Every year the European Union and national governments publish thousands of grant calls. Horizon Europe, structural funds, national innovation support programs, regional schemes for SMEs. Tens of billions of euros, annually. Most companies in Slovakia and Central Europe never see a cent of it.
Eligibility isn't the problem. Time is. Finding the right call, reading it properly and filling out the application adds up to a job nobody has room for.
Monitoring hundreds of databases. Reading dozens of pages of conditions per call. Verifying eligibility. Writing project proposals. Assembling budgets. Coordinating partners. Then the forms, which read like someone designed them to make you give up.
That's the problem we set out to solve. Hence GrantAI.
GrantAI is a working tool for grant teams and advisers. It monitors agreed call sources, scores fit against an organization profile, prepares eligibility analysis, and drafts the first working materials.
It does not replace a grant adviser. Expert assessment, final strategy, approval, and submission stay with your team.
GrantAI monitors the databases and portals agreed for the pilot scope. These can include EU funds, national programs, regional schemes, and sector-specific calls.
The system doesn't wait for you to open a call. It takes each new one apart on its own and works out who can apply, how much money is on the table, how much you have to co-finance, when it closes, what you have to deliver and how you'll be scored. Dozens of pages of technical documentation come back out as a structured summary that a person and a machine can both read.
So the hours you'd otherwise sink into browsing portals and working through 50-page guides go away. The relevant calls arrive in a format you can actually use.
Finding a grant is one thing. Finding the right grant for your organization is another.
You build a detailed organization profile in GrantAI. Size, sector, region, previous projects, technology focus, financial indicators. The system then matches you against relevant calls automatically.
This is not keyword search. The AI compares meaning rather than words. It checks eligibility first, so whether your size, region and sector even fit the call. Then it weighs how close your focus sits to that call's priorities. Last, it asks whether your track record matches what evaluators expect to see.
You skip the manual filtering of every call. What arrives is a list ranked for your specific situation, together with the match reasons and evidence for expert assessment.
Once a call survives screening, GrantAI prepares a working base for the next step. This is not a finished application. The materials are intended for expert review.
From the applicant profile and the requirements of the specific call, the system writes a first draft of the project proposal. Description, objectives, methodology, expected outputs. It adapts the language and the structure to what that call asks for, because every program has its own idea of what an application should look like.
It can also prepare a budget outline, timeline, and attachment checklist. The team reviews every suggestion against the rules of the call and the real project.
All of it is a draft for review. GrantAI does not submit anything on your behalf. It gets the materials to a state where the application costs you hours instead of weeks.
Beyond analysis, matching and drafting, GrantAI handles the day-to-day around grants:
GrantAI is not just for large companies with grant departments. The biggest gain goes to the opposite group. Organizations that qualify for funding but can't justify a grant specialist on payroll.
Startups and small businesses often lack the capacity to track calls and prepare the first materials. Internal grant teams need a faster way to separate relevant calls from those that do not fit the profile.
For research institutions and universities, grants are the funding base, yet the paperwork around them eats the hours that should go into research. GrantAI absorbs the routine. Non-profits have the same problem from the other end. Project funding keeps them alive, capacity is thin, and every day saved on administration is a day returned to the actual work.
Two more groups are less obvious. Consulting firms run grants on behalf of clients, so speed converts directly into how many clients they can carry. And local governments can reach plenty of funds but rarely have anyone free to prepare a good application. For cities and municipalities, GrantAI lowers the barrier to entry.
Five steps.
GrantAI is available for a demo and a focused pilot.
Its current scope covers call screening, profile-based matching, and first draft materials. The exact sources and program types are agreed for each pilot.
At Rise we think technology should take barriers down rather than put them up. Europe's grant system is a huge opportunity, but its complexity keeps it out of reach of exactly the people who need it most.
A small company with an innovative product and no 20,000 euros for a grant consultant. A nonprofit helping its community with nobody free to do the paperwork. A startup building the technology of the future with no time to read 80-page call guides.
GrantAI exists so those organizations get the same shot as large corporations with dedicated grant departments.
If you want to see GrantAI or define a pilot scope for your team, get in touch.
Write to rise@rise.sk or contact us directly. We'd be glad to show you what GrantAI can do.
Founder and software lead at Rise.sk. He designs and delivers web applications, data systems, and automation, and writes about software decisions, AI, and digital services.
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