Want to understand whether your business might fit UK funding?
Claima helps explain funding fit against published criteria, shows what evidence is missing, and keeps the next action with a human reviewer — usually your accountant or adviser.
Eight things Claima explains against the funder’s own published criteria.
Claima reads each opportunity from its official funder source and explains the fit against the published criteria. The output is cautious, dated, and traced back to where it came from.
- Fit against published funder criteria
Each fit signal is reasoned against the funder's own published criteria, not against a black-box score.
- Source-traced opportunity context
Every opportunity is traced back to its official funder home page, with the date it was last read.
- Company / profile context
Claima organises the company-side context — sector, size, registration — that published criteria refer to.
- Project / activity context
What the funding would be for: the project or activity, its scope, and its sector or technology framing.
- Evidence gaps
What evidence is Ready, what is Needed, and what is Not assessed — gaps are visible, not buried.
- Source freshness / date-read
Every source carries the date it was last read. Stale sources are labelled Source stale, not silently reused.
- Uncertainty
Where Claima is uncertain, it says so — instead of converting uncertainty into false confidence.
- Accountant / adviser next action
Every fit signal ends with a next action for the human reviewer — verify, collect, re-read, review, stack-check, or decide.
This is funding-fit explanation. It is not an eligibility verdict.
The shape of the boundary, in six lines.
- Claima does not decide whether a business qualifies.
- Claima does not decide whether funding will be awarded.
- Claima does not submit applications.
- Claima does not replace funder criteria.
- Claima does not replace accountant/adviser judgement.
- Funders decide eligibility and awards.
Eight categories worth bringing to the conversation.
These are categories an accountant or adviser would normally walk through with you — not a form on this page.
Company profile
Company number, registered address, sector codes, size, and ownership profile.
Project summary
A short description of the project or activity the funding would support.
Sector or activity
The sector, technology area, or activity classification the project sits in.
Prior funding
Any prior grants, R&D tax relief, loans, or subsidy — for stack-check context.
Financial evidence
Accounts profile, turnover, and any cost or budget shape relevant to the funder's criteria.
R&D / innovation activity
Whether the project involves R&D, innovation, or a technical novelty step.
Team capability
Who would do the work, and what relevant experience the team brings.
Environmental or social impact, where relevant
If the funder asks for impact context, what evidence the SME has to draw on.
Six outputs. Seven cautious labels. No verdict.
Every fit signal carries its source, its evidence state, and its uncertainty — together with a next action for the human reviewer.
- Source-traced opportunity context
- Cautious fit labels
- Evidence gaps
- Date read / source freshness
- Uncertainty
- Accountant / adviser next action
- Appears to match
- Evidence needed
- Potential gap
- Source stale
- Reviewer action required
- Stack check needed
- Not assessed
You do not get a ‘you qualify’ verdict from Claima. You get an explanation your accountant or adviser can review.
Judgement stays with the human reviewer.
Claima can explain fit against published criteria and surface evidence gaps. The judgement of what to do with that explanation — for this client, on this project, against this funder — sits with the accountant or adviser.
- Review matters because funding criteria, evidence sufficiency, subsidy / stack checks, and eligibility interpretation need judgement.
- The accountant or adviser owns the next action.
- Claima provides source-traced explanation; it does not assert outcomes.
- Funders decide eligibility and awards.
Point them to these pages.
The simplest next step is a short conversation with the accountant or adviser who already knows your business. Two pages on this site are written with them in mind.
- Send them to /for-accountants
A page written for accountants and advisers reviewing Claima.
- Send them to /decision-log
A synthetic worked example showing how a cautious fit signal is explained.
Then ask whether they would review a funding-fit signal with you.
Request a private-beta invitation.
Access to Claima is review-led, not self-serve. Participation is by invitation while the product and review process are still being shaped.
- You can request a private-beta invitation.
- Say in your note that you want to understand funding fit.
- Participation is review-led, not self-serve.
- No public pricing yet.
- No paid pilot is authorised by this page.
- No partner programme is live.
One signal. Source, evidence, uncertainty, next action.
Every fit signal carries its source, evidence state, and uncertainty. See a synthetic worked example.
See itSample Decision Log →Four artefacts you can inspect today.
Trust is not a claim. It is the way Claima is built — source taxonomy, cautious labels, decision logs, and a clear funder-decision boundary. Four public pages make that boundary inspectable.
The shape of this page’s boundary, in seven lines.
- This page does not check eligibility instantly.
- This page does not say your business qualifies.
- This page does not submit an application.
- This page does not generate a Funding Pack.
- This page does not replace your accountant or adviser.
- This page does not guarantee funding.
- This page does not create a self-serve account.
Curious how Claima would explain a fit signal for your business?
The next action stays with your accountant or adviser. We’re speaking with a small number of SMEs and advisers before opening access more widely.
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