Drafter, your AI grant writing partner
Improve your grant writing with Drafter, a new tool for Australian grantseekers
Drafter is a grant writing tool integrated into the Funding Centre to help community groups, councils, businesses and grant consultants create stronger grant applications, faster. Watch the video for a quick introduction to Drafter, and how it can help you streamline your grant applications.
Why Drafter?
Quality applications
Save time
Safe and secure
Search and draft seamlessly
Equity in grant writing
Features & benefits
Customised grant responses
A head start on your application, based on your own work
Save time by reusing information
Submit your organisation and project information a single time for use in multiple applications
Integrated with the Funding Centre
Seamlessly find grants and manage your applications in the one place
End-to-end grant workflow
Search, draft, and store all applications in one system
Secure cloud storage
All drafts and documents stored safely on Australian servers
Intuitive, guided interface
Step-by-step workflows simplify the grant writing process
Best practice guidance
Drafter will suggest what’s missing so you can go back and add more detail to improve responses
Lower grant writing costs
Reduce or eliminate reliance on external grant writers
Improve application quality
You know your work best. Our tool helps put it into words that funders appreciate
Backed by trusted experts
Built by the teams behind SmartyGrants and the Funding Centre
Pricing
Drafter is valued at over $200 per subscriber, per year, but right now it’s completely free for Funding Centre subscribers. We’re including it in beta while we continue to shape and improve the tool.
Our goal is to make grant writing support accessible to all organisations, regardless of their size or budget. As part of our broader subscription updates, Drafter will eventually become a paid add-on (from late 2026). For now, you can explore it at no extra cost as part of your subscription.