Apply-Ready is a $9 grant application drafting service from GrantCompass. You answer five short questions about your business and, about 20 seconds later, read a free preview of a draft written for one specific grant. No card, no account. The full draft costs $9, and you submit it yourself on the funder’s own form. We draft for nine small-business grants: the Amber Grant for Women, the Hey Helen Grant, the HerRise MicroGrant, the Freed Fellowship Grant, the Business Freedom Grant, the SecretSoS Small Business Grant, The Hustle Grant, the YippityDoo Big Idea Grant and the Her Agenda Breakthrough Grant. We use only what you tell us. GrantCompass is independent, cannot submit for you and does not guarantee a win.
Pick your grant and start a free draft ↓The preview is free. No card and no account to start.
Apply-Ready writes a first draft of your grant application from five answers you give about your business. You see a preview for free. The full draft is $9, paid by card through Stripe, and refunded in full within 7 days if it doesn’t make your application stronger. You copy the answers into the funder’s form and submit it yourself.
Most grant forms ask you to describe your business in a few hundred words, in a way that fits what the judges score. You already know the facts. The slow part is getting them onto the page in the right order and at the right length. Apply-Ready takes the facts from you and writes them to the questions that grant’s form asks.
It doesn’t submit anything for you, and it can’t promise a win. GrantCompass is independent and has no affiliation with any funder on this page.
| What you get | A draft of the written answers for one specific grant application, written from your own answers. |
|---|---|
| Price | The preview is free. The full draft is $9. |
| Optional add-on | Drafts for the other month-end grants you qualify for, from the same answers: $5 each, never more than $15. The most you can pay in total is $24. |
| Grants covered | Nine. They are listed below with each funder’s award, entry fee and deadline rule. |
| Your part | Answer five short questions (5 to 10 minutes), fill in any marked blanks, then paste the answers into the funder’s form. |
| Who writes it | An AI model, Anthropic’s Claude, using only what you tell us. |
| Who submits it | You do, on the funder’s own form. GrantCompass cannot submit for you. |
| Refund | A full refund within 7 days if the draft doesn’t make your application stronger. You keep the draft. |
| Payment | By card through Stripe. No account is needed, and we email you the link to your draft. |
| The funder’s entry fee | Separate from our $9. You pay it to the funder, on their form, when you submit. |
There are six steps, and the first four cost nothing. You only reach the payment step after you have read part of your own draft.
Open the page for the grant you want from the table below. The draft form is on that page. Each grant has its own form here because each funder asks different questions.
FreeThe first screen asks that grant’s eligibility questions, such as whether the business is at least 50% woman-owned or registered in the United States. If the rules exclude you, we say so there and stop. At that point you have written nothing and paid nothing.
Yes or No questionsThey are about your business, in plain words:
A sentence or two each is enough, and “just starting” is a fine answer to the third one. There is also an optional box for your business name.
5 to 10 minutesWe write the draft in about 20 seconds. Longer applications can take up to a minute. You see the opening paragraph in full, the funder’s questions with the number of words we wrote for each, and a checklist of the judging points the draft covers. If you want time to think, you can have the link to your draft emailed to you.
About 20 secondsNo card, no accountCheckout is by card through Stripe. The full draft opens as soon as the payment clears, and we email you the link. Before you pay you can tick an add-on: drafts for the other month-end grants you qualify for, written from the same answers, at $5 each and never more than $15.
$9Add-on is optionalWhere a stronger answer needs a detail only you know, the draft has a marked blank and a question. Answer the questions and we rewrite the application with your additions, in about 20 seconds each time. The page also highlights any line that goes a little beyond what you told us, so you can check it is true or delete it. You can change any wording on the page.
Then copy each answer into the matching box on the funder’s form, pay the funder’s entry fee if there is one, and submit.
You submitThe funder’s fee is separateEvery grant in this table has a written application that is judged on what you write, and we have confirmed its questions on the funder’s live form. The awards, entry fees and deadline rules are the funders’ own. Each grant name opens its page with the draft form ready.
