turash/funding/FUNDING_GAP_ANALYSIS.md

# Funding Application Gap Analysis

## Overview
This document identifies gaps between **funding application requirements** (from `COMMON_REQUIREMENTS.md`) and **existing project documentation** in the `concept/` directory. Use this to identify what needs to be prepared for funding applications.

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## ✅ DOCUMENTED - Ready for Funding Applications

### 1. ✅ Project Description (100% Required)
**Status**: ✅ **COMPREHENSIVE** - Well documented
- **Location**: Multiple files covering all aspects
- **Technical Details**: `03_core_concept_resource-matching_engine.md`, `10_matching_engine_core_algorithm.md`
- **Innovation Focus**: Extensive documentation on graph-based matching, industrial symbiosis
- **Project Scope**: `00_introduction.md`, `05_system_overview.md`
- **Gap**: None - comprehensive project description exists

**Files**:
- `00_introduction.md` - Executive summary
- `03_core_concept_resource-matching_engine.md` - Core innovation
- `05_system_overview.md` - System overview
- `10_matching_engine_core_algorithm.md` - Technical innovation
- Multiple technical architecture files

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### 2. ✅ Budget Breakdown (100% Required)
**Status**: ✅ **DOCUMENTED** - Detailed budget in roadmap
- **Location**: `28_project_roadmap.md`
- **Details**: 
  - Total: €2.5M seed funding
  - Phase 1 (Months 1-3): €400k
  - Phase 2 (Months 4-6): Detailed breakdown
  - Infrastructure costs per month detailed
  - Team costs (8 engineers, 2 domain experts, 1 BD)
- **Gap**: May need more granular Excel template format for funding applications

**Files**:
- `28_project_roadmap.md` - Detailed budget by phase
- `monetisation/financial-projections.md` - Cost structure (Year 1-3)

**Action Needed**: Create Excel budget template with line items (personnel, equipment, subcontracting, travel, etc.)

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### 3. ✅ Market Analysis (86% Required)
**Status**: ✅ **COMPREHENSIVE** - Excellent coverage
- **Location**: `01_market_analysis.md`
- **Details**:
  - TAM/SAM/SOM analysis
  - Target customer segments
  - Geographic focus
  - Competitive landscape
  - Market validation framework
- **Gap**: None - comprehensive market analysis exists

**Files**:
- `01_market_analysis.md` - Complete market analysis
- `02_competitive_analysis.md` - Competitive landscape
- `monetisation/competitive-analysis.md` - Detailed competitive analysis

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### 4. ✅ Business Plan (86% Required)
**Status**: ✅ **WELL DOCUMENTED** - Comprehensive business model
- **Location**: `monetisation/` directory
- **Details**:
  - Revenue model (`revenue-model.md`)
  - Pricing strategy (`pricing-strategy.md`)
  - Go-to-market strategy (`go-to-market.md`)
  - Financial projections (`financial-projections.md`)
  - Unit economics (LTV/CAC)
- **Gap**: May need consolidated single document format for some applications

**Files**:
- `22_output_monetization.md` - Overview (references monetisation/)
- `monetisation/revenue-model.md` - Revenue streams
- `monetisation/financial-projections.md` - Financial model
- `monetisation/go-to-market.md` - Market strategy

**Action Needed**: Create single consolidated business plan document (10-20 pages) pulling from all sources

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### 5. ✅ Project Timeline & Milestones (86% Required)
**Status**: ✅ **DETAILED** - Comprehensive roadmap
- **Location**: `28_project_roadmap.md`
- **Details**:
  - 18-month roadmap with monthly milestones
  - Phase-by-phase breakdown
  - Deliverables per milestone
  - Success metrics
  - Technical dependencies
- **Gap**: None - detailed timeline exists

**Files**:
- `28_project_roadmap.md` - 18-month detailed roadmap
- `24_prototype_roadmap.md` - High-level phases
- `monetisation/implementation-roadmap.md` - Business implementation timeline

