Taking the eligibility assessment

The eligibility assessment is the starting point for every BenefitStack user. It is a seven-step questionnaire that gathers enough information about your company to match you with the government schemes you actually qualify for. The whole flow takes two to three minutes.

Before you begin

You do not need any documents to run the assessment. Just have a rough sense of your company's annual revenue and the year you were incorporated.

The seven steps

Step 1 — Company type

Select your legal entity: Private Limited, LLP, Partnership, Proprietorship, or OPC (One Person Company). This determines which central schemes apply — many MSME and startup schemes are restricted to specific entity types.

Step 2 — Business stage

Choose the stage that best describes where you are:

• Early Stage — Revenue below ₹1 Cr
• Growth Stage — Revenue between ₹1 Cr and ₹25 Cr
• Scaling — Revenue above ₹25 Cr

This is used to filter schemes with turnover caps and to prioritise the most relevant opportunities.

Step 3 — Sector

Choose your primary sector from the list (e.g. SaaS / Software, Manufacturing, Agriculture, Clean Energy). Some schemes are sector-agnostic while others are exclusive to specific industries. You can select one sector.

Step 4 — State

Select the Indian state where your company is registered or primarily operates. This unlocks state-level schemes — most states have their own IT policies, MSME subsidy programmes, and startup funds that are only available to companies registered in that state.

Step 5 — Annual revenue

Select the band that most closely matches your current annual revenue. This is used to check eligibility for MSME classification thresholds and scheme-specific turnover limits.

Step 6 — Company profile

Enter your company name and the year you were incorporated. Company age is a key eligibility factor — many startup schemes require incorporation within the last 5 or 10 years.

Step 7 — Submit

Click Get my report. BenefitStack runs your profile against every active scheme in the database and redirects you to your results page within seconds.

Re-running the assessment

You can run the assessment multiple times. Each submission creates a new saved assessment on your dashboard — useful if your company's stage or revenue changes, or if you want to compare results across different entity types or sectors.