How to use the business.gov.au Grants and Programs Finder — the Australian Government’s canonical portal — to discover the programs your business actually qualifies for.
dgm is an independent osFoundry integration partner — not affiliated with osFoundry’s maker (OS LLC), and dgm has no completed client integrations yet.
Before chasing any single program, use the business.gov.au Grants and Programs Finder — the Australian Government’s official tool for finding what you actually qualify for.
| Item | Detail |
|---|---|
| What it is | Official government grants/programs discovery portal |
| Covers | Federal, state and territory supports |
| Apply portal | portal.business.gov.au |
| Commonwealth grants | GrantConnect (grants.gov.au) |
What the Finder does
The official starting point is the business.gov.au Grants and Programs Finder, the Australian Government’s tool for discovering the federal, state and territory supports you may qualify for, with GrantConnect (grants.gov.au) listing Commonwealth grant opportunities. It lets you search and filter the supports relevant to your business, so you can focus on programs that fit rather than chasing closed or irrelevant ones.
How to use it well
Filter to programs you are actually eligible for and that are currently open — this is how you avoid planning around an ended program like Accelerating Commercialisation or a paused one like EMDG. Apply for and manage Commonwealth grants through portal.business.gov.au, and watch GrantConnect for new Commonwealth opportunities.
Where dgm fits
Important: these are programs a business applies for directly with the government agency or, for the R&D Tax Incentive, claims through a registered tax adviser. dgm is an independent AI-integration agency — not a registered or approved program deliverer, an Industry Growth Program adviser, or a registered R&D tax agent. dgm can help scope and build the AI project; eligibility and any claim are determined and lodged by you or a registered adviser. The Finder is government-run; dgm can help you interpret the results and scope the AI project a program would fund.
Where dgm fits
dgm is an independent integration partner that helps Australian businesses adopt osFoundry — scoping a first use case, handling the build, and connecting AI to the systems you already run. dgm can help you scope the AI project that a program would fund — but you apply to the program (or claim the R&D Tax Incentive with a registered adviser) directly. dgm is independent of osFoundry’s maker (OS LLC) and has no completed client integrations yet, so everything described here is a service offered, not a past result. If you want to scope a practical first project, dgm can help you map it out.