Generative AI Tools for Grant Development

A university research development office separates the two classes of tool you would reach for when hunting funding, using a general chatbot to draft, summarise and pull requirements and deadlines out of a funding announcement, and using literature-discovery services for synthesis and citation checking. The substance is a worked prompting sequence that takes one real funding search from a useless first attempt through four rewrites, adding career stage, funding range, geography and a named set of table columns until the answer comes back as something you can compare. After fifteen minutes you can write a funding-search prompt that returns a table rather than a paragraph of generalities.

Task

Grants & funding

Time

15 min

Level

beginner

Cost

Free — Nothing to pay. A free account at most.

Tools

Gemini, ChatGPT, Claude

Published

Not dated