Preparing a competitive Horizon Europe proposal involves much more than writing text.
Teams need to understand the call, organise ideas, structure the proposal, coordinate contributors, improve consistency and review the final document before submission.
Both Grant Genius and CrowdHelix Review IQ aim to make this process easier, but they focus on different stages of the proposal lifecycle.
Review IQ specialises in reviewing and strengthening proposals that have already been written.
Grant Genius is designed as a complete proposal-writing workspace, where intelligent assistance is available whenever it is useful—without changing the way grant professionals normally work.
At a Glance
Feature
CrowdHelix Review IQ
Grant Genius
Proposal review
✅
✅
Proposal drafting
Limited
✅
Structured proposal workspace
Limited
✅
Improve existing sections
✅
✅
Generate first drafts
❌
✅
Dedicated writing tools
Limited
✅
Designed for Horizon Europe proposals
✅
✅
What Is CrowdHelix Review IQ?
CrowdHelix Review IQ is designed to help organisations evaluate grant proposals before submission.
Its purpose is to analyse existing content, identify weaknesses and provide recommendations that can improve the final quality of the application.
It is primarily a review tool intended to support the final stages of proposal preparation.
What Is Grant Genius?
Grant Genius is Grant 360's proposal-writing application.
Instead of focusing only on the final review, it supports the entire proposal preparation process.
From the first notes to the final submission, the application provides a structured environment specifically designed for European grant proposals.
Whenever additional assistance is helpful, it is available directly within the workflow—without requiring users to interrupt their work or interact with a separate AI assistant.
Different Product Philosophies
The main difference between both solutions lies in their role.
Review IQ helps answer questions such as:
- Is this proposal convincing?
- Which sections should be improved?
- Have we overlooked any weaknesses?
Grant Genius focuses on helping teams produce those sections in the first place.
It provides the environment in which proposals are planned, drafted, refined and progressively improved before the final review.
A Familiar Way of Working
Grant professionals already know how to work with documents.
They navigate sections.
They edit text.
They review comments.
They organise ideas.
Grant Genius deliberately preserves these familiar workflows.
When additional assistance is useful, it is available through simple actions integrated into the interface.
For example, users can choose to improve clarity, rewrite a paragraph, strengthen an argument or generate a first draft with a single click.
There is no need to switch to a chatbot, write detailed instructions or interrupt the writing process.
The assistance is there when needed—and disappears when it is not.
Writing First, Reviewing Continuously
Proposal review should not only happen at the end of the writing process.
As sections are drafted, they often need to be clarified, shortened, expanded or made more persuasive.
Grant Genius allows teams to improve content continuously while they write, helping proposals evolve naturally from an initial draft to a polished final document.
Review IQ, by comparison, is primarily designed to assess proposals once substantial content already exists.
These approaches are complementary, but they address different moments in the proposal lifecycle.
Beyond Individual Sections
Preparing a successful proposal also requires maintaining consistency across dozens of pages written by multiple contributors.
Because Grant Genius is built as a proposal-writing workspace rather than a standalone review tool, users remain inside the same environment throughout the preparation process.
This reduces context switching and keeps the focus on the proposal itself rather than on the technology supporting it.
Which Platform Should You Choose?
Choose CrowdHelix Review IQ if your main objective is to obtain structured feedback on an existing proposal before submission.
Choose Grant Genius if you are looking for a complete environment to prepare Horizon Europe proposals—from the first draft to the final version—with intelligent assistance available naturally throughout the writing process.
Final Verdict
CrowdHelix Review IQ and Grant Genius address different needs.
Review IQ specialises in analysing proposals that have already been prepared.
Grant Genius supports the entire proposal-writing journey by providing a dedicated workspace designed around the way grant professionals actually work.
Rather than placing technology at the centre of the experience, Grant Genius keeps the proposal—and the people writing it—at the heart of the workflow.