# Ailsa

> Ailsa gives your organisation its own funding team, without the cost of building one. We run funding as an AI-augmented service — curating grants, innovation loans, awards, accelerators, bids and tenders worth pursuing, and writing the winning applications.

## Key pages
- [How it works](https://ailsa.io/how-it-works): How Ailsa's AI-augmented funding service operates.
- [About](https://ailsa.io/about): Ailsa's mission, story, and team.
- [Insights](https://ailsa.io/insights): Articles and analysis on funding for founders and research teams.
- [Book a demo](https://ailsa.io/book-demo): Schedule a walkthrough of Ailsa.
- [Contact](https://ailsa.io/contact-us): Get in touch with the Ailsa team.

## Insights (blog)
- [How to Actually Find (and Vet) Drug Discovery Grants Before You Apply](https://ailsa.io/insights/how-to-find-and-vet-drug-discovery-grants-before-you-apply): Finding drug discovery grants was never the hard part. Here's how to validate which ones are actually worth applying to before you commit the time.
- [Tech Grants: A Founder's Guide from Discovery to Delivery](https://ailsa.io/insights/tech-grants-a-founders-guide-from-discovery-to-delivery): A founder's guide to tech grants, covering how to find the right fit, write a winning application, and plan for what happens when you win.
- [Tech Grants: How to Know If Your Idea Fits](https://ailsa.io/insights/tech-grants-how-to-know-if-your-idea-fits): Not every tech idea fits tech grants, and knowing early saves you a fortnight. A bid writer shares the three questions that decide whether your idea is grant-shaped.
- [AI didn’t change tech grants. It changed who wins them.](https://ailsa.io/insights/ai-and-tech-grants-what-actually-works): A grounded look at where AI is actually helping founders win tech grant funding, and how relying solely on it is quietly costing them money.
- [Biotech startup funding needs a flight plan](https://ailsa.io/insights/biotech-startup-funding-flight-plan): Biotech startups that raise more funding aren't the ones that move fastest, they're the ones who planned their route furthest in advance.
- [The End of the Transactional Grant: UKRI's New Strategy Explained](https://ailsa.io/insights/ukri-thinking-like-a-vc): UKRI's newly published 2026-2031 strategy seeks to retire the era of the transactional grant. Ailsa's here to unpack what's actually changing, and why it may matter more than you expect.
- [One Word That Quietly Torpedoes Funding Applications](https://ailsa.io/insights/one-word-that-quietly-torpedoes-funding-applications): Ask ten funders what a "prototype" is and you’re liable to get ten different answers back. That fragmentation is costing founders real opportunities.
- [Where is cybersecurity research funding actually heading?](https://ailsa.io/insights/where-cybersecurity-research-funding-is-heading): Public funding calls tell you what’s open today. Policy documents and think-tank analysis tell you what's coming next, and reading them early is how forward-thinking cybersecurity research teams plan two years ahead instead of one call at a time.