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How it works, stage by stage

What is agreed in one stage becomes the starting point for the next, so it does not have to be typed in again.

The six stages

  1. Idea

    Module: Opportunities and Research

    In plain words

    Discover funding calls that suit your idea, and work out which are worth weeks of your time.

    Discovery tools bring relevant calls into one place. Score them, keep the facts about your organisation with their sources, and decide what to pursue.

    For research offices

    Calls are tracked and deduplicated; company facts are held with their sources.

    • Each fact is labelled measured, modelled or target.
    • A tracked call can become a bid without re-keying.
  2. Application

    Module: Applications

    In plain words

    Draft your answers from your own evidence, inside the funder's word limits.

    AI can suggest wording. A person checks everything, and a person sends it. Partners add their own sections and budgets in one place.

    For research offices

    Limits are checked exactly by code; every evidence claim links to a source or stays open.

    • Open items block compilation until a person resolves them.
    • Internal review scores are never presented as predictions of outcome.
    • Output is a document and copy-ready text; nothing is submitted for you.
  3. Award

    Module: Award

    In plain words

    Turn your offer letter into a clear list of what you have agreed to do, and by when.

    What you promised in the application becomes the plan you track, so you do not type it all in again.

    For research offices

    Obligations are cited to their clause and confirmed by a person into a commitments register.

    • Application data becomes the delivery baseline, or a baseline is entered or imported.
    • Cluster and funded baselines are held separately and versioned by change request.
    • Agreement versions and signatures are tracked. No legal advice is given.
  4. Delivery and claims

    Module: Time Tracking; Claims and Forecast

    In plain words

    Record your time as you work, keep each receipt with its cost, and see where every claimed figure came from.

    When a claim is due, it is built from what you have already recorded, not pieced together from memory.

    For research offices

    Time is attested, approved and locked; costs sit in an append-only ledger; figures are computed by code.

    • Late entries are flagged; corrections appear as new audited entries.
    • AI never generates or back-fills timesheet narrative or durations.
    • Accrued and defrayed dates are recorded separately.
    • Each claim is frozen as a hashed, immutable snapshot with its evidence index.
  5. Reporting

    Module: Funder Reporting

    In plain words

    Write progress reports from what is already on record, then check them and send them yourself.

    Risks, actions and progress are kept together, ready for meetings with whoever oversees your project.

    For research offices

    Reports and meeting packs draw on one baseline, registers and claim position, with approval before sharing.

    • Copy-ready portal text respects known field limits.
    • Portal entry remains a human step. No funder system integration is assumed.
    • A time-limited, read-only auditor view is planned, with sampling per cost category.
  6. Dissemination

    Module: Dissemination

    In plain words

    Share what the project found, and keep track of what you promised to share.

    Dissemination simply means telling people about your results. Many grants ask for it, so it helps to see what is done and what is due.

    For research offices

    Planned outputs are tracked against commitments, with open-access status recorded against funder rules.

    • Each evidence claim in a draft is checked against its source, then approved by a person.
    • Embargoed material stays protected.

You can join at any stage

A project won elsewhere can start from manual entry or an import. Earlier periods go in as clearly labelled history with their evidence, and never pass as time captured when the work happened.

What stays with people

Attesting time, approving claims, approving reports, and entering anything in a funder's system. AI can help with wording, but it never submits and never sets a figure.