Grant funding intelligence
Find funding.
Compete to win.
Solicite matches your company to the grant funding worth pursuing, reads what each program actually rewards, and watches for new windows so you never miss one.
The system rewards insiders. Solicite hands you the insider's edge: the right topics, what each program rewards, and when to move, so you walk in to win.
Tell us what you build. See your strongest open match, free.
One sentence is plenty. No account, no credit card.
The problem
$6 billion a year. Most of it goes to people who know the system.
The SBIR/STTR program is the largest source of early-stage R&D funding in the United States. Eleven federal agencies distribute over $6 billion a year to small businesses building everything from NIH-funded medical devices to defense systems, with adjacent sources like IMLS and SBA grants coming into view.
But the system is built for insiders. Solicitations run 200+ pages. Topics are scattered across agencies with no intelligence layer. The companies that win aren't always the most qualified; they're the ones who found the right topic and understood what the program wanted.
And the calendar itself is a moving target. The program went dark for five months in 2025, then came back on a monthly cadence, every agency on its own schedule. Miss a window and the next one might be months away, or it might land next week.
They were good enough. They just didn't have the intelligence.
There's always a window open somewhere.
Funding comes on different rhythms. Federal R&D moves in waves you can't time; state and other grant programs flow more steadily on their own budget cycles. Solicite watches all of it and tells you what fits and when it opens.
Take the Department of Defense, the largest SBIR funder. Even within this one agency the timing is chaos: it went dark for five months in 2025, came roaring back after April's reauthorization, and its branches each run their own clock. Multiply that across all eleven SBIR agencies and there's almost always a window open somewhere. We ingest open solicitations every day and watch for the next one so you don't have to.
A single agency: open DoD SBIR/STTR topics by branch · last 14 months
Five months of dead air, then a flood. No founder could have timed that.
A single agency, charted for clarity: distinct DoD topics with an open application window each month (source: DSIP). DoD is the largest SBIR agency, roughly 46% of awards. We ingest currently-open solicitations across all eleven agencies live today; the multi-agency history shown here is DoD because archived cross-agency windows aren't yet backfilled.
Your live pipeline up top: strong matches, what's in preparation, and the next deadline, so you always know where you stand.
Describe each product or service once. Built-in tools help you sharpen the descriptions and metadata that surface your best matches.
See what's open and what you've already applied to, with deadlines and status, all in one workspace.
Built for one founder or many. Invite teammates, share seats and credits, and work the pipeline together.
Dashboard
Three products tracked · 1 report ready to review
| Product | Status | Matches | |
|---|---|---|---|
ThermaClad Barriers Oxidation-resistant ceramic coatings · CVD | Report ready | 7 strong | View report → |
PyroSense Thermal Monitoring Distributed fiber-optic temperature sensing | Analyzing | – | ~20 min left |
AeroShell Ablative Panels Lightweight ablative TPS for re-entry | Draft | – | Edit & submit |
Every product, report, and deadline in one workspace, from first match to Phase I delivery.
You can't chase eighty thousand listings. You can win the few that fit.
The shortcut tools brag about the size of the pile: tens of thousands of listings, a proposal drafted in minutes, a panel of AI "reviewers." But a bigger haystack is not a bigger advantage. You don't need every diner in three states to find one good steak. What wins is knowing which few opportunities are genuinely yours, then competing hard on those.
Floods you with thousands of grants, most you'll never qualify for.
Fit-ranked across every funding source: Strong Matches / Worth Exploring / Long Shots, with a reason for each.
Writes the proposal for you: the fast path into the triage pile.
We never write it. The words stay yours, which is the only place they're safe.
Simulates a review panel: one model, a different verdict each run.
The reviewer's lens: the agencies' real A–E rubric, every mark traced to your brief.
The fast way has a cliff at the end of it.
In 2025 the NIH put it in writing: applications "substantially developed by AI" won't be treated as your original work, and they're using detection to find them, with cost disallowance, suspension, even termination on the table. NSF wants AI use disclosed. Other agencies haven't ruled yet, but we expect them to follow NIH's lead. Speed was never the goal: getting passed over for your best-fit opportunity on an unforced error isn't unfortunate, it's a tragedy. So we put our intelligence where it actually moves the needle: we find your absolute best-fit matches, then back them with actionable intelligence drawn from the bids that actually won, so you walk in competing on your strongest ground.
NIH will not consider applications that contain sections substantially developed by AI to be the original ideas of applicants.
That is about the proposal you write, not the research you do.
A plan for wherever you are.
Just kicking the tires, chasing your first award, or running a team that does this every day? There's a plan that fits, and you start free with your best-fit match against live openings.
- 1 user
- 30 credits a month
- Your strongest open opportunity
- The Cycle Compass
- A fresh best-fit match every month
- No credit card required
Summer-sale price for your first 3 months, then $39 / mo.
- 1 user
- 150 credits a month
- Full match reports
- The Reviewer's Lens
- Depth Control
- Past winners and award history
- The Opportunity Tracker
Summer-sale price for your first 3 months, then $99 / mo.
- 3 users, add more anytime
- 450 credits a month
- Full match reports
- The Reviewer's Lens
- Depth Control
- Past winners and award history
- The Opportunity Tracker
- Early word on new openings
A plan for every size and budget.
Running a bigger pipeline, a portfolio of products, or a whole consultancy? We shape plans around how you work: pooled credits across your whole team, seat-based pricing with volume discounts, priority processing, and the option to pay by invoice instead of a card. Tell us what you're pursuing and we'll fit the plan to it.
Building this for clients? Reseller and agency pricing is available, get in touch.
A single award can be worth $100K to $323K. One more opportunity worth pursuing pays for a year.
Start free with your best-fit match against current openings. No credit card. Upgrade when you're ready to run the full report.
Check another product against the open field, free.
One sentence is plenty. No account, no credit card.
Built by people who've done this work
Your next opportunity is already open.
Solicite was built by people who've written winning proposals, sat on the panels that score them, and run the programs that hand out the money. Submit a short brief and see what you've been missing.