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Scouvela
Apify Actor for African SMEs

Meet the bot that hunts grants so you don't have to.

Scouvela scans official websites and public social pages for grants, tenders, accelerators and training programmes, then hands you clean, source-linked data you can actually use. Works without an AI key.

Run Scouvela on ApifySee how it works
  • Public sources only
  • Source-linked results
  • Optional BYOK AI

Hi, I'm Scouvela!

Let's go opportunity hunting!

GrantsTendersAcceleratorsIncubatorsTrainingMentorshipSoft loansPitch competitionsSME empowerment
official websitesapplication pagespublic Instagram postsdeadline extractioneligibility notessource linksJSON + CSV exportscheduled runs
What it hunts

One Actor. Many kinds of opportunity.

Scouvela processes selected official websites, submitted public webpages and supported public Instagram URLs — not the entire internet. Focused beats noisy.
  • Money in

    Grants and funding

    Public grants, soft loans and programme funding with deadlines and application links.

  • Contracts

    Tenders and contracts

    Open calls and procurement notices that SMEs can actually apply for.

  • Scale up

    Accelerators and incubators

    Cohorts, pitch windows and startup support programmes across Africa.

  • Level up

    Training and mentorship

    Skills programmes, workshops and mentorship offers discovered from public pages.

  • Grow

    SME empowerment programmes

    Capacity-building and empowerment initiatives aimed at African small businesses.

  • Got a source we're missing? Add it.

    Submit your own public URLs as input

How it works

From internet noise to usable data.

Three steps and no copy-paste. Run it once, or put it on a schedule and let the bot keep checking for you.
  1. 1

    Discover

    Scouvela reads selected public websites, application pages and supported public social URLs.

    › scanning sources…

  2. 2

    Understand

    It identifies genuine opportunities, extracts important details and checks what information is missing.

    › deadline ✓ eligibility ✓

  3. 3

    Deliver

    It returns normalized, source-linked records through an Apify Dataset for export, automation or AI workflows.

    › dataset.push(record)

The output

Structured data you can automate on.

Scattered announcements become normalized, source-linked records ready for export, pipelines or downstream AI workflows.
  • Consistent fields across opportunity types
  • Original source links preserved on every record
  • Deadline and eligibility extraction where available
  • Verification warnings when details are incomplete
  • JSON and CSV export through Apify Datasets
dataset_item.jsonrun.logIllustrative

Example only — not a real current opportunity.

Optional AI

Useful without AI. Smarter when you enable it.

Scouvela works as a standard scraper without an AI key. Add your own supported LLM key to classify ambiguous announcements, summarize opportunities and rank matches against a business profile.

Two modes

ai: off

Clean, structured scraping

Extracted facts, source links, verification flags.

ai: on · your key

+ classify, summarize, match

Ranked against your business profile.

  • Bring your own key (BYOK) for supported LLM providers
  • AI credentials stay as secret Actor input
  • You pay your AI provider separately
  • Scraped facts remain separate from AI interpretation
  • AI does not invent missing deadlines or application links
Platform

Built for Apify. Plugs into everything.

Run it once, schedule it, or wire it into your own automations. The public Store listing will be linked here when it is available.
  • Apify Actor runtime
  • Structured inputs
  • Dataset output
  • JSON and CSV export
  • Schedules
  • API integration
  • Pay-per-event pricing
  • StatusStore listing coming soon
Ready when you are

Stop searching ten places for one opportunity.

Let Scouvela gather the signals, structure the details and keep the original sources attached. You just apply.

Run on ApifyView source on GitHub