grantsmith

A Claude Code skill that turns Claude into a funding scout for your startup: it finds grants, cloud/AI credits, vouchers and public programs (non-dilutive money) in any country, and then helps you win them — from the first interview to submitted applications and follow-ups.

What it does

1. Intake — interviews you about your company (entity, stage, tech, needs) and writes a funding-profile.md it reuses forever.
2. Search — hunts autonomously in layers: cloud/AI credits → national innovation agencies → regional programs → sector funders → accelerators. Verifies everything on official pages, not blog listicles.
3. Evaluate — kills options on hard eligibility gates, scores the rest on fit × amount × probability ÷ effort, and returns a ranked shortlist with a recommended next action per option.
4. Execute — builds a reusable answer kit, fills forms (with battle-tested browser-automation and WAF/Turnstile troubleshooting recipes), drafts outreach to verified addresses, and runs the follow-up pipeline.

Built-in guardrails: nothing is ever submitted or emailed without your explicit approval, no answers are ever fabricated, and CAPTCHAs stay human.

Install

git clone https://github.com/gabrielrondon/grantsmith ~/.claude/skills/grantsmith

Then in any Claude Code session:

/grantsmith

or just ask something like "find grants for my startup" — Claude loads the skill when the task matches its description.

Layout

SKILL.md                      # the skill: 4 phases + hard rules
references/
  intake.md                   # the founder interview
  search-playbook.md          # query patterns, source hygiene, cadence
  sources.md                  # program families + lessons that repeat
  credits-catalog.md          # cloud/AI/SaaS credit programs (starting points)
  country-programs.md         # agencies & programs by country, worldwide
  evaluation.md               # gates, scoring, pipeline discipline
  scraping-tools.md           # fetch → Firecrawl/Jina → browser → clean IP
  forms-playbook.md           # form automation + WAF/Turnstile debugging order
  application-strategy.md     # answer kit, tailoring, outreach, follow-ups

Works anywhere: the playbooks are country-agnostic (examples cover Canada, US, UK, EU and the general pattern for everywhere else).

License

MIT — use it, fork it, share it.