Grant Applications Are a Full-Time Job. They Don't Have to Be.

The average small business spends 20 hours per grant application. That’s half a working week - researching eligibility, reformatting your business info, writing to someone else’s structure. And most of the time, you don’t even get it. The success rate for first-time applicants is under 20%.

The research alone is exhausting

There are thousands of grants available at any given time. Government, local authority, industry-specific, innovation funds, diversity programmes. Finding the ones you’re actually eligible for means hours on databases, reading criteria documents, cross-referencing deadlines. Most founders give up before they even start writing.

Every application wants the same information in a different format

Your business description. Your market size. Your team. Your financials. Your impact projections. You’ve written this twenty times in twenty slightly different ways for twenty different forms. Each one takes hours because the structure is always different. The information is the same - the packaging changes every time.

What if your profile already existed?

PlanForge builds a structured profile of your business through conversation. Once it exists, grant matching is automatic - your profile is already tagged with sector, stage, location, and goals. When a grant fits, you know immediately. No scrolling. No guessing. No ‘am I even eligible?’ rabbit holes.

From match to application in minutes, not days

Because your profile is structured data (not a messy Google Doc), PlanForge can reformat it to match any application’s requirements. The information doesn’t change - just the packaging. What used to take a full day of copy-pasting and rewriting now takes a few clicks.

Your data, your Drive, your history

Every application you generate lives in your Google Drive with full provenance. Which grants you applied for, when, what you submitted, what the outcome was. Come back next quarter and you have a complete history. No logging into yet another platform to find your old submissions.

Grants exist to help businesses like yours. The barrier isn’t eligibility - it’s the time cost of finding and applying. PlanForge removes that barrier.