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FundingMarch 20, 2026 · 9 min read

Multi-stage grant evaluation

Designing multi-stage grant evaluation workflows that auditors and committees can trust.

3 sectionsHATT Product Labgrant evaluation processcommittee scoringaudit trail grants

Evaluation committees don't fail because people aren't smart. They fail because the process isn't visible.

01Stages that matter

  1. Intake validation - complete applications only
  2. Individual scoring - structured criteria, comments attached
  3. Committee review - aggregated scores, conflict handling
  4. Approval - role-assigned final decision
  5. Archive - immutable record for audit

Each stage needs: who acted, when, with what input, producing what output.

02Scoring without chaos

Structured scoring beats free-text opinions in spreadsheets. Criteria weights live in the system - not in someone's head.

03Audit trail as product feature

When auditors ask "why was this funded?", the answer should be a report - not a reconstruction project.

See the platform concept: Grants Platform

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