Most of this can be part-funded.

Not because the money is hard to get. Because the schemes are described in the language of the agency that runs them rather than the language of the problem you have. A company trying to work out whether AI can shorten its month-end close does not think of itself as a candidate for a digital adoption voucher, so it never looks.

The other reason is sequencing. Several supports need you to know what you are asking for — a defined piece of work, a cost, an expected outcome. If you have not mapped anything yet, you cannot write that application, which is why an assessment usually comes first and is itself often within scope.

The Grow Digital Voucher covers software, training and IT configuration for businesses with 1 to 50 employees, at 50% of eligible cost. An Operational Audit, the training that follows it and the configuration work to get tools running properly all sit inside that description. It starts with a free Digital for Business consultancy through your LEO.

Skillnet is the one most teams miss. We are an approved Skillnet training provider, and member companies get training at a subsidised rate through their network. If your industry has a Skillnet — and most do — that is the cheapest route to getting a team genuinely capable, and we have delivered training to more than ninety companies this way.

R&D tax relief is a different shape: it is claimed after the fact, by your accountant, against qualifying development spend. Where a build creates genuinely new capability rather than configuring something off the shelf, it may qualify. We can describe what was built in the terms an accountant needs; we cannot tell you it qualifies, and anyone who does without seeing your accounts is guessing.

CeADAR has been Ireland's National Technology Centre for AI since 2013 and runs the European Digital Innovation Hub for AI. Through the EDIH programme it offers a Digital Maturity Assessment, prototype work under Test Before Invest, training and support to find investment — to start-ups, SMEs, mid-caps and public sector bodies, in any sector, across Ireland.

Those services are 100% discounted, funded by the European Commission and the Government of Ireland. The Digital Maturity Assessment is the first step and is required before Test Before Invest. Support is subject to de minimis state aid rules, which cap total aid at €300,000 over three years; public sector bodies are not subject to those rules. In December 2025 the programme was extended with €23 million across Ireland's hubs, €5.7 million of it to CeADAR, running to 2029.

We are telling you about a free alternative to part of what we sell, which is deliberate. If your question is whether a specific technical approach can work at all, a funded prototype is a better first move than paying anybody. Where it differs from what we do is scope: CeADAR is technical expertise and funded experimentation, not an embedded partner changing how a few hundred people work day to day. Plenty of businesses should use both, in that order.

Several of these are aimed at smaller businesses, which leads bigger companies to assume none of it applies. R&D tax relief has no headcount ceiling. Skillnet networks include large employers. And the agencies run supports aimed specifically at scale that are worth asking about directly once the work is defined.

If you are a few hundred people or more, the constraint is usually not funding — it is building a case the board will sign. That is what the written readout from an audit is for.

We flag the schemes that look like a fit for your situation during the discovery call, at no cost, whether or not you go on to work with us. Where an application needs a described piece of work with a cost and an expected outcome, our audit readout is written so it can be used for that.

We are not grant consultants and we do not take a percentage of anything you are awarded. We are not tax advisers either. Your Local Enterprise Office, Enterprise Ireland and your accountant decide eligibility, and we would rather point you at them early than have you discover a condition late.