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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.

Paste it into your assistant. It tells you what it will send or change before it runs live.

First time? Adding ClickRuntime to your assistant takes about two minutes.

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

  1. Every day ClickRuntime reads the AI grants listings page.

  2. It skips any grant already in your Airtable table.

  3. AI pulls out each new grant's name, amount and deadline, and checks it against your company profile for eligibility.

  4. 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

RunsDaily
Get new AI grants you qualify for by emailtoday, 9:00Succeeded
Email · Grants digestNorthwind Health AI Fund (£50k, closes 30 Nov): likely eligible, UK start-ups under 50 staff in health.

Build your own

Need it to work differently?

This template is a starting point. Copy the prompt and change it, or describe a different automation from scratch, with your own conditions, more apps or an AI step. Your assistant writes it, tests it and runs it on ClickRuntime.
  • 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

This is the Python script that runs each time the automation starts. Your AI assistant writes it for you when you send the prompt, and you allow each step in your assistant. To change how the automation works, describe the change to your assistant and it updates the script for you. For every function it can use, see the script reference.
site_monitor_de_duplicated_in_airtable_with_email_digest.pyexample
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?
It compares each grant's criteria with a short profile of your company that you provide, such as location, size, stage and research area.
Can I watch other grant listings too?
Yes. Any public page that lists grants can be added, and new entries from all of them go into the same Airtable table.
What if no new grants are listed?
No email is sent that day, so you only hear from it when there is something new to look at.
What permissions does it need?
Airtable read+write; Gmail gmail.send. Nothing else in your accounts is used.
Does it need AI?
Yes. It uses ClickRuntime's built-in AI, so you don't need an OpenAI or Anthropic key. Every plan includes a monthly AI allowance.
How many runs does it use?
One run each time it runs (daily). Checks that find nothing to do and stop right away aren't counted.
Can I change how it works?
Yes. Describe the change to your AI assistant, for example a different schedule, channel or filter. It updates the automation, tests it and tells you what changed.

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