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Technology Innovation
NSF section · 3,000 charsWhat you've invented & why it's genuinely new
A crisp, defensible articulation of your technical innovation — written so a senior NSF reviewer immediately gets why this isn't incremental.
Done-for-you · NSF SBIR Project Pitch
Submission-ready NSF Project Pitch. Drafted by experts. In 48 hours.
Hand us your deck, notes, or website. We turn your raw company materials into a complete, character-limit-compliant Project Pitch — written to win — built around NSF's official four-section format and ready to paste into the NSF portal.
Start my Project Pitch · $349
One flat fee · One revision · No upsells or retainers
Written guarantee on timing and eligibility—see
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- $250M+ Client funding unlocked
- 43% 1st-round rate (vs. 18%)
- 2,100+ Applications prepared
- 48 hr SLA-backed delivery
3 of 8 expert slots open this cycle
Price increases to $599 when full. Order summary Live
NSF SBIR Project Pitch
Done-for-you · US small businesses and startups.
- All four NSF Project Pitch sections
- Character-limit compliance verified
- Senior writer + technical reviewer
- One full revision round included
Turnaround
48 hours
Phase I cap
$305,000
Total $349
Start my Project Pitch
Encrypted checkout · First draft in 48 hours
- $250M+
- In client funding unlocked
- 43%
- First-round encouragement rate
- 48 hr
- First-draft turnaround
- $305,000
- NSF Phase I award ceiling
Federal, state, and foundation
vs. 18% national average
Refund-backed SLA
Per awardee, 6–12 months
What you're buying
The required first step before NSF gives you a shot at $305,000.
Before NSF will even look at a Phase I full proposal, every applicant must submit a short, structured Project Pitch — four sections, strict character limits, no exceptions. NSF responds in roughly three weeks with one of two answers: Encouraged (you may submit the full Phase I proposal) or Discouraged (you may not).
That single document is the entire gate to a non-dilutive Phase I award worth up to $305,000. Get it right and the door opens. Get it wrong and you wait six months to try again — assuming you still have the runway.
Cost of this service
$349
NSF Phase I award (max)
$305,000
Wait if discouraged
~6 mo
Who this is for
We're strict about who we take on — because saying yes to the wrong project hurts your timeline, not just ours.
This is for you if…
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You're a U.S.-based small business or startup
NSF SBIR is exclusive to majority-U.S.-owned for-profit companies with ≤500 employees and the work performed in the U.S. Early-stage startups, bootstrapped small businesses, and research-driven companies all qualify.
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You have real technical innovation
A genuine science or engineering advance — not a wrapper, integration, or repackaging of existing tech.
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You're pursuing NSF SBIR Phase I
Specifically the NSF program. Not DOE, DoD, NIH, or state programs (we offer those separately).
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You have raw materials to share
A pitch deck, technical notes, website, or prior writing on the science. We do the structured writing — you provide the substance.
It's not for you if…
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You don't have a defensible technical innovation. NSF will discourage you regardless of how the pitch is written, and we won't take your money.
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You're looking for someone to invent the science for you. We frame and write — we don't do the R&D.
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You want generic "grant writing." This is a productized, NSF-specific deliverable. Hire a consultant if you want open-ended scope.
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You don't have time to provide intake materials in the next 24 hours. The 48-hour SLA assumes we have what we need.
What you get
All four NSF sections. Pasteable. Compliant. Ready to submit.
We deliver a single document with each section labeled and within NSF's exact character limits — copy, paste, submit. No formatting cleanup, no character-count panic at 11pm the night before.
- Final copy for all four NSF Project Pitch sections
- Character-limit compliance verified per section
- One full revision round on your written feedback
- Pasteable Markdown + Google Doc copy for your records
- NDA on request — your IP and inputs stay confidential
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Technical Objectives & Challenges
NSF section · 4,000 charsThe R&D plan and the hard problems you'll solve
Phase I objectives mapped to the technical risks. Concrete enough to be credible, ambitious enough to deserve funding.
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Market Opportunity
NSF section · 3,000 charsWhy this matters commercially
TAM, beachhead segment, and a credible commercialization path. Written for a panel that funds science with a market.
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Company & Team
NSF section · 3,000 charsWhy your team is the one to do this
Team credentials, technical depth, and prior work — framed against NSF's expectations for a Phase I awardee.
How it works
From your raw materials to a submitted Project Pitch — in five steps.
Most teams go from "we should really apply for NSF SBIR" to submitted in under a week.
