The EDGE grant. What is confirmed, and what is not.

What EDGE is, in the government's own words

EDGE is a new EnterpriseSG grant announced on 2 March 2026 inside the Business Refresh Package. It takes the three grants Singapore businesses have used for years, PSG (Productivity Solutions Grant), EDG (Enterprise Development Grant) and MRA (Market Readiness Assistance Grant), and folds them into one scheme.

The EnterpriseSG factsheet describes the mechanism as streamlining those three grants “into a single grant scheme to improve enterprise experience and enable businesses to apply for support aligned to their needs.” The practical change it promises is this:

“Businesses will no longer need to determine which grant their activities fall under for their application. Instead, they will be able to apply for funding based on their intended activities, such as enhancing digitalisation capabilities, expanding into new markets, or improving enterprise efficiencies.”

Source: EnterpriseSG Media Release MR 008/26, Business Refresh Package factsheet, 2 March 2026. Read the original (PDF).

In Parliament on the same day, Senior Minister of State for Trade and Industry Low Yen Ling put it more simply. She announced “a new grant called EDGE, which will provide a single shopfront for government grants, merging MRA, PSG, and EDG”, and confirmed that “EnterpriseSG will launch EDGE in the second half of 2026.”

That is the whole official record. Two documents, published the same day, about a page of substance between them. Everything else circulating about EDGE is either drawn from the current PSG, EDG and MRA rules, or invented.

Who can apply for EDGE

The factsheet answers this under its own heading, Who can apply for EDGE?, in three sentences:

“The applicant must be a business entity registered in Singapore. Other requirements may apply, depending on the supportable activity. More details will be provided when EDGE is launched later this year.”

Read that carefully, because on 7 September 2026, when this section was first written, what was missing was as informative as what was there. Today, both PSG and EDG require that the company has at least 30% local equity held directly or indirectly by Singaporeans or Singapore PRs, and PSG additionally requires the SME test of group annual sales turnover not exceeding S$100 million or group employment size not exceeding 200 employees. Neither requirement appeared in the factsheet's own EDGE eligibility paragraph.

Update, 9 September 2026.The local-equity question is now settled. EnterpriseSG's EDGE Grant FAQ states: “The applicant must be a business entity registered in Singapore with at least 30% Singaporean(s) and/or Singapore PR(s) ownership. Other requirements may apply, depending on the supportable activity.” EDGE carries the 30% local-equity test forward. That was an inference when this page first went up; it is a confirmed rule now.

What the same FAQ does not settle is the SME size test. It repeats the other requirements may apply, depending on the supportable activity language without naming a turnover or headcount threshold, and it does not need to, because the headline of the whole announcement is still that EDGE supports all Singapore businesses including non-SMEs. Whether the size test survives for any activity type remains unpublished.

So the current position on eligibility is: registration in Singapore is confirmed, the 30% local-equity test is confirmed, non-SME access is confirmed, and the SME size test and any activity-specific requirements remain unpublished. If you are planning around EDGE and your company sits below the 30% local-ownership line, that is now a known bar rather than an open question. If you sit just over the SME thresholds, that part is still the thing to watch.

How much EDGE pays, and the one number that is actually confirmed

One figure is confirmed twice over, in both primary sources. The factsheet states:

“EDGE will support all Singapore businesses, including non-SMEs, up to S$100,000 per year for eligible activities. Companies which require more support under EDGE could submit their applications to EnterpriseSG, which will be assessed on a case-by-case basis.”

The Committee of Supply speech says the same thing: “The new EDGE grant will support up to $100,000 per year for eligible activities.”

Two things follow from that wording, and they are the two most commercially useful things on this page.

First, S$100,000 is a standard level, not a ceiling. The case-by-case sentence is explicit, and it survives into EDGE the same discretionary route larger EDG projects use today. If you are scoping a transformation programme, do not cut it in half because of the headline number. Scope it to what the business actually needs and understand that anything above S$100,000 goes through a separate conversation with EnterpriseSG, on criteria nobody outside EnterpriseSG can currently describe.

Second, the subsidy percentage under EDGE is almost entirely unpublished. A cap tells you the maximum dollars. A percentage tells you what the project actually costs you. The factsheet publishes exactly one EDGE-era percentage, and it is narrow: for overseas market activity folding in from MRA, “Eligibility extended to local non-SMEs with support of up to 50% of eligible costs (previously not applicable to local non-SMEs).” There is no published EDGE percentage for digitalisation and none for enterprise efficiency.

Any page telling you EDGE funds digitalisation at 50% is carrying the current PSG rate forward. That may well turn out to be right. It is still an assumption, and you should know you are being handed one.

