Grant applications
Grant applications, drafted from the research you have already done.
Bidwell reads each funder call, structures the case for support against the published assessment criteria, pulls evidence from your prior applications, publications and track record, and produces a first draft your principal investigators review instead of writing from blank.
Weeks to days
on each application
More applications
in flight per cycle, same team
PI time
spent on the science, not the prose
Sound familiar
Why grant applications eat your week
Every fresh call starts from a blank page, even when the project, the team and the underpinning publications already exist on the shelf.
Principal investigators give up weekends writing the same track-record paragraph for the fifth time this year.
The grants office sees the application 48 hours before the funder deadline, with no time to challenge weak sections.
Win rates sit at 10 to 25 percent across most calls. The way to win more is to apply more, properly, and that is exactly what teams have no capacity to do.
How Bidwell helps
Grant applications, drafted from the work you have already done
One research library for every prior win and near-miss
Load your previous applications (successful and unsuccessful), publications, REF outputs, ethics approvals, prior PI track records and impact case studies. Bidwell indexes everything so the next call is mostly retrieval, not authoring from blank.
Drafted against each funder's actual scheme
Bidwell reads the funder call. It structures the case for support, lay summary, pathways to impact, resources and environment, and risk sections to the published assessment criteria, matched to the scheme. UKRI Outline, NIHR i4i, Wellcome Discovery, Innovate UK Smart and Horizon Europe each get the right shape rather than a generic narrative.
Track record and team sections, current and consistent
Pulls fresh publication lists, recent grant history, postgrad supervision and current funding for every named investigator. Numbers are sourced from your underlying records, not paraphrased. The version that lands at the funder matches the version finance and the research office have signed off.
Flags the sections that need a human
Novel hypotheses, costings against FEC, ethical considerations and competing-interest declarations are surfaced as review items, not silently filled in. Your PI reviews and approves rather than starts from blank.
Who owns this on your side
Built for the people who actually answer the questions
For
Principal investigators
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.
For
Research development officers
You spotted the call, scoped the fit, and now you are also writing the case for support. Bidwell drafts the first cut from the call and the PI's record so you spend your time on strategy and the parts only you can do.
For
Grants managers
Grants managers own pipeline, compliance, costings and sign-off. The drafting load that drowns the office is the bit that scales least well. Bidwell takes it off you without taking the controls off you.
Frequently asked
Bidwell for grant applications, in short
Anything with a written application. UKRI councils (EPSRC, ESRC, BBSRC, MRC, AHRC, NERC, STFC), Innovate UK, NIHR (i4i, HSDR, HTA, PGfAR, AMS), Wellcome, Cancer Research UK, British Heart Foundation, the major medical research charities, Horizon Europe, and university or trust internal calls. If you can upload the call document, Bidwell can structure to it.
Stop spending weeks on paperwork.
Set up takes 15 minutes. First tender draft inside the hour.
No credit card. Cancel any time. From £15 per month.