Grant deadline walkthrough
A second-year postdoc has 72 hours to a fellowship deadline and a blank Specific Aims page. The bibliography is in Zotero, the funder criteria are public, and the supervisor wants a draft tomorrow morning.
A submission-ready Specific Aims one-pager plus a budget justification PDF, accompanied by a red-team log linking every reviewer objection to either an edit or a documented refusal.
Final artifact this walkthrough produces.
Paste the verbatim funder criteria into Claude as system context — no paraphrase allowed.
Paste the verbatim funder criteria into Claude as system context — no paraphrase allowed.
Draft the gap paragraph in your own voice; use Claude only to compress to 90 words and report what was cut.
Draft the gap paragraph in your own voice; use Claude only to compress to 90 words and report what was cut.
Write three aims as single sentences. Mark one keystone. Have Claude critique hierarchy, not grammar.
Write three aims as single sentences. Mark one keystone. Have Claude critique hierarchy, not grammar.
Export the Zotero bibliography as PDFs and load them into a NotebookLM notebook. Ask which prior work most threatens each aim.
Export the Zotero bibliography as PDFs and load them into a NotebookLM notebook. Ask which prior work most threatens each aim.
Draft the budget in Overleaf; run a ChatGPT audit for unexplained lines and missing fringe/indirect math.
Draft the budget in Overleaf; run a ChatGPT audit for unexplained lines and missing fringe/indirect math.
Close with a hostile-reviewer pass in Claude; log every objection as addressed or explicitly declined.
Close with a hostile-reviewer pass in Claude; log every objection as addressed or explicitly declined.
The walkthrough is only done when: A submission-ready Specific Aims one-pager plus a budget justification PDF, accompanied by a red-team log linking every reviewer objection to either an edit or a documented refusal. survives these checks.
- Every aim line traces to a numbered funder criterion from the call lock.
- The keystone is marked and defended in one sentence anyone in the lab can recite.
- Each budget line has a one-sentence rationale citing role, year, and amount.
- The red-team log shows at least three landing objections with explicit resolutions.
- No unpublished participant data or confidential institutional record was uploaded to any tool.