AI chatbot for federal grant applicants
I led an innovation team at ORR that built one of the agency's first AI chatbots, a prototype designed to help organizations understand and apply for complex federal funding opportunities. The goal was to make ORR grants more accessible to smaller and community-based organizations that don't have grant writers on staff.
Federal grants have been notoriously complex and difficult to understand. I led a small team working within ORR and the Office of Trafficking in Persons to develop an AI-powered chatbot using curated datasets of federal Notices of Funding Opportunity (NOFOs) and related guidance materials. We presented a working prototype to leadership, and it was one of the agency’s very first AI chatbots.