{"id":401022,"date":"2026-04-16T04:48:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T04:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/401022\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T04:48:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T04:48:16","slug":"this-working-life-with-gavin-mendel-gleason-we-try-to-make-it-easier-for-normal-people-to-file-applications-for-grants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/401022\/","title":{"rendered":"This Working Life with Gavin Mendel-Gleason: \u2018We try to make it easier for normal people to file applications for grants\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nThe chief executive of Scidonia.ai chats to Mary McCarthy about high school in the US, the early days of the AI revolution, and the joy of work-life balance in Austria\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Gavin Mendel-Gleason\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IB working life.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Gavin Mendel-Gleason<\/p>\n<p>In conversation with Mary McCarthy<\/p>\n<p>Today at 06:30<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">I set up Scidonia a year ago. Our company uses an AI agent to make grant applications easier to file.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Grant applications are painful. There is free basic stuff online, but we try to take care of all the complicated issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The chief executive of Scidonia.ai chats to Mary McCarthy about high school in the US, the early days&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401023,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2334,16179,615,2244,292,61,60,90452,5151,80,15120,812],"class_list":{"0":"post-401022","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-artificial-intelligence-ai","9":"tag-dcu","10":"tag-dublin","11":"tag-eu","12":"tag-germany","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-mary-mccarthy","16":"tag-netherlands","17":"tag-technology","18":"tag-trinity-college-dublin","19":"tag-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}