Good companies lose winnable grants

Billions of pounds of UK public funding are awarded every year — and a striking amount of it goes to the companies best at applying, not the companies best placed to deliver. Small teams doing genuinely fundable work miss calls they never saw, talk themselves out of calls they'd have won, or lose on applications that undersold work the assessors would have loved.

GrantSpark exists to close that gap. Three beliefs shape how it works:

Discovery should be push, not pull

Nobody should spend Friday afternoons skimming funding portals. GrantSpark syncs every live opportunity from GOV.UK Find a Grant and UKRI daily and scores each one against your company — with honest rationales, including the reasons a call isn't for you. The shortlist comes to you.

AI should interview, not invent

Assessors can smell generated boilerplate, and funders are rightly wary of it. So GrantSpark's AI asks before it writes: a short interview surfaces the figures, partners, and evidence only you know, and the draft is built around your answers and your documents. Anything missing is marked with a placeholder — never invented. The AI review then reads your draft the way an assessor would, against the funder's own criteria.

The plan is half the bid

Most grant tools stop at prose. Funders don't — they want work packages, costed budgets, milestones, and named people. GrantSpark treats the delivery plan as a first-class part of the application: an interactive Gantt speaking project months, costs by funder category, and staff allocation, all feeding the same AI that drafts and reviews your text.

Where we are

GrantSpark is in early access and free to use while we build with real applicant teams. Today it covers UK grants from GOV.UK Find a Grant and UKRI; the architecture is multi-region by design, and more sources and countries are on the roadmap. If there's a funding source you need, tell us — early users steer the queue.