AGRICOM

Agricom is a Cork-based company building an AI climate resilience platform for smallholder farmers in Lebanon. From early 2021 through late 2022 I was their proposal writer and funding strategist, responsible for translating the platform vision into competitive EU grant applications across Horizon Europe, Innowwide, and Women TechEU.

The work was strategy first, writing second. A successful EU grant application is not a description of what you intend to do. It is an argument for why your project fits the funder's innovation and social-impact priorities better than the competing applications. My job was to read each call carefully, find the angles where the Agricom platform met the funder's criteria more strongly than they would expect, and write the proposal to make those angles unmissable. SWOT analyses, risk assessments, financial models, and impact framings were the deliverables behind the document.

The skill I developed at Agricom was articulating an AI project's substance to a non-technical, evaluative audience. EU grant evaluators are sharp readers. They have read a hundred AI proposals that promise transformative impact. The proposals that win are the ones where the technical premise, the impact pathway, and the team capability all read as plausible and specific, not as buzzwords. Learning to write that way changed how I think about positioning AI work for any audience.

What I learned at Agricom about positioning AI work for an evaluative audience now sits inside how The Architect AI presents itself. The discipline is the same: claim only what you can defend with mechanism and outcome, never with buzzwords. That standard predates the platform and shapes everything I write about it.