About Open Doors
Every day, valuable opportunities are announced across thousands of websites. Most people who would qualify never hear about them.
The problem is not a shortage of opportunities. It is that they are scattered across university pages, foundation newsletters, government portals and programme sites, each with its own criteria written in its own way. Finding the right one takes time most people do not have.
Open Doors connects people with the opportunities that fit them, at the moment they are announced, and helps them turn those opportunities into strong applications. It is built for students, researchers, founders and professionals at every stage, wherever they are.
Listing standards
We use the official programme page as the source of truth and link to it from every listing. Each listing records when we last checked it and whether its key fields have been verified.
We do not copy articles from other publishers, we respect site terms and robots.txt, and we remove opportunities as soon as they close. If you spot an error, use the report link on the listing; it goes straight to our editors.
Privacy and your data
Your profile and documents are used only to find and assess opportunities and to help you prepare applications. They are never visible to other users and never sold.
You can download or delete everything from Settings. We design for UK GDPR and GDPR, and we do not ask for sensitive characteristics such as race, religion or health.
Matching and drafting use language models. We explain how they work on the How it works page, and you can review and edit everything they produce.
How listings are gathered
Every day, Open Doors checks a curated list of official programme pages. We respect each site’s robots.txt, identify our crawler, and re-read a page only when it has changed. Details are extracted with a language model, written in our own words, and linked back to the official source.
Listings that the page states only partly, or where the model is less certain, are marked as pending verification and reviewed by an editor. Anything closed or outdated is removed. If a deadline or requirement looks wrong, use the report link on the listing.
Before live discovery has completed, the site shows clearly labelled demonstration records so you can see how it works.