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title: ToolRouter — Workflow
description: A multi-tool workflow showing how to combine ToolRouter tools for a complex task.
url: https://toolrouter.com/workflows/grant-fit-briefing
---
# Grant Fit Briefing

Build a funding brief by combining live grant search, precedent funding history, applicant-fit scoring, and deeper synthesis.

Funding teams often waste time moving from one disconnected search surface to another: live programs in one tab, funded-project history in another, and a manually written memo somewhere else. That makes it hard to tell whether a grant is merely adjacent to your work or genuinely aligned with your organization.

This workflow keeps those steps together. Search live opportunities, compare them against real funding precedent, score the shortlist against your applicant profile, and finish with a research brief that is useful for internal prioritization or leadership review.

**Tools:** grants-finder, deep-research
**Category:** finance

## Steps

### 1. Search live grant programs

Search official grant sources for active opportunities filtered by geography, applicant type, deadline, and funding range.

- **Tool:** grants-finder
- **Skill:** search_opportunities
- **Input:** Funding theme, geography, applicant-type, deadline, and amount filters
- **Output:** Live grant opportunities with funders, deadlines, funding bands, and source links

### 2. Check precedent funding

Review recent funded-project history to see whether similar work, institutions, or themes have already attracted support.

- **Tool:** grants-finder
- **Skill:** search_grant_history
- **Input:** Topic, organization, or funder queries related to the shortlisted programs
- **Output:** Funding-history records with organizations, funders, dates, and amounts for precedent analysis

### 3. Rank by applicant fit

Score the live opportunities against your organization profile so the shortlist reflects real eligibility and funding-fit signals rather than just keywords.

- **Tool:** grants-finder
- **Skill:** match_applicant_profile
- **Input:** Applicant profile including organization type, geography, sector, funder preference, and funding need
- **Output:** Ranked grant matches with fit scores and reasons behind each score

### 4. Write the funding brief

Synthesize the shortlist and precedent signals into a clean funding brief that explains why the selected programs deserve pursuit.

- **Tool:** deep-research
- **Skill:** research
- **Input:** Shortlisted opportunities, history findings, and the organization profile
- **Output:** A structured narrative brief summarizing best-fit programs, strategic rationale, and follow-up questions

## Benefits

- Combines live grant discovery with precedent funding evidence
- Improves shortlists with explicit applicant-fit scoring
- Produces a reusable funding brief instead of a loose collection of links
- Helps teams filter out grants that look attractive but do not actually fit
