Free tools
Tools for Irish Businesses
Free, no-signup tools for Irish business tasks, from checking invoices and company details to choosing and costing software.
Find the right software
Narrow the catalogue down to a shortlist that fits your Irish business.
Irish & EU VAT Number Checker
Check any Irish or EU VAT number on VIES, see the registered name and address, and open the company CRO record. Free, no signup.
Open tool →Irish Company Search
Search the full CRO register by company name or number. Confirms registration status, company type, and registered address for any active Irish company - from the official CC-BY open data.
Open tool →NACE Code Finder
Find your NACE industry code for CRO registration, Revenue forms and grant applications. Search the full NACE Rev. 2.1 classification by description or code number - no signup required.
Open tool →NACE Rev. 2 to Rev. 2.1 Converter
Convert an old NACE Rev. 2 code to its NACE Rev. 2.1 code, using the official Eurostat correspondence table. Shows every new code where an old code splits.
Open tool →Find My Stack
AI-powered software stack recommender. Answer a few questions about your Irish business and get three matched vendors in under a minute.
Open tool →Software Finder
Filter the full vendor catalogue by category, size, sector and Irish compliance signals. Best when you already know roughly what you want.
Open tool →Smart Vendor Compare
Generate an AI-written side-by-side comparison of any two vendors in the directory, framed for Irish buyers.
Open tool →Irish Grant Finder
Match your business to LEO, Enterprise Ireland, Revenue, Microfinance Ireland, Skillnet and SEAI schemes. Filter by size, trading age, purpose and funding type.
Open tool →Calculate the cost
Model real spend, savings and return in euro before you commit.
True Cost Calculator
Sticker price is never the whole story. Add implementation, training, migration and hidden fees to model real annual cost in euro.
Open tool →AI ROI Calculator
Estimate the return on adopting AI tools for your Irish business across productivity, support, sales and marketing.
Open tool →AI Customer Service Savings Calculator
Model the cost reduction from deploying AI in your customer support function, sized to Irish wage data.
Open tool →Umbrella vs Limited Company Calculator
Irish IT contractor take-home comparison. Built on Budget 2026 income tax, PRSI 4.2%, USC and corporation tax 12.5%.
Open tool →Cash Flow Runway & Resilience Calculator
Two numbers every owner should know: how many months of runway you have at your current burn, and how long your cash would last if revenue stopped tomorrow.
Open tool →Auto-Enrolment Cost Calculator
See what My Future Fund costs your business year by year as the employer rate phases up from 1.5% to 6%, with a 10-year total. Built on the statutory schedule and EUR 80,000 cap.
Open tool →Payroll Outsourcing vs Software Cost Calculator
Compare the annual cost of outsourcing payroll to a bureau against running named Irish payroll software yourself. Enter your headcount, pay frequency, and a bureau quote.
Open tool →True Employer Cost Calculator
See what a salary actually costs once employer PRSI and Auto-Enrolment contributions land on top. Enter a gross salary and get a full breakdown - per component, with each rate cited.
Open tool →Business Banking Cost Calculator
Rank Irish business current accounts by real annual cost for your transaction profile. Built on published fee schedules, each verified against the source before publication.
Open tool →VAT Registration Threshold Checker
See whether you are over, approaching, or below the Irish VAT threshold (EUR 85,000 goods / EUR 42,500 services), tested across the current and previous calendar years.
Open tool →Audit what you already have
Score your stack and your readiness against Irish compliance reality.
Verify an Irish Business
The four checks that establish whether a counterparty is real, registered and authorised: VAT number on EU VIES, CRO company record, Central Bank register status, Peppol readiness. One workflow, in order.
Open tool →Irish Company Name Check
Check whether a proposed company name is already taken, or close enough to an existing one that the CRO is likely to refuse it. Applies the Companies Act 2014 s.26 comparison rules against the full active register.
Open tool →EORI Number Checker
Check an EU EORI number against the European Commission register. Needed by any Irish business importing or exporting outside the EU. Shows the holder name and address where they consented to publication.
Open tool →Bulk VAT Number Checker
Check a whole list of VAT numbers for EUR 19 per list of up to 100 rows, with a dated CSV report, retries and saved results. Prepare your list or try an example.
Open tool →VAT Invoice Checker
Check ordinary domestic invoice fields and VAT arithmetic. Spot missing details and mixed-rate total differences, with no invoice upload.
Open tool →Irish Compliance Checker
Score your current software stack against Irish compliance signals - Revenue, PAYE Modernisation, GDPR residency, Irish bank feeds.
Open tool →AI Readiness Check
Quick diagnostic on whether your Irish business is ready to adopt AI tools - data, processes, GDPR posture and team skills.
Open tool →AI Search Visibility Audit
See how your site shows up in AI search engines and ChatGPT-style answers. Tailored for Irish queries.
Open tool →Create deliverables
Generate the artefacts buyers and sellers actually need - briefs, summaries, profiles.
Migration Assistant
Step-by-step guidance for switching software safely - data export, parallel run, cutover - sized to Irish accounting and payroll cycles.
Open tool →Share With Accountant
Package a software shortlist into a one-page PDF brief for your accountant. Pre-fills from a Find My Stack run; no login, no email sent on your behalf.
Open tool →RFP Generator
Generate a clean professional RFP brief in minutes. Drops in Irish compliance asks (Revenue, PAYE, GDPR) automatically.
Open tool →Tender Summariser
Paste any Irish procurement notice. Get a structured summary of scope, value, requirements and deadline.
Open tool →Vendor Profile Enricher
Generate the Irish-context fields for any software vendor - compliance signals, pricing notes, GDPR residency, NACE fit.
Open tool →Start with Find My Stack
If you're not sure where to begin, the AI stack recommender is the fastest path to a shortlist tailored to your Irish business.
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