For reference, here is what the three current schemes actually pay today, all taken from the live EnterpriseSG scheme pages on 7 September 2026. These are the rates in force while you wait for EDGE.

The 31 March 2029 date, and why it does not mean what most pages say

This is the single most misquoted detail in EDGE coverage, and getting it right is worth a paragraph of your attention.

The sentence “The higher support level is applicable until 31 March 2029” appears in the Business Refresh Package factsheet twice. Once under the Market Readiness Assistance Grant heading, qualifying the increase to “Higher support levels of up to 70% for local SMEs (previously capped at 50%)” from 1 April 2026. And once under the Global Innovation Alliance heading, qualifying an increase to “70% for SMEs (previously capped at 50%) and 50% for non-SMEs (previously capped at 30%)” from the same date.

It does not appear anywhere in the EDGE section. Neither primary source attaches any expiry date to EDGE support levels at all.

Does the sunset carry into EDGE? Probably, for the MRA-type activities. The factsheet does say “Enhancements to the activities supported under MRA such as the removal of the new markets criteria, will come under EDGE once the grant is implemented”, and it would be strange for the 70% to fold in while its expiry date did not. But that reasoning is mine, not the document's. So the correct statement is the careful one:

31 March 2029 is the published end date for the enhanced MRA and GIA support levels. It is not a published EDGE date. The carry-over into EDGE is an inference.

Why does the precision matter commercially? Because if you are budgeting an overseas expansion programme across three financial years on the strength of a 70% rate, the difference between a documented commitment and an inference is the difference between a plan and a hope. Build the plan so the later phases still work at 50%.

What EnterpriseSG has not said yet

Here is the section most EDGE pages will not write, because saying “we do not know” feels weaker than filling the space. It is the opposite. On a scheme this young, knowing exactly where the documented ground ends is the most useful thing a guide can give you.

I read both primary sources end to end on 7 September 2026. Across the whole six-page factsheet, in relation to EDGE, the following words do not appear at all: vendor, catalogue, portal, Corppass, consultant, TR 43, SS 680, transition. That is not a rhetorical point. Each absence is an operational question with money attached.

• No launch date, as at 7 September 2026. The strongest wording available in the two 2 March documents was second half of 2026 and later this year. Update, 9 September 2026: this has since been resolved elsewhere. EnterpriseSG's EDG scheme page and EDGE Grant FAQ now state that EDG, MRA and PSG cease to new applications on 29 September 2026, and that EDGE opens on 30 September 2026. Not one of the two 2 March primary sources this paragraph is about, but a fact confirmed since.
• No subsidy percentages for digitalisation or enterprise efficiency activity. The only EDGE-era percentage published anywhere is the 50% for local non-SMEs on overseas market activity.
• No definition of “per year”.Calendar year, the applicant's financial year, and rolling twelve months from first approval give three different answers for a company running two projects close together.
• No statement on whether the cap is per company or per group. Group-level tests already catch out SME applicants under PSG today, where the turnover test is applied at group level rather than entity level.
• No criteria for the above-cap route. The case-by-case sentence is the entire published description. No threshold, no assessment basis, no maximum.
• No transition rules, as at 7 September 2026. Nothing in the two 2 March documents addressed in-flight applications, approved but unclaimed projects, or whether PSG, EDG and MRA close on launch day or run down over a window. Update, 9 September 2026: EnterpriseSG's EDGE Grant FAQ has since answered this. Applications for EDG, MRA and PSG filed before 30 September 2026 are assessed under the scheme they were filed under, ongoing projects are unaffected and are supported to completion and claim disbursement, and the three schemes stop taking new applications on 30 September 2026.
• No word on the pre-approved solution catalogue. The catalogue is what makes PSG fast, because eligibility is settled at solution level in advance. Whether EDGE keeps that mechanism decides whether small digitalisation purchases stay quick or become project assessments.
• No word on consultant certification. Under EDG today this is mandatory and specific. Under EDGE it is unaddressed.

One more absence worth naming: EDGE has no published acronym expansion. Neither document spells it out. Both simply call it a new grant called EDGE. At least two rival expansions circulate online with no primary basis whatsoever. If a page confidently tells you what the letters stand for, treat that as a signal about how the rest of the page was written.

What to do right now, depending on where you are

This is the part that actually decides money, and it is the part almost nobody covers, because covering it requires knowing how these schemes behave in practice rather than what a press release says. Four common situations, with the reasoning, and with the open questions left labelled as open rather than answered with invention.

