A ROVA journey · SPARKLE · BID · RDTAX · DATAROOM

For founders seeking funding.

If you've been searching this with a deadline approaching — which grant fits what I'm actually building, the SBIR I keep half-drafting, the proposal that needs to survive a hostile reader — keep reading. The page is for you.

Not a grant-writing service. A journey: a diagnostic conversation about what you're actually building and what fits, a plan written with you, a dataroom that traces, drafting that refuses to invent — and refusal to apply when that's the honest answer.

What this is — and isn't

It is

A diagnostic before a draft. The CLARITY conversation finds the simple true thing underneath what you're building. The plan is written with you, not at you. SPARKLE / BID / RDTAX write the application only when truth-pack and voice are locked. Refusal is a valid output.

It isn't

A grant-mill. An AI that invents past performance. A vendor that says yes to every solicitation. A black-box pipeline that hands you a draft you didn't help shape. A service that bills you when the application shouldn't have been made.

The four-step journey

Step 1 — diagnostic

A conversation with CLARITY

What are you actually building, what funding shape would serve it, what's the smallest move that gets there. A diagnostic, not a sales call. You leave with a verdict on whether to pursue this funding at all — including "do not apply" when that's the honest answer. Refusal saves you 40-80 hours of work the application doesn't deserve.

Step 2 — plan

A plan written with you

The solicitations to pursue, the order, the timeline, which specialists you need (writer, RFP-response, tax credit). What you bring to the dataroom. What we ask of you, and when. Currently coordinated by the operator — the plan is written together, in a single working session, not a deliverable handed back days later.

Step 3 — dataroom

Paperwork that traces — through DATAROOM

The room you walk into the morning before a hostile reader sees your application. Cap-table that ties to certificates, customer claims that tie to contracts, IP that ties to assignments, foreign subs named before the diligence list asks. Every claim traces. Every gap named by us before it's named by them. The dataroom is what makes the drafting honest — the writer cannot fabricate when the source ties.

Step 4 — drafting

Writing with SPARKLE, BID, or RDTAX

SPARKLE writes federal/foundation grants and SBIR/STTR proposals — voice-locked to your writing, fact-locked to your dataroom. BID does RFP response under the same discipline, with a compliance matrix. RDTAX prepares federal §41 R&D tax credit substantiation. Each is success-priced — you don't pay if the application doesn't land — and each can say do not apply when the truth-pack and the solicitation don't line up.

Start the conversation

We're calibrating the funding-seeker journey to its first cohort right now. Tell us in one paragraph what you're sitting with — what you're trying to build, what funding you're considering, what's making you hesitate. We'll respond with a booking time for the CLARITY conversation.

apply@rova.institute

No charge for first conversations while CLARITY is calibrating to the funding-strategy shape. We're learning what serves; you're helping us see it. Honest about what's there. Honest about what isn't.