Services

Fixed scope. No success fees.

Pricing is confirmed after a short, non-confidential fit call. The ladder is designed so each step qualifies the next.

How the practice works

Science, structured—in 68 seconds.

A short introduction to how Helix & Beam brings opportunity fit, evidence and application requirements into one controlled grant process.

Readiness Calculator

Before you invest weeks in an application, invest three minutes.

The Readiness Calculator is a structured self-assessment built around how applications are actually assessed. It asks about your opportunity fit, your evidence base, and your application readiness — then returns a prioritised gap summary showing where your application is strong and where it will break under review.

No preparation needed. No confidential information required. Your results arrive immediately, and they’re yours whether or not you ever work with us.

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Readiness & Strategy Review

The most expensive mistake in grant applications is drafting the wrong thing well.

The Readiness & Strategy Review happens before extensive drafting begins. We assess whether the opportunity is genuinely worth pursuing, map every assessment criterion to your project, define the narrative direction, and specify exactly what evidence needs to exist — and who needs to supply it.

You receive: a criterion map · narrative direction · prioritised evidence requests · a delivery plan. You keep: a clear go/no-go decision and, if you proceed, a blueprint your whole team can work from.

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Application Development & Review

One application. Many contributors. Zero coherence problems.

We support structured drafting across your whole application: organising criteria and evidence, drafting sections from your source material, coordinating contributors against the criterion map, and connecting scientific, commercial and impact claims to credible supporting evidence.

Our AI-assisted workflows keep versions controlled and inconsistencies visible. Expert review and your approval gate every material output. The result is one coherent narrative — built from your facts, not invented ones.

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Application Quality Review

Your draft is substantially complete. Is it substantially strong?

The Quality Review is an independent examination of your near-final application. We read it the way assessors will: hunting for unsupported claims, criterion gaps, internal inconsistencies, and readability problems that cost scores.

You receive a prioritised findings report — what’s broken, where, and what to do about it — while there’s still time to act. Many clients use this service on applications they’ve written entirely in-house. That’s exactly what it’s for.

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Three minutes now saves three weeks later.

A structured self-assessment. No confidential information. Results are yours whether or not we ever work together.

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