Fundory — Grant Intelligence for Nonprofits Grant funding runs on a brutal arithmetic: most appli...Fundory — Grant Intelligence for Nonprofits Grant funding runs on a brutal arithmetic: most appli...
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Grant funding runs on a brutal arithmetic: most applications fail, and the ones that fail still cost weeks of a small team's time. Nonprofits with two or three staff are spending that time writing into opportunities they were never positioned to win.
Fundory attacks the problem upstream. Instead of helping organizations write faster, it decides what's worth writing at all. Every discovered grant is screened against the organization's actual profile and returned with a fit score, so a 65% never consumes the effort a 91% deserves. The product states its threshold plainly: apply above 85%.
The pipeline runs Discovered → Screened → Waiting for Approval → Drafted → Closed, with AI moving work forward and humans holding the approval gate. Drafted proposals carry two separate scores — model confidence and draft quality — because those measure different risks and collapsing them would hide the one that matters.
I built the screening and scoring layer, the document and narrative system that grounds drafts in the organization's real history, and the pipeline that keeps 28 live opportunities legible to a team without a grants department.
Back in 2016 I made a lot of cinemagraphs for HBO.
They took a surprising amount of work. Masking footage, finding the right loop, freezing parts of the frame and getting everything to transition cleanly.
I’ve had an idea for a simpler cinemagraph tool kicking around in my head ever since.
About a month ago I built another small tool using Toolcraft as the starting point, so yesterday I wanted to see if it could handle this idea too.
A few hours later I had a working cinemagraph editor.
Drop in a video → find your loop → choose how it loops → paint the areas you want to keep still → export.
Basically the workflow I used 10 years ago, condensed into a few controls.
Still rough around the edges, but kind of wild to finally build a tool I’ve been thinking about for a decade.
The masking-and-looping history is exactly why a simpler cinemagraph workflow feels valuable; the tricky part is preserving a seamless transition without making the tool feel like a timeline editor. Curious direction for an AI-assisted app.
The two directions make the comparison easy to understand, and the editorial option feels especially aligned with a chess club’s sense of heritage and focus.
Hey, it’s been a while since my last update. I’ve been focused on a few projects behind the scenes, but I’m back with a major Weave milestone.
Weave helps professionals exchange time and expertise using Skill Hours instead of money.
My last update covered the invite application system. Since then, I’ve built:
Authentication: Secure account access with Firebase.
Onboarding: Guided profile and skill setup.
Profiles and portfolios: A place to showcase work, skills, and trust.
Member dashboard: A clear view of activity and ongoing work.
Admin dashboard: Tools for managing users and community health.
Skill Hour Ledger: Tracks every hour earned, spent, or transferred.
Marketplace: Members can publish requests and find collaborators.
Cloud infrastructure: Neon for data and storage, prepared for Cloudflare Workers.
Today’s milestone is the Exchange Workflow, the system connecting everything.
Members can now move from an accepted application into a dedicated workspace, communicate, share files, track milestones, submit deliverables, complete the exchange, transfer Skill Hours, and leave reviews.
The core Weave experience is finally taking shape, and I’m excited to share what comes next.
The milestone view makes the workflow feel tangible—especially the clear split between deliverables and activity. Nice product thinking in how you surface progress without adding noise.