Ailsa

Find more grants. Write stronger applications. Build your funding pipeline.

Ailsa helps businesses, charities, start-ups and innovators find and secure grants and other forms of non-dilutive funding.

Discover and validate the right opportunities, create stronger applications and build a forward-looking funding pipeline - all in one intelligent platform.

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Find & Validate. Write & Submit. Forward Plan.

Funding is out there. Finding the right opportunities is the hard part.

Billions in grant funding and other forms of non-dilutive support are available to businesses, charities, start-ups and innovators like you.

But finding them is time-consuming. Understanding whether they're genuinely right for you takes expertise. And putting together a compelling application can consume days of valuable time - with no guarantee of success.

Ailsa brings the whole process together.

Find & Validate

Find the funding opportunities worth pursuing.

Stop spending hours searching funding databases, newsletters and websites.

Ailsa continuously searches thousands of opportunities, including grants, innovation funding, credits, accelerator programmes and other sources of non-dilutive support.

Opportunities are matched against your ambitions, activities, sector, location and eligibility - helping you quickly understand what's relevant and what's worth pursuing.

  • Discover more

    Surface opportunities you might never have found yourself.

  • Validate fit

    Understand eligibility, relevance and strategic fit before investing valuable time in an application.

  • Prioritise

    Focus your team on the opportunities with the strongest potential.

Find more. Search less. Pursue the funding that fits.

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Write & Submit

From blank page to stronger application.

Finding the opportunity is only half the battle.

Ailsa helps turn your existing knowledge, evidence, experience and ambitions into high-quality, tailored funding applications.

Your dedicated knowledge library gives Ailsa the context it needs to understand who you are, what you do and what makes you different - helping create intelligent first drafts grounded in your own information and voice.

  • Start faster

    Generate intelligent first drafts without starting from a blank page.

  • Put your knowledge to work

    Draw on existing documents, evidence, case studies and previous applications.

  • Respond to the criteria

    Build responses around the specific requirements and assessment criteria of each funder.

  • Keep your voice

    Create applications that sound like you - not generic AI.

Less time writing. More time making the application exceptional.

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Forward Plan

Build a funding pipeline - not a funding scramble.

Funding shouldn't depend on someone spotting an opportunity two weeks before the deadline.

Ailsa gives you visibility of what's ahead, creating a dynamic roadmap of relevant funding opportunities, deadlines and milestones.

See what's coming. Decide what matters. Give your team the time to prepare properly.

  • See what's ahead

    Build visibility of upcoming grants and funding opportunities.

  • Plan earlier

    Identify deadlines and preparation milestones well before submission.

  • Allocate resources

    Know where you need to focus - and when.

  • Build continuity

    Move from one-off applications towards a sustainable, long-term funding pipeline.

Stop reacting to funding opportunities. Start planning for them.

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More than grants

Find the right form of funding for what comes next.

Grants

Funding for innovation, growth, research, projects, communities and more.

Innovation funding

Opportunities designed to support the development and commercialisation of new products, services and technologies.

Credits & incentives

Relevant schemes and financial incentives that can help fund investment and growth.

Accelerators & programmes

Competitive programmes offering funding, expertise, networks, resources and routes to market.

Other non-dilutive opportunities

New and emerging sources of support matched to your needs and ambitions.

Ailsa helps you see the bigger funding picture - not just search another grants database.

Built around you

Generic AI can help write an application. Ailsa helps you build a funding capability.

Ailsa learns from the information you choose to give it - your experience, capabilities, projects, evidence, impact and ambitions.

That knowledge powers the entire funding process.

It helps Ailsa find more relevant opportunities.

It provides context when validating whether they're right for you.

It helps create stronger, more authentic applications.

And it informs your forward funding plan.

So instead of starting from scratch every time, you're building a funding capability that becomes more valuable with every opportunity you pursue.

Funding for every kind of ambition

Built for the organisations chasing the next stage of growth.

For businesses

Find funding to support innovation, investment, productivity, internationalisation, sustainability and growth.

For start-ups & scale-ups

Discover non-dilutive opportunities that can help you develop, validate and scale — while protecting your equity.

For charities & social enterprises

Find funding aligned with your mission, activities and impact, and reduce the resource required to develop strong applications.

For innovators

Discover funding, programmes and opportunities capable of moving an idea from research and development towards real-world impact.

From funding opportunity to funding strategy.

Find & Validate

Discover relevant funding and know what's worth pursuing.

Write & Submit

Create stronger applications using the knowledge already within your team.

Forward Plan

Build visibility of what's coming and develop a sustainable funding pipeline.

One intelligent platform connecting the entire process.

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Your next funding opportunity is already out there.

Find it. Validate it. Go after it. Then know exactly what's coming next.

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