AI Agent — Now Accepting Students
HUNT SCHOLARSHIPS
Our AI hunts, applies, and wins scholarships for your student — automatically. You pay nothing until they win. We take 5% of whatever we find.
$46B
Unclaimed Aid/Year
300+
Auto-Applications
5%
Success Fee Only
0min
Student Work Required
Maria R. won $18,500 in 47 apps
DeShawn T. won $32,000 in 89 apps
Priya K. won $11,200 in 31 apps
Jake M. won $8,750 in 24 apps
Sofia L. won $22,400 in 61 apps
Marcus W. won $15,000 in 42 apps
Maria R. won $18,500 in 47 apps
DeShawn T. won $32,000 in 89 apps
Priya K. won $11,200 in 31 apps
Jake M. won $8,750 in 24 apps
Sofia L. won $22,400 in 61 apps
Marcus W. won $15,000 in 42 apps
The Process
6 STEPS TO
FREE MONEY
You upload your story. We do literally everything else. It's not magic — it's AI doing 200 hours of work in 20 minutes.
01
Upload Your Profile
GPA, activities, transcript, 3 life story bullets. Takes 15 minutes once, never again.
02
AI Hunts Nightly
1,000+ sources scraped every night. Local rotary clubs, niche grants, weird unclaimed ones.
03
Essays Written in Your Voice
GPT-4o trained on your writing style. Essays sound like you, not a robot.
04
You Approve by Text
"Review this essay — reply YES or EDIT." That's your entire job. 30 seconds per app.
05
AI Clicks Submit
Playwright fills the forms, uploads your transcript, solves CAPTCHAs, and hits submit.
06
Money Hits → We Invoice
You win, we take 5%. If you win $40k, we get $2k. If you win nothing, we charge nothing.
Live Dashboard
YOUR MONEY
PIPELINE
Track every application in real time — from draft to submitted to won.
grantshark.app/dashboard — Marcus Williams
$28,500
Total Won
247
Apps Submitted
18
Won / Finalist
34
Awaiting Decision
Recent Activity
🏆 Rotary Club of Denver — STEM Award
$2,000
WON
📝 Gates Scholarship — Community Essay
$5,000
SUBMITTED
✍️ Colorado Hispanic Scholars Fund
$1,500
DRAFTING
📋 National Merit Finalist Award
$2,500
SUBMITTED
🔍 Elks National Foundation
$4,000
PENDING MATCH
Onboarding
15 MINUTES.
THAT'S IT.
Fill this once. We use it for every application, every essay, forever.
✓
Account
2
Profile
3
Documents
4
Essays
Tell us about yourself 🎯
This feeds the AI. More detail = better essay matching = more money.
📎 Drop transcript here or click to upload
PDF, max 10MB
PDF, max 10MB
Pricing
YOU PAY WHEN
YOU WIN
No win, no fee. This is how we stay aligned with your success.
Starter
$0 upfront
Perfect for students who want to test the waters with top scholarships.
- Matched to 25 scholarships
- AI-generated essays
- 10 auto-submissions
- Email decision tracking
- 5% success fee on wins
MOST POPULAR
Hunter
$99 /mo
Full application season (Sep–May). Unlimited applications, maximum scholarship hunting.
- Unlimited scholarship matching
- 300+ auto-submissions/month
- Voice-matched essay generation
- SMS approval workflow
- Email + counselor follow-up
- CAPTCHA solving included
- 3% success fee (reduced)
Apex
$299 /mo
Human review + AI. A scholarship expert reviews every essay the AI drafts.
- Everything in Hunter
- Human essay review (24hr)
- Interview prep with AI coach
- Financial aid appeal letters
- 1-on-1 strategy call/month
- 1% success fee (minimal)
Success Fee Model
HOW THE 5% WORKS
$40,000
Student Wins
→
$38,000
Student Keeps
+
$2,000
GrantShark Fee
Results
REAL STUDENTS.
REAL MONEY.
"
I spent maybe 3 hours total reviewing essays. The AI handled literally everything else. I didn't even know half these scholarships existed.
$34,200 WON
DeShawn T.
Incoming Freshman, Howard University
"
My daughter got into her dream school but we couldn't afford it. GrantShark found 47 scholarships in our area we had never heard of. She graduates debt-free.
$51,000 WON
Patricia M.
Parent, Chicago IL
"
I'm the first in my family to go to college. The local grants the AI found were the difference. Small amounts added up to something huge.
$22,750 WON
Sofia L.
Incoming Freshman, UT Austin
Market Analysis
IS THIS A
GOOD IDEA?
Honest breakdown of the opportunity, the competition, and what makes this different.
