Merit

Most grant programs are decided by people who read 200 applications a week. They aren't reading yours carefully. They're scanning. Merit teaches you to write applications that survive that scan — the structure, the framing, the three sentences that have to land in the first paragraph or the rest doesn't get read.

You paste a grant brief. Merit asks you eight questions about your project, your evidence base, and your previous track record. It produces a draft that already lines up with the reviewer's scoring rubric for that specific program, with red-flag detection for the most common rejection reasons (vague impact, no measurable outcomes, missing budget rationale).

We were tired of watching independent makers — who are doing genuinely better work than half the funded projects — lose out because nobody had taught them the trade craft of grant writing. Merit is the coach we wish we'd had.