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Reviewers will challenge your sample size, your novelty claim, and your study design. Run that critique yourself first. The example uses a ~70-page grant on progesterone and muscle protein synthesis. You’ll learn how to:
  1. Upload a grant as an attachment
  2. Use Deep Search to find similar studies and compare designs
  3. Validate your effect size and sample size against comparable trials

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Step 1: Upload the grant and ask for a comparison

Click Add attachment in the search bar and upload the grant PDF. Toggle on Deep, then ask:
Deep Search reads the grant in chunks, identifies the core topic, and runs nearly 20 searches across the index. In the example it retrieved ~6 million candidates, found 150 relevant, and read the top 50. The answer covers the closest prior studies, a design comparison with their limitations, a critique of the population, and the gaps the proposal addresses. Hover any quoted citation to see the passage; a checkmark means it came from full text, not just the abstract. Click Open to jump to it in the paper. Open the sidebar to browse all 150 papers, switch to table view, or download them.

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Step 2: Critique the statistics

Consensus compares the grant to similar approved studies and reports whether the assumptions hold, with a table of comparable trials showing design, effect size, and sample size.

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Privacy and sharing

Uploads are private and aren’t used to train models. To work with a lab, open My Library, put the grant and shortlisted papers in a Collection, and click Share to add collaborators. Click + in the search bar, choose Upload papers, pick the file, then type your question. The upload lands in My Library too, so you can attach it again later. Text-based PDFs up to 50 MB; scanned PDFs can’t be processed.
The + menu in the search bar with the Upload papers button highlighted

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Watch the plan as it runs

The Deep Search panel shows every phase and search, with counts of papers identified, screened, eligible, and included. It’s the fastest way to see whether Consensus understood the grant’s core question.
The Deep step panel showing retrieved, eligible, and included counts and the searches it ran

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Cite and export

Click the thread settings button at the top of the page to choose Author and year or Numeric in-line citations and a default export style. Then Export at the bottom of the report gives Copy text, Copy with citations, or Export as PDF.
The thread settings menu with Author and year, Numeric, and Default export format options

Citation format and default export format live in thread settings.

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Share with your lab

Open the Collection in My Library and click Share. Invite by email or copy an invite link; choose Viewer (can read and run searches on the Collection) or Editor (can also add and remove papers). Anyone you invite can see uploads inside the Collection.
A Collection in My Library with the Share button highlighted

Consensus for grant writing

A full guide with sample prompts for each section of a proposal: background and significance, the gap, rationale, methods, outcome measures, and impact.

Manuscript citation check

Grant finder