Draft notes guide
Source-cited draft notes for grant applications
Draft notes are useful preparation material only when the team can trace claims back to official funder pages and separate source facts from AI wording.
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Teams using AI-assisted preparation material for funding applications and internal opportunity reviews.
Make the first review more concrete
Learn how to use AI notes for grant applications without losing source citations.
Review workflow
What FundingLens helps you do
Keep source facts, caveats and next actions together so your team can decide what deserves attention before application work starts.
Start each note with the official source URL, fetched date and the exact eligibility or deadline point being summarised.
Use AI to organise notes, not to invent evidence. Claims about need, impact, costs or eligibility should have a source or internal evidence owner.
Before submission, a human should check every funder claim, caveat and deadline against the live source page.
Readiness checks
- Source URL saved beside each note.
- Verified facts separated from interpretation.
- Eligibility caveats assigned for review.
- Organisation evidence owner named.
- Final human review completed before use.
Eligibility caveats
- FundingLens explains fit signals, eligibility caveats and next steps; it does not promise funding success or application approval.
- Always check the official funder page before acting because deadlines, match-funding rules and eligible costs can change.
- AI output stays separate from verified source facts and needs human review before it is used in an application.
Source references
Use the official UK grant listing to verify live eligibility, deadlines and funder guidance. FundingLens records the source URL and fetched date when it reviews an item.
Official sourceNational Lottery Community Fund eligibility guidanceThe National Lottery Community Fund explains that many programmes expect a constituted group or organisation and lists common accepted and excluded applicant types.
Official sourceInnovate UK application guidanceUse the guidance to check competition scope, opening and closing rules, account setup, deadlines and submission requirements.
Related FundingLens pages
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