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"The Converter tool was a lifesaver, migrating our Concept Note to the new GCF format in under two hours while ensuring perfect alignment with their policies. The summary of changes was especially insightful, providing a rationale that would have taken us days of research."

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The Client

The project developer represented a global humanitarian organization with over a century of experience improving the lives of communities facing poverty, conflict, and crisis. The project focused on building the resilience of local populations in coastal South Asia to the escalating impacts of sea-level rise and saltwater intrusion on agriculture and livelihoods.

The Challenge

The project lead was facing a critical submission deadline while simultaneously managing essential, in-person stakeholder consultations in the field. Just as momentum was building, the GCF released a completely updated Concept Note template, requiring a full, time-consuming conversion of their existing document.

Manually reformatting the proposal would have forced a difficult choice: halt vital community engagement for several weeks or risk missing the submission window. Lacking a large support team, the developer sought an affordable, rapid solution and serendipitously discovered Janus Advisory’s suite of AI tools.

The Solution

The developer immediately utilized the Concept Note Converter Assistant. The tool seamlessly migrated the entire proposal to the new GCF format in under two hours—a process that would have manually taken weeks.

This instant time savings allowed him to remain focused on his high-value stakeholder work, ensuring the project’s design remained collaborative and locally-led. Following the successful conversion, he used the integrated AI writing assistants to further refine the proposal’s narrative and strengthen its climate rationale, ultimately delivering a higher-quality document without sacrificing critical fieldwork.

Measures of Success

  • Time Saved: Over 120 hours of senior project developer time (equivalent to 3 full work weeks).
  • Efficiency Gains: Enabled parallel processing of critical tasks by achieving a 95% efficiency gain on the conversion task, which allowed the developer to remain 100% focused on in-field stakeholder engagement without halting the project.
  • Cost Savings: Avoided an estimated $12,000 in fees for an external consultant who would have been required to handle the reformatting and alignment, preserving the project budget for field activities.
  • Concept Note Quality Rating (1-10): Initial Draft Score: 6/10. Final Score after using AI Assistants: 10/10.