Smart Consultancy™
Human Led. Technology Enhanced. Always On.
CAPIQAL is a SMART Consultancy™ combining human expertise and technology to connect your ambitions with the right funding opportunities and a clear path from policy to capital.
SMART Consultancy™
Turn your ambition into a clearer funding strategy.
CAPIQAL combines senior expertise, personal relationships and funding intelligence to help organisations understand their opportunities, develop stronger projects and move forward with confidence.
We start with your business and your plans. Our consultants use our technology to support their analysis, then apply their experience to identify relevant routes and practical next steps.
Discuss your projectFunding intelligence becomes valuable when it helps you make a better decision.
What makes it SMART?
Human expertise.
Technology that adds perspective.
SMART Consultancy™ brings experienced people and funding intelligence together. You work with consultants who understand your project, supported by technology that strengthens their research and analysis.
Human Led.
We listen, ask questions and work with you to understand the organisation behind the project. Relationships, experience and human judgement guide our advice.
Technology Enhanced.
Our technology helps connect your plans with policy priorities, funding instruments and eligibility requirements. Our consultants interpret that intelligence in the context of your business.
Always On.
Funding opportunities and project needs evolve. We bring an ongoing intelligence perspective to the work, reviewing agreed next steps as relevant opportunities or circumstances change.
See our approach
See how SMART Consultancy works.
Human expertise and funding intelligence, working together to move your project forward.
Policy to Capital™
Understand the policy.
Build the funding case.
Funding programmes exist to deliver policy priorities — from innovation and business growth to decarbonisation, digital transformation and infrastructure. Understanding those priorities helps explain what a funding provider wants to support, and why.
Policy to Capital™ is CAPIQAL’s approach to tracing funding instruments back to their policy source, then assessing how your project fits. Supported by our proprietary technology, our consultants connect your ambitions with the objectives, eligibility requirements and evidence behind relevant funding routes.
This helps us assess your project’s funding potential and the development work needed to build a credible case for support.
Policy fit
Why would a funder support it?
We examine how your project contributes to the outcomes a programme is designed to achieve, helping you articulate a clear and relevant case.
Funding fit
Which routes are relevant?
We assess potential funding instruments against your organisation, activities and project stage, highlighting eligibility requirements and conditions that need closer review.
Project readiness
What needs to happen next?
We identify the evidence, preparation and timing needed to strengthen your project before you commit to an application.
What this means in practice
A business planning a lower-carbon investment needs to understand how its proposed activities align with policy objectives, which funding instruments may be relevant, and what technical and financial evidence is required.
The result: a clearer view of the project’s funding potential, the gaps to address and the next step to consider.
Policy alignment is one part of the assessment. Eligibility, programme criteria, competition and the funder’s evaluation also determine whether a project receives support.
How we work
Assess. Position. Prepare. Deliver.
Four connected stages, shaped around your project. We agree the scope, priorities and support you need before work begins.
Assess
Understand your business, ambitions and funding readiness. Identify relevant opportunities and the gaps that need attention.
Position
Develop your project’s direction and evidence base. Engage with funding providers and potential partners to establish the most suitable route.
Prepare
Bring together the business case, budgets, supporting documents and application needed to present a credible, well-developed project.
Deliver
Support project delivery, reporting and funding drawdown, helping you manage the requirements that follow an award.
A broader funding perspective
The route should fit your project.
Our funding intelligence considers more than grants. Depending on the project, relevant routes may include debt instruments, international financial institution lending and guarantees.
We consider the requirements and suitability of potential routes in the context of your plans, helping you understand which options merit further investigation.
The starting point is your organisation’s needs, objectives and readiness.
Support that fits
Start where you are.
Plan what comes next.
You may be exploring an idea, developing a project, planning an investment or preparing an application. We start by understanding what you want to achieve and the decisions ahead.
Together, we agree the scope and next steps. That may mean assessing an opportunity, developing the evidence base, preparing an application or supporting delivery.
You gain a clearer understanding of the work required and the support available at each stage.
Your questions
Before we begin.
Do we need to know which funding programme to apply for?
No. We can begin with your project plans and assess which routes may be relevant, what the requirements are and whether further development is needed.
Can you help if our project is still at an early stage?
Yes. Early assessment can help clarify the project’s direction, its policy alignment and the evidence needed before pursuing funding.
Do we have to engage you for all four stages?
We agree the scope around your needs. The support may cover one stage or several, depending on your project and readiness.
Does an assessment guarantee funding?
No. An assessment helps establish fit, readiness and practical next steps. Funding decisions remain with the provider and depend on the programme’s criteria, competition and evaluation.
Start a conversation
What are you planning next?
Tell us about your organisation and what you want to achieve. We can discuss where you are today and the support that may help you move forward.