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Premium funding submission engine

Funding applications, unlocked.

Whether you're chasing a federal grant, an SBA-backed loan, or a venture-capital round — we turn your raw materials into submission-ready documents in 48 hours. Flat price. Fixed scope. No retainers, no hourly billing, no scope creep.

  • $250M+ Client funding unlocked
  • 2,100+ Applications prepared
  • 48 hr First-draft SLA
  • 10+ Years writing funding apps

Why this exists

Funding applications are won or lost in the first read. Every shortcut leaves money on the table.

The official requirements are unforgiving.

Federal agencies, SBA lenders, and VC associates all read for structural compliance first. One missed section, one wrong financial schedule, one weak slide — and your application is rejected before the real evaluation begins.

Generic writers don't know the spec.

Every funding path has its own ritual. NSF SBIR is a four-section pitch. SBA lenders want a 25–35 page plan with a full financial model. Investors read 12–15 slides with DocSend-timing in mind. Mismatched expertise loses applications.

Consultancies are expensive and slow.

Specialist consultancies quote $2,500–$15,000 and book 3–6 week engagements for the same scopes we productize. Most teams don't have that runway, that bandwidth, or that capital to burn before the application even goes out.

AI tools sound right but get the substance wrong.

An LLM-only draft reads plausibly to a busy operator and obviously hollow to an NSF reviewer, an SBA loan officer, or a seed-stage VC. The structure is generic, the numbers are hallucinated, and the defensibility just isn't there.

The FundUnlocked approach

Productized funding submissions. Same expertise — without the consultancy.

We pick funding deliverables that are tightly enough scoped to productize — same expert work, but priced and timed like a real product. One SKU. One fixed price. One fixed timeline. One revision included.

Today that covers the three documents that unlock the most capital per page: the NSF SBIR Project Pitch for federal grants, the SBA Loan Business Plan for lender-backed debt, and the Investor Pitch Deck for venture-capital rounds. More programs — NIH, DOE, DoD SBIR/STTR, state grants, and government bid responses — are rolling out next.

Spec-perfect

Every deliverable matches the official program's structural rules and character limits exactly. No formatting drama.

Expert-built

Senior writers who have shipped this exact deliverable before, paired with sector-matched technical reviewers.

Time-boxed

Fixed turnaround, posted publicly. Every service ships a first draft within 48 hours. Every time.

Operator-friendly

Single intake form, written feedback, async by default. No mandatory discovery calls. Built for busy teams who already have full inboxes.

Our productized services

Three funding documents. One flat price each. All delivered in 48 hours.

Most companies need one of three high-stakes funding documents at any given time — a federal grant pitch, a lender-ready business plan, or an investor pitch deck. We productize each one so you skip the discovery calls, the hourly billing, and the 3-to-6-week turnarounds.

Most popular

Non-dilutive · Federal

NSF SBIR Project Pitch

For deep-tech, research-driven startups

$349 flat · one-time

Turnaround

48 hr

Revisions

1 included

Phase I worth up to $305,000

  • All 4 required NSF sections, character-limit compliant
  • 43% first-round rate vs. 18% national
  • Ready to paste into the NSF portal

Debt capital · SBA

SBA Loan Business Plan

For U.S. small businesses seeking SBA-backed loans

$399 flat · one-time

Turnaround

48 hr

Revisions

1 included

SBA 7(a) up to $5,000,000, 504 up to $5.5M

  • Lender-ready 25–35 pages plan, every section SBA underwrites on
  • Full 3–5 year financial model (Income Statement, Balance Sheet, Cash Flow)
  • For SBA 7(a), 504, Express, and Microloan applications

Equity capital · VC

Investor Pitch Deck

For pre-seed, seed, and Series A founders

$599 flat · one-time

Turnaround

48 hr

Revisions

1 included

Avg seed round $3.5M, Series A $15M+

  • 12–15 slides written + designed by senior pitch-deck writer & designer
  • Editable Figma + PowerPoint + Google Slides + PDF — you own everything
  • Problem, Solution, Traction, Market, Business Model, Team, Ask, Close

No discovery calls · click, pay, start

Senior writers · 10+ years in the exact program

You own 100% of every deliverable

Teams we've helped fund

Real teams. Real funding unlocked. Real numbers.

