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Extract the scoring spine
Criteria before content.
Made for people in Government
Align a Grant Narrative to the NOFO Before You Polish the Prose
35 min
Intermediate
Government
Map every narrative section to evaluation criteria before anyone edits adjectives.
We'll use them to write your prompt.
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Make Your Play
Give us the situation. We’ll build the prompt.
Grant panels score against the NOFO, not your mission statement.
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What you'll do
This is the plan inside your prompt. Add your details first. Then follow these steps with ChatGPT or Claude.
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Build the alignment matrix
Section to criterion.
03
Budget pages and partners
Limits are real.
04
Prioritize rewrites
Fix score killers first.
Make Your Play
Align a Grant Narrative to the NOFO Before You Polish the Prose
Tell us what the prompt needs to know
Start with the questions below. Each answer personalizes the playbook and builds the prompt you’ll use at the end.
Your situation
Section prompts, page limits, evaluation criteria, mandatory attachments.
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What you have written or planned by section.
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Deadline, partners, match, set-aside.
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What you'll do
Check a step when you finish it.
01
Extract the scoring spine
Criteria before content.
02
Build the alignment matrix
Section to criterion.
03
Budget pages and partners
Limits are real.
04
Prioritize rewrites
Fix score killers first.
Fill in the fields above to generate your prompt preview.
Assembled prompt
Beginner instructions
Fill the fields with this week’s real details. Incomplete notes beat invented polish.
Run the assembled prompt, answer follow-ups with specifics, then copy the deliverable into your own doc and verify names and numbers.
Advanced instructions
Add constraints the model can’t see: politics, licensing, cash timing, union rules, or family bandwidth.
After the first pass, ask it to attack the weakest assumption in the draft.
Use this when
You have a draft narrative, a new NOFO drop, or a reviewer said "this doesn't answer the question."
You'll need
- NOFO requirements and scoring
- Current draft outline or notes
- Hard constraints
You'll get
- A a section-by-section alignment map with gaps, page budget, and rewrite priorities you can use without rewriting it from scratch.
By the end of this playbook
You will have:
- A a section-by-section alignment map with gaps, page budget, and rewrite priorities you can use without rewriting it from scratch.
Examples
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