What about confidential pre-publication results?

UK data residency, no training on your content, full audit trail per section. Pre-publication data, IP-sensitive methods and ethics-protected material stay in your account and never leak between users.

Does it know my field?

It learns from your prior applications and the literature you cite, so the technical register matches yours. Bidwell is not a domain expert, it is a retrieval and drafting engine that uses your domain knowledge as the source.

How does it handle the lay summary?

Bidwell drafts the plain English summary from the case for support, respects funder word counts and reading-level guidance, and flags any jargon that slipped through for a final pass.

Will my research office be involved?

Yes. The research office can review every section before submission and own the costings sign-off, but the first draft no longer needs to be theirs.

For principal investigators

Get back to the science. Bidwell drafts the application.

Bidwell reads the funder call, structures the case for support against the published criteria, pulls evidence from your prior applications and publications, and produces a first draft you sharpen rather than start from blank.

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Weekends back

on each application cycle

More applications

submitted per call, same PI bandwidth

In your voice

because it learns from your prior submissions

Sound familiar

The bits of the job that should not be this hard

You write the same track-record paragraph for the fifth time this year, in slightly different words for each scheme.
A weekend disappears into the case for support before the science even starts.
The grants office sees the application 48 hours before the deadline, with no time to challenge weak sections.
Win rates sit at 10 to 25 percent on most calls. The only way to win more is to apply more, properly, and there is never time.

How Bidwell helps

The shape of the day, after Bidwell

Track record and publications, always current

Bidwell pulls fresh publication lists, recent grant history, postgrad supervision and current funding into every application. Numbers are sourced from your underlying records rather than paraphrased from last year's draft.

Case for support, structured against the call

Drop in the funder call. Bidwell shapes the case for support, lay summary, pathways to impact and resources sections to the published assessment criteria, scheme by scheme. UKRI Outline, NIHR i4i, Wellcome Discovery, Innovate UK Smart and Horizon Europe each get the right shape rather than a generic narrative.

You stay in charge of the science

Bidwell drafts the prose. You own the hypothesis, the methods, the risk register and the team composition. Novel ideas and ethical considerations are flagged for review, not silently filled in.

One library across every application

Successful applications, near misses, REF outputs, ethics approvals and prior costings are all indexed. The next call is mostly a retrieval problem, not a writing problem.

Frequently asked

Bidwell for principal investigators, in short

Yes. Bidwell drafts from your prior successful applications, so the rhythm, framing and level of technical detail match how you already write. Reviewers should see no jump between your introduction and the rest of the case.

Stop spending weeks on paperwork.

Set up takes 15 minutes. First tender draft inside the hour.

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