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CASE STUDY · 02BIOTECH CLIENTAI GRANT WORKFLOW

GrantSniper

AI grant discovery and proposal drafting, productized into a recurring commercial workflow — as the sole technical owner.

DE-IDENTIFIED BY CATEGORY + PROBLEM · NO CLIENT NAME, NO REAL GRANT DATA · RELATIVE METRICS ONLY

01 · THE BRIEF

Discovery and drafting, as one workflow

A biotech client was losing time to grant discovery and first-draft proposals. The brief: productize both — surface the right calls, then draft credible, citable proposals — as a workflow they'd pay for month after month.

02 · CONSTRAINTS

Commercial, recurring, trustworthy

Subscription-grade reliability, drafts a scientist could defend in front of funders, and retrieval grounded in real sources — not confident fiction.

  • Grounded retrieval — every claim traceable to a source
  • Drafts a human can defend, not just generate
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03 · WHAT I DIDN'T BUILD

The decisions that mattered

[PLACEHOLDER: 2–3 SHORT PARAGRAPHS ON WHAT YOU DELIBERATELY LEFT OUT — e.g. WHERE YOU KEPT A HUMAN IN THE LOOP INSTEAD OF FULL AUTOMATION, WHAT YOU REFUSED TO AUTO-SUBMIT, THE SCOPE YOU CUT TO SHIP THE RECURRING WORKFLOW.]

04 · ARCHITECTURE

The shape of the system

AI GRANT DISCOVERY & DRAFTINGDRAFT · CONFIRM ARCHITECTURE
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Draft architecture for GrantSniper. Grant sources and an eligibility index feed retrieval-augmented generation, which drafts proposals and runs a citation check. A human review gates every draft before a submission pack is delivered.
05 · WHAT BROKE

Where it got hard

[PLACEHOLDER: THE MESSIEST SLICE — HALLUCINATED CITATIONS, RETRIEVAL DRIFT, AN EVAL THAT CAUGHT A BAD DRAFT. WHAT YOU MEASURED, HOW YOU DEBUGGED IT, WHAT YOU CHANGED.]

06 · HOW I MEASURED IT

Outcome, in relative terms

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07 · THE STACK
TYPESCRIPT · REACT · VITETAILWINDSUPABASE POSTGRES · RLSRETRIEVAL · RAGNODE · EXPRESS · AUTH MIDDLEWAREDENO EDGE FUNCTIONSPYTHON INGESTIONVITEST · PLAYWRIGHT

Directed by agents, reviewed by hand. Retrieval and drafting are evaluated, not trusted — with a human on every claim that reaches a funder.

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