**Action Needed**: Create Gantt chart visualization for funding applications

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### 6. ✅ Innovation Documentation (100% Required)
**Status**: ✅ **EXTENSIVE** - Well documented
- **Location**: Multiple technical files
- **Details**:
  - Graph-based matching engine innovation
  - Multi-resource matching algorithm
  - Hybrid Neo4j + PostGIS architecture
  - Technical novelty clearly described
  - Technology readiness level (TRL 5-8 mentioned)
- **Gap**: May need formal TRL assessment document

**Files**:
- `03_core_concept_resource-matching_engine.md` - Core innovation
- `10_matching_engine_core_algorithm.md` - Algorithm details
- `09_graph_database_design.md` - Technical innovation
- `11_technical_architecture_implementation.md` - Implementation details

**Action Needed**: Create formal TRL (Technology Readiness Level) assessment document (currently TRL 5-8 range, need specific assessment)

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### 7. ✅ Financial Projections (50% Required)
**Status**: ✅ **DETAILED** - Comprehensive financial model
- **Location**: `monetisation/financial-projections.md`
- **Details**:
  - Year 1-3 revenue projections
  - Unit economics (LTV/CAC)
  - Cost structure
  - Profitability timeline
  - Cash flow projections
- **Gap**: None - comprehensive financial projections exist

**Files**:
- `monetisation/financial-projections.md` - Complete financial model
- `28_project_roadmap.md` - Budget breakdown

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## ⚠️ PARTIALLY DOCUMENTED - Needs Enhancement

### 8. ✅ Environmental Impact Assessment (29% Required - for DBU, EIT programs)
**Status**: ✅ **COMPLETE** - Comprehensive environmental impact assessment created
- **Location**: `concept/impact/ENVIRONMENTAL_IMPACT_ASSESSMENT.md`
- **Application Summary**: `funding/application_documents/ENVIRONMENTAL_IMPACT_ASSESSMENT_SUMMARY.md`
- **Coverage**:
  - ✅ **Quantified CO₂ emissions reduction**: 100,000 t CO₂ (Year 1) → 1,200,000 t CO₂ (Year 3)
  - ✅ **Waste reduction methodology**: 50,000 t → 600,000 t diverted from landfill
  - ✅ **Water conservation metrics**: 2.5 M m³ → 30 M m³ reused
  - ✅ **Sustainability KPIs**: Material circularity rate, waste diversion rate, resource efficiency index
  - ✅ **DBU #DBUcirconomy alignment**: Closing material loops, resource-efficient design, new circular business models
  - ✅ **EU Green Deal alignment**: 1.8M t CO₂ avoided (3-year cumulative), supporting 55% emissions reduction target
  - ✅ **Measurability plan**: Real-time tracking, monthly/quarterly reporting, annual assessments
  - ✅ **Verification framework**: GHG Protocol compliant, ISO 14064 aligned, CSRD ready

**Files Created**:
- `concept/impact/ENVIRONMENTAL_IMPACT_ASSESSMENT.md` - Comprehensive assessment (detailed methodology, calculations, projections)
- `funding/application_documents/ENVIRONMENTAL_IMPACT_ASSESSMENT_SUMMARY.md` - Application-ready summary for funding programs

**Action Needed**: ✅ **Complete** - Ready for funding applications

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### 9. ⚠️ Proof of Concept/Prototype (43% Required)
**Status**: ⚠️ **CONCEPTUAL** - Architecture defined, no working prototype
- **Location**: Technical architecture files
- **Existing Coverage**:
  - Detailed technical architecture
  - Schema definitions
  - Algorithm descriptions
  - Roadmap includes MVP plan
  - References to prototype in roadmap
- **Gap**:
  - ❌ **No working prototype exists yet** (planned for Month 1-3)
  - ❌ **No proof of concept results/demo**
  - ❌ **No test results/validation data**
  - ❌ **No demo video or screenshots**

**Where Mentioned**:
- `28_project_roadmap.md` - MVP planned for Months 1-3
- `24_prototype_roadmap.md` - Prototype phases
- Technical architecture extensively documented

