Technical Assessment
As a member of Enterprise Ireland's ICT Specialists panel, we carry out independent R&D technical assessments of funding applications for Enterprise Ireland, IDA Ireland and other funders. Each one starts with deep research into the state of the art and ends with a clear, evidence-based recommendation.
State funding agencies: Enterprise Ireland, IDA Ireland, Local Enterprise Offices and Údarás na Gaeltachta. The panel assesses research, development and innovation funding applications from their client companies.
Agency committees must decide whether a complex technology project qualifies as R&D under EU state-aid rules, and which costs are eligible. They need an assessor who understands the technology and can explain it in plain terms.
We break each project into clear elements, research whether each one is genuinely new, test every cost line, and give the committee a plain-English recommendation.
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Before we judge any element, we research the state of the art. If a competitor, a research group or an open-source project has already solved the problem, it isn't R&D, however hard it is for the applicant. The committee gets evidence, not opinion.
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IDA Ireland · Multinational client
A multi-year, multi-million euro programme to build a new cloud data platform with AI-driven data intake and automation. We researched the state of the art to test the R&D content, assessed eligibility, and reviewed costs line by line.
IDA Ireland · Multinational client
An AI-driven R&D programme covering customer interaction, workflow automation and document processing. We are assessing the programme for IDA Ireland through the Enterprise Ireland panel.
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We start with research. For each element of the project, we look at what already exists: published research, patents, open-source projects and competitors' products. If someone has already solved the problem, it isn't R&D, however hard it is for the applicant. We then judge what remains against the agency's R&D definitions, which follow the OECD Frascati Manual.
State funding agencies: Enterprise Ireland, IDA Ireland, Local Enterprise Offices and Údarás na Gaeltachta. We are a member of Enterprise Ireland's ICT Specialists panel, appointed in 2025, which assesses research, development and innovation funding applications from agency client companies.
It includes a review of the application, technical description and cost workbook; a plain-English breakdown of each workstream; state-of-the-art research on each element; Q&A and on-site meetings with the company; a line-by-line cost review against the agency's eligibility guidelines; and a written recommendation, with follow-up support for the agency.
We never assess a company we've advised, and we declare any conflict to the agency before accepting an assessment.
We provide independent technical assessment through the Enterprise Ireland ICT Specialists panel.
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