About

Built around one uncomfortable constraint

An AI that reviews grant proposals is easy to build and almost useless. The hard part is being right — and, where it cannot be right, being obvious about it. Everything here follows from that.

How we work

Four rules that shape the rest

A wrong score is worse than no score

Clients act on this. An inflated number costs someone a submission window, so every design decision favours being checkable over being reassuring.

Findings first, the number last

Evaluators must record what they found and how severe it is before deriving a score, and a score that contradicts its own findings is rejected and re-run. That check is code, not an instruction in a prompt.

No finding without a citation

A finding that does not point at a specific place in your proposal is dropped before it can affect anything. It is the cheapest possible defence against a confident, invented criticism.

Never a black box

Every score traces back to cited evidence and a stored, versioned marking scheme. A report from six months ago stays explainable after the system has changed underneath it.

Known limits

What we would want to know if we were buying

Stated here rather than discovered later.

Marking schemes await confirmation

Each is transcribed from a published evaluation form, but until a person has confirmed a given one against the current form on the Funding & Tenders Portal, every report produced with it says so and asks you to treat the scores as indicative.

Agreement with real panels is unmeasured

Measuring it needs real Evaluation Summary Reports for proposals with known outcomes. Until that dataset exists, we can show that the system is consistent and evidence-bound — not that it agrees with a Brussels consensus meeting.

Contact

Company details

Registered name: Copenhagen Performance Consulting ApS
CVR / VAT: DK-38252240
Registered address: Miravej 9, 7100 Vejle, Denmark
Contact: eval@copenhagenperformance.com

Specialist European grant quality assurance, proposal auditing and innovation strategy, for research teams, spin-offs and technology SMEs.