You are mid-way through buying a PSG solution

The situation. You have shortlisted a solution from the pre-approved catalogue, you have a quotation, and you have not yet submitted. Someone has told you to hold for EDGE because the cap is higher.

What I would do. Submit under PSG now, and in any case before PSG stops accepting new applications on 29 September 2026. The current PSG rules, rate and catalogue are all published and stable; most of the EDGE equivalents still are not. You would be trading a S$30,000 cap you can actually access today for a S$100,000 cap from 30 September 2026, under rates nobody has published, through a channel nobody has named, possibly without the catalogue that made the purchase simple in the first place.

The exception. If your solution spend genuinely exceeds the PSG cap by enough that the difference outweighs several months of delay, and you can carry the delay without operational cost, the case for waiting is arguable. Test it honestly: what does the delay cost you in the productivity you are not getting? That number is usually larger than people expect.

Still open. Whether the pre-approved catalogue survives EDGE. If it does not, a catalogue purchase may become a project assessment, which is a different amount of work.

Your EDG project is approved but you have not claimed

The situation. You hold a letter of offer, the project is running, and claims are still ahead of you.

What I would do.Deliver and claim to the terms of the letter of offer you hold, and change nothing on the assumption that EDGE will absorb the difference. A letter of offer is a separate instrument from the scheme's future. It has its own project period, its own approved cost lines and its own claim deadline, and those are the terms you are actually bound by.

Where I would be careful.Do not expand scope mid-project expecting to fund the extra under EDGE later. Additional scope generally means a variation to the existing approval or a fresh application, and a fresh application drags in the sequencing rule below. Keep every piece of correspondence, and if your project period runs past EDGE's launch, put the question to your EnterpriseSG contact in writing so you hold the answer rather than a recollection of it.

Still open. Neither primary source mentions approved projects, letters of offer or claim windows. There is no published statement that existing approvals are unaffected. The absence of a stated problem is not the same as a stated protection.

You are planning an overseas market entry

The situation. You are looking at a new market, or at going deeper into a market you are already in, and you are weighing MRA today against EDGE later.

What I would do. This is the one case where the timing genuinely cuts both ways, and it depends entirely on two questions: are you an SME, and is the market new to you?

• SME entering a new market. Go now. MRA already pays up to 70% for local SMEs from 1 April 2026 under the enhancement, with the S$100,000 cap per company per new market extended, and the higher level is stated to run until 31 March 2029. You are not waiting for anything.
• SME deepening an existing market. This is the case for waiting. MRA today requires the market to be new to you, and it defines that precisely: your annual sales in the target market “must not have exceeded S$100,000 in any of the preceding three years.” The removal of the new market criterion is explicitly stated to arrive with EDGE, not before. If you are already over that threshold in a market you want to push harder in, the funding route for it does not exist yet.
• Non-SME. Wait, and plan for 50%. This is the one place EDGE publishes a real number for non-SMEs, up to 50% of eligible costs on activities folding in from MRA. There is no MRA route for you today at all, so EDGE is genuinely new access rather than a repackaging.

Still open.Whether the S$100,000 per-new-market structure survives into EDGE's S$100,000 per-year structure. Those are different units. Under MRA, two new markets can mean two caps. Under EDGE as described, the cap is per year across all eligible activities. For a company entering several markets in one year, that is a material difference, and no published document resolves it.

You are about to sign a vendor or consultant contract

Stop. Read the next section before you sign anything. This is the situation that destroys more Singapore grant claims than every other cause combined, and it is entirely avoidable.

The sequencing rule that kills more claims than anything else

If you take one thing from this page, take this. Across every EnterpriseSG grant in force today, the project must not have started before you apply. Not the payment. Not the deposit. Not the signature.

The EDG scheme page defines commencement without any room for interpretation. A project is treated as commenced if, before the application date, any of the following happened:

“Applicant started work, Applicant made payment to third-party, or Applicant signed contractual agreement with a third party.”

And the qualifying condition is stated as projects that are “new, have not commenced, and are not generating any revenue at the point of grant application.”

PSG says the same thing in its own terms: the “Grant applicant must not have made payment, and/or any form of deposits to a supplier, vendor or third party in relation to the purchase/lease/subscription of the IT solution or equipment prior to application submission.”

MRA states it a third way, and its wording is the bluntest of the three: “Retrospective applications (i.e., project has started, payment has been made, or a contract has been signed with the consultant/vendor prior to application submission) are not permitted.”

Sources: EnterpriseSG scheme page, Enterprise Development Grant (retrieved 9 September 2026), EnterpriseSG scheme page, Productivity Solutions Grant and EnterpriseSG scheme page, Market Readiness Assistance Grant (both retrieved 7 September 2026).

