vrmshamba/fundingbrief-heygen

FundingBrief Video Briefing: an AI-powered funding opportunity briefing tool for African founders. Built with Hyperframes and HeyGen Avatar V. Generates personalized video briefings from live funding data by sector and country. Hackathon submission for HeyGen Hackathon May 2026. FundingBrief Video Briefing AI-powered funding opportunity briefings for African founders, built with HeyGen and Hyperframes. What It Does Users select a sector and country. The system pulls matching funding opportunities from FundingBrief's live database and generates a personalized animated video briefing. An Avatar V narrator delivers the briefing in English, Swahili, or French. The Problem African founders, NGOs, and cooperatives miss funding deadlines every week. Finding relevant opportunities across dozens of funders takes hours of manual research. FundingBrief solves discovery. This project solves delivery. HeyGen Tools Used Hyperframes: animated HTML video composition with funding opportunity cards Avatar V: personalized narration using a custom avatar Video Translate: multilingual output for East and West African markets Tech Stack Hyperframes: HTML to MP4 video rendering HeyGen API: avatar video generation and translation n8n: automation pipeline connecting FundingBrief database to HeyGen API FundingBrief (Laravel): live funding database and subscription platform at fundingbrief.com Hostinger: production hosting How It Works User selects sector and country on the input form n8n webhook fires and queries FundingBrief database Top 3 matching opportunities are formatted into a video script Hyperframes renders an animated card composition as MP4 HeyGen Avatar V narrates the script over the composition Video Translate renders output in the user's preferred language User receives a shareable video link Live Platform fundingbrief.com Hackathon HeyGen Hackathon, May 2026. Product Track and Agent Track. Setup bashnpm install npx hyperframes preview npx hyperframes render Requires Node.js 22 and FFmpeg. Environment Variables HEYGEN_API_KEY=your_key_here N8N_WEBHOOK_URL=your_webhook_url DB_CONNECTION=your_database_connection