Screen letters of inquiry against your priorities, consistently

One first-stage read for every inquiry

Each Letter of Inquiry gets the same first-stage read against your stated priorities. The deterministic checks run identically for every applicant. They cover required fields, stated eligibility, and whether the inquiry addresses each priority you screen on. Every finding quotes the inquiry. The first read and the hundredth give the same assessment, with no drift between reviewers or from one week to the next.

A person decides every invitation

Whether an inquiry fits your priorities is a judgment call, so the agent never makes it alone. It routes that call to a reviewer with the criterion and the quoted LOI text attached. The agent runs the completeness and eligibility checks. Your staff keep the discretion over who gets invited to submit a full proposal.

Request the proposals you meant to request

When the invite-or-decline decision rests on consistent evidence, the volume of full proposals you request is the volume you meant. No inquiry advances because it landed with a generous reviewer on a quiet day. None is dropped because it arrived in a busy week. Your staff spend full-proposal review on organizations that cleared the same first-stage bar.

Decisions you can give back to an applicant

Every finding points to the passage it came from. When a declined organization asks why its inquiry did not advance, the answer is a quote from their own LOI against a stated priority. When an inquiry does not address a priority you screen on, that gap is flagged rather than guessed.

Works on the inquiries you already collect

Export your Letters of Inquiry from your grants platform or upload a folder. The agent screens from that set. Inquiries are scoped to your account, and Cemented AI does not train frontier models on them. Ask about direct connectors to your grants system for Enterprise.

How a review runs

1. Step 1

   Set your screening priorities

   Write the priorities your staff already use to filter inquiries: eligibility rules, required fields, and the fit questions you screen on. The agent uses those instead of a generic template.

2. Step 2

   Bring the inquiries

   Upload your Letters of Inquiry or export them from your grants platform. Each screen is scoped to the round you provide.

3. Step 3

   First-stage checks run the same way

   Completeness, stated eligibility, and a priority-by-priority pass run identically for every inquiry, each finding quoting the LOI.

4. Step 4

   A person decides who's invited

   Every fit call is routed to a reviewer with the priority and quoted text attached. The agent proposes. The reviewer decides who's invited to submit a full proposal, and the decision is recorded with its evidence.

Common questions

What's the difference between an LOI screen and full-proposal review?

The Letter of Inquiry (LOI) screen is a first-stage gate. It checks completeness and stated eligibility. It routes the fit judgment to a person who decides whether to invite a full proposal. Full-proposal review applies your deeper rubric to the inquiries that advanced, including budget arithmetic and a criterion-by-criterion pass.

Does it auto-reject inquiries that look incomplete?

For a judgment call, a reviewer always decides, and Cemented AI recommends that. The completeness and eligibility checks are deterministic, though. If an inquiry fails a hard rule you set, you can turn on auto-decline and have the response sent, since that is a rule and not a judgment. Anything that needs reading still goes to a person.

How is the fit judgment kept consistent across reviewers?

Every fit call goes to a reviewer with the same criterion and the quoted LOI text attached. Reviewers decide on the same evidence rather than on memory or mood. The agent reads each inquiry against your priorities the same way, which keeps the first-stage bar steady across a large round.

Can it use the priorities you already screen on?

Yes. You define the priorities your staff already use to filter inquiries, and the agent applies them the same way to every Letter of Inquiry. Change the priorities and the checks change with them.

Does it connect to your grants management system?

Not as a self-serve feature today. Most teams export inquiries and upload them. Ask about direct connectors to Submittable, Fluxx, Foundant, and similar systems as part of an Enterprise engagement. Write to [email protected].

How do I get started?

Sign in and upload a recent round of inquiries with the priorities you screen on, or schedule a 30-minute walkthrough on your own LOI process.