Thirty minutes with someone who’s already read your project
Your bid-writer comes to the call with your project and eligibility answers already read. It’s a go / no-go point, not a sales call: if the bid isn’t worth making, you hear it here, and there’s no pressure to continue.
No introductions needed
Everything you’ve already told GrantHero, company profile, eligibility answers, project brief, any documents you’ve dropped in, is in front of your bid-writer before you speak. You don’t re-explain the business. You get into what the funder will care about.
A go / no-go, not a pitch
Thirty minutes with a grant expert on the things that decide a bid: the team gaps an assessor will spot, whether the numbers hold, where costs look high against benchmarks. It ends with a straight answer, go, or don’t, and nothing is charged until you say go.
Mark has written up the call, the notes are in Documents and the next step is filling the gaps in Information gathering.
Written up for you, so nothing gets lost
Your bid-writer writes the call up inside the workspace, what was covered and the few things only you can supply, usually two or three. Most of the rest is already in hand. This is the kick-off for information gathering, and nothing lives in someone’s notebook.