A capital formation service from OpenGrants 🌿
A development director
who lives in your inbox.
Not a grant-writing tool. A fractional development office that owns your funding pipeline — strategy, research, applications, budgets, and the materials you need to make the ask. You work it entirely by email.
No software to learn. No retainer. 5% only when funding lands.
There's no dashboard to check
Your office gets its own email address. You reply to it like you'd reply to a colleague — and it replies with the work. Drafts, budgets, and research land in a shared folder you can comment on directly.
Tell us about your work
A few minutes, a few sentences, and anything you already have — a budget, a past proposal, your annual report.
Your office writes first
Within a business day it introduces itself, shares your funding picture, and names its first moves.
You just reply
Ask for anything in scope. It works the thread, keeps the pipeline moving, and follows up when you go quiet.
What it actually does
Capital formation, end to end — the work a development director does, not just the documents they produce.
Funding strategy
The right mix of instruments for where you actually are — grants, major gifts, corporate, government — with a prioritized pipeline and a deadline calendar you can plan around.
Funder research
Foundations, community funders, corporate giving, and government programs matched to your mission, your geography, and your stage. Every recommendation cites its source.
Applications & proposals
LOIs, full applications, and proposal packages drafted in the funder's own vocabulary — eligibility checked first, gaps flagged rather than written around.
Budget building
Project and program budgets built as real spreadsheets in your shared folder, structured the way funders expect to receive them.
Socializing the ask
Funder one-pagers, pitch narratives, board and stakeholder summaries — and help with the warm-intro and follow-up sequences you send yourself.
Knowing its limits
Website, marketing, legal, accounting? You get the strategic answer in context, then a warm introduction to someone who does that work well. No pretending.
A person reads everything
The work is done by an AI agent, and every message it sends is reviewed by a human before it goes out. Nothing reaches a funder — or you — unread. Nothing is ever submitted in your name without your approval.
It's why an introduction takes hours instead of seconds. We think that's the right trade.
One fair number: 5%
No upfront costs, retainers, or monthly fees. When funding you raised through us arrives — grants, major gifts, campaigns, sponsorships — we invoice 5% each quarter. If you don't raise, you don't pay. That's the whole model.
Get started freePrefer to just write to us?
Email the onboarding desk directly and tell us about your organization in your own words. Attach anything useful. We'll take it from there.
onboard@agents.opengrants.ioOpen in email →