Five service levels depending on your scope — see below. Final scope and price are agreed after scoping.
The problem
An available programme has never made a weak project sound
An ERP, data, AI, cybersecurity or industrial modernisation project can look sound without being ready to launch. Quotations vary by a factor of three, nobody has costed the current situation, and the mention of a support programme suddenly makes the matter urgent. That is the wrong order: an available programme has never made a weak project sound.
The differentiator
Cross-border principle: four questions, never merged
The ability of Carrefourduweb to advise across Europe is distinct from the eligibility of the client or the project under a national scheme. The engagement therefore separates four questions:
Service delivery
Can Carrefourduweb perform the assignment in the country concerned?
Applicant eligibility
Which company, subsidiary, public body or partner is entitled to submit?
Project eligibility
Do the activities, costs, location and timetable match the programme?
Funding eligibility
Which expenditure can be supported, and under what conditions?
Confusing these is the most expensive mistake in cross-border funding, and it is made early. Carrefourduweb is an independent advisory firm established in France, serving organisations across Europe, with a specialisation in the Nordic and Northern European markets — which is precisely why each of these four questions is verified explicitly rather than assumed.
Two scores
Two separate scores
Investment Quality Score
Assesses whether the project is a sound business decision: strategic relevance, value creation, affordability, technical feasibility, organisational capacity, risk, long-term relevance.
Funding Readiness Score
Assesses whether it can credibly be presented to a funder: applicant eligibility, project eligibility, additionality, innovation, evidence, impact, co-financing, partnership, timing.
A project may be a strong investment but a weak funding candidate, or fundable yet an unsatisfactory investment. The most common trap is the latter: a grant never compensates for a poorly framed project — it funds part of the cost while the company carries all of the risk.
The funding opportunity must never replace the investment decision.
Nordic market adaptation
Not one uniform administrative market
The Nordic region is not one uniform administrative market. Country-specific requirements may apply to company eligibility, public funding, taxation, state aid, accounting, employment, procurement and local-language documentation. The Nordic dimension of a project may sit in the target market, the investment location, the operating company, a technology or research partner, the funding authority or the consortium — and each is verified rather than assumed.
Sample deliverable
What the deliverable looks like
You receive a structured report, walked through together in a decision session. The previews below show its structure and level of detail.
CoverCross-border principle and evidence registerWeighted options matrixTwo scores and their crossingNordic market adaptationNo funding or compliance guarantee
Representative anonymised sample. The actual deliverable is tailored to your context. Download the full PDF.
The core service for a strategic transformation project
4 to 6 weeks
from €14,500
Cross-Border Consortium & Submission Readiness
Complex Nordic or European collaborative projects
6 to 12 weeks
from €28,000
Funding Watch Essential
Monthly monitoring of targeted programmes after the engagement
Recurring
from €690 / month
Funding Watch Plus
Enhanced monitoring and quarterly review of the funding plan
Recurring
from €1,290 / month
Fees exclude VAT and any travel costs. Detailed application writing, legal agreements and specialist studies are scoped separately. The professional fee is agreed in advance and does not depend on the amount of funding obtained. Online payment: none — quotation and invoice only.
Initial term of three months, then monthly renewal. Either party may terminate with one month’s written notice.
Recurring fees may be revised annually, subject to two months’ notice.
Local validation and independence
Who leads, and who validates locally
Carrefourduweb leads the overall decision, investment and execution framework. Local specialists are involved where the project requires national legal advice, tax or accounting validation, local funding interpretation, engineering studies, environmental certification or local-language submission review. Carrefourduweb does not claim to replace regulated or formally authorised professionals.
The service is independent of software vendors, implementation companies, banks, funding agencies, technology suppliers and consortium partners.
Terms of the engagement
No funding or compliance guarantee
Identifying a relevant programme does not guarantee applicant or project eligibility, selection, the amount awarded, the payment timetable or continued programme availability. A readiness assessment does not constitute legal certification, regulatory approval, cybersecurity certification, financial certification or formal funding approval. The engagement improves the quality of the decision, the evidence and the preparation of the project.
FAQ
Questions you're likely to ask
No, and nobody can. The decision belongs to the awarding body. What the engagement improves is the quality of the project, the strength of the evidence and your preparation for the funder's questions.
No. It is agreed in advance and independent of the outcome. That is what separates us from a broker: our interest is that you make the right decision, not that you submit an application.
Yes. Our ability to advise is separate from your eligibility under a national scheme — that distinction is the first thing the engagement settles. Which entity may apply is often the single most consequential question, and it should be resolved before an application is prepared, not after.
That is a result, not a failure. A documented, argued decision not to commit is frequently worth far more than it costs.
No. The engagement is independent of vendors, integrators, banks and awarding bodies. Any commercial relationship that could affect that independence would be disclosed.
A small number of one-hour interviews per function, plus document transmission. Most of the work happens outside your teams.
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Where to go next
Business Resilience & Transformation Review
The international 360° review: independent, evidence-based decision support across strategy, operating model, processes, data, systems, people and risk.
Upstream of funding: define the European core and arbitrate the portfolio — launch, combine, stop — before costing and financing the selected workstreams.
Leave us your work email and briefly describe your project: we'll come back to frame the decision to settle, choose the service level and confirm the terms. No commitment at this stage.
Decide before you spend. Fund the project you chose.
