A human editor for your grant proposal.
FREE - FIRST 1500 WORDS
Submit the opening section of your proposal and receive a professional language edit — human-only, returned in 72 hours, at no cost. No registration required.
Horizon Europe
ERC
NIH
National funding bodies
Submit your first 1,500 words — free.
Returned with tracked changes and editor's notes within 72 hours. No AI at any stage.
<15%
Average grant success rate across Horizon Europe and NIH. In a field where most strong science goes unfunded, the proposal's language, clarity, and structural flow are often the deciding margin between funding and rejection.
Why proposals fail
Your science is evaluated through your language.
The Narrative Gap
Failing to connect societal impact with technical methodology in a way a broad review panel can follow — not just specialists in your sub-field.
Compliance Fatigue
Missing subtle formatting, framing, or administrative requirements specific to each funding body — even when the science fully meets the criteria.
The Expert Trap
Writing for your sub-field instead of a multi-disciplinary review panel. What reads as precision to you reads as inaccessible to them.
What we do
Precision editing for high-stakes proposals.
We don't just check grammar. We edit for persuasion, clarity, and strategic alignment with funding priorities.
Strategic structural review
We optimise the flow of your Rationale and Innovation sections to hook reviewers in the first two pages — where decisions are made.
Impact maximisation
We help articulate the "So what?" — ensuring your project's significance is undeniable to a non-specialist reader on the panel.
Technical clarity
Our editors are familiar with scientific terminology — ensuring your descriptions remain accurate but accessible across disciplines.
Funder-specific alignment
Language and framing adapted to the specific priorities and vocabulary of Horizon Europe, ERC, NIH, or your target funding body.
No institutional partnership yet?
Submit anyway.
We'll review your proposal and provide a professional language assessment at no cost. If your work qualifies — and we'll tell you honestly if it does — we'll prepare a partnership proposal for your Department Head or Research Office on your behalf, outlining how a Quillcademia institutional agreement would cover editing costs for your entire team. You submit. We do the outreach.
We work with proposals targeting:
Horizon Europe & European Research Council (ERC)
NIH, NSF, and US federal funding bodies
National funding agencies
Private and corporate research foundations
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