Catalogue / The Funding Agent
The Funding Agent
Lorcan the badger — yours gets the name you choose
Reads the eligibility small print so you never write half an application you were never going to win.
Finds the grants you actually qualify for, and bins the ones you don’t.
There is money you qualify for and a hundred schemes you do not. The work is telling those apart, and it is the part everyone skips.
- Takes off your team
- 4–12 hrs/wk
- Pays per result
- €50 per funding shortlist delivered
- Live in
- 14 days
About €600–€1,800 a month of staff time at €35/hr
Quiet month: €45 minimum. Busy month: never more than €350. No monthly plan to sign. Setup €300–500 once, credited back at month 3.
Built to order for your stack, then a week in draft
- Lorcan matching your business against what is genuinely open right now
- A shortlist with the eligibility rule that put each one on it
- The rejects listed too, with the exact clause that disqualified you
- Deadlines in your calendar before they are a week away
- A first draft of the sections that are the same in every application
Lorcan at work
What it does
- 01
Matches your size, sector and county against what is actually open
- 02
Throws out everything you do not qualify for, and says why
- 03
Puts the deadlines in your calendar and drafts the first section
Plugs into
- Google Calendar
- Gmail
- Outlook
- Google Sheets
- Google Drive
On something older or in-house? It reads a shared sheet instead — how it plugs in.
Questions people ask
Does it apply for the funding for me?
It drafts, you sign. Everything an application asks about your business comes from you or your own records, and nothing is submitted without a person approving it — an invented figure on a grant form is fraud, not a shortcut.
What does it cost to find funding?
€50 per shortlist delivered, with a €45 quiet-month minimum and a €350 ceiling. Consultants routinely charge a percentage of what you win; this charges for the search whether you win or not, which is why it will tell you when nothing fits.
What if I do not qualify for anything?
Then the shortlist is empty and it says so, with the clause that ruled each scheme out. That is a real answer worth having — most of the cost of grant hunting is the applications nobody was ever eligible for.
Hired most by startups.