🚀 August 2025 Product Update: Exciting Platform Evolution

Your monthly dose of Grantable improvements, straight from our engineering team

🎯 Massive Wins This Month

August was absolutely transformative! Our engineering team shipped some of our biggest releases ever, fundamentally evolving how you discover, manage, and track your grant opportunities. Here's what we built:

🔍 Discovery Platform - Now Live for Pro Users!

After months of beta testing and your invaluable feedback, we're excited to officially launch Discovery out of beta! This represents a complete transformation of how you research funders and opportunities:

• Comprehensive Funder Intelligence: Deep 990 data analysis with historical giving patterns, grant sizes, and funding priorities
• Advanced Analytics: Beautifully styled charts displaying grant distributions, funding trends, and historical patterns
• Public SEO Optimization: All funder pages are now indexed and discoverable through search engines

We've listened to so many of you about your funder and opportunity research processes, and Discovery is our answer to transforming grant research from hours of manual investigation into instant, comprehensive intelligence gathering.

Important: Discovery is available exclusively to Pro users as we continue improving our database, searching, and matching processes. Don't hesitate to reach out via chat, email, or by scheduling a meeting to discuss how these tools fit your needs and any gaps that remain in your prospecting process.

📋 Records Management System - Complete Overhaul!

Say goodbye to scattered information with our new comprehensive Records system:

• Unified Data Architecture: Funders, People, Opportunities, and Notes all connected in one intelligent system
• Smart Relationship Mapping: Automatic connections between contacts, funders, and opportunities
• Advanced Table Management: Data tables with pagination, filtering, and bulk operations for all record types
• CSV Import/Export: Upload spreadsheets for easier data transfer and integration into your work
• Opportunity Status Customization: Intuitive Kanban tracker format, rename and reorder your opportunities by stage to match your workflow, table view coming soon

🔗 Check out our help article on this here 👉 https://help.grantable.co/en/articles/12100900-records

Your grant data is now a true competitive intelligence system, not just a collection of files.

📄 Documents & Assistant Integration

Your AI assistant got major upgrades for document management:

• Chat History Persistence: All conversations saved and searchable across sessions
• File Attachment Support: Direct file upload in chat for instant analysis
• Tool Control Panel: Enable/disable search capabilities, organization profile access, and style guide enforcement
• Enhanced Document Tables: Improved navigation, filtering, and bulk operations

🛠 Platform Infrastructure & Performance

• Onboarding Workflow Redesign: Complete visual overhaul with step-by-step guidance
• Advanced Search Architecture: Instant keyword search for lightning-fast funder and opportunity discovery
• Chat Usage Management: Smart limits with clear upgrade paths and reset timers
• Bug Resolution Campaign: 15+ critical fixes improving stability and user experience
• API Optimizations: Faster load times and more reliable data synchronization

💡 What This Means for You

For Individual Grant Writers:

• Instant access to comprehensive funder intelligence through public profiles
• Streamlined relationship tracking with the new Records system
• Enhanced AI assistant for document analysis and content creation

For Development Teams:

• Complete organization intelligence in one platform
• Advanced opportunity pipeline management with customizable stages
• Bulk operations for managing hundreds of funder relationships

For Organizations:

• Professional funder discovery that rivals expensive subscription services
• Unified data architecture connecting all grant-related information
• AI-powered matching and recommendations based on your specific profile

🔮 Coming Up Next

We're not slowing down! Here's what's already in development:

• Interactive Geographic Mapping: US map showing funder activity by state with hover details and grant concentration data
• Smart Funder Matching: AI-powered compatibility scoring based on your organization's profile and needs
• Enhanced Onboarding Experience: AI-powered profile generation, smart funder discovery, instant matches based on your mission and programs during setup
• Calendar & Task Management: Complete task tracking system
• Advanced Discovery Features: Enhanced search with subject area and geographic filtering
• Grants Record Detail Pages: Full grant opportunity management with document attachment
• API Enhancements: Third-party integrations and advanced automation capabilities
• Enterprise Features: Custom fields, advanced permissions, and white-label options

💬 We Want Your Feedback

These updates represent hundreds of hours of development work based directly on your feature requests. As you explore the new Records system and public funder profiles, we'd love to hear:

• How is the new funder discovery experience working for you?
• What additional relationship data would be helpful in the Records system?
• Which AI assistant tools are most valuable for your workflow?
• What integrations would streamline your grant management process?

Reply to this email or reach out to our team at [email protected]

🎉 Try the New Features

Ready to explore everything we've built? Log in to your Grantable account and check out:

• Records → Complete relationship management for all your funder connections
• Discover → Public funder profiles with comprehensive intelligence
• Documents → Enhanced AI assistant with chat history and file support
• Settings → New onboarding experience for team members

The Grantable Team

P.S. - Keep an eye out for our September announcements. We're launching features that will fundamentally change how you track and manage your entire grant pipeline!