Who is my contractual counterparty?

Finn Glas, a German sole proprietor based in 72461 Tailfingen, Germany. Address, press contact under §18(2) MStV and every disclosure required by §5 TMG live at /imprint.

Where is the data stored?

On dedicated servers we operate ourselves, physically located in Germany. Records, attachments, audit log, embeddings - all in the same EU jurisdiction. Backups stay within Germany at other physical locations and roll off on a 30-day window. We deliberately don't name the exact provider or data centre - it doesn't help the customer and would make operator changes a public event.

Which law applies in case of a dispute?

German law, excluding the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods. Mandatory consumer protection rules of your country of residence remain unaffected. Venue is the registered seat of the operator (see /imprint), where legally permitted. No arbitration clause - you have the same legal recourse as with any other German vendor.

Can I get German-language support?

Yes. Both co-founders reply in German and English. No outsourcing, no ticket queue, no bot replies - you talk to someone who wrote the code.

How does the invoice + refund work?

Stripe issues a PDF invoice automatically after every payment, with VAT shown where applicable (the German Kleinunternehmer status under §19 UStG can drop the VAT line - the invoice is still fully bookkeeping-grade). Refund is self-serve in account settings: within the first 30 days of any new paid period you can refund the most recent charge yourself - no email, no exit interview. Full text in /terms §4.

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Vergleich

Grants: the German alternative to Microsoft Word

Hosted in Germany, German operator of record, German law. Same three pillars, English URL.

German alternative

EXIST

Word

Finn GlasCo-Founder + Engineering

·17. Dezember 2025·

1 Min. Lesezeit

Grants is the German alternative to Microsoft Word: hosted in Germany, German operator of record, German law applies. Three things that travel together for a reason - any one of them on its own is half a promise.

Überblick

Word ist hervorragend in einer Sache: jedem Dokument. Der Preis dieser Flexibilität: null Struktur, wenn du dich an ein EXIST-Gründerstipendium-Ideenpapier setzt. Grants liefert die Abschnittsstruktur (Idee, Innovation, Markt, Team, Plan), nach der Gutachten das PDF öffnen - plus Frist-Tracking, Status und das 4-Wochen-Fenster, das einen "zur Nachbesserung zurückgegebenen" Antrag wieder in die Bewilligungs-Stapel bringt.

Three pillars together

Three pillars that travel together

Hosted in Germany alone means little if the operator of record is a Delaware LLC - the CLOUD Act follows the seat, not the server. A German operator alone means little if the servers sit in Virginia - the access risk lives there. German law alone means little if both of those are missing - the venue clause cannot solve a data problem. Grants brings all three together: dedicated servers in Germany, Finn Glas (sole proprietor) registered in 72461 Tailfingen, German law on the contract. The gap to Microsoft Word is usually that one of these three is missing.

Grants vs Microsoft Word: German-vendor comparison

	Wir Grants	Andere Microsoft Word
Hosting in Deutschland		Microsoft 365: vom Setup abhängig
Abschnittsstruktur für EXIST/IGP
Frist- und Status-Tracking
PTJ-Sprachkonventionen
Mehrere Autor:innen, live
Komplett offline nutzbar
Vorhandene Gutachter-Vorlagen

Wann du was wählst

Wähle Grants, wenn

Du schreibst einen EXIST-, Forschungstransfer-, IGP- oder BW-Pre-Seed-Antrag und willst die Struktur geliefert haben.

Zwei oder drei Mitgründer:innen arbeiten am selben Entwurf - und du willst nicht final_v17_finalfinal.docx benennen.

Die Einreichungsfrist zählt. Das 4-Wochen-Fenster nach einer Nachbesserungs-Aufforderung zählt mehr.

Wähle Microsoft Word, wenn

Du hast bereits eine Gutachter-Vorlage als Word-Datei von deiner Hochschule - und die Gutachterin erwartet genau diese Datei.

Du schreibst den ganzen Antrag offline auf langen Flügen.

Common questions

What German-buying teams typically want answered before they switch.

Mit Grants starten

Kostenloser Tarif, keine Kreditkarte. Hosting in Deutschland. Export und Löschen self-service.

Geschrieben von

Finn Glas

Co-Founder + Engineering

Finn ist einer der Co-Founder. Er verantwortet Engineering, Infrastruktur und die meisten nächtlichen Fixes, die ausgerollt werden, bevor jemand etwas merkt.

finn.glas at aicuflow dot comLinkedIn Website

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