Grant Research Pipeline
Systematic research and application for EU and national research grants, requiring proposal writing, budget planning, compliance verification, and multi-stakeholder coordination across funding bodies.
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Evaluation Waves
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Pipeline Phases
A–D
Evidence Grades
The Problem
Identifying and applying for research grants is a high-effort, low-conversion process with several structural challenges:
- Grant databases (Horizon Europe, national research councils, private foundations) use inconsistent taxonomies and search interfaces
- Eligibility criteria are buried in multi-page guideline documents with implicit dependencies
- Budget constraints, consortium requirements, and thematic priorities interact in complex ways
- Application deadlines create time pressure that rewards breadth of awareness over depth of analysis
A researcher who discovers a perfect-fit grant two weeks before deadline has too little time for a competitive application. The core problem is discovery latency, not application quality.
FDRP Application
Four-Phase Pipeline
Phase 1
Discovery
Parallel wave orchestration across multiple grant databases. Each wave dispatches domain-specific search specialists.
Phase 2
Eligibility
Evidence-graded assessment of each grant's eligibility criteria against the applicant's profile. Grade A (explicit match) through Grade D (uncertain).
Phase 3
Prioritization
Convergence tracking on application completeness. Grants ranked by fit score, deadline proximity, and estimated effort.
Phase 4
Application
Proposal drafting with compliance verification. Cross-model review of budget justification and research plan alignment.
Key FDRP Patterns
- Wave Orchestration for Parallel Discovery
- Multiple grant databases searched simultaneously by domain-specialized agents, each returning structured findings with evidence grades. Consolidation step deduplicated grants appearing in multiple databases.
- Convergence Tracking on Completeness
- Each application tracked through a completeness metric: percentage of required sections drafted, reviewed, and verified. Convergence stall (no progress in 48 hours) triggered automatic escalation.
- Compliance Cross-Check
- Grant guidelines parsed into structured requirements, then cross-referenced against application content. Missing requirements flagged before submission, with severity based on whether the gap is disqualifying or merely weakening.