Beacon

Beacon by BrightWay is an innovative AI-powered platform revolutionizing grant writing for nonprofit teams. Currently in beta, Beacon enables organizations to draft high-quality grant proposals significantly faster, transforming a process that typically takes weeks into mere minutes. By simply uploading a Request for Proposal (RFP), Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO), or any grant announcement, Beacon's advanced AI extracts all critical requirements, deadlines, and section outlines. It then generates a complete draft, meticulously crafted using your organization's unique knowledge base and written in its authentic voice, ensuring factual accuracy and eliminating generic filler.

How to use Beacon

Using Beacon is a straightforward four-step process designed to eliminate prompt engineering and copy-pasting. First, upload your RFP, grant announcement, or NOFO; the AI will automatically extract all necessary details. Second, the AI writes your draft by drawing from your organization's indexed knowledge base and matching your unique writing style. Third, review and refine the generated content using the inline AI copilot, which allows for one-click expansion, strengthening, or adjustment of any section, including adding supporting statistics or modifying tone. Finally, export and submit your polished proposal as a professionally formatted DOCX file, ready for any submission portal, with all formatting and citations preserved.

Core Features of Beacon

• AI-Powered Grant Drafting: Generates complete grant proposals from RFPs in minutes.
• Knowledge Base Integration: Learns your organization's unique voice, terminology, and data by indexing past proposals, annual reports, impact data (PDFs, Word docs, spreadsheets).
• Factual Generation: Ensures every sentence is grounded in your knowledge base, citing real statistics and data, avoiding hallucinations.
• Inline AI Copilot: Refine drafts with one click to expand, condense, strengthen sections, add data, or adjust tone, staying within word limits.
• Grant Discovery: Intelligent filtering and match scoring for 920+ federal grants from Grants.gov, based on your organization's profile.
• DOCX Export: Download professionally formatted, submission-ready Word documents with all sections, word limits, formatting, and citations checked.
• RFP Parser: Extracts requirements, deadlines, and sections from various grant announcement formats (RFPs, NOFOs, LOIs).

Use Cases for Beacon

Beacon is ideal for nonprofit organizations of all sizes seeking to maximize their grant application efficiency and success. It's perfect for solo grant writers managing multiple applications, growing organizations aiming to scale their fundraising efforts without increasing staff, and high-volume programs that require frequent, tailored proposals. Any nonprofit looking to reduce the time spent on initial drafts, ensure brand consistency across applications, and leverage their existing data for compelling narratives will find Beacon invaluable. It supports applications for federal, foundation, corporate giving, and state/local government funding.

Advantages of Beacon

Beacon offers significant advantages, including a 10x faster first draft generation, reducing proposal time by 50%. It ensures 100% of your organization's authentic voice and data are used, eliminating generic AI filler. The platform guarantees zero hallucinations by grounding every statistic and claim in your actual documents. Its principles emphasize integrity, using real program data, matching organizational voice, adhering to word limits, and citing actual impact numbers. The intuitive interface requires no prompt engineering, making it accessible and efficient for all users.

Pricing and Plans

Beacon is currently free during its beta phase, offering full access without requiring a credit card. Upon launch, the pricing structure will include:

• Individual: $49/month (or save 20% annually). Includes 2 proposals per month, 250 MB knowledge base, 25 documents, and grant discovery.
• Teams (Most Popular): $29/seat/month (or save 20% annually). Includes 5 proposals per seat, 1 GB shared storage, 100 documents, and unlimited team members.
• Enterprise: $199/month (or save 20% annually). Includes 50 proposals per month, 5 GB knowledge base, 500 documents, and dedicated support.