How we decide which schemes you are eligible for

This is the part of the product that does the actual work. You answer a small set of questions; we translate those answers into structured facts; the facts are checked against an explicit rule for each scheme; the schemes you are eligible for, and the ones you would become eligible for after a single missing step, are sequenced into a roadmap.

How a rule looks

Each scheme has a written rule that says, in machine-checkable form, what it requires. A rule reads facts — your entity type, your turnover ceiling, your age band, whether you already hold DPIIT (Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade) recognition — and produces one of three outcomes: eligible, not yet eligible (with the specific missing prerequisite named), or not eligible (with the specific failing criterion named).

Rules are written in plain JSON with a small set of operators: equal, less-than-or-equal, in, contains. There is no free-form natural-language matching, no model in the loop, no per-user override. A rule is a pure function of the facts.

Where rules run

Rules run on our server. Your browser only displays the result. This stops anyone from editing a value in the page to unlock a scheme that doesn't actually apply.

What rules are not allowed to do

Caste, religion, and disability flags can be used to surface schemes you become eligible for — for example, a Stand-Up India entry that opens up for women entrepreneurs. They are never used as gatekeepers on the base evaluation. Personal information like name, email, and Aadhaar is not visible to rules at all; rules only see the abstract facts derived from your profile.

Versioning, so we can show our working

Every rule carries a version number and the date it took effect. If a government notification changes a scheme's criteria — turnover ceiling raised, age limit relaxed — we publish a new version with a new effective-from date; the old version is retained for audit. When you ran an eligibility check three months ago, we can replay it against the rule that was live that day.

How we sequence schemes into a roadmap

Once we know what you are eligible for and what you could unlock, we sort the results into seven phases — identity, entity, registration, recognition, benefits, funding, and compliance — with prerequisites placed before the schemes that depend on them. Two schemes that solve the same need become a decision point rather than parallel steps.

Open dataset, free to inspect

The rules dataset is openly licensed under ODbL 1.0. To request a copy for research or audit, use the contact form.

See also

• Authorisation
• Audit log
• AI provider

This summary is reviewed quarterly. Last reviewed: 28 May 2026.