EU public procurement

Entry Scout

One click per product runs agents over labelled EU awards, web signals and open tenders, and returns a source-tagged brief and a draft email. Public demo: fictional vendor, recorded runs.

3rd place

Build It Anyway: Signal Hunt with Apify · SF Tech Week 2026

A three-hour hackathon for non-technical builders: build an AI agent that finds what matters on the web.

The hackathon in 30 seconds

When
Fri 9 Oct 2026 · 10:00–15:00 PT
Build time
3 hours
Where
European Startup Embassy, San Francisco
Part of
#SFTechWeek
Hosts
Build It Anyway, ESE, Base44, Build Club
Powered by
Apify (live web data)
Three tracks
Social signal selling
Turn hiring, funding and leadership changes into leads.
E-commerce & pricing
Catch competitor price cuts and bad reviews.
Marketing intel
Spot rising creators and competitor posts early.

Format: live demo, 3 hours of building, then demos, judging and winners the same afternoon. Event page (Partiful) · SF Tech Week calendar · Luma

Plot twist: the thesis became the pitch

I did not plan to pitch my master's thesis. The thesis reads EU tender notices, extracts the items in them and scores how far each one can be trusted. A calibrated score does not fit into one day, so I built a small MVP around it that answers a vendor's question: which EU buyers are moving towards what I sell?

01
Thesis engine underneath
161 past EU awards, labelled into items and states. Every item is a verbatim quote from the notice.
02
Item confidence at the core
The thesis scores how far each extracted item can be trusted. Here: the engine's real validation checks. The calibrated score is still in progress.
03
Agents for research
Apify actors collect market signals. Claude with web search briefs each top tender.
04
Agents for the email
An outreach agent turns past awards, fit and trends into a sourced draft email.

See it work: Products (recorded agent runs) · Data bank (the labelled awards)

What I learned

Lesson 1
Pitch the use, not the method
People ask “who do I call next week?”, not how the extractor works.
Lesson 2
Research first, build fast
The thesis had already solved the hard part, so the day went into connecting it to signals.
Lesson 3
Agents win the last mile
Research and drafting saved the most time, and they are only as good as their sources.
Lesson 4
Be honest about numbers
An uncalibrated score is the first thing a sharp judge questions. Show what is real.
Lesson 5
Record the demo
Live calls fail on stage. Recorded runs keep the demo reliable and free to host.

Want it built out fully?

Entry Scout is a 3-hour prototype with a fictional vendor and recorded runs. To have it built into a complete product for your company, contact me, Nicolas Peters Saa, on LinkedIn.

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