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Use-case stack · educators, nonprofits

Grant & STEM proposal drafts

Structure educational/maker grant narratives and budgets — humans still own compliance.

AI helps structure; budget numbers and certifications must come from you.

Preferred / primary

Web LLM / chat

Claude

Anthropic models strong at long-context writing, code review, and careful analysis.

In this stack: Narrative structure and clarity edits.

Strong alternatives

Web LLM / chat

ChatGPT

OpenAI’s mainstream chat + tools product for writing, code, and analysis.

In this stack: Section drafts from your outline.

Supporting tools

Web Research

NotebookLM

Google’s source-grounded notebook for multi-doc Q&A and study guides.

In this stack: Q&A over RFP PDFs.

Hybrid Research

Excel / Sheets + LLM

Spreadsheet as system of record; LLM helps formulas, cleanup, and explanations.

In this stack: Budget table formulas.

Web Research

Elicit

Research assistant oriented around papers and systematic evidence finding.

In this stack: Evidence snippets from papers (cite properly).

Stacks are editorial starting points — swap tools when policy, budget, or hardware demands it.