We help your grantees meet their technical milestones without overpaying or a commission changing hands.
We offer grant-funded teams adaptable, verified engineering capacity aligned with your program deadlines. Partnering with a single resource provider helps deliver better results for your funders.
When Engineering Capacity Becomes the Risk
Grant recipients often have solid ideas but weak execution plans. When a technical milestone is missed, it's usually not due to a flawed idea but because the team struggled to hire, onboard, and deliver within the grant timeline. This poses a risk to both the grantee and your program's reported outcomes.
Support Scoped to What's Actually Due
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Milestone 1 — Prototype
1–2 engineers, rapid setup.
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Milestone 2 — Pilot
Scaled team, integration work.
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Milestone 3 — Final Deliverable
Hardening, documentation, handoff.
We match engineers to each milestone's scope and timeline — not a generic retainer.
What Impact Will Your Program Have?
The same seven situations, with and without a technical delivery partner in the picture.
Grantee hunts for freelancers, makes a slow, risky first technical hire, or hires from unknown vendors.
The grantee is paired with vetted senior engineers within a single resource provider company.
Progress claims are self-reported and hard to verify from your side
Standardized reports you can actually cross-check against milestones
A missed deadline turns into a compliance conversation, an extension request, or a clawback risk
Milestone-scoped delivery traction reduces the likelihood of ever reaching that conversation
Lacks visibility into the proper use of a grantee’s engineering expenditures.
On-request budget and team-structure audits — for you and the grantee
Hard to hire key knowledge keepers in-house after the grant ends
Buy-out option lets grantees transition engineers onto their own payroll
Nothing concrete to show donors beyond the grantee’s own account
Optional joint impact write-up you can put directly in your annual report
No cost today, but no support today either
Zero cost — no fee, no referral commission, ever
What This Means for Your Program
The upside isn't only for grantees — a stronger delivery layer changes outcomes for the whole program.
- Higher grant utilisation means fewer unspent or returned funds due to a technical bottleneck that delayed the work.
- Portfolio projects-wide status update: aggregated and anonymized patterns across your grantee cohort, such as common technical gaps and typical time to first milestone, to help inform your design for the next funding round.
- Less informal questioning for your program officers. No need to handle tech grantee questions or worry about trusting freelancers or agencies.
- One consistent quality bar for every grantee, instead of ad hoc, unverified referrals happening informally.
Reporting You Can Actually Use
Progress reports are designed to align with standard grant milestone and impact-reporting formats, saving you and your grantee from reformatting engineering updates into agency-specific language each quarter.
- Milestone status tracking.
- Budget utilization summaries, plus on-request budget & team-structure audits.
- Forward cost forecasts for upcoming milestone phases.
- Optional joint impact write-ups for your annual report.
Typical Roles for Grant-Funded Teams
Why There's No Referral Fee Here
We do not have any commission or referral fees involving grant agencies. Public and donor funds require transparent recommendation processes, and we avoid payment structures that might suggest a conflict of interest. Additionally, grantees receive discounted engineering services - another method to maximize your grant budget without extra charge. Our sole focus is on your grantees' success, as their achievements lead to future referrals.
Built for Sustainability
Many grant programs aim for recipients to develop long-term in-house capacity rather than remaining reliant on external support indefinitely. When a grantee is prepared, we assist with a buy-out by transferring our engineers directly onto their team as permanent in-house staff, ensuring that the knowledge and the job stay within the team you funded.
How the Partnership Works
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List Cortance as a recommended technical delivery option in your program materials.
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We work directly with your grantees, scoped to their milestones.
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You receive a success story along with fewer missed deadlines, all at no expense to your organization.
Frequently asked questions
Do we pay you, or do you pay us?
Neither. There’s no fee in either direction. We’re listed as an option; grantees choose freely.
Do you require exclusivity or a minimum number of referrals?
No — this is a low-commitment listing, not an exclusive arrangement.
Can grantees still choose another vendor?
Always. We’re one recommended option among others.
What happens when the grant period ends?
Nothing forces a change — engagements continue as long as they’re useful. If a grantee wants to bring engineers in-house at that point, we support a buy-out instead of an abrupt handoff.
How do you vet the engineers you place with grantees?
Every engineer goes through our standard vetting process before being eligible for any placement — grant-funded or not.
Not the right fit?
The terms differ because the relationships do. If one of these describes you better, start there.
Investors & Advisory
VC funds · Accelerators · Advisory firms
Get vetted engineers for your portfolio companies, preferential rates, and recurring progress reports on how execution is actually going.
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Fundraising agencies · Capital advisors
Refer clients the moment their round closes and earn a recurring commission while we handle scoping, team building and solution delivery.
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Let's talk about supporting your grantees.
No fees, no exclusivity — just a conversation about whether this is a good fit for your program.