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Grantflow opening page
Inspiration
Nigerian NGOs spend more time on grant paperwork than on the work grants are meant to fund. Proposal teams chase staff for drafts, miss deadlines, lose institutional knowledge when people leave, and start from scratch on every application. GrantFlow was built to change that.
What it does
GrantFlow is an AI-native grant management platform. It reads your registration documents and populates your organisational profile automatically. It analyses any funding call and tells you within seconds whether you are eligible. It creates a full proposal workspace with milestones, tasks, and a document checklist, then routes work through a configurable approval chain that matches how your organisation actually operates — not how a generic tool assumes it does.
How we built it
Built with React, Express, and the Gemini API via the Google GenAI SDK. Deployed on Google Cloud Run. Document extraction, eligibility assessment, proposal section generation, and opportunity scouting all run through Gemini. The approval chain engine is custom-built to support flexible Nigerian NGO structures — from a lean two-person team to a full departmental hierarchy.
Challenges we ran into
Time constraints. This was a very big deal. I am a vibe coder and did not see the opportunity on time. Coming up with the idea and using tools I am not very familiar with to build it within five days and try to meet the deadline with an unedited video was quite a challenge. Also, deploying a stateful Node.js application to Cloud Run while preserving session persistence across restarts required rethinking how authentication tokens are stored.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
I was able to meet the deadline!
What we learned
More about Google AI tools
What's next for Grantflow
GrantFlow’s next phase is to strengthen reliability, expand donor and institutional integrations, and evolve into a production-ready grant operations platform for NGOs
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