Match takes the project you're going to submit and scores it criterion by criterion, the way the scoring committee would. It answers a different question from the rest of the product: not “do we go for it?”, but “with what we've written, what do we score and what's missing?”. It lives on the record of the call for applications (convocatoria), in its own tab.
Where the criteria come from
They're almost never the official ones, and that has to be said before anything else because it changes what the number means. There are three cases, and the screen tells you which one it is before you spend the credit, and again above the list of criteria once the result is in:
- From the rules: the call publishes its criteria with their weightings and they're used as they are. These are the rarest.
- No published weightings: it publishes the names of its criteria but not what each one is worth. We use its names and share out the weightings ourselves until they add up to a hundred.
- Inferred: it publishes nothing, and the criteria are worked out from what there is – the purpose, the beneficiaries it's aimed at, the lines of work it funds.
An inferred 71 out of 100 is not an official 71 out of 100. That's why we always say which of the three cases it is: hiding it would be selling a precision that doesn't exist.
What you get back
The points out of the maximum, whether the chances are high, medium or low, a verdict of two or three sentences, each criterion with its points and what you'd change to raise it, the alerts – what puts you out before anyone looks at the content: asking for more than the maximum per project, not being the type of beneficiary it accepts, not reaching the co-funding required – and the three or four improvements that add the most points, in order.
The project and the credit
The project is uploaded once – PDF, Word or pasted text, up to 20 MB – and stays saved for the organisation: trying it against another call means picking it from the dropdown and pressing, with no second upload. Each match spends one match credit, and if the model fails the credit is given back.
Before it can score, the organisation's profile needs at least the fields of work and the territory. If what you want is to write the narrative and not to score it, that's Drafting a project with AI.