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Pay $349 and start the clock
minute 0Stripe checkout. You're billed once. The 48-hour SLA starts when we have your intake materials.
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Upload your raw materials
~10 minPitch deck, technical notes, website, prior writing — whatever you have. We send a 7-question intake form. It takes ~10 minutes to fill.
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We draft your Project Pitch
hours 0–48Senior writer + sector-matched technical reviewer build all four NSF sections. We confirm everything we need within hours, then write.
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You review and request one revision
~24 hrRead the draft, send written feedback, get the revised version back within 24 hours. Most clients submit after this round.
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You submit to NSF
minutesPaste each section into NSF's portal. Hit submit. Wait roughly 3 weeks for the encouragement decision.
What clients say
The kind of reviews you only get when the work actually wins funding.
4.9 · 81 verified client reviews
Names below are anonymized at our clients' request. Outcome figures (Phase I award amounts, encouragement decisions) are real.
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Thought we needed a six-week consultancy engagement. We got a submission-ready pitch in two days for a fraction of the price. The character-limit work alone saved me a weekend."
"Reviewed a draft I'd written myself first — they pointed out three things that would have gotten me discouraged. Rewrote it from scratch and it landed."
"I'm a deep-tech founder who hates writing. They handled the entire narrative, kept the technical claims defensible, and were responsive every time I had a question. Smoothest part of the application."
"Read three competitors before picking these guys. Process was clearer, pricing was upfront, and the writer who took our project actually understood the agricultural-IoT angle."
"Filed three Project Pitches over two years. The two I wrote myself got discouraged. The one they wrote got encouraged in 18 days. That comparison is the whole review."
Track record
Numbers that make the pitch for us.
10+ years of federal funding work, productized into a single 48-hour deliverable. Every figure below covers our full client portfolio — not a curated subset.
- $250M+
- Client funding unlocked
- 2,100+
- Applications prepared
- 43%
- First-round encouragement rate
- 57%
- Resubmission success rate
- 97%
- Client satisfaction
- 50+
- Scientific disciplines covered
Federal, state, and foundation non-dilutive capital across our team’s portfolio.
NSF, NIH, DoD, DOE, foundation grants, and government bid responses shipped by our writers.
On the NSF Project Pitches we’ve prepared for clients. National base rate: 18% (NSF RePORT).
For clients who take our feedback and resubmit after a "not encouraged" decision.
81 verified client reviews, averaging 4.9/5.
15+ senior writers and reviewers, 13-year average experience.
See how we rank vs 9 other SBIR writing services
Portfolio figures current as of April 2026.
FundUnlocked vs. the alternatives
Don't just take our word for it — compare the math.
Every SBIR grant writing service in the market falls into one of four buckets. Here are the head-to-head deltas on the dimensions that actually matter.
FundUnlocked
$349 flat · productized
- Total price
- $349 flat
- Turnaround
- 48 hours
- Discovery call required
- No — click, pay, start
- Written by a human expert
- Senior writer + technical reviewer
- FAR-compliant fixed fee
- Yes — no success fees
- Refund-backed SLA
- 100% if we miss the SLA
$5K+ SBIR consultancies
Grant Engine, Eva Garland, Chase Consulting
- Total price
- $2,500–$5,000++
- Turnaround
- 3–6 weeks
- Discovery call required
- Mandatory — before pricing
- Written by a human expert
- Yes (senior)
- FAR-compliant fixed fee
- Sometimes — success fees common
- Refund-backed SLA
- Rarely published
Hourly academic editors
ScienceDocs and similar shops
- Total price
- $5,100–$7,200+
- Turnaround
- Client-driven — open-ended
- Discovery call required
- Typical
- Written by a human expert
- Yes (PhD editors)
- FAR-compliant fixed fee
- Yes (hourly)
- Refund-backed SLA
- Not disclosed
AI-first tools
TurboSBIR, DeepRFP, LLM wrappers
- Total price
- $49–$500 subscription
- Turnaround
- Minutes (AI draft only)
- Discovery call required
- No
- Written by a human expert
- No — AI-generated prose
- FAR-compliant fixed fee
- Yes (fixed)
- Refund-backed SLA
- Not submission-ready
Regulatory red flag
Success fees are unallowable when paid from SBIR/STTR award funds (FAR 31.205-33(f)). Services charging 3–15% of the award are structuring fees the grant itself can’t cover.
Quality red flag
NSF Program Directors increasingly recognize AI-generated prose and penalize it. Fast AI drafts still need a human expert — or they cost you the encouragement.
