Principal investigators and academic researchers
The grants keep your students employed
Your lab runs on continuity, and continuity runs on the next award landing before the last one ends. Quillify finds the programs you are eligible for across federal, state and private funders, and turns a proposal from a month of your research time into an afternoon of it.
The legwork is yours and it is not your work
You do the searching, the eligibility reading, the formatting, the budget justification and the boilerplate that every agency wants in a slightly different shape. None of that is research, all of it is done in the hours that would have been research, and it scales with the number of people you are trying to keep funded.
Quillify drafts from your own material: your papers, your protocols, your prior awards, your preliminary data. The substance stays yours because it was yours to begin with. What it takes is the assembly.
What that looks like in practice
- It reads the whole announcement
- Federal solicitations run long and hide the disqualifying sentence in the middle. Ask “Am I qualified?” and it reads the real document, then tells you where you stand.
- It drafts the sections that are not the science
- Facilities, broader impacts, data management, budget justification, prior support. The parts that take a week and contribute nothing to whether the science is good.
- The compliance checklist is per requirement
- Including the ones that need somebody else: institutional letters, cost-share commitments, an IRB or IACUC approval with its own timeline. Knowing on day one which of those you need is what makes a deadline survivable.
- It grades the draft before a colleague has to
- Scored against the announcement, with a prioritized list of weaknesses. Use it as the pass before you spend a collaborator's goodwill on a read.
If you are commercializing, look at SBIR and STTR
STTR exists specifically for the university-to-company path and requires the research institution as a formal partner. SBIR is the company-side version. Both are non-dilutive, both fund the awkward stage between a result and a product, and both are chronically under-applied for by academics who assume they are for startups, not for them.
We ingest them alongside everything else, so they show up in the same search rather than in a separate system you would have to remember to check. What SBIR and STTR actually are.
What this is not
It is not a research administration system. It does not talk to your institution's pre-award office, it does not route internal approvals, it does not handle effort reporting or subaward management, and it will not produce the forms your sponsored programs office requires in the format they require them.
It also does not submit anything. Grants.gov, ASSIST and Research.gov all want a person with institutional credentials, and your research office would have strong opinions about any tool that claimed otherwise.
If your Research Development office is looking at this too, they are asking a different question.
Has anyone actually done this?
Researchers and PIs are among the hundreds we have served, and the story below is a manufacturer rather than a lab. What transfers is the arithmetic: one research professional had been spending 200 to 250 hours on each SBIR, and an SBIR now takes our clients about five hours from go decision to submission.
A 3D printing manufacturer won $5M from a state semiconductor program, after finding it among several funders worth approaching that they had not known existed.
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