Mecene

Mecene finds each artist the public grants they may be eligible for. I built the whole chain that runs it, from the matching engine to prospecting.

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The chain, in five steps.

Product

The engine suggests to each artist the grants they may be eligible for, with eligibility reasoning for each grant. A deterministic filter first rules out the grants the profile contradicts, before the model comes in. I measure quality on the median of three runs.

Tools: DeepSeek · deterministic filter · measurement judge

Data

I collect the grants directly from each organization, then a model enriches incomplete entries until they pass the quality threshold. A check regularly verifies that the links still respond. Human validation, mine, is used only for what no machine can settle.

Tools: scrapers · automatic enrichment · link checking

Content

The post visuals are generated, never filmed: I am not a public profile. The carousels are rendered headlessly, then checked pixel by pixel before any publication. A timeline calculates the posts due on each date, with one week of catch-up before a delay becomes my decision again.

Tools: Midjourney · Gemini Flash Image · automatic check

Outreach

I send cold email to organizations and direct messages to artists, never the same promise to both. Each channel has a daily quota, and a check rejects any sentence or subject line already used in a pending email. Transactional emails go out through a dedicated service.

Tools: cold email · quotas · duplicate check

Governance

I set up Paperclip, seven agent roles with written refusal rules. Each one reads the project state before carrying out an order, and refuses if that order breaks a rule set in advance, even when the order comes from me.

Tools: Paperclip · seven roles · refusal rules