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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
- Intake validation - complete applications only
- Individual scoring - structured criteria, comments attached
- Committee review - aggregated scores, conflict handling
- Approval - role-assigned final decision
- 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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