**Action Needed**:
- Build MVP/prototype before funding applications (or emphasize strong technical foundation)
- Document proof of concept results
- Create demo video/screenshots
- Gather preliminary test results
- For early applications: Emphasize strong technical foundation and detailed architecture

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## ❌ MISSING - Needs to be Created

### 10. ❌ CVs of Key Team Members (100% Required)
**Status**: ❌ **MISSING** - No team CVs documented
- **Gap**:
  - ❌ **No CVs of team members**
  - ❌ **No team expertise summary**
  - ❌ **No qualifications listed**
  - ❌ **No previous project experience documented**

**Where Team is Mentioned**:
- `28_project_roadmap.md` - Team composition described:
  - 8 engineers (4 backend, 2 frontend, 1 DevOps, 1 data)
  - 2 domain experts
  - 1 BD/sales
- No individual CVs or qualifications

**Action Needed**:
- Create CVs for all key team members (EU format preferred)
- Create team expertise summary document
- Highlight relevant experience (circular economy, innovation, industrial symbiosis)
- Include publications, patents, previous projects
- Create `TEAM_CVS.md` or individual CV files

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### 11. ❌ Company Registration Documents (100% Required)
**Status**: ❌ **UNCLEAR** - Status unknown
- **Gap**:
  - ❌ **Company registration status unclear** (planned in Month 1 roadmap)
  - ❌ **No proof of Berlin location documented**
  - ❌ **No company registration certificate**
  - ❌ **No business registration number**

**Where Mentioned**:
- `28_project_roadmap.md` - "Legal entity formation and seed documents" mentioned in Month 1
- `00_introduction.md` - References Berlin-based company but no proof

**Action Needed**:
- Register company in Germany (if not done)
- Obtain company registration documents
- Document Berlin location/address
- Create `COMPANY_REGISTRATION.md` with all registration documents

**Note**: This is mentioned as Month 1 deliverable, so may be pending if company not yet formed.

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### 12. ❌ Partnership/Consortium Agreements (50% Required - for Horizon Europe, CBE JU)
**Status**: ❌ **NOT DOCUMENTED** - Partnerships mentioned but no agreements
- **Gap**:
  - ❌ **No consortium agreements documented** (needed for EU collaborative programs)
  - ❌ **No letters of intent from partners**
  - ❌ **No partnership agreements**
  - ❌ **No research partner agreements**

**Where Partnerships Mentioned**:
- `28_project_roadmap.md` - Strategic partnerships planned
- `monetisation/go-to-market.md` - Utility partnerships mentioned
- Various files mention municipal partnerships, facilitator marketplace

**Action Needed** (For EU collaborative programs):
- Identify partners from different EU countries (if applying to Horizon Europe)
- Establish partnership agreements
- Get letters of support/intent
- Create `PARTNERSHIP_AGREEMENTS.md` document
- For single SME programs (EIC Accelerator): Not needed

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## 📊 SUMMARY TABLE

| Requirement | Required By | Status | Gap Level | Priority |
|------------|------------|--------|-----------|----------|
| **Company Registration Documents** | 100% | ❌ Missing | **Critical** | **HIGH** |
| **Project Description** | 100% | ✅ Complete | None | - |
| **Budget Breakdown** | 100% | ✅ Documented | Minor (Excel format) | Medium |
| **CVs of Team Members** | 100% | ❌ Missing | **Critical** | **HIGH** |
| **Innovation Documentation** | 100% | ✅ Extensive | Minor (TRL assessment) | Low |
| **Market Analysis** | 86% | ✅ Complete | None | - |
| **Business Plan** | 86% | ✅ Well documented | Minor (consolidate) | Medium |
| **Project Timeline** | 86% | ✅ Detailed | Minor (Gantt chart) | Low |
| **Financial Projections** | 50% | ✅ Detailed | None | - |
| **Partnership Agreements** | 50% | ❌ Not documented | **High** (for EU collaborative) | **HIGH** (if EU collaborative) |
| **Proof of Concept** | 43% | ⚠️ Conceptual | **High** | **HIGH** |
| **Environmental Impact** | 29% | ⚠️ Partial | **Medium** | Medium |

