Grant Intelligence Platform

My Role:

UX/UI Designer, & AI Workflow Developer

Deliverable:

A fully functional AI-powered web platform featuring automated grant discovery, intelligent categorization, startup-fit scoring, searchable grant database, and an intuitive user interface.

Description:

Designed and built an AI-powered grant intelligence platform using Lovable to automate the discovery, categorization, and prioritization of newly announced SBIR/STTR funding opportunities. The platform helps LaunchTN quickly identify the most relevant grants for startups by reducing manual research and streamlining funding recommendations.

The Problem

LaunchTN works with startups that rely on SBIR and STTR funding opportunities, but discovering new grants is an extremely fragmented and time-consuming process. There is no centralized public database that contains all active SBIR and STTR funding opportunities. Instead, each federal agency and government program publishes its own solicitations on separate websites with different announcement schedules, deadlines, and formats.

Because of this, identifying relevant funding opportunities required manually monitoring dozens of agency websites, searching through multiple portals, and comparing announcements to determine which grants were still active and applicable to the startups LaunchTN supports. The process was inefficient, difficult to scale, and increased the risk of overlooking valuable funding opportunities simply because information was scattered across many sources.

The Solution

To address this challenge, I designed and built an AI-powered Grant Intelligence Platform using Lovable that continuously identifies newly announced SBIR/STTR opportunities, categorizes them by technology area, prioritizes them based on startup fit, and centralizes the information in a searchable, user-friendly interface.

Final Product

Grant Discovery Dashboard

  • Live feed of newly announced SBIR/STTR opportunities

  • Search and filter by agency, technology area, funding phase, and startup relevance

  • AI-powered prioritization to surface the most relevant grants

  • Centralized database that replaces fragmented government websites

AI-Powered Grant Analysis

  • Consolidates eligibility requirements, deadlines, funding details, and source documents into one interface

  • Generates AI-powered executive summaries and highlights key objectives, evaluation criteria, and commercialization potential

  • Recommends relevant research disciplines, university departments, industry sectors, and ideal applicant profiles

  • Provides strategic insights and applicant readiness questions to support faster, more informed funding decisions