Prepare proposals or grant applications to obtain project funding
Most of the output can be produced by software today.
This is the most automatable shape of work there is, and also the shape that most needs a live connection to the system the record lives in. Without that connection an agent can prepare the entry but cannot file it.
| How automatable | Mostly automatable |
|---|---|
| Kind of work | Recording, documentation and administration |
| Jobs that do it | 20 occupations |
| Tool categories that apply | Tools and auth, Builders |
| O*NET activity | Documenting/Recording Information (4.A.3.b.6) |
What this looks like on the job
Not our paraphrase. These are real task statements recorded against this activity, spread across the 20 occupations that perform it.
- Write project proposals, grant applications, or other documents to pursue funding for environmental initiatives.
- Seek federal funding for local projects and programs.
- Prepare and submit budget requests or grant proposals to solicit program funding.
- Prepare and submit budget requests and recommendations, or grant proposals to solicit program funding.
- Write grants to procure external funding, and supervise grant-funded projects.
- Prepare project proposals.
- Write proposals, project reports, informational brochures, or other documents on wastewater purification, water supply and demand, or other water resource subjects.
- Apply for federal funding for emergency-management-related needs, and administer and report on the progress of such grants.
- Identify and apply for project funding.
- Write grant applications to obtain funding.
- Write grant applications to fund epidemiologic research.
- Write applications for research grants.
- Raise funds for scientific research.
- Write research proposals to receive funding.
- Write grants to obtain funding for restoration projects.
- Write proposals to win new projects.
- Write grants to obtain funding for research projects.
- Develop, prepare, and coordinate grant applications and grant-related activities to obtain funding for health education programs and related work.
What we would actually use
One recommendation rather than a shortlist, because a shortlist is just your problem handed back. This is what we would buy for recording, documentation and administration, and what it costs.
The work is not writing the record, it is filing it where the record lives. Make reaches most of those systems from $9 a month, which is the cheapest honest start; Composio is for when you are writing the agent yourself.
Chosen for the cheapest thing that does the job, not the best funded. Nothing on this site is sponsored, and the full landscape is there when you want to disagree with us.
The rest of the category
Context, not alternatives to weigh up. We name the layer rather than promise a named product does your specific task.
Matched from the kind of work, not from vendor marketing. Check any of them can reach the system your records actually live in — that connection, not the model, is where these projects stall.
How people actually do it
No workflow names this activity yet, but these automate the same kind of work, with the prompts to paste and what to keep for yourself.
Who does this work
20 occupations in the O*NET database perform this activity. Each one has a full breakdown of its other tasks.
- Astronomers
- Brownfield Redevelopment Specialists and Site Managers
- Chief Sustainability Officers
- Dietitians and Nutritionists
- Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary
- Education Administrators, Postsecondary
- Education and Childcare Administrators, Preschool and Daycare
- Emergency Management Directors
- Environmental Restoration Planners
- Epidemiologists
- Genetic Counselors
- Health Education Specialists
- Legislators
- Medical Scientists, Except Epidemiologists
- Molecular and Cellular Biologists
- Natural Sciences Managers
- Physicists
- Sociologists
- Survey Researchers
- Water Resource Specialists
Work that goes with it
O*NET groups these under “Prepare proposals or grant applications”. In practice they tend to be done by the same person, in the same sitting.
| Activity | Jobs |
|---|---|
| Write grant proposals | 49 |
| Prepare proposal documents | 13 |
| Develop proposals for current or prospective customers | 7 |
| Prepare proposal documents or grant applications | 4 |
Method. The activity, its taxonomy placement and the occupations that perform it come straight from the public-domain O*NET 30.3 database. The automatability band is ours: we map each of O*NET’s 41 generalized work activities to how much of its output current software can produce, assuming a person still reviews and owns the result. It is a coarse three-way judgment on purpose. A precise-looking percentage here would be invented.