✅ Why This Works
💡Existing apps (Fastweb, Scholly) are just search engines — no agentic layer. No one submits for you.
💡$46B in college aid goes unclaimed annually. The opportunity is massive and proven.
💡Contingency model means parents say YES easily — "free money" psychology overcomes price resistance.
💡Small scholarships ($500–$2k) are gold: humans won't apply, AI doesn't care, they stack to full tuition.
💡AI writing + browser automation combo wasn't technically feasible until 2023. Timing is perfect.
⚠️ Risks to Know
⚡Scholarship sites may block automation — mitigation: residential proxies + human-in-loop fallback.
⚡Essay originality concerns — mitigation: run through GPTZero before submit, high personal voice weighting.
⚡Success fee collection trust — mitigation: honor system + account freeze if unpaid. Most parents pay.
⚡Google / AI incumbents could build this — but they won't chase a compliance-heavy education niche fast.
⚡State bar concerns on "legal document filing" — mitigation: position as "application assistance," not legal filing.
📊 Revenue Math (Conservative)
500
Students (Year 1 Target)
$8,000
Avg Scholarship Won/Student
$200K
Annual Revenue (5% fee)
$1.6M
5,000 Students Revenue
Roadmap
NEXT LEVEL
IDEAS
Phase 1 launches today. Here's how you 10x it after product-market fit.
Phase 2
🎤 Voice Onboarding
Student records a 10-minute voice memo about their life. Whisper transcribes + Claude extracts 50 profile data points. Zero typing.
Phase 2
📊 Scholarship Prediction Score
ML model trained on past wins/losses predicts which scholarships a student has highest chance of winning. Prioritize by ROI.
Phase 3
🏫 School Counselor Dashboard
White-label the platform for high schools. Counselors get a dashboard showing all students' pipelines. Charge $5k/school/year.
Phase 3
🌐 International Expansion
Replicate for UK, Canada, Australia. Same model, different scholarship databases. 3x addressable market overnight.
Phase 4
🎓 FAFSA Auto-Fill Agent
Most FAFSA errors cost students thousands in aid. AI agent pre-fills FAFSA correctly, reviews for optimization opportunities.
Phase 4
🤝 Scholarship Creation Marketplace
Let local businesses CREATE scholarships through our platform (tax deduction for them). Double revenue: sponsor fee + student placement fee.
Phase 5
📚 College Application Agent
Extend the same agentic layer to full college applications — Common App, coalition app. Bigger TAM, much higher fee potential.
Extend the same agentic layer to full college applications — Common App, coalition app. Bigger TAM, much higher fee potential.
Phase 5
💼 Adult Grants Platform
Same model for small business grants, government grants, nonprofit funding. Completely different market, same tech. $10B+ opportunity.
Tech Stack
BUILT WITH
THE BEST
Next.js 14
Frontend + API Routes
FastAPI
Agent Backend
Supabase
Database + Auth
GPT-4o
Essay Generation
Playwright
Form Automation
Firecrawl
Scholarship Scraping
Stripe
Payments + Invoicing
Redis + BullMQ
Job Queue
FAQ
QUESTIONS?
ANSWERED.
Is this cheating or against scholarship rules? +
No. Scholarship applications don't prohibit using assistance — college consultants have done this for decades charging $10,000. We're just faster and cheaper. The student reviews and approves every essay before submission. Think of us as a very efficient personal assistant.
What if the AI gets caught? +
Our essays are designed to sound human and personal, not generic AI. We run every essay through plagiarism detection before submission. For strictly monitored scholarships, we flag them for student-direct submission (you still get the AI draft — you just click submit yourself).
How does the 5% fee work exactly? +
When a scholarship is confirmed awarded (we detect the win email, or you notify us), we invoice for 5% of the award amount via the credit card on file. If you win $2,000, we charge $100. If you win nothing, you pay nothing beyond any monthly subscription.
Do you store my student's personal data? +
Yes, and we take it seriously. All data is encrypted at rest and in transit. We use Supabase with Row Level Security, meaning only your account can see your data. We never sell student data. See our Privacy Policy for full details.
What's the typical timeline? +
Onboarding takes 15–30 minutes. Within 24 hours, your first batch of scholarship matches will appear in your dashboard. First submissions typically happen within 72 hours. Most students see their first win within 6–10 weeks.
Can I use this for college freshman year or transfer applications? +
Currently optimized for high school seniors applying to scholarships. Transfer student support and continuing education scholarships are on our roadmap for Q3 2025.
Ready to Hunt?
$100M IN AID
EVERY YEAR.
Most of it goes unclaimed. Not because students don't deserve it — because they don't have time. We have all the time in the world.
No credit card required · 5% fee only on wins · Cancel anytime