Funding research
AI-powered discovery of grants, subsidies, EU programmes, and other funding opportunities tailored to your needs.
Funding Research helps you discover grants, subsidies, EU programmes, innovation vouchers, tax incentives, and other funding opportunities relevant to your organization or project. Describe what you're looking for, optionally upload context documents (company profile, project description), and the AI agent systematically searches EU-level, national, and sector-specific funding sources.
When to use it
- Before starting a project — find grants or subsidies that could co-finance your procurement, R&D, or capital investment
- Exploring EU funding — discover Horizon Europe, Digital Europe, LIFE, Interreg, EIC Accelerator, and other EU programmes
- National programmes — find country-specific grants, innovation vouchers, and development agency funding
- Tax incentives — identify R&D tax credits, investment deductions, and accelerated depreciation schemes
- Strategic planning — get recommendations on which opportunities to pursue and in what order
Starting a research run
Navigate to Funding Research in the top navigation. Click New Research to create a session.
Research brief (required) — describe what funding you're looking for. The more specific, the better:
"AI SaaS startup based in Latvia, founded 2023. Seeking Horizon Europe grants, digital innovation vouchers, and R&D tax credits. Company size: 8 employees. Focus: machine learning product development."
Language — English or Latvian. The agent produces all findings in the selected language.
Mode — choose how hands-on you want to be:
- Autopilot — the agent runs to completion without interruptions. Best for comprehensive scoping.
- Guided — the agent pauses after initial findings for your review. You can steer the direction ("focus on national programmes only", "explore German funding in more detail") before it continues.
Reference documents
Before starting, you can upload context documents that help the agent understand your eligibility:
- Company profile or annual report
- Project description
- Sector analysis
- Financial statements
These are parsed and made available to the agent during research. They're optional but improve the relevance of results.
During research
The workspace shows real-time progress:
- Agent activity feed — tool calls, web searches, page reads, and reasoning as they happen
- Finding counters — opportunities and insights update live as the agent discovers them
- Status indicator — pending, running, paused (guided mode), completed, or failed
In Guided mode, the agent pauses after recording initial findings. Review what it found, provide feedback in the text field, and click Continue to resume with your guidance.
A typical run takes anywhere from a few minutes to roughly half an hour depending on brief complexity, the number of reference documents, and how many iterations the agent decides it needs.
Statuses
| Status | What it means |
|---|---|
| Pending | The run has been created but the agent has not started yet. Usually visible only briefly. |
| Running | The agent is searching, reading, and recording findings. |
| Paused | Guided mode only — the agent is waiting for your feedback. |
| Completed | The agent finished. Run again and Download Excel appear in the run header. |
| Failed | The run stopped on an error. Any partial findings remain visible. |
Research results
Overview
Summary with statistics (opportunity and insight counts), a strategic recommendation (if the agent produced one), and links to the detail tabs. From here you can also Download Excel or Run again with the same parameters.
Opportunities
A comparison table with funding opportunities as columns and attributes as rows:
| Attribute | Description |
|---|---|
| Type | eu_fund, national_fund, grant, voucher, loan, tax_incentive |
| Funding body | Agency or institution providing the fund |
| Amount range | Minimum and maximum funding in EUR |
| Co-financing rate | Your required contribution (e.g., 50%) |
| Opening / closing date | Application timeline or status (open, upcoming, closed) |
| Eligibility summary | Quick snapshot of who qualifies |
| Application URL | Direct link to the programme portal |
| Country | EU-wide or specific country |
| Target industries | Relevant sectors |
Each opportunity also shows:
- Confidence level (High / Medium / Low) with color-coded badges
- Confidence rationale — why the agent assigned this level
- Description — detailed analysis including eligibility, application procedure, and timeline
- Sources — clickable links to official programme pages
High confidence means the agent found and verified details on official government or EU sources. Medium means reliable secondary sources with some details unconfirmed. Low means the information needs verification — treat it as a starting point.
Insights
Strategic recommendations about your funding strategy:
- Which programmes are the best fit for your profile
- Suggested application sequencing (e.g., "apply to Horizon first, then national programmes")
- Gaps in available opportunities
- Risk and feasibility assessments
References
Complete list of all sources the agent consulted, organized by type (government portals, EU institutions, development agencies, news). Each reference includes the title, URL, source type, and domain name for quick verification.
Excel export
Click Download Excel to get a spreadsheet with two sheets:
- Opportunities — transposed comparison table with all metadata, descriptions, confidence levels (color-coded), and source counts
- References — deduplicated list of all source URLs with titles, types, and domains
The export is designed for sharing with team members, investors, or accountants who need to review funding options offline.
How it compares to Market Research
| Funding Research | Market Research | |
|---|---|---|
| Focus | Grants, subsidies, tax incentives | Products, suppliers, pricing, regulations |
| Source priority | Government portals, EU Commission, national agencies | Manufacturers, distributors, standards bodies |
| Output | Opportunities with eligibility, deadlines, amounts | Products/services with specs, pricing, availability |
| Best for | Finding money to fund a project | Understanding what's available on the market |
Both features share the same interface patterns: autopilot/guided modes, confidence scoring, source provenance, and Excel export.
Reference document formats
Reference documents go through the same upload pipeline as RFP and bid documents — see Working with documents for the full table. PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Markdown, and .edoc archives are accepted. Each reference must finish parsing before the agent can use it.
Credit cost
Funding research runs consume credits based on AI processing. Typical observed costs are 0.7–1.5 credits per research run, with focused single-region briefs at the lower end and broad multi-jurisdiction or multi-iteration runs at the upper end. The exact charge appears in the run summary after completion (for example, Completed in 26m 20s · 17 opportunities · 3 insights · 0.96 credits).
See Credits and pricing for how credits are billed across the platform.
Limitations and things to know
- Concurrent runs. Funding Research enforces its own concurrency limit per user, independent of Market Research. You can run a Funding Research session in parallel with a Market Research session.
- Run time. A run usually takes between a few minutes and roughly half an hour. There's no fixed estimate shown up front; the activity feed is the most reliable progress indicator.
- No delete action. Funding Research runs cannot currently be deleted from the UI (Market Research has a Delete button; Funding Research does not). Completed and failed runs stay in the list as part of the organization's history.
- Reference documents must be parsed. Uploaded references run through the same parser as RFP and bid documents. Don't start the run until each reference shows Completed status.
Tips
- Write detailed briefs. Include company size, sector, location, specific needs, financial situation, and preferred funding type (grant vs. loan vs. equity).
- Upload company documents. A company profile or registration document helps the agent assess eligibility accurately.
- Check confidence rationales. High-confidence opportunities are ready to investigate further. Low-confidence ones need verification on official pages first.
- Verify before applying. Click source links to confirm eligibility and deadlines on official programme portals — funding programmes update frequently.
- Use Guided mode to learn. Start with Guided to understand what's available, then use Autopilot for comprehensive coverage in follow-up runs.