Grant Master has launched Grant Wizard, an artificial intelligence platform designed to help African nonprofits, startups and social enterprises find grant opportunities and generate proposal drafts faster.
The Nigerian grant intelligence firm said the new platform aims to simplify the complex and time-consuming process many organisations face when applying for grants, particularly early-stage groups that often lack the resources to hire professional grant writers.
According to the company, preparing a single grant application can take as much as 40 hours, requiring extensive research, technical writing and careful alignment with donor requirements.
Grant Wizard was built to address this challenge by combining artificial intelligence with the grant intelligence insights the company has developed through its training and advisory programmes.
“Across Africa, we see incredible ideas and impactful organisations that struggle to access funding simply because the grant application process is complex and resource-intensive,” said Olugbenga Ogunbowale, chief executive and co-founder of Grant Master.
He explained that the platform is designed to help organisations identify relevant funding opportunities and prepare competitive proposals without the usual barriers of cost and time.
Users of the platform begin by creating a profile describing their organisation’s mission, programmes and areas of impact. The system then scans thousands of grant opportunities and identifies those that match the organisation’s sector, location and eligibility requirements.
Once a suitable funding opportunity is selected, the platform analyses the funder’s guidelines and automatically generates a structured proposal draft.
The draft can then be reviewed, edited and exported by the organisation before submission to the funding body.
Grant Master said the platform draws on knowledge gained from working with more than 1,100 alumni and client organisations that have participated in its grant training and advisory programmes.
Collectively, these organisations have secured more than $30 million in grant funding using the company’s methodology.
One of them is Crop2Cash, a Nigerian agritech company that secured $400,000 in grant funding after applying the grant intelligence framework developed by Grant Master.
“Access to the right grant intelligence can make a significant difference for growing organisations,” said Michael Ogundare, chief executive of Crop2Cash.
“Tools like Grant Wizard can help more African founders and nonprofits compete effectively for global funding.”
Grant Wizard launches with three subscription plans, including a free tier that offers limited proposal credits, as well as paid plans for organisations that apply for grants frequently.
Founded in Ibadan, southwestern Nigeria, Grant Master is supported by the Mastercard Foundation and the United States African Development Foundation (USADF).