EDGE has published no sequencing rule at all. Not a relaxed one, not a stricter one, none. But all three schemes it absorbs state the same rule in their own words, and it exists for an obvious reason: a grant is meant to change what a business does, and a project you have already committed to would have happened anyway. There is no realistic reading in which EDGE abandons it.

So the practical instruction is simple, and it applies right now, before EDGE launches:

• Do not sign. A signed contract with a vendor or consultant is commencement, even if no money has moved. Get a quotation instead. Quotations are what the application needs anyway.
• Do not pay. Not the invoice, not a deposit, not a booking fee, not a retainer to hold the slot. PSG names deposits explicitly.
• Do not start. Not a pilot, not a discovery phase, not a first sprint that you plan to fold into the funded project later. If the work is in the scope, it has not started until you are approved.
• Do not let a vendor talk you past this. A vendor keen to start next week has different incentives from yours. The correct answer is that work begins after approval, in writing, in the quotation.

The cost of getting this wrong is the whole claim, not a portion of it. And it is not recoverable by explanation afterwards, because the dates are in the documents you submit.

Using EDGE for AI work

AI adoption sits squarely inside two of the three activity types the factsheet names: enhancing digitalisation capabilities, and improving enterprise efficiencies. So the design intent clearly covers it. What does not exist is any published AI-specific rate, cap or supportable-cost list under EDGE.

Here is how the work actually splits today, which is the framework EDGE inherits whether or not it keeps the labels:

• Buying an AI tool that already exists. A catalogue solution, bought and configured. Funded through PSG today at up to 50% of eligible costs, capped at S$30,000, SMEs only.
• Building something on your own processes. Custom automation, AI agents wired into your actual workflow, role redesign around them. That is EDG territory today, at up to 50% of qualifying costs for SMEs and up to 30% for non-SMEs, with a certified consultant required on management consultancy cost lines.
• Retraining the people whose jobs change. Not EDGE at all. That is CTC through NTUC and e2i, and SFEC while it lasts.

The consolidation matters most for the middle case. Today a serious AI deployment often needs two applications: PSG for the tools and EDG for the build on top of them, with different forms, different timelines and two separate scoping exercises. If EDGE delivers the single shopfront it describes, that becomes one application. That is a real reduction in friction, and it is the strongest practical argument for the scheme.

My recommendation has not changed since the announcement: do not wait for EDGE to start scoping. The scoping work is the long pole, not the paperwork. Which processes you are automating, what the current cost and cycle time actually are, which roles change, which vendor, what the measurable outcome is. That takes weeks regardless of which scheme pays for it, and it is identical work under PSG, EDG or EDGE. Do it now. Then either file under the current schemes, or file under EDGE on day one, whichever the answer turns out to be for your case. Talk to me about scoping yours.

What EDGE does not cover

EDGE absorbs three grants. It does not absorb the rest of the landscape, and several of the schemes it leaves alone are the ones most likely to matter alongside an EDGE project.

• CTC (Company Training Committee). Runs through NTUC and e2i, not EnterpriseSG, and is not named anywhere in the EDGE announcement. This is the workforce side of a transformation: the training and the worker outcomes attached to it.
• SFEC (SkillsFuture Enterprise Credit). A separate credit, separate administration, and on its own expiry timetable. Not part of EDGE, and update, 9 September 2026: EnterpriseSG's EDGE Grant FAQ states that EDGE will not be supportable under SFEC at all. If you hold SFEC-supported programmes under EDG, MRA or PSG, final claims are due by 30 November 2026, independent of EDGE's launch.
• DTDi. A 200% tax deduction administered through the tax system rather than a grant. The factsheet enhances it in the same package but keeps it entirely separate from EDGE: from Year of Assessment 2027, the expenditure cap for claims filed without prior approval rises from S$150,000 to S$400,000 per year of assessment.
• Energy Efficiency Grant and EFS-Green. Both extended in the same package, neither folded into EDGE. The EEG runs to 31 March 2027 and EFS-Green to 31 March 2031.
• BizAdapt and the Global Innovation Alliance. Both received support-level increases from 1 April 2026 in the same factsheet, and neither is named as merging into EDGE.

A well-built AI transformation still stacks. EDGE, or PSG and EDG until 29 September 2026, for the build. CTC for the workforce that has to operate it. Update, 9 September 2026: SFEC does not stack with EDGE, so treat SFEC as a separate, time-limited credit against your PSG, EDG or MRA spend today, not as something you can layer onto an EDGE project later. Outside of EDGE, that wider stack is unchanged by the consolidation, because EDGE only ever claimed three of the pieces.

