AI AGENTS

Grant Discovery to Scored Airtable Pipeline

An agent discovers new open grants matching your focus areas, scores each on a fit rubric, and upserts only fresh.

CategoryAI Agents
EngineSim + Paperclip
Difficultyadvanced
Triggerschedule
Steps6
Setup~25 min

How it runs

The automated pipeline, trigger to output.

  • TriggerSchedule triggers discovery
  • ActionSearch Exa for funding programsExa
  • LogicDedupe against existing Airtable rowsAirtableAirtable
  • ActionScore fit rubric with OpenAIOpenAI
  • LogicDrop below-threshold programs
  • OutputUpsert qualifying rows to AirtableAirtableAirtable

What it does

Builds and maintains a clean, scored pipeline of grant opportunities in Airtable. It discovers programs, applies a numeric fit rubric, dedupes against what is already tracked, and writes only new qualifying rows — so the table stays a trustworthy worklist.

When to use it

When your team manages grants in Airtable and wants the discovery and scoring legwork automated while keeping a single deduped source of truth.

How it works

  1. 1A schedule triggers discovery.
  2. 2The agent searches Exa for funding programs in the org's focus areas and region.
  3. 3It checks each candidate against existing Airtable records to skip duplicates.
  4. 4OpenAI scores each new program against a fit rubric (eligibility, ask size, theme alignment, effort) and writes a short rationale.
  5. 5A logic step drops anything below the score threshold.
  6. 6Qualifying opportunities are upserted into the Airtable pipeline with score, rationale, deadline, and source link.

Set it up

What you configure once, before turning it on.

  1. 1
    Connect ExaNeural search across the web.
  2. 2
    Connect OpenAIModels, embeddings, files.
  3. 3
    Connect AirtableBases, tables, views, automations.
  4. 4
    Set each agent's modelWe leave models unset so you pick the tier — fast + cheap, or top-quality.
  5. 5
    Tune it to your dataEdit the prompts, filters, and field mappings so it matches how your team works.
  6. 6
    Test, then turn it onRun once against a sample, confirm the output, then enable the trigger.

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