all why. Now almost at the end of the hackathon; we built it with the technologies below; but above all by quickly understanding what the other needs in order to move forward. We build it from memory, no template, pure from experience.

Challenges we ran into

How to structure a team with a non-tech beginner. The hidden danger is that without fully understanding the implications of change, things can mess up very quickly. The second challenge is understanding an application that you're not familiar with under time constraint and token limit.

Prompting is actually not the main problem, the biggest challenge is that the amount of token use is still a black box. Inexperience caused me to disconnect GitHub from the project because it turned out that the integration could not read the sub-branches. Sometimes clicking a button doesn't show you what the next reaction of the software will be.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We have great team spirit and quickly found our way within the new applications and huge information that came in. We started out later; because we entered quite randomly with a mindset of let's do this, let's try and see where it ends. The Grant Analyzer Pro is straight born from a user pain point. That translation into a prompt and communicating clearly and sufficiently to your fellow team member is something I am proud of. Then without micromanaging, trust the other that changes will be for the better.

What we learned

• Working with a deadline
• Picking up something new, that was totally unfamiliar
• Having trust in the experience and expertise of the other
• That integration is not straight forward
• That the concept of Bolt with a deployment option is very powerful; especially for people who come from a Wordpress background. The transition to GitHub and all the tools out there is overwhelming for non-technical users.

What's next for Grant Finale Analysis

I will be the first Guinea pig or sheep; hopefully others will follow and team up. Thoroughly testing the application with the real process. We plan to improve upon the app such that the analysis will be more accurate and with some features that due to time constraints could not be implemented. This is a niche product that would help out charities, companies and individuals who are new to the art of grant proposal writing.

Built With

• bolt
• groq
• react
• stripe
• supabase
• tailwind
• typescript