Infinity SDG · The Sales Agent
Fund Me is the discovery and import side of The Sales Agent: a working system for finding where federal, state, county, local, and private institutions publish funding opportunities and procurement solicitations — then collecting what they publish, preserving the evidence, and tracking what changes.
The first obstacle is usually discovery, not capability. An opportunity should be findable because the system knows where to look — not because someone guessed the right search phrase on the right morning.
What it does
Each of these fails differently, so each is built and measured on its own. A missed notice caused by a broken source is a coverage problem; a bad shortlist is not.
Two registries, kept separate: who publishes or funds the work, and where that work is announced. One county may use a procurement portal, a grants page, a bid board, and a third-party plan room. Each gets its own source card with a verified collection path.
An opportunity is only as trustworthy as what its issuer actually published. Notices, descriptions, and attachments are collected and preserved so a record can be traced back to its source document — including the attachment that changed without changing its filename.
The unit of value is an opportunity over time, not a newly discovered URL. Reprocessing detects meaningful change, preserves the previous state, and can explain why an alert fired — so a notice you dismissed yesterday can resurface when an amendment removes the restriction.
Discovery asks whether a notice belongs in the collection. Qualification asks whether your organization should spend time on it. Those are different questions, and one similarity score answers neither — so matching produces a cited fit analysis and a list of what is missing.
Why one list is not enough
The phrase “environmental sensors” can appear in a federal research partnership, a state equipment buy, a county maintenance contract, and a foundation’s community grant. The routes to participation are completely different. Combining the records is only useful if those differences survive the import.
Grants and cooperative agreements.
Purchases of goods, services, construction, and research.
Prizes, fellowships, loans, guarantees, investment programs, rebates, sponsorships.
Amounts keep their meaning too. A total program budget, a maximum individual award, a minimum request, an estimated contract value, and a historical obligation are different quantities. “Up to” is preserved. Where no amount is published, the record says not stated — adding unlike figures into a national “money available” total produces a precise number with no defensible meaning.
The pipeline
Operators never talk to the application database. They write manifests; a publisher walks a manifest into an environment. The separation is what makes a run repeatable and a bad run recoverable.
A source operator runs against one verified publication location and writes its output to disk, under a request policy — not straight into a database.
The collected run becomes a manifest: a deterministic list of notices with a stable identity for each one, derived from its source and the issuer’s own identifier.
The manifest is walked into an environment idempotently. Publishing the same run twice changes nothing — the same notice keeps the same id, so links and decisions survive a republish.
Only then is a record searchable. Material on disk is not yet in the library, and a row in the library is not proof that retrieval can find its current text. The stages are measured separately.
Running today
Coverage from any one of these depends on its inputs, the source’s current behaviour, and completed runs. A folder or a command does not establish that a source is current or fully loaded — so each one carries its own state: discovered, verifying, active, degraded, blocked, retired, or redirected.
What “every” means here. Every institution and every opportunity belongs in the ambition. A claim of completeness belongs only to a defined population, source, time window, and access boundary that have actually been checked. “All 642 records returned by this source for this date window were imported” can be verified. “Every opportunity in America” cannot be established by a large row count or a map with fifty coloured states, and this project does not claim a complete national database exists. Read the coverage charter →
The companion book
Fourteen parts covering institution discovery, federal, state, local, and private sources, collection, documents and amendments, identity and normalization, evidence, operations, Sales Agent integration, and national rollout — plus a workbook of procedures you can put to use immediately, and twenty-eight primary-source references.
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The Sales Agent runs today against a working set of federal and state sources. Onboarding a new institution is named, reviewable work — a source card, a verified collection path, and a measured first run. Say which jurisdictions and opportunity families matter to you and we will tell you honestly what is already covered and what it would take.
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