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Grants vs Ayming for grant + R&D-tax-credit advisory
Ayming is a 1,600-consultant management firm with offices in 14 countries. Grants is a software workspace that lets a 3-person founding team write the same application without a percentage cut.
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Ayming is a serious, decades-old management consultancy with 1,600 consultants across 14 countries and 15,000+ active clients. For a complex multi-million Horizon EIC or BMBF Verbundprojekt where the documentation burden is genuinely enormous, hiring Ayming is rational - their compliance depth pays off at that scale. For an EXIST Gründerstipendium, IGP, or KMU innovativ application under €500k, the math rarely works: the success fee (typically 10%+) exceeds what an unfunded founding team can sensibly cede, and you still do most of the writing yourself. Grants keeps the cap-table whole, hands you the structure + reviewer-language coaching the consultancy would have charged for, and lets you learn how to write these applications - knowledge that pays off on every future submission. Ayming wins on enterprise complexity; Grants wins on startup economics.
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