Everything else that changed in the same package

EDGE got the headlines, but it occupies one section of a six-page factsheet. If you are only tracking EDGE, you are probably missing a rate change that affects you sooner, because most of these took effect on 1 April 2026 and are live right now. All figures below are from the EnterpriseSG factsheet, MR 008/26, 2 March 2026.

There is also a notable silence in that list. The factsheet announces no rate change and no cap change to PSG or to EDG. Both schemes are named exactly once each in the entire document, inside the EDGE paragraph. Every rate increase in the package attaches to MRA, GIA, BizAdapt, EVM, HEPG, the Energy Efficiency Grant, EFS or DTDi. Read straight, that suggests PSG and EDG are being left as they are until EDGE replaces them, rather than being enhanced on the way out.

Do you need a certified consultant under EDGE

Under EDG today, on management consultancy cost lines, yes, and the requirement is specific. The EnterpriseSG EDG page states that “If you apply for EDG support for management consultancy-related costs, you must engage management consultants with the Singapore Accreditation Council-accredited TR 43 or SS 680 certification.” This is a gate on the cost line, not on the project: it decides whether your consultancy fees are claimable at all.

Under EDGE, this is unaddressed. Neither primary source mentions consultants or certification in any form. Plan on the assumption that it carries, because that is the conservative position and it costs you nothing to be right about it, and confirm at launch.

For transparency about where I sit in that picture: I am certified by SBACC as a Senior Practising Management Consultant (SPMC), certificate number SPMC-10960. I have not had it confirmed in writing by EnterpriseSG or SBACC how the SPMC credential maps to the SS 680:2021 standard named on the EDG page, so I am not going to claim that mapping here. If consultancy costs are inside your grant scope, the right move with any consultant, including me, is to ask them for their certification status in writing and check it against the requirement in force at the time you apply.

Separately from certification, the thing a consultant is actually for on a grant project is scope. Most rejections are not clerical. They are projects that were never framed the way the scheme assesses them: outcomes that are not measurable, cost lines that are not tied to deliverables, a business case that describes what the company wants rather than what changes. That does not become easier under EDGE. If anything, a single activity-based front door with unpublished assessment criteria makes framing matter more, not less.

What I would do between now and launch

A practical sequence, assuming you want to be ready on day one rather than starting then.

• Do the scoping now. Current process, current cost, current cycle time, the change you want, the measurable outcome. Scheme-independent, and it is the part that takes weeks.
• Get quotations, not contracts. Named vendor, itemised cost lines, and explicit wording that work begins after grant approval. This protects the sequencing rule and gives you what the application needs.
• Decide whether your case can wait. For most projects it cannot, and filing under the current schemes is the right answer. For a non-SME, or a deepening play in an existing overseas market, waiting is genuinely the better call.
• Get your documents in order. Latest ACRA business profile, latest financial statements, and the shareholding picture. Every EnterpriseSG grant asks for a version of these, and it is the thing that delays applications most often.
• Keep proof of your submission dates. Anything filed before EDGE launches should be evidenced: what you submitted, when, and the acknowledgement. If transition rules land later, you want to be able to prove your position rather than argue it.
• Watch the source, not the commentary.The launch date, 30 September 2026, is now confirmed on EnterpriseSG's own EDG scheme page and EDGE Grant FAQ. A full EDGE scheme page with real criteria and rates has not appeared yet. Until it does, every rate still circulating is either one of the quotes on this page or an assumption.

How to tell a reliable EDGE page from a guess

Because so little has been published, EDGE is an unusually easy topic to write confidently and wrongly about. Four tests, which you can apply to this page as readily as to any other.

• Does it expand the acronym? Neither government source does. A confident expansion is invented.
• Does it state a launch date? As at 7 September 2026 the strongest published wording was second half of 2026, and a specific date was a guess. That changed on 9 September 2026, when EnterpriseSG confirmed EDGE launches on 30 September 2026, with EDG, MRA and PSG ceasing to new applications the day before. A page still hedging the date, or naming a different one, has not checked the current EDG scheme page or EDGE Grant FAQ.
• Does it state subsidy percentages for EDGE? Only one has been published, the 50% for local non-SMEs on overseas market activity. Any other percentage is the current PSG, EDG or MRA rate being carried forward without saying so.
• Does it say anything is unknown? A page on a scheme this young with no open questions in it has not checked the documents. It has rewritten a press summary.

That last one is the reason this page reads the way it does. On a scheme where the published record is about a page long, the useful contribution is not more confident prose. It is an accurate map of where the documented ground ends.