Most grant applications do not fail on the idea. They fail on one of five published conditions — the 30% local shareholding, a home-based business, a contract signed before the application, the same expense funded twice, or a cap already used up. Answer fifteen questions and this page applies those conditions to your case, quoting the rule and the page it was read from.
The other four lines — training records, AI systems, SACE, security systems — are decided differently and the answer says so: there is no published "you qualify" test for them, so the check reports what the work still lacks instead of pretending to rule. Every line still carries the page it came from and the day it was read.
It will not invent an answer. Where a rule is not published on the pages we read, it says so and asks you. Where the answer is "this would be rejected", it says that too.
Choose the area first. Grants are decided against published rules; the other four are decided on what the file still lacks, which is a different kind of answer and is labelled as one. Anything you do not know can be left blank — the check asks instead of guessing.
The grant note
One email a week at most: what the government is offering an SME this month, which schemes have closed, and the one thing to check before you spend — in the order that keeps the claim valid. No pitch, and nothing about our own fees.