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THE PART NOBODYWRITES DOWN.
The questions that come up in every implementation, answered once and properly: how conflicts should actually be controlled, what makes assessment criteria work, what Australian funders have to report, and what to ask a vendor before you shortlist them.
Written for practitioners
GRANTS PRACTICE,NOT THOUGHT LEADERSHIP
No gated PDFs and no lead magnets. If a piece here is useful to someone who never becomes a customer, it has done its job.
Probity / Assessment / Practice · 6 min
Conflict of interest is a control, not a disclosure
Most funders collect declarations. Fewer can show that a declaration changed what an assessor could see, which is the only part an auditor is actually testing.
14 August 2026
Assessment / Design / Practice · 7 min
Assessment criteria that survive contact with a panel
Criteria fail in predictable ways: too many, too vague, or weighted to describe a decision that had already been made. All three are fixable at design time.
2 July 2026
Compliance / Reporting / Australia · 8 min
What Australian funders have to report, and to whom
Commonwealth, state, council, ACNC-registered and ORIC-registered funders each answer to a different reader. The record that satisfies all of them looks the same.
9 June 2026
Operations / Programme design · 5 min
Why grant rounds run late, and what actually recovers the time
The delay is rarely in assessment. It is in the two weeks before opening and the three weeks after the panel meets.
21 May 2026
Post-award / Payments · 5 min
Milestones that actually gate payment
A milestone schedule nobody enforces is a calendar. The control is the link between approving a report and releasing the next tranche.
11 April 2026
Procurement / Evaluation · 7 min
Eleven questions to ask a grants platform before you shortlist it
Demos are built to be persuasive. These are the questions that separate a product built for funders from a CRM with different labels.
3 March 2026