The science of finding your market
Your innovation has a market in government funding. Funding Scout pinpoints it.
We start with where government demand exists, is emerging and is going - then prioritise exactly where your innovation fits within it.
Is this you?
If government should be your customer—as a funder, a buyer, or both—Funding Scout is built for you.
Researchers & post-docs
Know which programmes are actively investing in your area—before you spend weeks on an application that was never going to land.
Deep tech founders
Find where government is already buying what you're building. Contracts first. Grants second. Government as a market, not just a funder.
Innovation companies
Identify the highest-value government market for your innovation and pursue it with precision—not guesswork.
How it works
Map. Score. Act.
Minutes, not months.
01
Map
Describe your innovation in plain language.
Paste your pitch deck, research summary or patent. The model maps it against the entire US government demand landscape.
Output
Your innovation mapped
02
Score
Rank markets and opportunities by demand strength and relevance to your innovation.
We show you where demand is strongest today, where it's emerging and where it's heading-including adjacent markets you may never have considered. The same innovation, applied to opportunities you didn't know existed.
Output
Your demand signal score
03
Act
Your highest-priority opportunities. Ranked.
The most relevant contracts, grants and programmes within your strongest demand clusters - prioritised by fit. We also surface funded projects approaching the end of their award cycle, but only in your highest-scoring clusters - where demand is sustained, not one-off, and where renewals, follow-on solicitations and fresh competitions are most likely to follow. Where to be early isn't guesswork. It's signal.
Output
Your opportunity priority score
Strong > 55
Moderate
Low < 40
The science
Three scores. One clear picture. Patent pending.
Demand Signal Score.
Your headline number.
How strongly government demand aligns with your innovation overall—across 2,197 clusters, drawing on both realised spend and forward signals across 26 years of investment data.
Demand Cluster Score.
Where to focus.
Ranks your matched demand clusters by depth, momentum and diversity. Highest clusters first, that's where the market signal is strongest.
Opportunity Priority Score.
Your next move.
Ranks open solicitations, contracts, grants and funded projects approaching renewal within your top clusters. Start with rank 1, that's where confidence, fit and timing are strongest.
The product
What your results look like.
A real score. Real clusters. A clear bottom line.
The difference
From weeks of searching
to your next move in minutes.
Without Funding Scout
With Funding Scout
Days scanning grants.gov, SAM.gov and SBIR databases—no clear sense of fit
A focused answer — where to spend your time, and where to be early
Keyword search returning hundreds of irrelevant results - 400 maybes, no clear answer
Your innovation scored against 2,197 demand clusters — in minutes
No way to know if a programme is growing, shrinking or already saturated
Realised spend and forward signals—a complete picture of demand, past and future
Applications written blind—no evidence of actual demand behind them
A clear bottom line—apply with confidence, not hope
Geoffrey White
Advanced Construction Robotics
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Know exactly where government demand meets your innovation — in minutes.