Daily
Get new AI grants you qualify for by email
Each day you get an email with any newly listed AI grants, a note on whether you look eligible, and every grant saved in Airtable.
- Runs
- Daily
- Apps
- Airtable, Gmail
- AI
- Yes, uses the built-in AI allowance
- Access
- Airtable read+write; Gmail gmail.send
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Create a ClickRuntime automation: every day, scrape the AI grants list, skip ones already in Airtable, check eligibility with AI and email me the new ones.
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Why use it
Why teams use this automation
A small AI start-up relies on grants to fund research. New programmes appear on a listings page every week, each with different rules on company size, location and topic. Checking the page by hand is a chore, and reading every grant's criteria to see if it fits takes longer still.
This automation checks the listings for them every day, saves new grants in Airtable and gives a first view on eligibility, so they only spend time on applications they have a real chance of winning.
What you get out of it
Never miss a new programme
A daily check means a grant with a short deadline is spotted while there is still time to apply.
A first read on eligibility
Each new grant comes with a note on whether your company seems to qualify and why, which saves reading every set of criteria in full.
A growing grant database
Every grant is stored in Airtable with its deadline and amount, ready for tracking applications and planning the year.
Only new grants in your inbox
Grants already in Airtable are skipped, so the daily email is short and only shows what you have not seen.
How it works
What happens, step by step
Every day ClickRuntime reads the AI grants listings page.
It skips any grant already in your Airtable table.
AI pulls out each new grant's name, amount and deadline, and checks it against your company profile for eligibility.
New grants are added to Airtable and emailed to you from your Gmail account as one digest.
Before it runs live
- Connect Airtable
- Connect Google through your own Google app (a one-time, 10-minute setup), so it works with your own Gmail
What you get
Build your own
Need it to work differently?
Your own rules
Conditions, thresholds, filters and exceptions, written the way you'd explain them to a colleague.
Any number of apps
One automation can read from one app and update several others. Over 248 apps are ready, and anything with an API works too.
AI where it helps
Summaries, classification, extraction and drafts use ClickRuntime's built-in AI, with no extra key.
On a schedule or on each event
Runs as often as every 5 minutes, or the moment an app sends an event, and keeps track of what it already handled.
Changes you can ask for
- Run it at a different time, more or less often, or only on weekdays
- Change what the AI looks for, or how it writes the result
- Add another app, for example also send it to Slack
- Combine it with other Airtable and Gmail steps into one automation
Under the hood
The code that runs this automation
from google.oauth2.credentials import Credentials
from googleapiclient.discovery import build
import base64, re
from email.mime.text import MIMEText
from clickruntime import on_trigger, credentials, http, ai
LIST_URL = "https://example.com/ai-grants"
TABLE = "https://api.airtable.com/v0/your-base-id/Grants"
PROFILE = "UK-based AI start-up, 8 staff, pre-revenue, working on medical imaging."
def send(gmail, to, subject, text, thread=None):
msg = MIMEText(text)
msg["to"], msg["subject"] = to, subject
body = {"raw": base64.urlsafe_b64encode(msg.as_bytes()).decode()}
if thread:
body["threadId"] = thread
gmail.users().messages().send(userId="me", body=body).execute()
@on_trigger
def run(event):
h = {"Authorization": f"Bearer {credentials.secret('AIRTABLE_API_KEY')}"}
known = {r["fields"].get("Name") for r in http.get(TABLE, headers=h, params={"fields[]": "Name"}).json()["records"]}
page = re.sub(r"<[^>]+>", " ", http.get(LIST_URL).text)[:25000]
schema = {"type": "object", "properties": {"grants": {"type": "array", "items": {"type": "object", "properties": {
"name": {"type": "string"}, "amount": {"type": "string"}, "deadline": {"type": "string"}, "eligible": {"type": "string"}}}}}}
grants = ai.generate([f"List the grants on this page and judge eligibility for: {PROFILE}", page],
json_schema=schema, max_output_tokens=1500).json["grants"]
new = [g for g in grants if g["name"] not in known]
if not new:
return {"new": 0}
for g in new:
http.post(TABLE, headers=h, json={"fields": {"Name": g["name"], "Amount": g["amount"], "Deadline": g["deadline"], "Eligibility": g["eligible"]}})
text = "\n\n".join(f"{g['name']} ({g['amount']}, closes {g['deadline']})\n{g['eligible']}" for g in new)
send(build("gmail", "v1", credentials=Credentials(credentials.connection("google", "work")), cache_discovery=False),
"you@example.com", f"{len(new)} new AI grant(s)", text)
return {"new": len(new)}FAQ
Common questions
How does it judge eligibility?
Can I watch other grant listings too?
What if no new grants are listed?
What permissions does it need?
Does it need AI?
How many runs does it use?
Can I change how it works?
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