GRAIL: An Agentic AI Architecture for Interactive Grant Proposal Writing

Tang, Zhisheng; Kejriwal, Mayank

doi:10.24963/ijcai.2026/998

GRAIL: An Agentic AI Architecture for Interactive Grant Proposal Writing

Zhisheng Tang, Mayank Kejriwal

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Proceedings of the Thirty-Fifth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Demo Track. Pages 8538-8542.

https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2026/998

Keywords

AI: Agent-based and Multi-agent Systems
AI: Natural Language Processing
AI: Data Mining
AI: Search

Abstract

Securing research funding remains fragmented and time-consuming: researchers must navigate separate databases across dozens of agencies while simultaneously drafting competitive proposals. We present GRAIL, a web-based platform that unifies grant discovery and proposal writing through conversational AI. Users describe their research interests in natural language to explore opportunities from a unified index of 11.8K U.S. federal and nonprofit grant opportunities; within the document editor, integrated AI assistance supports real-time proposal revision and refinement. The system runs in any modern browser without installation. Conference attendees are invited to interact with the live system at the demo booth, explore the grant discovery and writing assistance workflows, and provide feedback on the user experience.

Zhisheng Tang, and Mayank Kejriwal. 2026. GRAIL: An Agentic AI Architecture for Interactive Grant Proposal Writing. In Proceedings of the Thirty-Fifth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI-26. IJCAI, 8538–8542. https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2026/998

@inproceedings{ijcai2026p998,
  title     = {GRAIL: An Agentic AI Architecture for Interactive Grant Proposal Writing},
  author    = {Tang, Zhisheng and Kejriwal, Mayank},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Thirty-Fifth International Joint Conference on
               Artificial Intelligence, {IJCAI-26}},
  publisher = {International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization},
  editor    = {Diego Calvanese},
  pages     = {8538--8542},
  year      = {2026},
  month     = {8},
  note      = {Demo Track},
  doi       = {10.24963/ijcai.2026/998},
  url       = {https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2026/998},
}

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