Grants and funding. Only the ones you're genuinely eligible for.

The regional grant that closed three weeks ago, which you heard about from a supplier. The call that looked perfect until you spotted the requirement on page four. This piece checks public sources every day and flags only what you can actually get, with how much time you have left.

This page covers a single piece of the system. The other pieces, and how we choose which one to start with, are on the services page.

What changes in practice

You stop depending on who happens to tell you. In 2024 there were 2,374 active support schemes in Italy, 300 from central government and 2,074 regional: nobody who also has a business to run can keep track of that many.

The count comes from the report on support measures for economic and productive activities by the Italian Ministry of Enterprises, 2025 edition. The same document shows Italian businesses receiving 95% of the aid granted, with small businesses the largest group of recipients.

Today, in a great many businesses, news of a grant comes from the accountant when they happen to mention it, from a supplier selling machinery, or from a promotional email, so it arrives late and incomplete.

The second change is faster decisions. With the deadline, the eligibility criteria and the preparation time all in the same alert, you can tell in two minutes whether it's worth pursuing or already out of reach, instead of finding out after two days on the phone.

The official incentives portal lets you save no more than five searches. That tells you how far keeping watch by hand can realistically go.

The limit hardly anyone keeps track of

It's the de minimis allowance, and it's €300,000 over three years. Regulation (EU) 2023/2831 puts it like this: “The total amount of de minimis aid granted per Member State to a single undertaking shall not exceed EUR 300 000 over any period of three years”.

The three years are counted on a rolling basis, so your position changes by itself as the months go by, even if the business doesn't apply for anything. That's why a remaining allowance worked out from memory is almost always wrong, and aid granted over the cap is lost.

From 1 January 2026, aid granted has to be entered in a central register within 20 working days, and the records are kept for 10 years. That means your position can now be checked, and the system shows it alongside every alert rather than leaving it as a nasty surprise at the end.

The regulation applies until 31 December 2030, so the current cap has a known expiry date. Thresholds and exceptions for agriculture, fisheries and services of general economic interest fall under separate regulations, and your consultant will tell you which one applies to you.

Flagging everything is the same as flagging nothing

This is the part hardly anyone builds, and it decides whether the system is still being used after the first month. Nearly every service of this kind sends you the full list of grants for your sector: twenty alerts a month, eighteen of them irrelevant, and by week three nobody opens them any more.

Here the filter comes first. It checks the criteria that genuinely rule you out: activity code, company size, location, legal form, type of eligible cost, required social security compliance and remaining allowance.

Anything that doesn't pass can still be looked up, but it doesn't trigger an alert. Every alert costs attention, and should only be spent when there's a real decision to make: it's the same principle as our operational deadline alerts.

The rule is deliberately lopsided. If a criterion is ambiguous, the system flags the scheme and marks it as ambiguous, because a missed grant doesn't come back, while two extra minutes of reading only cost two minutes.

What the system does, step by step

The sources are checked every day, and every step leaves a log entry with the source and the date the scheme appeared.

Step	What happens	What you get
Monitoringpublic sources	The national incentives portal, the portals of the regions you operate in, chambers of commerce, EU calls and official gazettes, checked every day.	Schemes appear on your list the day they're published, not when someone mentions them to you.
Profileyour eligibility	Activity code, size, location, typical costs and remaining allowance are set up once and updated when they change.	The filter works on your actual business, not a generic sector category.
Eligibilitybefore the alert	Every scheme is checked against those criteria, and ambiguous cases are flagged as ambiguous.	Only a handful of alerts arrive, all of them relevant, so you're still opening them in March.
Alertwith the date	The alert gives the deadline, the type of aid, the costs covered, the estimated preparation time and the documents required.	You decide in two minutes whether to go for it, instead of wading through forty pages of annexes.
Handoverto your adviser	When you decide to apply, the file is exported in order for your consultant or accountant.	The person preparing the application starts from a complete file, not from scratch the day before the deadline.

The sources are public, and they stay public

The system looks where you'd look, starting with the catalogue on the national incentives portal, which can be filtered by sector, company size and location. The difference is doing it every day, across every source that concerns you.

No data comes from bought lists, restricted areas or privileged channels. This information is public by definition, and anyone promising early access to a public grant is describing something that doesn't exist.

What goes out on its own, and what waits for a person

The monitoring runs on its own, filter and alert included. The system reads, compares and alerts without anyone having to remember to check, even in the weeks when the business has other things on its mind.

No application, registration or communication with a public body ever goes out on its own. Submitting an application commits the business and the person who signs it, so it always remains a decision for a person.

Where an automatic alert reaches someone outside the business, it says in one line that it comes from a system: from 2 August 2026, Article 50 of the AI Act applies, and how we say it is on the AI transparency page. The reasoning behind keeping a person in the loop is on our page about the principles we build by.

Same mechanism, different name in every trade

The monitoring is identical; the scheme that gets missed isn't. It's worth looking at your own case, because the useful sources vary a lot from one sector to another.

Sector	What gets missed today	Where you see it
Food and agricultureand export	Grants for exhibiting at trade fairs abroad and for product certification, which open and close within the trade fair season.	A typical day for a small food producer who exports
Hospitalityaccommodation and events	Regional funding for upgrading guest accommodation, which often comes out in the low season and closes before you reopen.	The run-up to the season for a guest accommodation business
Restaurantsand bars	Chamber of Commerce grants for equipment and digitalisation, often first come, first served, where the money runs out in days and all that matters is being ready.	A dinner service with the phone ringing unanswered

What this piece doesn't do

It doesn't prepare the application, and it isn't grants consultancy. An application carries specific responsibilities and is handled by a qualified professional, who works better and faster from an organised file.

It doesn't tell you whether a grant is worth it. It sets out the amount, the costs covered, the obligations that follow and the time involved, and the financial judgement stays with you and your consultant.

It doesn't calculate your official de minimis position for you. It keeps a tally of the aid you tell us about and warns you when the cap is getting close, while the formal check sits in the public register and the declarations you sign.

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