Tag: ai for productivity

Can AI agents help businesses identify opportunities faster and more strategically?

In this episode of Try AI for Growth, Sara Vicente Barreto shares how she built an AI Grant Scout agent for her charity, Um Pequeno Gesto — and why the lessons extend far beyond fundraising.

What started as a grant research experiment evolved into a structured AI workflow designed to scan opportunities, prioritise fit, support decision-making and guide action. Along the way, Sara explores how AI agents can support commercial teams looking for partnerships, funding opportunities, leads or strategic relationships.

The episode also goes behind the scenes of what it actually takes to build a useful AI workflow: creating rules, designing scoring systems, structuring instructions, developing team processes and refining outputs over time.

Rather than treating AI as a one-off prompt tool, this episode explores how leaders can start thinking about AI agents as operational support systems for real business workflows.

In this episode of Try AI for Growth, Sara Vicente Barreto shares how a moment of complete creative paralysis at a workshop led to her first experience building apps with Lovable. From redesigning field data collection workflows at the charity to creating spelling and football apps with her son in under ten minutes, this episode explores how AI-powered app building is changing the relationship between ideas and execution — even for non-coders.

In this episode of Try AI for Growth, Sara Vicente Barreto shares how a moment of complete creative paralysis at a workshop led to her first experience building apps with Lovable. From redesigning field data collection workflows at the charity to creating spelling and football apps with her son in under ten minutes, this episode explores how AI-powered app building is changing the relationship between ideas and execution — even for non-coders.

In this episode, Sara Vicente Barreto explores how Claude for Excel—an AI tool embedded directly into spreadsheets—goes beyond productivity gains. From fixing complex models to building full dashboards, it compresses hours of analyst work into minutes. But more importantly, it raises a bigger question: if AI can now do the work that once helped us learn, how do entry-level roles evolve?