Grants & Funding
From call discovery to submission-ready applications. Running at Apply Consulting.
What actually changes
Every engagement is aimed at one of these. If it is not, it is not worth building.
Repetitive work stops being human work
Document handling, data entry, triage, and reporting move to systems that record what they did and pass on anything they should not decide.
Work stops waiting on people
Anything that sat in a queue for someone to read, route, or retype now moves while your team is doing something else.
You take on more without hiring for it
Volume grows without a matching line in the headcount plan, because the work it creates does not grow with it.
Customers get the same answer every time
Response quality stops depending on who picked the request up and how busy they were that day.
What is running today
Four working systems, running in real businesses. Named where the client agreed.
Marketing Engine
Strategy, research, writing, design, review, all as a coordinated team. Running at Sidekick and firstsignals.ai.
Field Service
Enquiry to invoice to compliance, with the messaging and scheduling wired in.
Competitive Intelligence
Market scans, competitor analysis, positioning research, delivered as premium briefs.
All four run on Bureau, the operating layer we set up and manage for each firm. Auth, roles, audit trails, and cost tracking already live there, which is why an engagement starts at your workflow rather than at infrastructure. Bureau is delivered through Clarvia. There is no self-serve version.
Explore BureauHow we keep it under control
AI work can move quickly. It still needs somewhere for the risk to go.
How we work in detailWe agree the risk before we build
Every engagement starts by writing down where AI can act on its own, where a person has to check it, and which data never goes near the model.
Security is part of the acceptance criteria
Prompt injection, data leaks, weak tool permissions, and unsafe fallbacks are tested before launch, not patched after.
One workflow first
We agree what working means before we build it, ship one bounded workflow, measure it, and expand from there.
You get the system, not a dependency
Architecture notes, monitoring, runbooks, access boundaries, and named ownership all transfer at handover.