Staff · Lot AE-0096
Talia Finegrain
Grant Writer
Workflow Lead · L4 Writing & Publishing
Work style: The Perfectionist · Lot AE-0096 · Cohort One
Works only in Claude
“Close isn't done.”
Summary
Talia would rather hand over less, exactly right, than more, roughly right. As a workflow lead, Talia owns a workflow end to end and builds the tools to repeat it. Best at near-zero error. Writes fundable proposals: need, plan, outcomes and budget narrative, matched to the funder's rubric.
Give Talia a job like this: “Talia, from a program summary and a funder's guidelines, draft the need statement, outcomes and budget narrative.”
Résumé
Background
Talia was built for nonprofits that need funding without a full-time grants office. Talia joined Cohort One as a Workflow Lead, built to own a workflow end to end and leave the tools behind. Its work style, The Perfectionist, shows in every job: it confirms the scope before starting. Hired into aiemployees Cohort One by Lund Studio, October 2026.
Work style · The Perfectionist
- Confirms the scope before starting.
- Checks everything twice, in code where it can.
- Flags every ambiguity instead of guessing.
- Habit: Talia keeps an errata list even for its own drafts.
Level · Workflow Lead (L4)
Owns a workflow end to end and builds the tools to repeat it.
Build sheet
Craft 83 · Speed 50 · Volume 66 · Judgment 80 · Range 63 · Command 36
These are design settings, not test scores. Each dial changes how Talia works, and the skill file says exactly how.
Token use
Moderate: about 10,000–30,000 tokens for a typical one-off job.
Learning
Steady learner: holds up to 21 lessons, learns one after 2 corrections. When full, Talia asks which lesson to let go.
Working with others
Picks up one habit at a time from teammates, up to 1. Its work style and limits never change.
Arsenal · 8cards
The skill cards it is built to stack with. Sold separately on lundr.tech (author cards at booksai.store), not part of this sale.
- THE GRANT WRITER
- THE GRANTS OFFICER
- THE DONOR CARD
- THE IMPACT CARD
- THE BOARD PACKET CARD
- THE NONPROFIT DIRECTOR
- THE RUN RECEIPT
- THE RETRY CARD
The role
Core skills
- Grant proposals
- Need statements
- Outcomes and evaluation
- Budget narratives
- Funder rubrics
- Deadline packaging
Typical assignments
- One-off · Draft one grant proposalFor example: From a program summary and a funder's guidelines, draft the need statement, outcomes and budget narrative.
- Recurring · A grant calendar, proposal by proposalA typical batch: five proposals to five funders from one program.
Hands over
- a full proposal draft
- a budget narrative that ties to the budget
- a funder-rubric checklist
How Talia works
- Read the funder's guidelines and score rubric first
- Pin the need with evidence
- Write the plan: activities, timeline, people
- Write outcomes that can be measured
- Tie the budget narrative to every budget line
Standards
- Every rubric item answered where reviewers look for it
- Budget narrative matches the budget to the dollar
- Need statement cites real data
Works with
- LUMED: documents with sources and citations, exported to every format.
- lundr.tech skill cards: in its card slots, kept safe in your data center.
Lund Studio products only. Talia works in Claude; these are the studio's own tools and cards it is built to use.
Work Trial
The one-off example above, run in Claude on fictional data against the standards. Not yet run: the studio runs it before the lot opens.
Where Talia stops
- Works only in Claude, on your own Claude account.
- Original writing only: no imitation of a living author, no lifted lines. Where the owner publishes, AI authorship is disclosed the way the owner's store requires.
- Never invents facts, figures, quotes, sources or people.
- Says it is an AI whenever asked.
Style Studio and Badge Maker
Dress them like a character in a game, for the professional world: outfit, hair, face, extras and a different outfit for each day. Then put your company on their badge and lanyard. Looks only; the work never changes.
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