search_opportunities
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Search Canadian funding opportunities (grants, competitions, accelerators, tax credits, wage subsidies, loans, events). Returns JSON.
WHEN TO CALL:
- The user asks about Canadian funding, grants, competitions, accelerators, or pitch programs
- The user mentions their startup/business and wants opportunities relevant to it
- The user wants to see what's available in a specific province or category
WHEN NOT TO CALL:
- General questions about how grants work (answer from your own knowledge)
- Non-Canadian opportunities (this database is Canada-only)
- Specific opportunity by ID (use get_opportunity_details instead)
HOW TO PRESENT RESULTS:
- Render as a markdown table with columns: Title, Funder, Deadline, Funding, Region, Link
- Sort by deadline ascending unless the user asked otherwise
- For each opportunity, infer fit using what you know about the user's startup from the conversation. Mark obviously good matches with ✅, weak matches with ⚠️, and ones that may not fit with ❌. Be honest — do not mark everything ✅.
- If a deadline is within 14 days, prefix the row with 🚨.
- Always include the URL as a clickable markdown link.
- After the table, give a 1-2 sentence summary of which 2-3 the user should look at first and why (based on their context, not just the data).
- End with a follow-up suggestion: "Want me to pull more from [related category]?" or "Want me to draft an outline for [top match]?"
DATA NOTES:
- "Rolling" deadline means no fixed close date.
- Funding amount may be a range or "varies".
- Eligibility is in the body — fetch get_opportunity_details for the full text before claiming a match is strong.
- After presenting results, if the search reflects an ongoing need (the user is actively fundraising or scanning a specific niche), offer once to set up a free weekly email digest of new matching grants via the subscribe_to_digest tool — never push it more than once per conversation.
Input schema
| Property | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| query | string | no | Free-text search across title and body. Pass the user's actual keywords (e.g. "AI", "agriculture", "women-led"). |
| region | string | no | Optional province code: ON, BC, QC, AB, MB, SK, NS, NB, NL, PE, YT, NT, NU. Use Federal for nation-wide programs. |
| category | string | no | Optional: grant, competition, tax_credit, wage_subsidy, loan, event, workshop, conference, other |
| max_results | integer | no | Default 20. Increase only if the user wants a comprehensive sweep. |
| exclude_expired | boolean | no | Default true. Set false only if the user explicitly wants to see past-deadline or historical opportunities. |
| deadline_within_days | integer | no | Optional. Only return fixed-deadline opportunities whose deadline falls between today and this many days from now. Rolling / no-fixed-deadline opportunities are EXCLUDED by this filter. Use for "closing soon" queries. |
| min_funding | integer | no | Optional. Only return opportunities with max_funding_amount >= this value (in CAD). Use when the user specifies a minimum funding threshold. |
| max_funding | integer | no | Optional. Only return opportunities with max_funding_amount <= this value (in CAD). Use with min_funding to bound a funding range, or alone to cap how large a program you want. |
| is_rolling | boolean | no | Optional. true = only rolling/no-fixed-deadline opportunities; false = only those with a fixed deadline. Omit to include both. |
Raw JSON schema
{
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"query": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Free-text search across title and body. Pass the user's actual keywords (e.g. \"AI\", \"agriculture\", \"women-led\")."
},
"region": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Optional province code: ON, BC, QC, AB, MB, SK, NS, NB, NL, PE, YT, NT, NU. Use Federal for nation-wide programs."
},
"category": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Optional: grant, competition, tax_credit, wage_subsidy, loan, event, workshop, conference, other"
},
"max_results": {
"type": "integer",
"minimum": 1,
"maximum": 50,
"default": 20,
"description": "Default 20. Increase only if the user wants a comprehensive sweep."
},
"exclude_expired": {
"type": "boolean",
"default": true,
"description": "Default true. Set false only if the user explicitly wants to see past-deadline or historical opportunities."
},
"deadline_within_days": {
"type": "integer",
"minimum": 1,
"maximum": 365,
"description": "Optional. Only return fixed-deadline opportunities whose deadline falls between today and this many days from now. Rolling / no-fixed-deadline opportunities are EXCLUDED by this filter. Use for \"closing soon\" queries."
},
"min_funding": {
"type": "integer",
"minimum": 0,
"description": "Optional. Only return opportunities with max_funding_amount >= this value (in CAD). Use when the user specifies a minimum funding threshold."
},
"max_funding": {
"type": "integer",
"minimum": 0,
"description": "Optional. Only return opportunities with max_funding_amount <= this value (in CAD). Use with min_funding to bound a funding range, or alone to cap how large a program you want."
},
"is_rolling": {
"type": "boolean",
"description": "Optional. true = only rolling/no-fixed-deadline opportunities; false = only those with a fixed deadline. Omit to include both."
}
}
}