Administration

Funding Guide Agent

Municipalities rarely lose funding to the deadline. They lose it to the programme nobody found.

Takes you from project idea to the right EU, federal or state funding programme, with the reference.

Open agent
Public administration

Four processes that take up the most time today

Developed in Germany · Hosted in the EU

Developed in Germany · Hosted in the EU or on-premises

Delivered together with

STACKIT Sovereign hosting in Germany, single-tenant from the first user.
Rödl Legal, tax and compliance expertise for legally sound deployment.
4P Consulting Advisory and implementation for the public sector, starting with the AI readiness assessment.

Finding the programme costs more than the application itself.

A municipality wants to carry out an energy retrofit of its community centre and faces three funding levels. By the time the right programme and its conditions are established, more working days have passed than filling in the application would take.

1project ideaA community centre is due for an energy retrofit.
3funding levelsThe EU, the federal government and the state each run their own programmes with their own deadlines.
2research passesFirst the overview page, then the full text of the guideline.
12working days to selectionSix passes across three levels take up twelve working days before the first line of the application is written.

Twelve working days are spent searching before the first sentence of the application is written. One pass across all three funding levels cuts research time by 60%.

This sequence describes the path from project outline to programme selection in an economic development office. The percentage is the headline figure from this agent's fact sheet, not a measurement of this project.

Three steps through the process.

The agent sets out the matching programmes side by side with the reference in the guideline; approval comes later, from the relevant funding body.

Match programmes

The agent reads the project outline and extracts the applicant body, the funding purpose and the period. It uses them to search the funding database across EU, federal and state programmes.

Projektskizze_Buergerhaus.docx, 4 pages

Check eligibility conditions

The agent checks eligibility, funding purpose and own contribution for each programme. It visibly sets aside any programme the applicant is not eligible for.

7 programmes checked, 3 shortlisted

Cite the reference

For every condition, the agent cites the clause of the guideline it comes from. It saves the overview as a draft in the DMS.

Foerderuebersicht_Buergerhaus_2026.pdf with 3 guideline clauses

What the agent does not do.

It does not submit the funding application.

It prepares the selection. Application and submission in the funding portal stay with the municipality.

It does not assess a programme's prospects of approval.

It sets the matching programmes side by side and cites the guideline clause for each condition. Which programme the municipality pursues is decided by the administration's leadership.

It does not know about a special call from the district government that only arrived as a circular.

It searches the connected funding database across EU, federal and state programmes. A call that sits in the office as a letter and was never recorded appears in no overview.

Connected systems

  • Funding database
  • document management system
  • project file

Operations

  • Deployment modelEU cloud, private cloud or on-premises
  • Data processingGDPR-compliant, no model training on your data
  • Responsible teamsEconomic Development, Regional Management, Municipalities

The questions that come up before the first meeting.

How quickly is the Funding Guide Agent ready to use?

A pilot typically runs on your own data within 4 to 6 weeks. The agent connects to your existing systems rather than running as a separate, parallel environment.

Where is the data processed?

EU cloud, private cloud or on-premises. Processing is GDPR-compliant and models are never trained on your data. Details in the Trust Center.

Where does the figure “60% less research time” come from?

It is based on experience from comparable projects and process benchmarks, not a commitment. We work out the realistic effect for your organisation during the assessment before the pilot.

Related agents.

Intake review, case 2026/04711

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