Existing assistant; expansion designed - Grant knowledge that staff can trace and reuse
Reusing institutional grant knowledge without surrendering staff review. Existing assistant; expansion designed.
- Client
- Food Bank
- Year
- Service
- Nonprofit AI, Knowledge retrieval, Grant workflows, Document intelligence
- Engagement
- Existing assistant; expansion designed

The Challenge
Grant history and supporting information were distributed across donor, document, spreadsheet and grant-management systems, with most lifecycle work concentrated in one staff role.
The Approach
Bankie's existing donor-information assistant formed the foundation for a proposed grant-intelligence layer. The expansion connects source-linked history, configurable lookback, form assistance and explicit handling of missing or conflicting information.
Capabilities
- Existing DonorPerfect retrieval
- Historical grant search
- Source links
- Word/Excel form assistance
- Drafting profiles
- Configurable historical lookback
- Outcome spreadsheet access
- Missing/conflicting-information identification
- Human verification and submission
Workflow
- Ask a grant question
- Retrieve approved history and donor data
- Trace original source
- Assemble suggested answer or form draft
- Flag gaps/conflicts
- Staff verifies and submits
- Google Cloud
- DonorPerfect
- SharePoint (v2 scope)
- GEMS retained
- Excel
- Word
- Teams context
Engagement Outcome
The existing assistant provides the starting point for a source-backed grant workflow. The v2 design defines historical retrieval, form assistance and staff review without presenting the expansion as completed deployment.
Scope in the record
- Historical archive identified
- 11 years
