Solution 01 — ACR.ai

Automated Compliance & Reporting.

ACR.ai is your virtual grants compliance officer. It takes the worry and the work out of grant management — collecting data, auditing for compliance before submission, and producing the reports the funder actually asked for.

What it delivers

From collection to the report the funder asked for.

  • Data Collection — mostly automated across financial, technical, and performance streams.
  • Data Processing — on demand, customized to the grant program.
  • Compliance Audit — run prior to submission, not after a finding.
  • Reports — OMB baseline, semi-annual, annual, and final.
Frameworks covered
DOC ST&C'seCFR Title 2, Part 300NEPA NHPASection 504Title VIFFATASF-425
Why compliance is not optional
  • Suspension or termination of grant funding
  • Disqualification from future funding
  • Repayment of already-distributed funds, with interest
  • Deployment delays or termination from missing approvals
  • Legal and regulatory costs, fines, and penalties
  • Reputational damage
  • Erosion of Federal–Tribal Nation trust
The business case
  • Reduce time to revenue by accelerating fund allocation and deployment schedules
  • Lower cost than staffing the function in-house
  • Minimize legal and financial exposure
  • Strengthen standing with State and Federal grant agencies
Fully funded from existing awards

Apply the budget already allocated in SF-424C Category 1: Administrative Expenses — eliminating out-of-pocket cost and Tribal budget expenditure.

The clock ACR.ai keeps

Typical Grant Reporting Calendar

One path from first dollar to final report — ACR.ai holds every deadline so the team does not have to.

  1. Start Receipt Of Funds Clock starts
  2. 45
    +45 days Baseline — Use & Planning Use, adoption, and planning report
  3. 30
    +30 days Baseline — Infrastructure Deployment after environmental clearances
  4. Apr 30 / Oct 30 Semi-Annual Pulse Financial and performance, twice a year
  5. 1Y
    Annually Annual Report One year after receipt of funds
  6. −90
    −90 days Extension Window Last day to petition for an extension
  7. +120 days Final Reports Financial and performance close-out

Projects with periods of performance greater than one year continue submitting semi-annually; project period not to exceed four years.

Next

See ACR.ai against your grant calendar.