Sample Sponsorship Proposal

What we send to potential sponsors. Adapted per funder, but this is the honest core of it.

Sponsorship Proposal: CopeCheck — Independent AI Labour Market Research

The Short Version

CopeCheck is an independent AI labour market monitoring network that runs daily. It costs ~$308/month in AI and compute infrastructure, all paid for from the business. It doesn't need funding to keep the lights on.

What sponsorship actually funds is two things: getting the research in front of people who need to see it, and paid work placements — where a sponsor pays for a student or early-career person to learn how to build AI-powered research tools hands-on, while contributing to live independent research.

If you want to support something that already works, reaches further with distribution budget, or creates genuine skills in a real person — this is for you.

About CopeCheck

CopeCheck is a network of websites that track how artificial intelligence is affecting employment, wages, and economic structures across major economies. The project applies a systematic analytical framework — the Discontinuity Thesis v3.3 — to score and interpret economic indicators through the lens of AI-driven disruption.

The network comprises eight live sites:

Built and maintained by one person. Near-fully automated. All analysis published publicly with no paywalls.

Current Infrastructure (Self-Funded)

To be transparent about what we actually run on:

Total: approximately $308/month. All covered by the business. This is not a project in financial difficulty. Sponsorship money would not go here.

What Sponsorship Goes Toward

Option 1: Ads & Distribution

CopeCheck publishes independent AI accountability data every day. That data reaches academic researchers, curious readers who find it via search, and occasional media pickups. What it doesn't reach — without paid promotion — is the policymakers, economists, and journalists who most need to see it.

A distribution sponsorship funds targeted advertising campaigns to raise awareness of the CopeCheck network. The research is already there. The sponsorship gets it in front of the right people.

This is a straightforward media spend with a clear purpose: independent AI labour market data should reach the people making decisions about AI and labour markets.

Option 2: Paid Work Placements

The structure is simple:

Short placements. Learn-by-doing. No theory-only exercises. The student works on real CopeCheck infrastructure — building scrapers, writing scoring pipelines, deploying tools — and leaves with skills that are actually in demand.

This is skills training that builds something real, on a live independent research project. The sponsor's money creates two tangible outcomes: a person with genuine AI-tool-building skills, and a research network that's better for having them involved.

It's not an internship where someone makes coffee and shadows meetings. It's a placement where someone builds things, breaks things, fixes them, and learns the actual craft of AI-powered research infrastructure.

Why This is Unusual

Most funding proposals are about survival. This one isn't. CopeCheck will keep running whether or not this proposal succeeds. The question isn't "can it survive?" — it's "can it reach further and bring more people in?"

If that's the kind of project you want to support — one that's already demonstrating what it says it can do — we'd like to hear from you.

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