Finally, a R01 Grant Writing Tool That Does the Whole Job.
The first end-to-end grant writing software platform. No more stitching together five tools and a prayer.
Spend less time on the process. More time on the science.
Less time writing. More time thinking.
Narrative writing is where researchers lose the most time. ResearchGrants generates drafts of your Specific Aims, Research Strategy, and Budget Justifications — all optimized for the requirements and reviewer criteria of your specific NOFO — cutting that investment roughly in half.
Structure your thinking where it matters most.
The Specific Aims section is the foundation of every successful grant, and the hardest part to get right. ResearchGrants guides you through building your aims from the ground up, helping you sharpen your hypothesis, rationale, and approach before a single word of the proposal is written.
Everything you upload, put to work.
ResearchGrants parses your NOFO, preliminary data, CV, equipment list, facilities list, and other key documents — extracting what's relevant and carrying it forward into your research strategy automatically. No more manually transferring information between documents.
A smarter process for serious grant writing.
Think.
Start by uploading your NOFO. ResearchGrants parses it automatically, pulling out key requirements, reviewer criteria, and deadlines into a clear summary. Then bring in your preliminary data and research ideas. ResearchGrants helps you structure your aims by aligning hypothesis, model, intervention, measurement and analysis — and drafts your narrative, abstract, and Specific Aims section, all shaped around your scientific thinking and optimized for the specific funding opportunity.
Gather.
Upload what you already have: CVs, bibliography, letters of support, protocols, equipment and facilities lists, and budget information. ResearchGrants takes care of the rest — generating biosketches, drafting your research strategy, and producing budget justifications based on what you've provided.
Refine.
Review and edit every section before it goes out the door. ResearchGrants runs continuous checks for completeness, consistency, and compliance — flagging gaps and misalignments so you can address them before reviewers do.
Submit.
A final formatted proposal, validated and ready, submitted directly to Grants.gov via system-to-system (S2S) integration. No manual entry. No last-minute scrambles.
Feature List
Federal agency application support
NIH (R01, R03, R15, R21, SBIR/STTR, etc), NSF
Grant search
Search federal, foundation, and corporate grants, or browse by agency, topic, and state.
NOFO/FOA Requirements
Upload document or URL, NOFO Requirements Summary created, automatically parsed for optimization
Preliminary Data
Upload documents, contents and images parsed for narrative drafting
Specific Aims
Provides structure to build scientifically-sound aims
Source documents
Easy upload of CVs, Letters of Support, Bibliography, Human/Animal protocols, Facilities/Equipment lists
Biosketches
Generate automatically based on CV
Section drafting
Section by section — using Specific Aims input, source documents and optimized for NOFO/FOA
Budgets
Intuitive budget building tool with alert tools
Budget justifications
Generates draft based on budget line items
AI Approach
Ensures researchers' intellectual autonomy, purpose built AI
Application review
Reviews for omissions, incongruence between sections, inconsistencies. Recommends improvements.
Application compliance
Reviews for omissions and errors
Application submission
Grants.gov S2S
Data Privacy
Data never used for AI training
Platform security
SOC 2 Type II & ISO 27001, NIH/grants.gov compliance, outage and DDoS Protection
Infrastructure and Data Security
01.Platform Security
SOC 2 Type II & ISO 27001, NIH/grants.gov compliance, outage and DDoS Protection, encryption in transit and at rest, secrets management, comprehensive form validation and SQL injection prevention.
02.Fenced AI
No AI model training on your data, no direct access to database, minimal data exposure to AI, no persistent AI memory, AI output sanitization, server-side AI key management, auditable AI usage.
03.User and Proposal Security
Authentication and access control, owner access only for proposals, failed authentication logging and suspicious activity alerts.
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ResearchGrants is a grant writing platform purpose-built for NIH and NSF applications. It guides researchers through a structured process, from Specific Aims to final submission, dramatically reducing time spent while improving proposal quality.