Conceptive AI
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Build the funding case for your ambition
Understand the call.
Make your contribution count.
We help you decode EU and national funding calls, shape a convincing research or innovation proposal and develop the application. Our AI expertise strengthens its substance, connecting advanced approaches with technical feasibility and meaningful impact.
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Available as a standalone engagement or alongside your wider AI work. Eligibility depends on the call; award decisions remain with the funder.
How we help
From choosing a call to developing an application and supporting awarded work, we agree the contribution you need. AI expertise informs the substance throughout.
01 / Opportunity & fit
We identify relevant calls and assess fit, eligibility, timing, eligible costs, co-financing and the effort involved. We distinguish funding for research and innovation from support for adoption, deployment and skills.
What you receiveA funding shortlist and fit assessment.
02 / Project & application
We shape objectives, work packages, milestones and budgets with your team, and develop proposal content against the funder’s criteria. Our AI expertise connects a distinctive approach with feasible delivery, measurable outcomes and supporting evidence.
What you receiveAn application plan and proposal content prepared for your approval and submission.
03 / Post-award support
After an award, we provide agreed technical support as the AI work develops. We help connect work-package planning, milestone reviews and progress reporting with the proposal’s technical commitments and intended outcomes.
What you receiveWork-package planning, milestone reviews and technical progress reporting.
Specialist input, when needed
We draw on the Conceptive AI network of experts for relevant technical and domain input. Where a consortium is needed, we help identify potential partners and clarify their contributions and responsibilities.
A look at the output
Understand the funder’s intent, shape your idea and develop the application. At each step, our AI expertise helps make the contribution distinctive, feasible and relevant.
The funding journey
Conceptive AI / What we prepare
01 Funding priorities
Decode what the funder wants to achieve.
We interpret the programme’s direction, the call’s scope, expected outcomes and evaluation criteria. Our AI expertise clarifies where advances in AI could contribute to those goals and what the application needs to demonstrate.
Your call brief Priorities, requirements and implications for your idea, with eligibility conditions and open questions made clear.
02 Project direction
Shape the idea into a convincing response.
We establish how your research or innovation answers the call. We identify where advanced AI can strengthen the idea, examine feasibility and intended impact, and define the expertise or partnerships that make the approach credible.
Your project concept A clear contribution, a reasoned AI approach and a route to results, with the gaps and partner needs identified.
03 Proposal development
Develop the application that makes the case.
We develop coherent objectives, work packages, outcomes and supporting evidence around the funder’s criteria. The AI rationale explains what is distinctive, why it is feasible and how its impact will be assessed.
Your application content A coherent proposal for your approval and submission, linking the call’s expectations to the work and evidence that answer them.
An overview of the outputs we prepare. The detail and scope are agreed around your call, your idea and your starting point.
Your starting point
Assess one AI initiative against relevant EU and national calls. Receive a shortlist showing fit, eligibility, timing and co-financing considerations, with a recommendation to apply, prepare or defer.
Fixed scope and price. Application development is a separate engagement.