The short answer
Strategic Pursuit vs Grants.gov — the short answer.
Grants.gov is the official, free federal portal for finding and applying to grant opportunities. Strategic Pursuit is a layer above it: our AI checks federal programs against the real eligibility rules, shows the rule behind each one, and returns a ranked shortlist in about 8 minutes. You still apply on Grants.gov.
Strategic Pursuit vs Grants.gov
The official portal, and the answer that reads it for you. Use both.
Grants.gov is the authoritative federal portal — the system of record for posting opportunities and submitting applications, free to everyone. Strategic Pursuit reads that feed (and the official spending, demographic, and institutional databases beside it) and checks federal programs against the real eligibility rules, returning a ranked, sourced shortlist. You still submit on Grants.gov; you decide where to spend the effort here.
Side by side
Side by side, honestly.
| What we compared | Strategic Pursuit | Grants.gov |
|---|---|---|
| Primary job | A clear federal-funding eligibility answer | Official federal application portal + opportunity feed |
| Cost | Subscription (published tiers) | Free — it's the government portal |
| Eligibility decision | Checks the actual eligibility rules; a failed hard rule rules a program out | You read each NOFO and self-assess |
| Data sourcing | Pulled straight from official databases — including the Grants.gov API, not the AI's memory | The authoritative source of record |
| Citation grade | The rule behind it, the source, and a last-verified date on every match | The official NOFO itself |
| Ranking + prioritization | An eligibility, strategic, and competitive score per program | Keyword + filter search; no scoring |
| No-go discipline | Says no with conviction when the no-go is right | Returns every keyword hit |
| Time to a ranked dossier | ~8 minutes | Manual triage across many NOFOs |
| Congressional earmark requests | CPF / CDS surfaced by locality | Not covered (grants only) |
| Application submission | Hands off to Grants.gov for the actual filing | Where you submit the application |
Grants.gov is the authoritative free portal and the system of record; Strategic Pursuit is a scoring and prioritization layer that reads it. The two are complementary, not substitutes.
Competitor capabilities and pricing are described from publicly available information as of publication and may change — confirm current details with the vendor.
Fit
Who each tool is for.
Use Grants.gov directly if
You already know exactly which opportunity you're applying to and you're ready to submit — it's the free, official portal and the system of record.
Add Strategic Pursuit if (cities & firms)
You need to know which of the many programs your city is statutorily eligible for, ranked and cited, before you spend a week reading NOFOs — plus the congressional earmark lane.
For cities & firmsAdd Strategic Pursuit if (universities & colleges)
You need a portfolio read for an institution — designation eligibility, HERD peer percentile, agency diversification — scored on the statute, before triaging the feed.
For universities & collegesPricing
We publish our pricing.
You shouldn't have to sit through a sales call to learn what a tool costs. Strategic Pursuit publishes its tiers: Practice at $15K/yr (5 users, 30 runs/mo), Growth at $45K/yr (20 users, 150 runs/mo; saved portfolios, alerts, and comparative dossiers are on the roadmap), and Enterprise custom (SSO, read-only API, and white-label on the roadmap). A no-credit-card 30-day trial (3 dossiers, 1 seat) lets you validate the output before you talk to anyone.
FAQ
Common questions about Strategic Pursuit vs Grants.gov.
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See your dossier in 8 minutesThis product uses the Grants.gov API but is not endorsed or certified by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.