Scottish founders waste hours hunting for grants and events scattered across government sites, universities, innovation centres and community groups. Relevant funding quietly goes unclaimed because nobody can see all of it at once.
I built a central Airtable database of open grants for Scottish residents and entrepreneurs, 122 and counting, plus an events aggregator pulling from multiple organisers, on a hierarchical location schema (country, region, locality) with an n8n backend doing the gathering.
It became one of the headline Dundee Founders Collective outcomes and was featured as a founder story in the Techscaler Annual Report 2025. When I say AI for ops rather than content, this is the build I point at.
Getting the location schema right early mattered far more than the clever automation on top. Messy geography is what makes aggregation hard, and a well-structured database quietly turns into infrastructure people come to rely on.