Federal credits
CHIPS and IRA screen
Construction timing, qualified property, facility activity, registration, and controlled-entity questions surfaced early.
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Stop Leaving Expansion Money Unclaimed.
GrantStack turns rough project specs into a source-backed incentive diligence memo: likely incentive paths, missing facts, ROI scenarios, and the review steps required before anyone relies on the numbers.
- See the incentive stack before site and budget decisions harden.
- Pressure-test CHIPS, IRA, state, local, workforce, utility, and infrastructure fit.
- Hand a cleaner evidence packet to certified tax, grants, or legal reviewers.
Built for one high-value capital project at a time. The pilot is diligence preparation, not final tax, legal, grant, lobbying, or site-selection advice.
CHIPS 48D deadline
Sample packet available
$15k paid pilot
Expert review required
Services
Everything your pilot screens before advisory spend.
Federal credits, state grants, local abatements, workforce funds, utility support, and infrastructure programs are evaluated in separate silos. That fragmentation makes it easy to miss value or carry weak assumptions into the board case.
State programs
Incentive stack mapping
Economic-development grants, tax credits, site-readiness, workforce, and utility programs compared against your project facts.
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Local economics
Abatement and utility scan
Local tax abatements, enterprise zones, training support, infrastructure constraints, and approval dependencies called out.
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Compliance
Risk and clawback review
Timing, reporting, job-count, wage, FEOC, ownership, and post-award obligations separated from simple program discovery.
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Board packet
Evidence memo generation
A cited diligence packet turns source findings, assumptions, missing facts, and ROI scenarios into a review-ready memo.
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Expert handoff
Reviewer workflow
GrantStack keeps automated screening separate from qualified tax, legal, grants, or agency validation before reliance.
Learn moreScreen one capital project before you authorize a larger advisory sprint.
Send rough location, capex, jobs, facility type, and timeline. GrantStack returns the source-backed first pass your finance, tax, and outside-advisor teams can challenge.
Request pilot termsSpecific source coverage
Source coverage your advisors can inspect.
GrantStack does not ask a chatbot for a broad list of grants. The pilot maps project facts against a maintained source catalog, then exposes citations, open questions, and unsupported assumptions.
CHIPS 48D, IRA-linked credits, forms, and pre-filing steps
Screens timing, qualified property, facility activity, ownership, and registration questions for expert review.
Economic-development grants, tax credits, and site-readiness programs
Checks job creation, payroll, fixed-asset investment, industry fit, and whether the project is still competitive.
Property tax abatements, enterprise zones, utilities, and workforce support
Flags local approvals, school-board notice, infrastructure constraints, training support, and post-award monitoring.
Construction timing, controlled-entity risk, reporting, and clawbacks
Separates likely paths from issues that need qualified tax, legal, grants, or agency validation before reliance.
Representative sources include IRS 48D guidance, eCFR construction-timing rules, state economic-development portals, JobsOhio guidance, and local enterprise-zone materials. Program coverage varies by jurisdiction and must be validated against current agency rules before use.
Use cases
Where a first screen changes the next executive decision.
GrantStack is built for the messy early window before a company knows whether to escalate to outside advisors, agency conversations, or a formal application track.
A semiconductor supplier is choosing between two Midwest sites and needs to know which incentive stack is credible before the board narrows the location list.
Screen a site decisionA data-center developer has capex, utility, and local-infrastructure exposure, but the team does not yet know which programs justify formal advisor spend.
Triage a buildoutA tax director needs a source index, missing-fact list, and reliance guardrails before briefing internal stakeholders on CHIPS, IRA, state, and local paths.
View sample packet
Sample diligence packet
SCREENING ONLY
Fit score
84
Semiconductor supplier expansion · Columbus, OH · $420M capex · 180 net-new jobs
CHIPS 48D timing and qualified-property review
Construction start before 2027, facility activity, qualified investment, and controlled-entity questions need tax validation.
Ohio economic-development grant screen
Fixed-asset investment, job creation, infrastructure needs, and wage facts justify agency diligence if the site remains competitive.
Property tax, enterprise-zone, utility, and workforce layers
Local approvals, notice requirements, training partners, and infrastructure constraints determine what can actually be negotiated.
Facts required before board or filing reliance
Site control, qualified-basis split, supplier ownership, construction timeline, and agency-discretion assumptions remain unresolved.
Believable sample report
A case-study packet, not a vague program list.
The report is designed for the first executive conversation: what looks promising, what could break eligibility, what facts are missing, which sources were checked, and what needs expert validation before anyone relies on the numbers.
- Cited program recommendations with source URLs.
- Strengths tied to jobs, investment, facility type, and location.
- Risk flags before teams overstate incentive value.
- Next diligence questions for finance, site selection, or outside advisors.
- A clear "not advisor-reviewed" state until a qualified professional validates it.
Open sample report
No email required. This is a representative report format, not a live project submission.
Cost comparison
Pricing starts with a fixed screen, not a blank-check sprint.
Consulting firms are valuable when a project is ready for formal review, negotiation, applications, and compliance. GrantStack is for the earlier question: is this expansion worth taking to that level yet?
Best after the project clears basic fit
- Custom-scoped advisory work before you may know the strongest programs.
- Meetings and discovery often start with basic facts your team can prepare earlier.
- Best for final eligibility, applications, negotiations, and compliance.
