How It Works
Why you can trust the eligibility result.
Most tools that say “AI-powered eligibility” mean a language model guessing based on what you typed. Chanakya doesn't work that way — and the difference matters, because a wrong eligibility guess costs you a wasted application.
How Chanakya Thinks
AI explains. Rules decide.
Eligibility isn't a guess an AI makes. It's a deterministic rules engine evaluating your structured profile against each scheme's actual requirements. Chanakya's job starts after that — explaining the result, the gaps, and what to do about them.
Startup Profile
What you tell us
Scheme Database
What's available
Eligibility Rules Engine
What decides
Matched Schemes
What you qualify for
Chanakya AI Explanation
Why, and what's next
AI vs. Rules Engine, question by question
What decides if you're eligible?
Chanakya AI
Nothing — Chanakya AI never decides eligibility.
Rules Engine
A deterministic rules engine checks your structured profile against each scheme's actual published criteria.
What does the AI actually do?
Chanakya AI
Explains the result in plain language — why you matched, why you didn't, and what a gap actually means.
Rules Engine
Nothing conversational — it just runs the same comparison every time, for every founder.
Can the result change without your data changing?
Chanakya AI
No — Chanakya doesn't reinterpret your profile differently between runs.
Rules Engine
No — the same profile against the same scheme criteria always produces the same result.
Where does scheme data come from?
Chanakya AI
Chanakya doesn't invent scheme criteria or benefits.
Rules Engine
Published scheme sources — marked clearly as sample/unverified until backed by a verified database.