Alignment with DF goals (BGI, Platform growth, community)

Access to funding is a bottleneck for community-driven impact. Our idea aligns with community empowerment and platform growth by making funding more accessible—through a decentralized, AI-powered tool that guides any organization, even low-tech ones, through the application process.

The “Grant Applicator” leverages generative AI and voice recognition to help users:

• Detect relevant funding calls.

• Autocomplete complex forms based on voice/narrative inputs.

• Maintain an updated organizational profile with auto-filled answers.

By creating a global commons of funding knowledge—form fields, response templates, examples of successful applications—and enabling human-AI collaboration to complete them, we strengthen the whole impact ecosystem. It supports platform growth by onboarding smaller organizations into digital ecosystems and aligns with the BGI principle of expanding intelligent tools to social good actors.

Problem description

Thousands of funding opportunities exist, but:

• Application processes are time-consuming and often overwhelming.

• Many grants have different formats, criteria, or languages.

• Small organizations lack skilled staff to complete applications effectively.

• Voice-based or accessible solutions are rarely available.

As a result, many high-potential organizations don’t even apply.

Proposed Solutions

We propose an AI-powered tool that:

• Ingests funding calls and auto-generates data-entry templates.

• Lets users dictate their answers via voice and maps them to required fields.

• Builds a modular database of questions and answers linked to known funders and categories.

• Includes quality-assurance suggestions (e.g., “this answer could be stronger if you add numbers or beneficiaries”).

• Provides exportable output (PDF, Word, Web forms, etc.) for submission.