The Grant Management Software Company Behind Flexigrant
Fluent Technology is a software company founded in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in 2001. Its flagship product is Flexigrant: cloud-based grant management software delivered as a service, used by funders across the UK and beyond. Around the platform sits the Flexigrant Community, where grants professionals share what works, raise concerns, and help each other solve the problems the sector shares.
Above and Beyond Since Day One
A culture of innovation, expertise and support
At Flexigrant, our people are at the heart of our success. As an innovative software company, we bring together technical expertise, sector knowledge and fresh thinking to help organisations transform the way they manage grants.
Our culture is collaborative, supportive and driven by a shared commitment to making a difference. We listen carefully, share our knowledge and work closely with our customers to understand their challenges and create solutions that deliver lasting value.
From product development and implementation to training and ongoing support, our dedicated team is there at every stage combining innovation with a personal, dependable approach our customers can trust.
Who We Serve
Flexigrant serves grant-making organisations of every kind
Cut admin time. Reduce missed deadlines. Report with confidence.
- Audit-ready records on every award
- Role-based access for officers, applicants, and reviewers
- Built-in reporting against grant programme objectives
Public accountability, built in.
- Complete, time-stamped record of every decision
- Available on the G-Cloud framework
- ISO 27001, UK data hosting, and GDPR
One place for multi-funder portfolios
- Multi-stage peer review with consistent scoring
- Conflict-of-interest controls built into the workflow
- One view across multi-funder portfolios
See every programme. Prove every outcome.
- Every programme and award in one view
- Board-ready reports pulled from live data
- A simple portal for local applicants
Less admin. More time for impact.
- Full grant portfolio on one dashboard
- Outcome reporting for donors and trustees
- Configurable due diligence and checks
Fluent Technology has built software since 2001. Flexigrant carries that experience.
Fluent Technology is founded in Belfast.
Fluent Technology builds its first grant management system.
Flexigrant is born.
Fluent acquires RMA Systems and Services.
Flexigrant passes 50 clients.
Valsoft acquires Fluent Technology. Flexigrant is redesigned
The same Belfast team, the same roadmap.
Flexigrant Insights, the monitoring tool, is released.
Flexigrant passes 250 clients worldwide.
Mission and Vision
Our Mission.
Build the software that supports the full grant lifecycle for every grant-giving sector, in the UK and beyond, so the people distributing funding can take on the challenges that matter.
Our Vision.
Grant funding distributed effectively, where it makes the biggest difference across society.
Three Values Sit Underneath That Mission
Purpose-driven
We Help Others to Help Others
Grant-making exists to change things: fund research, back communities, and move public money to where it does good. Flexigrant exists one step behind that, helping the people who make it happen.
Every feature is measured by the work it enables, not by how clever the software looks. In practice, that means we talk about your mission rather than our product, we build what grant officers actually need next, and we count your funding landing well as our success.
- Success measured by the work you fund
- Features built around grant officers' real jobs
- Your mission leads every conversation
Purpose-driven
Almost Not There
The best tools recede. A good camera, a sharp chisel: you stop noticing them and get on with the work. Flexigrant is built to be picked up quickly and used without thinking about it, with sensible defaults, a low learning curve, and plain language everywhere.
Day to day, that means applicants finish forms without phoning for help, reviewers score without a refresher course, and your team runs programmes without keeping a manual open.
- A low learning curve and sensible defaults
- Plain, calm language a sharp 16-year-old could follow
- The system recedes, so the work proceeds
Security and Accountability
A Safe Pair of Hands
Funders hand Flexigrant sensitive applicant data and the record of every decision they make, so low risk is not a feature. It is the baseline. Security, governance, auditability, and UK data hosting are built in, and the system behaves predictably day after day.
We prove it rather than promise it: the British Heart Foundation, The Royal Society, and central government departments run their funding on Flexigrant. If it is safe enough for them, it is safe for you.
- UK data hosting and a full audit trail
- Predictable, governed, secure by default
- Proof over promises, with named funders
We’re here to help you grow better
NGOs and Nonprofits
Cut admin time. Reduce missed deadlines. Report with confidence.
Central and Local Government
Public accountability, built in.

