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Building the data layer the EU grant ecosystem was missing · Founder, criteri.ai · 55,000+ funded projects, searchable

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About

Most EU grant proposals don't fail because the science is bad. They fail because the proposal is positioned against a funded landscape the applicant has never seen. Evaluators know that landscape. Applicants don't. That information asymmetry has always been there — it just wasn't talked about enough. I built criteri.ai to close that gap. — CriteriaI evaluates your Horizon Europe or H2020 proposal against 55,000+ real funded projects representing €121 billion in EU research funding. You get a novelty score, a strategic fit analysis, consortium gap assessment, and the 10–15 most similar funded projects — with direct CORDIS links — in under two minutes. Not to write your proposal. To tell you if your angle is genuinely novel before you spend six months writing. — I came to this problem from inside the EU research ecosystem. The more I looked at how researchers navigated the funding landscape — manually, slowly, with information that was technically public but practically inaccessible — the more the gap seemed fixable. So I fixed it. We're building on the largest structured database of Horizon Europe and H2020 funded projects available. Every project has a CORDIS identifier. Every insight is traceable. The data is real. — If you work in EU research funding — as a researcher, grant consultant, NCP, research office, or institution — I'd like to know you. The Horizon Europe network is one of the most knowledgeable, mission-driven communities I've encountered. We're building for it. Reach me here, or start at criteri.ai.

Experience

  • Founder at CriteriaI
    Mar 2026 - Present · 5 mos

    Building AI-powered competitive intelligence for EU grant proposals. CriteriaI evaluates research proposals against 55,000+ funded Horizon Europe and H2020 projects — representing €121 billion in EU research funding. Researchers, grant consultants, and research offices use it to check proposal novelty, identify consortium gaps, and benchmark against the funded landscape before writing or submitting. Product: criteri.ai Technology: Semantic similarity search, multi-agent AI evaluation pipeline, CORDIS data integration Compliance: GDPR-compliant · EU-hosted · Zero-retention AI API Built from scratch. Still building.

  • Full-time parenting at Career Break
    Jun 2022 - Nov 2025 · 3 yrs 6 mos

  • Project Engineer at Yeşilova Holding
    Jul 2018 - Jun 2022 · 4 yrs