See which public budgets pay for work like yours
It reads public budgets and council minutes and shows which agency funds your kind of work, and when.
Published . Steps as of October 2026.
How do I find out which government budgets fund my kind of business?
Ask an AI with web search to read the county, state and federal budgets for your field and map which programs pay for work like yours. Claude fits when you want it to read long budget documents and meeting minutes and connect them. Perplexity fits a quick first pass with links. Consultants can use the map to time their pitches, and service businesses can find contracts or partner programs. Always check the cited figures before you quote them.
A sample of what you get back, made with AI.
Your prompt
Fill in your details. Skip any you like.
Claude opens with your prompt already typed in. Perplexity can't be filled in from a link, so its button copies your prompt: paste it into the new chat.
The prompt that gets copied
I run [MY BUSINESS TYPE, e.g. a small workforce training firm] and I want to understand where public money for this kind of work comes from. Research the current county, state and federal budgets, plus recent public meeting agendas and minutes, for [MY AREA, e.g. my county and state]. Map how the funding flows: which programs and agencies pay for work like mine, roughly how much each one spends, whether it's going up or down, and who decides. Then list the 5 best openings for a business like mine (contracts, grants or partner programs), with the agency, the timing of the next budget cycle or request for proposals, and the office to contact. Cite a source link for every figure, and say clearly when a number is an estimate or from an older year.
Have Claude read county, state and federal budgets and public meeting notes for your field and map how the money flows, so you know which agencies to approach and when.
Step by step
- Open Claude and make sure web search is on
- Paste the prompt with your field and area
- Open the cited budget pages to check the key numbers
- Ask for a short email to the program office at the top of the list
What you'll get
A plain map of the public funding behind your field, with sourced figures and the five best openings, their timing and who to contact.
Turn on web search so Claude can open the budget documents. In the source, a nonprofit CFO did this on a Claude Enterprise plan.
- Made for
- Consultants, Small business owners
- Works in
- Claude, Perplexity