Five of the nine close on October 31, 2026: Amber Grant for Women, Freed Fellowship Grant, HerRise MicroGrant, Hey Helen Grant and YippityDoo Big Idea Grant. After that, the Business Freedom Grant has a review round closing November 15, 2026 and a final deadline of December 31, 2026; the SecretSoS Small Business Grant closes December 31, 2026; the Her Agenda Breakthrough Grant closes January 19, 2027. The Hustle Grant runs monthly and announces each cutoff in its own newsletter. Each link opens that grant’s page with the draft form ready.
| Grant | Award | Funder’s fee | Deadline rule | Questions | Who can apply |
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| Amber Grant for Women WomensNet | $10,000 monthly (plus $50,000 year-end grants) | $15 | Last day of each month | 2 | 50%+ woman-owned |
| Hey Helen Grant Hey Helen | $10,000 monthly | $15 | Last day of each month, 11:59pm ET | 4 | 50%+ woman-owned · US for-profit · revenue under $1M |
| HerRise MicroGrant HerSuiteSpot / Yva Jourdan Foundation | $1,000 monthly | $15 | Last day of each month, 11:59pm | 2 | 51%+ woman-owned · US for-profit · revenue under $1M |
| Freed Fellowship Grant Freed Studio | $500 monthly (plus a $2,500 year-end grant) | $19 | Last day of each month, midnight ET | 3 | US for-profit business |
| Business Freedom Grant Darcy’s Business | $1,000 | No fee | December 31, 11:59pm EDT (a second review round closes November 15; entries not picked early stay in for the final round) | 4 | No eligibility questions in our form |
| SecretSoS Small Business Grant SecretSoS | $2,500 each quarter | $15 | Last day of each quarter (March 31, June 30, September 30, December 31), 11:59pm CT | 4 | US resident 21+ with a registered business · woman-, veteran- or minority-owned, or turned down for a bank loan, or in an economic development zone |
| The Hustle Grant The Hustle Grant | $1,000 monthly | $15 | Monthly (winner named on the 15th; The Hustle announces each cutoff in its newsletter) | 2 | 50%+ woman-owned · operates in the US |
| YippityDoo Big Idea Grant Yippity Doo | $1,000 monthly | $15 | Last day of each month, 11:59pm PT | 4 | 50%+ woman-owned and woman-run · US resident |
| Her Agenda Breakthrough Grant Her Agenda | $5,000 (one winner) | $25 | January 19, 2027, 11:59pm EST (Volume IV; winner announced March 2027) | 7 | Operating 1+ year · US-based or US-serving for-profit · 18+ and a Her Agenda newsletter subscriber |
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Most of these funders charge their own entry fee, so the full cost of entering with a draft is our $9 plus their fee. For the Amber Grant for Women that is $9 to us and $15 to WomensNet. The Business Freedom Grant has no entry fee.
These are the written questions on each funder’s form, copied word for word, next to the points each funder says its judges score. A draft covers these written answers. Your name, address and the other fields on the form are yours to fill in.
Two essays. The judges look at your story, your plan to grow, and exactly how you would spend the money.
The form asks
What the judges score
Who can apply
The business is at least 50% owned by a woman or women.
Four questions: your business, your impact, your traction, and a plan for using the money within six months.
The form asks
What the judges score
Who can apply
At least 50% woman-owned, a for-profit business registered in the United States, with annual revenue under $1 million.
Two answers, and the form gives you 250 characters for each, so every word has to count.
The form asks
What the judges score
Who can apply
At least 51% woman-owned, a for-profit business registered in the United States, with annual revenue under $1 million.
Three answers, scored on five things Freed calls the 5Cs.
The form asks
What the judges score
Who can apply
A for-profit business registered in the United States.
Four answers with word limits, scored out of 10 on four published criteria.
The form asks
What the judges score
Who can apply
Our form asks no eligibility questions for this one. Read the funder's rules on its own page before you apply.
Four essays. SecretSoS publishes its scoring, and how you will use the money is the biggest part.
The form asks
What the judges score
Who can apply
A US resident over 21 with a registered business (LLC, corporation, sole proprietorship or DBA). The business must also be woman-, veteran- or minority-owned, or have been turned down for (or not qualify for) a bank loan, or sit in an economic development zone.
Two essays about your story and where the money goes. No formal business plan is needed.
The form asks
What the judges score
Who can apply
At least 50% woman-owned, and the business or business idea operates in the United States.
Four answers in your own voice. Vision and passion carry 40% of the score each.
The form asks
What the judges score
Who can apply
The business or idea is at least 50% woman-owned and woman-run, and you live and operate in the United States.
Seven written questions. Five of them have word limits that add up to 1,150 words.
The form asks
What the judges score
Who can apply
Operating for at least one year (idea-stage and pre-launch businesses aren't eligible), a for-profit business based in or serving the US, and you are 18 or older and subscribed to the free Her Agenda newsletter.
The preview is part of your real draft, and you get it before any payment screen. It has three parts: the opening paragraph, a list of what is in the full draft, and a checklist against the funder’s judging points.
Your Amber Grant for Women application · drafted
I started Sample Street Bakery in my own kitchen, after years of baking birthday cakes for neighbors who kept telling me I should charge for them. Today I sell at two weekend markets and take custom orders by message, and most Saturdays I am sold out before noon.
