A polish workflow built for grant proposals. We tune to the review criteria of the major funders, NIH study sections, NSF panels, ERC review, Wellcome, and produce prose that reads like a researcher wrote it, not a chatbot.
R01, R21, K series. Tuned to NIH 9-point scoring + study section conventions.
CAREER, Standard, GRFP. Intellectual Merit + Broader Impacts framing.
Starting, Consolidator, Advanced. Tuned to the B1/B2 structure.
Discovery Awards, Early-Career. UK-style review conventions.
One-page distillation. Polish budget: aggressive, this is the page reviewers read first and often only.
Polish budget: standard. Claim-preserving, we sharpen sentences but never strengthen scientific claims beyond what you wrote.
Polish budget: conservative. Methods-section discipline. No active-voice push, no sentence restructuring without your approval.
Polish budget: standard. We’ve catalogued the 21 most common clichéd Broader Impacts paragraphs and flag them.
Polish budget: light. We don’t touch dollar figures or itemized categories. Tightens transitional language only.
From an R01 submission, 2025. Used with PI permission. The Specific Aims page is roughly 600 words. Reviewers read it twice, sometimes only it. Every word counts.
Despite decades of research, the molecular mechanisms underlying neural plasticity in the auditory cortex remain incompletely understood. Our preliminary data suggest that FOXP2 may play a critical role, and we propose to investigate this further using a multi-disciplinary approach combining genetic, electrophysiological, and computational methods.
Three FOXP2 variants alter song-learning behaviour in zebra finches (Lai et al., 2001), but it is unclear which step of auditory-cortex plasticity each variant disrupts. We propose to test, in three Aims, whether the variants act before, during, or after the critical period.
After polish: page is 14 words shorter, leaving room for the third Aim’s rationale that wasn’t fitting before. The PI added that paragraph in revision; the proposal was awarded on the third NIH review cycle.
$49 per proposal up to 15,000 words, or included in the Lab plan for groups submitting more than one a quarter.
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