See the full 10-provider comparison
Every number sourced — including pricing pages, SBIR reauth docs, and FAR citations.
Pricing
One flat price. Two delivery speeds. Zero hourly billing.
No discovery calls. No retainers. No “starts at.” Click a plan, pay, and your writer starts drafting within the hour.
Chase Consulting, Grant Engine, custom firms
NSF-SBIR consultancy retainer
$2,500–$5,000+ typical total
- Turnaround
- 3–6 weeks
- Revisions
- Extra billable
See detailed breakdown on our comparison page.
Recommended
Most teams
FundUnlocked — Standard
$349 USD · flat
- Turnaround
- 48-hour first draft
- Revisions
- 1 round included
Submitting this week
FundUnlocked — Priority
$599 USD · flat
- Turnaround
- 24-hour first draft
- Revisions
- Unlimited (until submission)
Standard · $349
Everything in the done-for-you Project Pitch.
- All four NSF Project Pitch sections, drafted by experts
- Character-limit compliance verified per section
- One full revision round on your written feedback
- 48-hour first-draft SLA from intake completion
- Senior writer + sector-matched technical reviewer
- Pasteable Markdown + Google Doc copy of the final
- NDA on request — your IP stays confidential
- Refund-backed 48-hour SLA and eligibility guarantee
Priority · $599
When you're submitting this week.
- Everything in Standard
- 24-hour first-draft — your submission this week
- Unlimited revisions until submission
- Senior-reviewer read-through on the final draft
- Priority slack/email thread with your writer
- Concierge portal-copy-paste support if you need it
100% refund if we miss the SLA
100% refund if we find you're not NSF-eligible
You own 100% of the deliverable from delivery
Full terms: Refund & guarantee policy .
Frequently asked questions
Quick answers before you click — designed to kill the last objections.
How fast can you actually deliver?
A first draft of all four NSF Project Pitch sections lands in your inbox within 48 hours of receiving your intake materials. Most clients submit to NSF within 4 working days of starting the engagement.
What do I need to give you to get started?
A pitch deck or one-pager, a short description of the technology, your website if you have one, and any prior writing on the science (whitepaper, grant draft, paper). If something is missing, we will tell you exactly what we need within a few hours of intake.
What if I don't like the first draft?
One full revision round is included in the $349. We treat your written feedback as the source of truth and turn around the revised draft within 24 hours. The vast majority of pitches submit after the first revision.
Do you guarantee the funding?
No reputable NSF service does — and you should walk away from anyone who promises an award. What we guarantee is a pitch that meets every NSF structural and character-limit requirement, reads like a strong submission, and is delivered on time. We have a 100% job-success rate over a decade of work for a reason.
Who actually writes my pitch?
A senior writer with NSF SBIR experience, paired with a technical reviewer who works in your sector. Not an AI tool, not a junior. You can ask their background before we start drafting.
Will I own the writing? What about IP?
You own 100% of the deliverable the moment we send it. The intake materials you share stay confidential — we are happy to sign a mutual NDA on request before you upload anything.
Why $349 — what makes that pricing fair?
The NSF Project Pitch is a constrained, four-section deliverable with strict character limits. Skilled writers can do it well in roughly four hours. We priced it at the floor of what a serious specialist costs and a fraction of the consultancies that quote $2,000–$5,000 for the same scope.
What if I am not eligible for NSF SBIR?
We will tell you within 24 hours of intake — and refund 100%. Saving you a doomed application is worth more than $349 to us. The most common disqualifiers are not being U.S.-based or not having a sufficiently novel technical innovation.
Can you also write the full Phase I proposal?
Yes — that is a separate engagement we offer once your Project Pitch is encouraged. We deliberately keep the pitch and the full proposal as separate purchases so you only pay for what you need.
What is your refund policy?
If we miss the 48-hour first-draft SLA for any reason on our end, you get a 100% refund and keep the draft. If we determine after intake that you are not NSF-eligible, you also get a 100% refund. See the refund policy page for full details.
Ready when you are
Your NSF Project Pitch can be in your hands in 48 hours.
That's the difference between submitting this month and watching another six-month NSF window slip past you. Click below, pay $349, and we start drafting tonight.
Start my Project Pitch · $349
48-hour first draft · One revision · SLA in writing
NSF Phase I is worth up to $305,000. Project Pitches are reviewed continuously, but every week you don't submit is a week your competition might.
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NSF SBIR Project Pitch
- All four NSF sections, drafted by experts
- One revision round included
- Delivered within 48 hours
Total $349