A prior diagnosis
Where the company stands: which systems it uses, where the data lives and what is still done by hand. Without that you can't choose where to start.
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Bono IA · IA360 plan · updated 26/09/2026Spain's AI voucher for SMEs can't be applied for yet. It can be prepared for.
The Spanish government has announced 600 million euros so that SMEs and the self-employed can put artificial intelligence to work in their business. The general call will open before the end of 2027 and will ask for things you can have ready today: a diagnosis, one concrete use case and the starting figures to measure the result against.
€600Mfor the general call
25,000companies is the plan's target
H1 2027the pilot
Before 2028the general call
What is known
The Bono IA in five facts.
Everything here comes from the IA360 plan document published by the Spanish government on 21 September 2026. What isn't in there, I don't take for granted.
- What it isThe «bono empresarial de inteligencia artificial», one of the fourteen projects in the IA360 plan, aimed at SMEs and the self-employed. The plan ties it to the Red Neurona, a network of AI demonstration centres: it says it will subsidise the solutions those centres offer to SMEs.
- How much money600 million euros for the general call, with the aim of transforming 25,000 companies.
- What it will pay forAI services and solutions from European technology companies that build on the large foundation models and add their own work on top: development, integration, sector knowledge, data processing or process redesign.
- What it won't pay forPlain licence subscriptions. Paying for ChatGPT or Copilot every month is not an AI project, and the voucher won't cover it.
- WhenA pilot in the first half of 2027 and the general call before the end of 2027.
Source: the IA360 plan document (in Spanish), projects 10 and 11. When the rules are published, this page is updated the same day.
What it will ask for
Four conditions, and none of them can be improvised in a fortnight.
The plan ties the voucher to a prior diagnosis, a concrete use case, measuring the effect on productivity afterwards and training staff. And it says its design «would include» payment by milestones.
A concrete use case
Not «putting AI into the company», but a process with a name: supplier invoices, tomorrow's appointments, the guest registration. With enough volume to make a difference.
Measuring the effect
To measure what changes you have to know how it was before: today's hours, errors and lead times, measured and not estimated. It is the thing most often forgotten and the only one that can't be reconstructed later.
Training the team
Who is going to use it and what they need to learn. Including which data can leave the company and which can't, which is what almost nobody teaches.
What isn't known yet.
- How much each company will get. There is no official figure: the ones going round are other people's arithmetic.
- Which body will run it and how you will apply.
- What providers will have to comply with, and what role companies outside the Red Neurona will have. As of today there is no published list or accreditation, so nobody can be «approved for the Bono IA» yet.
- Whether it will be compatible with other grants, and which regions will start the Red Neurona.
What can be done today.
Choose the process, measure what it costs now and get the data it will need in order. That is worth doing with or without the voucher: if the call opens as announced, you arrive with your homework done, and if it changes or is delayed, the work is just as done.
That is exactly what the AI Diagnosis does: one working session and a document with the four parts above.
How I do it
Arriving at the voucher with your homework done, in three steps.
The same path I follow with any process, with the papers the plan is going to ask for written along the way.
- Fifteen minutes, freeYou tell me what gets done by hand and I tell you which process I would take to the voucher, whether it is worth it and what you would need to have ready. If it isn't worth it, I tell you just the same.
- The AI DiagnosisOne working session, a week of measuring and a document with the four parts: where you stand, which process, what it costs today and what it would take. Paid, fixed before we start, and deducted from the project if we go ahead. How it works.
- The projectWith the voucher if it opens as announced, or without it if the numbers work on their own. Fixed scope and price, payment by milestones, which is how the plan expects the voucher to pay, and the team trained to use it.
72 ha month typing invoices at a distributor in Tenerife, timed with a stopwatch before touching anything. Now it is six.
What the voucher will ask for is how I already work.
One concrete process, measured before starting and measured after, built on the systems the company already has and with the team trained to use it. I don't sell licences or closed products: I develop, integrate and stay to measure.
I'm in Santa Cruz de Tenerife. On the island I come to the company; in the rest of the Canary Islands and Spain I work remotely, with on-site days when needed. The invoice case, with its three mistakes.
See the AI Diagnosis
Use cases
Processes that fit what the voucher will pay for.
Real work inside the company, with volume and measurable. I have seen these from the inside.
Distribution and import
Supplier invoices that go in on their own
Read, checked against the order and entered into the ERP. The ones that don't match go to a tray.
See the case → Apartments and holiday rentalsThe guest registration, typed once
From the PMS to the registration without retyping the guest's details.
See the case → Clinics and healthcare groupsReminders that listen to the reply
And the usual questions answered by an assistant, with health data kept inside.
See the case → Construction and installationsQuotes the same day
The draft comes out of the site visit and the technician only reviews it.
See the case →
Questions
What people are asking me.
What is the Bono IA?
A Spanish government grant, part of the IA360 plan, for SMEs and the
self-employed to pay for artificial intelligence services and solutions from European
technology companies. It has 600 million euros for the general call and aims to reach
25,000 companies.
When can it be applied for?
Not yet. The plan foresees a pilot in the first half of 2027 and the general
call before the end of 2027. Dates, deadlines and how to apply will be in the rules,
which haven't been published.
How much does each company get?
It hasn't been published. Divide 600 million by 25,000 companies and you get
an average of 24,000 euros, but that is a division, not an official figure. In the Kit
Digital scheme the amount depended on company size; we'll see whether it does
here.
Can it pay for ChatGPT or Copilot?
No. The plan expressly excludes plain licence subscriptions. It pays for work:
development, integration, sector knowledge, data processing or process
redesign.
Who can be a Bono IA provider?
The plan talks about European technology companies that bring their own
value, and at the same time ties the voucher to the solutions offered by the Red Neurona
centres. How the two fit together isn't written down. Today there is no published list or
accreditation, so nobody can tell you they are approved. When the rules come out, I'll
tell you whether your project and my work fit them.
What is the Red Neurona?
Another piece of the IA360 plan: a public-private network of AI demonstration
and deployment centres. Its pilot starts before the end of 2026 with 100 SMEs in two
regions, and in 2027 it will grow to ten regions and 5,000 companies. Which regions
hasn't been said.
Is it compatible with the Kit Digital?
The Kit Digital no longer takes applications: its last calls closed on 31
October 2025. Whether the Bono IA will be compatible with other grants will be in its
rules.
And if I don't get it in the end?
Then you decide with numbers whether the project is worth it on its own. A
project that only pays off with a grant is usually a bad project, and the diagnosis is
precisely for finding that out beforehand.
The heads-up
I'll write to you when the rules are published.
One email when the pilot opens and another when the general call opens, with what they ask for and who it suits. Nothing else.
Fifteen minutes
Look at your case before the call opens.
Video or phone call, free. I'll tell you which process I would take to the voucher, whether it's worth it and what you would need to have ready. If I see it isn't worth it, I tell you just the same.
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