How Maevena builds grant intelligence

Maevena prefers first-party sources: official funder notices, government APIs, agency funding pages, program documents, and authoritative application systems. Curated directories may establish that a program exists, but they do not automatically establish every deadline, award, or eligibility condition.

Historical awards and funder profiles can provide context. They are not presented as open opportunities unless an authoritative source supports a current, actionable program.

1. Step 1

   Ingest and retain provenance

   Capture the source, external identifier, source URL, timestamps, and material fields needed to trace the record.

2. Step 2

   Normalize and deduplicate

   Standardize comparable fields and prevent the same underlying opportunity from appearing as multiple grants.

3. Step 3

   Verify and classify

   Evaluate lifecycle state, applicant evidence, geography, categories, freshness, and whether an authoritative next step exists.

4. Step 4

   Apply publication gates

   Only records meeting page-quality and evidence requirements become indexable; ambiguous records remain qualified or withheld.

5. Step 5

   Refresh connected pages

   Material changes update the canonical grant page, relevant directories, sitemap signals, and publication events.

6. Step 6

   Monitor failures

   Retries handle transient failures; terminal quality problems are isolated for review rather than silently published.

Confirmed means the captured source directly supports the statement. Inferred means a bounded rule or analysis derives a useful conclusion from source text, but the source does not state it in the same terms. Unclear means the available evidence is insufficient or conflicting.

AI-assisted editorial analysis must remain evidence-bound. It may organize and explain captured facts, identify questions, or summarize application work; it may not manufacture missing program terms or convert ambiguity into certainty.

Sources have different expected refresh cadences. Maevena records when source information was checked and treats materially stale records as a quality risk. Closed opportunities may remain available for historical research, but they are excluded from open discovery and clearly labeled.

Deadlines and program terms can change between refreshes. Applicants should always confirm final details with the official funder. Corrections can be sent to corrections@maevena.com.

Maevena does not publish a directory merely because a keyword or taxonomy combination exists. A directory must have sufficient verified inventory, an original explanation of who it serves, reliable classification evidence, and measured review precision. Filtered or thin states are kept out of search indexes.

Maevena does not guarantee eligibility, competitiveness, funding availability, or award outcomes. Application-effort estimates are directional. Geographic source fields can be incomplete. Funder amendments may appear after the most recent check.

The authoritative notice, program instructions, and funder communications always control.