The fastest way to find and win grant funding
We help deep-tech UK companies find the right competitions and win them. AI for the heavy lifting, experienced humans for the judgement.
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See what you could win right now
Sign up free and add your website. In about two minutes we'll tell you whether you're the kind of company these grants are built for, and show you the live competitions that fit.
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Innovate UK · Up to £500kDRIVE35 Innovation Fund: Collaborate 392%
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Innovate UK · Up to £1.2mBiomedical Catalyst 202688%
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NIHR · Up to £1mi4i Product Development76%
Meet GrantHero
A guide through the process, not a form to fill in
GrantHero walks you through the process one question at a time, with a straight answer about whether it's worth going on.
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GuidedHe knows the order things need to happen in (find, qualify, scope, draft, check) and only ever asks for the next thing.
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StructuredWhat your profile already answers is ticked off. What's specific to this competition is asked once, inline, where it matters.
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CandidHe tells you where you stand, in plain words. Including when the honest answer is “not this one”.
GrantHero
Matching
Qualify
Review
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92% · StrongBiomedical Catalyst 2026Innovate UK · up to £1.4m · closes in 12 days
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84% · StrongNIHR i4i Product DevelopmentNIHR · up to £1m · needs an NHS partner
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41 · Possible 41 · Set asideDefence innovation open callDASA · up to £300k
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✓ From profileUK private limited companyFrom Companies House
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✓ From profileTRL 4 → 6 for this bidFrom your R&D goal
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9 / 10Q1 · Need or challengeClear, evidenced, sourced
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6 / 10 6 / 10 · MarkQ2 · Approach and innovationTRL claim unsupported
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5 / 10 5 / 10 · MarkQ4 · Market and commercialisationRoute to revenue is asserted, not shown
The numbers
Results you can trust
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£15m+Secured for UK innovatorsAcross Innovate UK competitions
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6xThe average success rate~30% of our bids win, vs ~5% typical
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40hSaved per applicationVersus starting from a blank page
Trusted by innovative companies at
Find the right competition.
Then win it.
Two halves. Discovery tells you what's worth entering and whether you qualify. Application puts a real expert in the loop when you go for it.
Your matches
4 new this weekBiomedical Catalyst 2026: Industry-led R&D
Innovate UK · Up to £1.2m
Innovation Loans: Future Economy
Innovate UK · Up to £2m
i4i Connect: Health Technology
NIHR · Up to £1m
EIC Accelerator Open
EIC · Up to €2.5m
Scored against your company and where your R&D is heading.
Qualify · Biomedical Catalyst 2026
Step 2What your profile can't tell us, answered once and never asked again.
Check 2 of 3
Can you cover ~30% of the project cost from your own funds?
Questions about this one? Ask me.
“Do I need a clinical partner?” ↗
Projects
One per competitionFirst-in-human study: ATH-201
Written from your profile, goal and the competition scope. £900k.
Companion biomarker feasibility
Same goal, reshaped to what NIHR asks for. £350k.
Grant funding that finds you
We scan every live competition across the funders that matter and tell you which are worth your time, and whether you actually qualify.
A real expert in the loop
AI and human, not either/or. A bid-writer who knows what assessors look for, working from what you've already told us, never asking twice.
If we think you shouldn't apply, we'll say so.
Scoping call with Mark
Ex Innovate UK advisor · £12m+ won
MARK HAS ALREADY READ
WHAT YOU'LL COVER
- › Whether this is the right competition for this project
- › How to position it against the assessment criteria
- › The two things that could sink it, and what to do about them
3 · Market and customers
14 of 19 answered3.2 How will you reach customers?
Inbound via Innovate UK's referral list and two accelerator partnerships. 83 live companies from zero paid acquisition; 14% of strong matches book an expert call…
Pre-filled from Series A deck, p.7 to 8. Check and edit3.4 Nearest competitor and why you're different
Not covered anywhere yet. Talk or type, a sentence is plenty.
Drop in a deck or a plan and I fill every question I can. You check, not copy and paste.
Q4 · Market and commercialisation
6 / 10The UK grant-consulting market is worth ~£180m annually. Our wedge is the 92% of eligible SMEs that never engage a consultant…who would otherwise go unfunded.
Mark · Needs you
Assessors mark down a route to market that's asserted, not evidenced. Can you confirm the 83 users and the two paying pilots so I can cite them here?
You
Confirmed: 83 as of September, pilots are Libero and Protonera.
How we stack up against the alternatives
You had two options: pay thousands for a consultant, or guess your way through with ChatGPT. We built a third way.
You're paying for sales teams, not better applications
Traditional consultants charge £5k+. Much of that covers sales teams and overheads, not a better application.
- Weeks of waiting
- Outrageous fees
- Paid whether you win or not
Expert results, without the expert price tag
AI handles the drafting. Experts make sure it scores, and tell you honestly when not to apply.
- Results in days
- Affordable pricing
- Expert validation
ChatGPT doesn't know what assessors want
Powerful, but generic. No funder knowledge, no expert validation, no idea what assessors actually score.
- No scoring knowledge
- Generic outputs
- No expert validation
More credible rolls of the dice. That's what we're here for.
Drafting is a commodity now. What wins is picking the right competitions, telling your story the way assessors score it, and having an expert check it before it goes in. That's what we do.
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