This week, we made further improvements to our Grants API by adding a new field called funding_purposes which allows you to query the grants database using multiple funding purposes enabling you to provide more customised grant results to your users. This new feature was based on customer feedback and we were able to implement, test … Read more
This week we’re working on the 2023 Annual Grant Trends which will highlight the 2023 trends in available grants covering such areas as the most popular sectors for grants, the most popular regions and the which funding purposes there were most grants for. This not only helps us see the past trends but also enables … Read more
Looking back at 2023 and ahead to 2024 is a good time to consider some of the challenges facing not only UK businesses but the economy and country as a whole. There has been widespread media coverage of the recent GDP figures showing a flatlining economy and forecasts outlining that this scenario is likely to … Read more
Over Christmas and the New Year we’ve been doing a general sweep up of all those little tasks that get added to the list over the year. Our focus is still on how we can use AI to improve our grant results and tooling. We’re now testing some code that uses RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) to … Read more
Development Review of the Year 2023 We made massive strides this year with getBusinessGrants.com both in terms of the front-end site and the back-end functionality. Our Grants API is proving to be a key tools that’s used both by us internally to produce new products and externally to improve access to grants for businesses. In … Read more
Just a week ago, we launched the new getbusinessgrants.com site. Now, we’re turning our attention to the OpenAI API to train it on our own grants database. This will allow us to create a natural language interface that enables users to ask questions like “What grants are available for my construction business in Birmingham?” and receive relevant results in … Read more
This week has been all about preparing to launch our new site changes. The update encompasses a broad range of areas, including front-end design, text changes, functionality, and all the back-end systems such as our API. As usual, one of the most challenging decisions is when to stop tweaking and actually press the button to … Read more
This week has all been about preparing for the major site upgrade happening this weekend. Almost all areas of the frontend and backend have been updated from the PHP code, database tables through to our Svelte apps. Following the update this weekend we’ll be doing some final testing on Monday before releasing it to the … Read more
As part of our ongoing content maintenance, we’ve been revisiting some of our site pages. This process involves auditing content to assess the need for updates. We take a comprehensive look at each page to determine what information might be outdated, irrelevant, or in need of a fresh perspective. This can also involve analyzing the … Read more
We’re thrilled to announce that we’re developing our own Grants AI using OpenAI’s GPT Builder. This tool is designed to simplify the process of finding grants, making it more efficient and user-friendly. GPTs, or Generative Pretrained Transformers, are custom versions of ChatGPT that can be tailored for specific tasks or topics by combining instructions, knowledge, … Read more
