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Use cases

Use cases for the subsidies API

Subsidies and grants touch citizens and businesses. These are the applications the API is made for, with the endpoints they use.

For citizens

Renovation and energy apps

Energy suppliers, installers, renovation platforms

A customer wants to know which premiums apply to insulation or a heat pump, and those premiums differ by region and change every year.

Filter on the citizens audience, the customer's region and the topic, and show the current premiums with their conditions and a link to apply.

GET /v1/subsidiesGET /v1/subsidies/{id}
GET /v1/subsidies?audience=citizens&region=flanders&topic=housing&lang=en
For businesses

Accounting and ERP software

Accounting packages, invoicing software, SME platforms

You already know the customer: sector, size, location. What is missing is the support they are leaving on the table.

Send the customer profile to matching and show the measures they likely qualify for in their dashboard, with what is still missing.

POST /v1/matchPOST /v1/match/bulk
POST /v1/match  { company: { postcode, employees, nace } }
For businesses

Payroll providers and HR software

Payroll, HR platforms, staffing agencies

Every hire may qualify for a target-group reduction or hiring premium, but nobody checks systematically.

On every new hire, look up the hiring and employment support in the employer's region.

GET /v1/subsidiesPOST /v1/match
GET /v1/subsidies?topic=hiring_employment&region=brussels&lang=en
For businesses

Banks and lenders

Banks, fintechs, crowdfunding

A loan application is stronger with a regional guarantee or subordinated loan next to it.

Show the guarantees and loans open to the profile during the application, with their amounts.

GET /v1/subsidiesPOST /v1/match
GET /v1/subsidies?instrument_type=guarantee,loan&region=brussels
For businesses

Advisers and accounting firms

Grant consultants, accountants, business support desks

Following a hundred clients against hundreds of measures that change every week cannot be done by hand.

Put your clients on a watchlist. Every new or changed measure triggers a new match, and you get a webhook for every new result.

POST /v1/watchlistsmatch.created webhook
POST /v1/watchlists/{id}/companies
For everyone

AI assistants and chatbots

Customer service, public desks, in-house assistants

A language model knows last year's premiums and makes up the conditions.

Connect the MCP server: the assistant searches, reads and matches on current data, with the source in every answer.

POST /mcpsearch_subsidiesmatch_company
tools/call  search_subsidies { q: "heat pump" }
For citizens

Municipalities and public desks

Municipal websites, housing desks, social welfare centres

The website shows premiums that have since changed or been abolished.

Show the measures for your municipality straight from the API, and let the change feed keep your website up to date.

GET /v1/subsidiesGET /v1/changes
GET /v1/changes?region=flanders&type=subsidy.status_changed
For businesses

Start-up and entrepreneur platforms

Incubators, business associations, start-up websites

A founder does not know which support exists in the year they start.

Filter on the starting-a-business topic and on company age through matching, by region.

POST /v1/match
POST /v1/match  { company: { founded_on }, project: { topics: ["starting_business"] } }