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Grants vs BrainHive for writing a startup business plan

BrainHive writes you a bank-ready business plan for €600-1,500. Grants is a workspace built for grant applications - a different document, a different reviewer.

BrainHive
Business plan
Finn Glas
Finn GlasCo-Founder + Engineering
·May 15, 2026·
1 min read

At a glance

BrainHive is a Hofheim-based consulting firm with offices in London and Munich. They write customised business plans in 4-21 days for €600-1,500 (standard), more for complex projects. The output is bank-ready and good - if you're applying for a Hausbank loan, a Gründungszuschuss from the Arbeitsagentur, or a generic landlord/customer-pitch business plan, BrainHive's product fits. Grants does a different job: it produces grant applications - EXIST Ideenpapier, IGP project description, KMU innovativ Skizze, Horizon EIC narrative - which use different chapter structures, different reviewer criteria, and different evidence standards than a bank business plan. PTJ reviewers want Innovationshöhe with citations to the state of the art; a bank wants a payback calculation. A great BrainHive plan still needs translation before it lands in EASY-Online.

Grants vs BrainHive Consulting: feature comparison

When to pick which

Pick Grants when

Your goal is a public-money grant (EXIST, IGP, KMU innovativ, BMBF, Horizon) - not a bank loan or Gründungszuschuss.
You want to keep the document structure your reviewer expects, with chapters mapped to programme criteria.
You expect to write 2-3+ grant applications across your first 2 years - the workspace pays back when you reuse chapters.

Pick BrainHive Consulting when

Your single deliverable is a bank-loan business plan for a Hausbank or KfW StartGeld application.
You want to delegate the writing entirely for a one-shot document with no follow-on application planned.
Your timeline is 4-21 days and you don't intend to learn the structure yourself.

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Free plan, no credit card. We host in Germany. You can export and delete everything self-serve.

Finn Glas

Written by

Finn Glas

Co-Founder + Engineering

Finn is one of the Co-Founders. He owns the engineering side, the infrastructure, and most of the late-night fixes that ship before anyone notices.

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