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Frequently asked questions

Government grant questions, answered straight.

Which grant programs Helm Grants covers, whether the AI decides eligibility, what it will never invent, and where your application data lives. Every answer names a shipped feature or a published fact; none predicts a funding decision.

Helm Grants watches GrantConnect, the NSW Grants and Funding Finder and the Queensland Grants Finder every day, matches each open round to your organisation's own profile with the reasoning itemised, reads the round's guidelines back to you with quoted evidence, and helps you draft an application that is lodged through the funder's own channel by you. Helm never asserts that you are eligible and never predicts an outcome. The open rounds are free to browse on the live rounds page, and how it works walks the product end to end.

Frequently asked questions

Grant questions, answered straight.

Federal grant rounds from GrantConnect and Queensland programs from the Queensland Grants Finder, refreshed daily and matched against your organisation's profile. Every record links back to the official listing, and applications are always lodged through the funder's own channel under your own registration; Helm prepares you for that moment, it never submits for you.

Helm is an independent platform; we are not affiliated with or endorsed by any government funder or portal.

Yes, you can, and honestly, a general AI chatbot will give you a decent-sounding draft. The writing engines are excellent, and Helm uses the same class of AI under the hood. The difference is everything wrapped around the writing.

A chatbot only sees what you paste: it cannot tell you a round has opened, that its closing date moved, or that a Queensland program fits your organisation. Helm watches GrantConnect and the Queensland Grants Finder for you. A chatbot will also cheerfully help you write an application for a round you were never eligible to enter; Helm builds the eligibility check from the round's own guidelines before you invest a single writing hour, and the sector's classic wasted fortnight is the ineligible application.

And where a chatbot answers fluently whether or not the answer is in the guidelines, Helm drafts only from your recorded evidence, marks anything unverified with a loud [CONFIRM] marker, and runs hallucination audits as a release gate. Your project history stays reusable across every application, your documents stay in Australian tenant-isolated storage, and every draft is yours to review and own. The chatbot is a pen. Helm is the whole grants desk.

No, and this is a design rule, not a hope. Helm drafts only from the facts recorded in your organisation's profile and the round's own uploaded guidelines. Anything the AI cannot verify from those sources becomes a highlighted [CONFIRM] marker in the draft and the exported document - deliberately loud, so an unverified claim cannot slip into an application unnoticed.

The same honesty applies to eligibility: Helm never asserts you are eligible for a round. It shows you the guidelines' own who-may-apply rules, with their wording, and you confirm each one yourself. And every draft remains exactly that, a draft: you review and own what you submit, and whether a round funds you is the assessors' decision, not an algorithm's.

Your data is stored in Australia, in private, tenant-isolated storage, and is used only to serve you. Uploaded guideline documents follow a 90-day retention rule after the round closes; your own records, drafts and application history stay yours.

Team seats see your organisation's shared workspace; nobody outside your organisation sees any of it.