Today starts something new. BCZ Yaps will be my space to speak directly with founders building tools for creators. I want these conversations to cut past the marketing fluff and get to the reasons a product exists, what it fixes, and where it fails.

The first guest is Deepa Chaudhary, founder of GrantOrb. She has worked in corporate philanthropy at Salesforce Foundation, co-founded United Way Mumbai, and led Impact DAO Media. Her work in web3 started after watching crypto-funded relief efforts during COVID-19. Now she runs an AI-powered platform that writes grant proposals in minutes. GrantOrb is marketed as a way to save over 50 hours of work per application, with tools for refining outlines, generating budgets, and collaborating with teams.

We will talk about the lessons she took from DAOs, how transparency and collaboration influenced GrantOrb’s design, and the gaps AI still leaves in proposal writing. I also want to ask about the real-world results from the tool, the ethical questions around training data, and where she sees AI and blockchain combining for nonprofits.

Join the conversation live at twitch.tv/bettercallzaal. You can also register on Luma.

This is the first in the series and I want you to be part of it from the start.

– BetterCallZaal on behalf of the ZAO Team