Weekly funded-companies agent
The assignment
Build a weekly agent that scrapes last week's funded startups from the web and proposes your way in — a tailored application path.
✳What Teena shipped
A funded-companies dashboard personalized to the builder's own job search, prioritizing roles in Singapore to match her citizenship advantage. A demo walkthrough shows a "run today's scan" action surfacing 12 matched companies, including entries like Formas.AI (Singapore, Pre-Seed, roughly $4M, 1-20 employees), each tagged by priority with headcount, round size, and location on its card. Selecting a company opens a detail view with further application information.
✳Our read on this build
Teena shipped a shared document. This read comes from the artifact and Teena's own account of it — no scores, just what the build does and does not show.
What it demonstrates
- Fresh input is part of the machine: live search.
- It goes past listing companies into proposing a way in — tailored output and an application path.
What is not shown
- No schedule or trigger is described, so it reads as a tool you remember to open rather than an agent that shows up on Monday.
Take this awayGood bones for a research tool; the piece worth adding in your own build is the trigger that makes it arrive without being asked.
✳Why this quest matters
Agents earn their keep when they run without you. The bar isn't 'can AI write an outreach note' — it's 'does fresh data flow in on a schedule and come out tailored,' which is the real shape of an autonomous workflow.
✳What separated the strongest builds
Real companies, funded recently
Data pulled from a live source. A hardcoded list of startups everyone already knows about is a demo of a UI, not of an agent.
An application path that changes per company
The specific round, the sector, the role that funding implies. One paragraph with the company name swapped in is the failure mode here.
It runs without you
A schedule, a cron, a workflow trigger — something that makes 'weekly' true rather than aspirational.
Outreach you would actually send
Notes with judgment behind them. Volume is the easy part and the part that gets people ignored.
No numeric scores are published here. These pages are written reads of what each builder shipped — the build is the point, not a mark out of a hundred.