This second book picks up where the Grant Writing Book leaves off. That guide is about designing and structuring a research project. This one is about the work that follows: drafting under deadline, deciding where AI genuinely helps, and getting an honest second reading of your text before a panel gives you theirs.
It is built on something unusual: 71 real proposals, each paired with the official Evaluation Summary Report its evaluators wrote back. Most were accumulated across the consulting work of SNM and its founder since 2006. Others are public documents: evaluation reports released under EU access-to-documents rules or obtained through freedom-of-information requests. From those reports come 461 distinct reviewer criticisms and 462 recorded strengths: the actual sentences panels used, criterion by criterion.
It is deliberately honest about limits. No tool predicts your score. What the evidence supports is narrower and more useful: knowing the objections real evaluators raise on passages like yours, while you can still do something about them.
If you’d rather work in software than a book, the same approach runs in Whetmark, a private, self-hosted tool that shows a draft the objections real EU evaluators most often raise, without the proposal ever leaving your own instance.
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