4.9 · 81 reviews
$250M+
Client funding unlocked
2,100+
Applications prepared
43%
First-round encouragement rate
97%
Client satisfaction
"I had a deck, a half-finished whitepaper, and a deadline two weeks out. They turned it into a Project Pitch that read like our scientific advisor wrote it. Encouraged on first submission."

Maria K.

Co-founder & CTO, biosensor startup · Boston, MA

Encouraged on first submission · Phase I awarded — $258,000

"We had been stuck on the pitch for over a month. They had a tight, compliant draft back to me in 36 hours. The only edits I made were two sentences. NSF encouraged us within three weeks."

Daniel R.

Founder, robotics startup · Pittsburgh, PA

Encouraged · Phase I in negotiation — $275,000 requested

"They got the technical innovation framing right on the first pass — that almost never happens with outside writers. Worth ten times what we paid considering the bandwidth it freed up."

Aisha P.

CEO, AI / health-tech · Cambridge, MA

Encouraged · advanced to Phase I full proposal

50+ scientific and engineering disciplines covered — including:

  • Biotech & therapeutics
  • AI / ML
  • Robotics
  • Quantum
  • Advanced materials
  • Climate tech
  • Ag-tech
  • Medical devices
  • Edge hardware
  • Aerospace
  • Semiconductors
  • Clean energy

Working in a domain you don't see listed? Tell us your field — 95% of the time we've written in it before.

Learn the process

Everything you need to know about federal funding — written by people who ship these every week.

FAQ

Common questions about FundUnlocked.

What does FundUnlocked do exactly?

We prepare high-stakes funding documents that unlock capital. Founders, small-business owners, and research-driven startups hand us their raw materials — decks, notes, website, financials, prior writing — and we turn them into submission-ready assets. Today we offer three productized services: the NSF SBIR Project Pitch for federal grants, the SBA Loan Business Plan for lender-backed debt, and the Investor Pitch Deck for venture-capital rounds. Every engagement is drafted by specialists in the exact program you are applying to.

What services do you currently offer?

Three productized services, each shipped within 48 hours and priced flat: (1) Done-for-you NSF SBIR Project Pitch — $349 — all four required sections, character-limit compliant; (2) Done-for-you SBA Loan Business Plan — $399 — lender-ready 25–35 page plan with a full 3–5 year financial model for SBA 7(a), 504, Express, and Microloan applications; (3) Done-for-you Investor Pitch Deck — $599 — 12–15 slide VC-ready deck with narrative, design, and editable Figma / PowerPoint / PDF files. Each engagement includes one revision round.

Who do you work with?

Any business, startup, or organization preparing a high-stakes written submission where the output can unlock meaningful capital — SBIR/STTR applicants, U.S. small businesses pursuing SBA-backed loans, pre-seed through Series A founders raising equity, and teams pursuing non-dilutive funding in general. We are US-based and focus on US programs today; international engagements are taken case-by-case.

Are you a writing service or a consultancy?

Neither label fits cleanly. We productize specific high-stakes submissions — one fixed-scope, fixed-price, fixed-timeline deliverable at a time — so you get the rigor of a specialist consultancy with the speed and predictability of a product. No retainers, no hourly billing, no scope creep, no mandatory discovery calls.

What other services are coming?

Done-for-you services for the full NSF SBIR Phase I proposal, sibling SBIR/STTR programs (NIH, DOE, DoD), select state and foundation grants, and high-stakes government bid and tender responses — all rolling out through the year. Existing clients hear about new services first and get priority capacity.

Are you a grant writer?

No. "Grant writer" usually signals a generalist doing open-ended, hourly work. We are submission specialists: we productize specific high-stakes deliverables, staff them with people who have shipped the exact document dozens of times, and guarantee a fixed price and timeline. Different product, different economics, different outcome.

Ready when you are

Whichever document you need — you can have it in 48 hours.

Federal grants, SBA-backed debt, or venture-capital equity. Pick the service that matches the capital you're chasing, pay one flat price, and we start drafting tonight. No discovery calls, no hourly billing, no retainers, no scope creep.

  • Senior writers with 10+ years in the exact program
  • One revision round included in every engagement
  • 48-hour first draft. Every engagement.
  • You own 100% of every deliverable

NSF SBIR Project Pitch

All 4 required NSF sections · 48 hours first draft

$349 flat

SBA Loan Business Plan

Lender-ready, full financial model · 48 hours first draft

$399 flat

Investor Pitch Deck

12–15 slides + editable files · 48 hours first draft

$599 flat