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Automated grant-writing service for nonprofits

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Build a grant-research and grant-drafting service that identifies grants fitting a nonprofit's mission, studies their application requirements, drafts applications from the nonprofit's knowledge base, and routes every application through human review.

Problem: Nonprofits may lack the time or expertise to discover relevant grants, understand application requirements, and prepare multiple applications.

For: Nonprofits and ministries that need help finding and applying for suitable grants.

Examples

• Grant Craft was built for a nonprofit ministry for free. It identified suitable grants, studied application requirements, drafted applications from information about the ministry, and sent drafts to a human for review before submission.

Take your roommate to work day career-exposure marketplace

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A service that lets people spend a day observing or trying another person's job, similar to an Airbnb experience for careers. It broadens exposure to industries and roles that people may never encounter through school, friends or ordinary job searching.

Problem: People are often asked to identify their passion without having experienced enough different jobs to know what they like, while arranging a job-shadowing opportunity currently requires cold outreach and personal connections.

For: People who have not found a suitable career path, young adults exploring work options and professionals considering a change of industry or role.

Examples

• Dirty Jobs: a television show in which Mike Rowe spent a day with workers doing jobs such as cleaning sewers, servicing porta-potties, collecting garbage and working on farms.

Product sourcing agency

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Help retail brands identify manufacturers and source products, charging a service fee and a percentage of client product spending.

Problem: Retail brands need to identify where products are manufactured and obtain suitable suppliers, prices, and quality.

For: Retail brands that need help finding manufacturers and sourcing products domestically or internationally.

Examples

• On shoes: Import Yeti is used as an example of a product whose manufacturer can be investigated.

A profession or service that makes machine-generated mathematical proofs humanly comprehensible

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Translate ugly or difficult-to-understand proofs generated by AI systems into explanations that human mathematicians can understand.

Problem: Machine-generated proofs may be mathematically useful but difficult for people to understand.