Generating your first draft

The Apply tab is where applications get written. You bring the funder’s questions; PowerGrant answers them using your knowledge base — your real mission, programs, numbers, and past wins.

Start an application

1. Open the Apply tab and fill in the basics: the grant’s name, the funder, and any details you have (amount, deadline, category).
2. Under Application Questions to Answer, click Upload and add the funder’s application document — PDF and Word both work — or paste the questions in directly.
3. PowerGrant reads the document and breaks it into the individual questions you need to answer. Each becomes its own section in the Application Workspace.
4. If the funder provided extra material — guidelines, priorities, a program overview — add it as Supplemental Guidance. The AI follows it when drafting (word limits, “no acronyms” rules, tone requirements).

Generate the draft

Click Generate First Draft. PowerGrant answers every question from your knowledge base — this is a starting point built from your actual facts, not generic grant-speak.

A few things worth knowing:

• Answers you want to write yourself can be marked as a Unique Answer — the AI leaves them alone and treats your text as authoritative.
• Autosave is on. Your work is saved as you go.
• Application Progress tracks which answers you’ve marked complete, so a multi-week application doesn’t lose its thread.

Every application you start is saved in the Drafts tab, so you can leave one half-finished and come back to it.

Making it better

The first draft is deliberately a draft. From here you’ll typically refine individual answers, then run the second draft to pull the whole application together before exporting.

If an answer gets a fact wrong or misses your best number, that’s almost always a knowledge-base gap — add the fact and regenerate that section.