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Research Funding Discovery

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Personalised grant discovery that surfaces the funding opportunities a specific researcher is actually eligible for.

Domain
Research and Data
Status
Prototype
Stack
LangChainTavilygpt-4o-mini

The problem

Researchers miss funding they qualify for.

Grant opportunities are scattered across agencies, foundations, and institutional portals with inconsistent formats and deadlines. Finding the relevant ones is a research project in itself, competing directly with the research the funding is meant to support.

How it works

  1. 01

    Search the live landscape

    Tavily API search reaches current funding sources rather than a static list that ages between updates.

  2. 02

    Reason about fit

    gpt-4o-mini evaluates each opportunity against the researcher's actual profile and field.

  3. 03

    Return what is relevant

    Output is a personalised shortlist, which is the only form of this answer that saves anyone time.

Architecture

  1. 01

    Search

    Tavily API live retrieval across funding sources

  2. 02

    Reasoning

    gpt-4o-mini relevance evaluation against researcher profile

  3. 03

    Orchestration

    LangChain pipeline from query to shortlist

Capabilities

  • Live funding opportunity search
  • Researcher profile matching
  • Relevance reasoning over results
  • Personalised opportunity shortlist

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