Technique · 1 prompt, 5 uses
PDFThe Interview Prompt
The one-sentence technique behind everything else here: AI interviews you first — one question at a time — then writes.
Practical resource · Workflow · 5 stages
AI grant writing that doesn't read like a template
Drop an application into AI and say 'fill this in' and you get a template back. This workflow is the other way: build the funder context once, get interviewed one question at a time, draft in your voice, then face a skeptical assessor before the funder does.
Inside it
- Stage 1 — the funder context project you build once and reuse
- Stage 2 — a ten-minute alignment check that kills the wrong applications early
- Stage 3 — the interview prompt: one question at a time until the real story is out
- Stage 4 — drafting rules that forbid invented facts ([NEED] flags instead)
- Stage 5 — the tired, skeptical assessor persona who reviews before you submit
- The red line: what never goes into an AI tool, and the two-hour fix if you have no policy
The most expensive grant is the one you were never going to win. If the alignment check answers 4 out of 10, thank it and close the tab. That ten minutes just saved you the week.
For anyone who writes grants and is tired of deleting the phrase 'in today's rapidly evolving landscape'.
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