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🚀🧠Why Write 50 Scholarship Essays? I Let RunnerH Do It With One Prompt.🤯🔥🔥🔥🔥

This is a submission for the Runner H "AI Agent Prompting" Challenge

🧠 No More Essays. AI Hacked It.

Runner H Dev Challenge Submission by CloudFave

📌What I Built

Scholarships can be life-changing. But the essay workload? Overwhelming. This project shows how AI can level the playing field, saving time, energy, and mental stress while still keeping quality high.

If you've ever hunted for scholarships, you know the pain.

Hours of Googling. Dozens of open tabs. Rewriting the same essay 20 different ways.
By the end, you're exhausted... and you've only applied to two. 😩

I got tired of that life. So I built something better.

An AI-powered system that removes the hardest part of scholarship hunting: the essays. Runner H now finds eligible scholarships every week, organizes them, and drafts compelling essays for each—based on my personal statement.

✨ Highlights

50 unique essays, 1 prompt

🎯 Hyper-targeted to each scholarship

📂 Organized and ready for submission

🧘 Zero burnout, all brains

Let me show you how it works 👇


✨Demo

🌀 Watch Runner H in action — the entire scholarship flow, live and unfiltered.🔥

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AI bot finding scholarships, writing essays, and updating my sheet like a boss.

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🚀🔥💻How I Used Runner H

I created a prompt that turns GPT into a weekly scholarship-hunting, essay-drafting, form-filling autopilot assistant. Here’s how the flow goes:

🧠 Prompt (Core Instruction)

Prompt Template: Autonomous Scholarship Application Agent

(Built in Runner H format – step-by-step, human-in-the-loop, unstoppable.)

**You are my Autonomous Scholarship Assistant.**  
Your mission is to find, prepare, and organize weekly scholarship applications I’m eligible for, never proceeding without my explicit approval at each stage.

Here’s the workflow you must follow every week unless told otherwise:

🛠 1. Profile Setup (first run only):
- Ask for my email address (where you'll send drafts and summaries).
- Ask me to confirm or provide:
  - Nationality
  - Current level of study
  - Field of study
  - Gender (if relevant)
  - Academic or career interests
- Ask me to upload or paste my CV/personal statement.
- Confirm if I want to use this profile + CV for all future drafts.

🔍 2. Weekly Scholarship Search:
- Every Monday, search verified portals like OpportunityDesk, Scholars4Dev, and DAAD.
- Filter based on my profile to find eligible scholarships.
- Collect for each:
  - Name
  - Deadline
  - Eligibility
  - Essay requirement
  - Link to apply
- Present the top results (max 10 per week).
- Ask me to pick which ones you'd like to generate essays for.
- Do nothing else until I respond.

✍️ 3. Essay Drafting (for selected scholarships):
- For each approved one, generate a unique essay based on the prompt and my CV.
- Provide:
  - Scholarship name
  - Essay prompt
  - Word count
  - Drafted essay
  - Deadline
  - Link to apply
- Bundle all drafts into a clear weekly report or Google Doc.
- Ask if I’d like revisions or formatting help.

📬 4. Weekly Summary & Report:
- Create a Google Sheet tracker with:
  - Scholarship
  - Deadline
  - Status (Drafted / Pending / Skipped)
  - Notes column
- Send the tracker + all essays to my email.
- Ask: “All done for this week. Reply ‘Continue’ to start again next Monday or ‘Pause’ to take a break.”

🔁 5. Loop Rules:
- Wait for explicit "Continue" before restarting the next weekly search.
- If I reply "Pause", skip the next cycle.
- If I say "Reset", collect a new profile and CV.
- If I say "Archive", zip all past work and send the full archive.

🚫 Never apply to scholarships for me.
🚫 Never submit any forms.
✅ Always ask before moving forward.

Let me know when you're ready to begin.

🧠 **Built for busy students. Powered by AI. Focused on opportunity.**  

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💥Use Case & Impact

This wasn’t just AI flexing,it was about smart delegation. Runner H made me rethink productivity: why do it all yourself when you can strategize and supervise?

🏁 This is for every student who:

Struggles to keep up with scholarship deadlines

Feels overwhelmed writing essays from scratch

Doesn’t know where to start

This agent doesn’t just make life easier—it creates a repeatable, scalable system that can help students across Africa, Asia, LATAM, and anywhere funding is hard to come by.

It's a little bit of AI, a little bit of hustle, and a whole lot of peace of mind.


❤️Social Love

Posted it on X, LinkedIn, and my dev circles. Let’s help every student find their bag. 🎓💸

🍒X Post:


🔗 Call to Action:

Runner H just hacked the most stressful part of student life.
Try this flow, remix it for your own use case, and tag me when you win that bag 🤑

Thanks for reading and thanks to Runner H for the dope prompt challenge! 💖

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Oscar

This is extremely detrimental to academic integrity. This tool that allows students to (more easily) generate work that isn't theirs (more formally known as plagiarizing) and this post encourages them to do so.

Also, on a more personal note, most people don't end up applying to 50 scholarships -- that kinda goes against the point. The general strategy is to pick and choose the scholarships that they have the best chance of winning, and then hopefully manage to schedule them appropriately so they don't have to grind through 20 different renditions of an essay in a week. If done correctly, most people have ~2-4 per month (although I am aware that there are cases where people have much more than that).

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Fair point, but this doesn’t write essays for people. It helps manage the grind. Students still review, revise, and approve everything.

And yep, most students don’t apply to 50 scholarships. But for the ones who do, like international students, low-income students, or those without local funding options, even 10 can feel like 100.

This was built for them. For the ones who can’t afford burnout or missed deadlines.

It’s not about cheating, it’s about not burning out. Work smarter, not harder. 🤷🏽‍♀️🧠

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Oscar

If I publish a research paper that is generated by AI but revised by me, it is not entirely my work and I should not claim it to be mine. With all due respect, this is a glorified plagiarism machine.

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A research paper is an academic contribution. A scholarship essay is a personal pitch. This tool doesn’t invent a story, it organizes the one the student has already lived.
Not everyone has the privilege of time, mentorship, or a support system. This tool shows up for them. That’s the whole point.

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Reo Cul

Runner H to The world 🔥

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Osagie Anolu

👀

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Dotallio

So good! Taking the stress out of constant scholarship essays is huge. Do you think this kind of workflow could adapt to other areas where people face similar repetitive paperwork?

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Fave😌✨

Absolutely! That’s actually one of the things that excited me the most while building this, the potential beyond just scholarships.
This workflow could totally be the blueprint for job apps, grant writing, visa stuff, basically anywhere people are drowning in repetitive forms and long essays😌

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Akinrimisi Ezekiel

This is a really creative use of RunnerH, I hadn’t thought of using it that way. Have you tried applying the same prompt logic to a different context?

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Benedict Agiande

That's a great help ngl🤚🏽

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Fave😌✨

Thank you, Benedict

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Akinola Femi Olaonipekun

This is dope Fave!
Loved the way you used runnerH to make life easier for students overwhelmed with writing essays for different scholarship applications🔥🔥🔥

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Onyeneke Christopher

This is amazing, it would save lots of stress

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Fave😌✨

Thank you!

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Olatoyan George

Solid!

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Wesley Klaassen

Cool!

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Thank you!