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## 🎯 ACTION PRIORITIES

### 🔴 CRITICAL (Must Prepare Before Applications)

1. **Company Registration Documents** (100% required)
   - Register company in Germany (if not done)
   - Obtain registration certificate
   - Document Berlin address
   - Create registration document folder

2. **CVs of Team Members** (100% required)
   - Create CVs for all key team members (EU format)
   - Create team expertise summary
   - Highlight relevant experience
   - Document previous projects

3. **Proof of Concept/Prototype** (43% required, but strengthens all applications)
   - Build MVP/prototype (or emphasize strong technical foundation)
   - Document test results
   - Create demo video/screenshots
   - Gather preliminary validation data

### 🟡 HIGH PRIORITY (Strengthen Applications)

4. **Partnership Agreements** (Required for EU collaborative programs)
   - Identify partners if applying to Horizon Europe, CBE JU
   - Get letters of support/intent
   - Establish partnership agreements
   - **Note**: Not needed for single SME programs (EIC Accelerator)

5. **Environmental Impact Assessment** (Required for DBU, some EIT programs)
   - Create dedicated environmental impact document
   - Quantify CO₂ emissions reduction
   - Calculate waste reduction metrics
   - Define sustainability KPIs

### 🟢 MEDIUM PRIORITY (Enhancement)

6. **Budget Excel Template**
   - Convert budget breakdown to Excel format
   - Add line items (personnel, equipment, subcontracting, travel, etc.)
   - Make it funding-application ready

7. **Consolidated Business Plan**
   - Create single 10-20 page business plan document
   - Pull from all monetisation documents
   - Format for funding applications

8. **Gantt Chart**
   - Create visual Gantt chart of project timeline
   - Show dependencies and milestones
   - Useful for funding applications

9. **TRL Assessment**
   - Create formal Technology Readiness Level assessment
   - Document current TRL (likely 5-7)
   - Show path to TRL 8-9

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## 📝 RECOMMENDED DOCUMENT STRUCTURE

Create the following new documents/folders:

```
concept/
├── business/
│   ├── COMPANY_REGISTRATION.md (or folder with documents)
│   ├── TEAM_CVS.md (or team/ folder with individual CVs)
│   ├── PARTNERSHIP_AGREEMENTS.md (if needed for collaborative programs)
│   └── CONSOLIDATED_BUSINESS_PLAN.md (optional - pulls from monetisation/)
│
├── impact/
│   ├── ENVIRONMENTAL_IMPACT_ASSESSMENT.md
│   └── SUSTAINABILITY_METRICS.md
│
├── funding/
│   ├── BUDGET_BREAKDOWN.xlsx (Excel template)
│   ├── PROJECT_GANTT_CHART.png/pdf
│   ├── TRL_ASSESSMENT.md
│   └── PROOF_OF_CONCEPT.md (or folder with demo materials)
│
└── [existing files]
```

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## 🚀 NEXT STEPS

1. **Immediate** (Week 1):
   - Create `TEAM_CVS.md` with all team member CVs
   - Verify/create `COMPANY_REGISTRATION.md` with registration documents
   - Build minimal prototype/demo for proof of concept

2. **Short-term** (Week 2-3):
   - Create `ENVIRONMENTAL_IMPACT_ASSESSMENT.md`
   - Build Excel budget template
   - Create Gantt chart visualization
   - Document proof of concept results

3. **Before Applications** (Week 4+):
   - Consolidate business plan if needed
   - Get partnership letters if applying to collaborative programs
   - Final review of all documents
   - Format for specific funding program requirements

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*This analysis was conducted on November 2025, comparing funding requirements from `COMMON_REQUIREMENTS.md` against existing project documentation in `concept/` directory.*