Wellspring
The full funding cycle, from finding the right funder to reporting on what the money achieved.
The problem
Three applications are due this month, each asking the same questions in different words. Last year’s best answers are in a document someone saved to their own laptop.
Who it is for
Charities, social enterprises, community groups, arts organisations, university research offices, and companies applying for innovation grants.
What it does
- Funder prospects with criteria, deadlines and notes on fit.
- An application pipeline: drafting, review, submitted and decision.
- An answer library: the best past answers reused, AI drafts a first pass against each funder’s criteria, and a person approves every word.
- Budgets for each application, and awarded grants tracked as restricted funds, linked to Headroom.
- A reporting calendar for every grant, with outcomes, figures and case studies gathered through the year.
- Funder relationship history, so knowledge survives when staff move on.
Why it is different
Most grant software is built for funders, not applicants. Applicants run on spreadsheets and memory. Wellspring is built for the people asking.
AI and automation
AI matches funders to the organisation’s work using their published criteria, drafts each application from the answer library within the funder’s questions and word limits, and drafts end-of-grant reports from the outcomes gathered. Deadline and reporting reminders run on their own. A person approves every word sent to a funder.
First release
Prospects, pipeline, deadlines and the answer library.