Best before authorizing deeper diligence
- Run a 30-minute first screen from location, jobs, investment, facility type, wages, and timeline.
- See likely programs, weak spots, missing facts, and advisor-ready questions.
- Reserve consulting spend for projects with enough fit to justify expert review.
GrantStack is not a substitute for legal, tax, grants, or economic-development advice. It is a lower-friction first screen that helps teams decide when outside specialists are worth bringing in.
Modeled ROI example
$420M facility, one incentive miss.
If diligence identifies or de-risks incremental incentive value equal to just 0.5% of project capex, the opportunity is $2.1M before advisory, legal, tax, negotiation, and compliance costs. A $15k pilot breaks even if it changes the outcome by less than 0.004% of capex.
- Project capex
- $420M
- 0.5% incremental value scenario
- $2.1M
- Paid pilot
- $15k
- Break-even threshold
- <0.004% of capex
Illustrative math only. GrantStack does not guarantee incentive amounts, approvals, or savings. Actual value depends on project facts, agency discretion, tax position, timing, negotiations, and compliance.
Major applications are often quoted around $10k-$25k+ when scope moves beyond basic research.
Senior public-sector grant advisory roles commonly price above ordinary grant-writing rates.
Modeled multi-week advisory-team cost using public grant-consulting rate cards.
When you use it
Consultants: after scope is real
GrantStack: before paid diligence
What you pay for
Expert judgment, applications, negotiations, compliance
Fast triage, cited fit signals, missing-fact checklist
Cost risk
Spending advisory time on projects that may not qualify
Screening weak projects before they consume advisor budget
Concrete paid pilot offer
$15,000 fixed-fee private incentive screen.
One facility, one primary jurisdiction, up to two competing jurisdictions, delivered as a source-backed memo and readout. Payment is not collected on this page; fit, scope, confidentiality, and review path are confirmed before the pilot starts.
- Included Intake review, cited incentive screen, missing-fact checklist, ROI scenario, source index, and 60-minute executive readout.
- Optional next step Qualified CPA, tax, legal, grants, or economic-development review can be scoped separately when the project clears fit.
- Not included No tax opinion, legal opinion, lobbying, application submission, agency negotiation, or award guarantee.
*Directional benchmark, not a quote. Public State of Michigan grant-consulting procurement listed Deloitte roles from $125/hr to $400/hr. A separate public Michigan McKinsey operational-consulting contract lists role rates from $143/hr to $1,250/hr and project prices of $249,000 and $925,812. Grant-writing fee guides commonly cite $150-$300/hr or $10k-$25k+ for major applications. The $200k-$500k+ engagement estimate is modeled from public hourly role rates and a multi-week diligence scope, not a published quote. Actual fees vary by scope, timeline, travel, negotiation support, compliance work, and whether pricing is fixed-fee, hourly, milestone-based, or success-aligned. Percentage-based grant compensation can create ethics or compliance problems and needs program-specific review. Sources: Michigan procurement, Michigan McKinsey contract, GrantSights fee guide, GPA ethics code.
Advisory guardrails
Use the screen as diligence preparation, not final advice.
GrantStack helps your team prepare. It should make advisor conversations sharper, not replace qualified review when money, applications, compliance obligations, or public commitments are involved.
Reliance rule
Do not use an automated packet for tax filings, grant applications, public claims, board forecasts, or agency negotiations until project facts, official source material, and current agency guidance have been reviewed by qualified professionals.
Screening memo
Capture project inputs and generate a source-backed memo with fit signals, risk flags, and assumptions.
Internal go/no-go
Use the memo to decide whether the opportunity is large and credible enough for expert review.
Qualified review
A qualified economic-development, legal, tax, or grants advisor reviews program fit and application risk.
Agency confirmation
Final eligibility, award amount, timing, and compliance requirements are confirmed with the issuing agency.
FAQ
Questions a CFO or tax director will ask first.
Is GrantStack a replacement for Deloitte, McKinsey, or tax counsel?
No. GrantStack prepares the incentive diligence packet and review workflow so expensive advisory time starts from a stronger fact base. Final tax, legal, grant, or agency advice still requires qualified professionals.
What does the paid pilot include?
A fixed-fee source-backed screen for one project: cited program paths, missing facts, ROI scenario, risk flags, source index, and a 60-minute executive readout. Expert review, applications, and negotiation are separate scopes.
Can we rely on the pilot memo for filings or board forecasts?
No. The pilot memo is diligence preparation. It should be reviewed by qualified tax, legal, grants, or economic-development professionals before use in filings, forecasts, public claims, or agency negotiations.
Can GrantStack guarantee incentive awards?
No. Incentives depend on project facts, timing, agency discretion, negotiation, and compliance. GrantStack improves discovery, documentation, and review discipline.
What projects are the best fit?
Capital-intensive expansions with meaningful investment, hiring, site selection, or facility buildout decisions, especially semiconductor, data center, advanced manufacturing, and energy projects.
Does this cover CHIPS and IRA?
The workflow is designed to screen CHIPS, IRA, state, local, workforce, infrastructure, and utility incentive paths. Specific eligibility must be validated by qualified experts.
Why not just ask ChatGPT or Claude?
Chat tools can brainstorm. GrantStack structures intake, citations, repeatable rule checks, partner routing, expert review status, and audit history.