Malta × EU · SME digitalisation grant · 2026

AI automation for Malta businesses.
Apply with proof.

Malta and the EU are funding SME digitalisation. You already know what you want to automate. Bring us your shortlist. In five working days we cost and pressure-test every idea, and hand you a feasibility report your grant application can stand on.

Free 20-min call · €1,990 credited into your build · no obligation

Up to €235,400 grant-funded/50% paid by Malta/AI-eligible

AI Automation Discovery

€1,990fixed
Timeline5 working days
DeliveryRemote · meet in Malta
Credited into build€1,990 back
On builds over €25,000 the €1,990 is credited back into your development cost.

The funding

Funding is on the table. Most applicants will submit a guess.

€15MFunding poolDigitalise Your SME · Call 2
50 / 50Co-financingup to 50% Malta · 60% Gozo
€235,400Max support with AI€128,400 base plus up to €107,000 AI
1 Jul 2026Applications openrolling cut-offs to year-end

Malta Enterprise · “Digitalise Your SME” Call 2, co-financed by EU funds. De minimis (€300,000 / 3 yrs), online rolling submission.

Sources: Government of Malta·Malta Enterprise

Your business

has the backlog: what you want to automate

Valletta Software

has the skills to cost, design and build it

Malta government

has the money: up to €235,400 per project

Your business

has the backlog: what you want to automate

Valletta Software

has the skills to cost, design and build it

Malta government

has the money: up to €235,400 per project

Need, skills and money, all meeting at one point. You bring the ideas, we make them grant-ready.

Common starting points

What we would automate in your business

The processes most Malta SMEs ask us to automate first. Each one is scoped and costed for you in the 5-day Discovery.

Documents & data entry

Invoices, forms and records captured, coded and filed without manual typing.

Less rekeying, fewer errors
Customer correspondence

Routine emails, quotes and replies drafted, routed and sent for you.

Faster, consistent replies
Scheduling & reminders

Bookings, follow-ups and chasing handled automatically, end to end.

No more chasing by hand

Proof

We have already done this for businesses like yours.

We have already built this for SMEs across sectors abroad. Anonymised, with their own reported numbers.

Singapore

Month-end close: 9 days to 2

Bookkeeping & outsourced-finance firm, ~40 staff

Two weeks of every month went to manual entry and spreadsheet reconciliation. We automated invoice intake and AI-matched bank reconciliation in a private deployment built for PDPA and GDPR, with a human sign-off on every posting.

9d → 2d
month-end close (≈4x)
−62%
manual data entry
4.1% → 0.6%
data-entry errors
−34%
cost per client served
Read the full story
UAE

Claim cycle: 11 days to 4

Expat-focused health insurer, ~50 claims staff

Every one of ~9,000 monthly claims passed through three people. Straight-through processing handles simple, rule-bounded cases while AI triage sends the complex ones to a senior adjuster, all inside a private deployment built for protected health data and GDPR.

11d → 4d
claim cycle (≈2.75x)
−64%
manual claim handling
22% → 7%
rework from missing info
−38%
cost per claim
Read the full story
United Kingdom

Admissions cycle: 6 weeks to 2.5

International school, ~900 students

Admissions ran on email, chasing passports, visas and prior-school records by hand. An applicant portal with automated verification and chasing replaced the inbox, while every decision and safeguarding check stayed with staff. Built for UK GDPR on children’s data.

6wk → 2.5wk
admissions cycle
−60%
manual data entry
−50%
admin staff hours
3x
faster offer turnaround
Read the full story

Engagements described without naming the clients. Figures are each client’s own reported results, measured against their pre-automation baseline.

What we evaluate

A feasibility report built to support your grant application.

You bring the ideas. We score each one, so you apply with not just an idea, but an idea costed and validated by a professional software company.

Every idea, scored on six dimensions

01

Cost

What it will cost to build

02

Implementability

Whether it can actually be built

03

Cyber-security

Where the data and compliance risk sits

04

Platform choice

Which model fits: Claude, GPT or Gemini

05

Technology stack

What it runs on

06

Architecture

How it scales safely

And if you want it, we help you calculate the ROI.

Sample idea scorecard

✓ Grant-eligible

Automated invoice intake & reconciliation

≈ €9,200 your share after the 50% grant · saves ~2 weeks of manual work a month

Cost
≈ €18,400 to build
Implementability
Proven pattern, low risk
Cyber-security
Private deployment · GDPR
Platform
Claude + OCR
Stack
n8n · Postgres · REST
Architecture
Human sign-off on every posting

Illustrative. Every idea on your shortlist gets its own scorecard like this, priced and ranked, so your grant application stands on professional numbers.

How it works

From first call to a costed report in five working days.

From your shortlist to a grant-ready feasibility report — in five working days.

STEP 01

Day 0

20-minute intro call

You walk us through the shortlist you already have. No prep, no audit, no homework.

STEP 02

Days 1 to 4

We evaluate each idea

A private, secure review scores and costs every idea on your list. You stay hands-off.

STEP 03

Day 5

You get the report

A costed scorecard for each idea, ready to attach to your grant application.

STEP 04

After

Apply with proof

You submit backed by a professional company’s numbers. If your grant is approved, we build it.

It starts with a 20-minute call. No prep, and the €1,990 is credited into your build.

Book a 20-minute intro

Why Valletta

A Malta software company you can meet in person.

Stas Gorshenin

Stas Gorshenin

Strategy Advisor, Valletta Software

Runs your Discovery personally and meets you in Malta.

★★★★★Reviews on Clutch

A Malta company you can meet in person

Valletta, MT

Based in Malta. We'll talk it over coffee, not over a ticket queue.

Idea evaluated by a professional

6 checks

Your application carries numbers, not a hunch.

Fast: five working days

5 days

We move quickly. The grant window is rolling; you don't wait weeks.

Talk to Stas directlyBook a 20-minute intro

What clients say

Five-star work, in their words.

Read all reviews on Clutch

★★★★★

Their reaction time is impressive.
Eric Van TilburgCEO, Done-it InternationalIT · Belgium

★★★★★

They found excellent solutions to every problem, so the project kept moving forward.
Joakim William HaugeCEO, MonetiseFinancial services · Norway

★★★★★

What really stood out was how patient and down-to-earth they were.
Alan CopelandDirector, SolenisManufacturing · USA

The offer

€1,990. Five working days. Total clarity on your AI plan.

Bring us your shortlist of processes to automate. We hand back a costed feasibility report that supports your grant application, and credit the fee into your build.

Book a 20-minute intro See a sample scorecard Free 20-min call · €1,990 credited into your build

Sample report

See exactly what you will get.

Download a real sample of the feasibility report. No call required. Just your email.

NO SPAM · ONE REPORT · ONE FOLLOW-UP · GDPR-COMPLIANT

We are Maltese too.
Let us talk over coffee.

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