In your full draft
Judging points covered
No account needed. Full refund within 7 days if it doesn’t make your application stronger.
The example on this page is made up. Sample Street Bakery is not a real applicant, and the word counts are illustrative. Your preview is written from your own answers, for the grant you picked.
Not ready to buy when you see it? You can have the link to your draft emailed to you, with one reminder before that grant closes.
Start with the free preview. Pick one of the nine grants, answer five questions, and read the opening of your own draft before you decide about the $9.
Pick your grant ↑The free part is enough to tell whether the draft sounds like your business. The $9 buys every answer in full, plus the rewriting that turns a first draft into something you can paste and submit.
No card and no account.
One grant. Paid once, by card through Stripe.
Five of the nine grants close on the last day of each month: the Amber Grant for Women, the Hey Helen Grant, the HerRise MicroGrant, the Freed Fellowship Grant and the YippityDoo Big Idea Grant. Before you pay, you can tick an add-on that drafts the others you qualify for from the same five answers. Each extra grant is $5 and the add-on never costs more than $15. It is off unless you tick it.
If the draft doesn’t make your application stronger, reply to your receipt email within 7 days and we refund the full amount. You keep the draft either way.
A draft is only useful if every sentence in it is true about your business. These are the rules the service runs on.
Read every line before you submit. The page highlights the sentences it thinks go beyond your answers, but you are the only person who knows what is true about your business.
Nine grants is a short list on purpose. We leave a grant out when any one of these is true.
If your grant isn’t one of the nine, start with these free pages instead.
It depends on where you are stuck. A draft can’t make a business stronger than it is. What it does is put what you have done into the order and length the form asks for, and show you which judging points you haven’t given it anything for yet.
Three questions to decide
Count the funder’s fee too. Eight of the nine funders charge one, from $15 to $25, and it is the same whether you write the application yourself or start from a draft. The $9 is the only part that goes to GrantCompass.
If you would sooner write it yourself, that is a reasonable choice. The cards in what each funder asks give you every question and every judging point for free.
Apply-Ready is run by GrantCompass, an independent funding-discovery site that tracks more than 660 US grant, loan and tax-credit programs. You read part of your draft before you pay, the payment goes through Stripe, and there is a 7-day refund. We are not affiliated with any funder, and we don’t charge you to apply for a grant. The funders’ own entry fees go to them, on their forms. You can read who runs GrantCompass on the about page.
Yes. An AI model, Anthropic’s Claude, writes the draft from the answers you give. We supply the funder’s questions, taken from the live form, and the points the funder says its judges score. The model works only from your facts and leaves a marked blank where one is missing. Our privacy policy says the same thing. We don’t offer drafts for a grant whose form asks applicants not to use AI.
We never contact the funder and we share nothing with them. You submit from your own browser, on their form. Whether a reader can tell how an application was written is something we can’t promise either way. Two things are in your hands. The draft is built from your own facts, and you can change any sentence so that it sounds like you. Check the funder’s current rules before you submit. If a form asks applicants not to use AI, don’t use a draft for it.
No. Each of these funders takes applications on its own form, and most charge an entry fee there. Your paid draft page links to that form and has a Copy button on each answer. You paste the answers in, pay the funder’s fee if there is one, and submit.
You find out first. The draft form opens with that grant’s eligibility questions. If your answers show that the rules exclude you, we tell you which rule and stop there, before any writing and before any payment. From there you can look through the grant database or the list of small business grants open now.
If the draft doesn’t make your application stronger, reply to your receipt email within 7 days and we refund the full amount. You keep the draft.
Nine: Amber Grant for Women, Hey Helen Grant, HerRise MicroGrant, Freed Fellowship Grant, Business Freedom Grant, SecretSoS Small Business Grant, The Hustle Grant, YippityDoo Big Idea Grant and Her Agenda Breakthrough Grant. We add a grant only after confirming its questions on the funder’s live form.
Answering the five questions takes 5 to 10 minutes. Writing the draft takes about 20 seconds, or up to a minute for the longer applications. After you pay, each rewrite with your added details takes about 20 seconds as well. How long you spend on the blanks is up to you.
Your answers are used to write your draft. Anthropic, the company whose model writes it, processes them for that purpose, and Stripe processes the card payment. You can ask us to delete your account data and drafts, and we do it within 30 days of the request. The privacy policy lists everything we collect and who receives it.
Yes, where the funder charges one. Eight of the nine do: $15 for most, $19 for the Freed Fellowship Grant and $25 for the Her Agenda Breakthrough Grant. The Business Freedom Grant has no entry fee. That money goes to the funder on their form and is separate from our $9.