Finding the gaps before the funders do.

01 The work

Acting as an independent reviewer, I analyzed two proposals headed for funders and sponsors — an eco-tourism infrastructure initiative and a large cultural-festival sponsorship. For each, I delivered a clear, honest assessment: the genuine strengths, the weaknesses that would sink approval, the specific objections institutional reviewers and sponsors would raise, and a prioritized list of what to fix before submission — all written in English, French, and Haitian Creole.

02 What the reviews surfaced

The same blind spots show up again and again — and they're exactly what gets a proposal rejected:

• No operational ownership — who maintains, staffs, and funds it after the money's spent.
• Budgets weighted in the wrong places — heavy on the visible items, missing security, sanitation, contingency, and staffing.
• Unrealistic timelines — an 8–10 week build that should have been 12–16.
• No governance or procurement controls — no approval process, oversight, or accountability.
• Weak sponsor/ROI strategy — asking for money without defined tiers, deliverables, or return.
• Missing risk and marketing planning — no crowd/safety plan, no audience or channel strategy.

03 The framework

04 Why it matters for your business

This is the same skill behind every engagement I take on. Whether it's a venue's profit-and-loss or a $55K infrastructure proposal, the job is identical: read the plan with an honest outside eye, find the gaps everyone close to it has stopped seeing, and hand back a clear path to fix them.