Grant management for artists and studios.
Helys finds the open calls, tells you which are worth your time, and carries each one from the listing to the final report.
Built for one artist or a studio.
How it works
01The calls come to you
Grants, fellowships, residencies, public-art commissions and open calls arrive on their own, straight from the funders' listings. Nothing to check, nothing to paste.
02Each one is scored
Helys AI reads every listing against your profile and scores it out of 100, with the reasons and the concerns written out. Calls that charge a fee, or that only organizations may enter, never reach you.
03Triage takes minutes
Shortlist, snooze or pass, from the keyboard. Say why you passed and the next scores come closer. The same call from two sources shows up once.
04The application stays together
A checklist of everything the funder asks for, the tasks to get there, and the exact work samples you sent. Drafts are built from facts you gave, and you tick each one before a draft can be final.
05Nothing slips
Deadlines, your own earlier target dates and the reports you owe after a win, in the app and in your own calendar.
06You know how it went
A record of exactly what you sent, the outcome, and your win rate over the years: the part that usually falls off the end of a spreadsheet.
Where the listings come from
Public APIs and feeds, checked on a schedule. Nothing scraped.
- CaFÉ / Creative West, including GO Smart state-council calls
- Grants.gov: NEA, NEH, IMLS, NPS and the Arts category
- SAM.gov public-art solicitations
- On the Move
- NYFA
Not carried by any of them? Paste the URL and Helys files it like any other.
Made for the way artists actually work
Your materials, versioned
Statements, bios, CVs, prior answers and work samples live in one library. Pin a version to an application and you always know what you sent.
Help, without handing over your account
Invite a studio manager or a writer into your workspace with their own sign-in, and admin rights only if you give them.
Works with Claude
Connect Claude Desktop, claude.ai or Claude Code to your workspace and triage, build a checklist or draft from a chat. It signs in as you and sees only what you can.
Your work stays yours
No password to leak, and nothing you write is used to train anything. Read how we protect it.
Try it on your own practice
Write a profile, wait a week, and see what comes back before you decide anything.