How a Small Tech Company Becomes a Kit Digital Digitalising Agent in 2026
By the end of this post you will know whether your company clears the three numeric gates to become a Kit Digital digitalising agent (agente digitalizador), what to prepare, and where to file. Total cost of applying: zero. Time: an afternoon of paperwork plus one web page.
Programme status, verified 9 September 2026
Two facts frame everything else. First, the Acelera pyme portal states that “the Kit Digital Programme calls have ended” for beneficiary SMEs (acelerapyme.gob.es). Second, Orden TDF/39/2026, published in the BOE on 28 January 2026, amended the programme’s regulatory bases so that they remain in force for aid called “until the total exhaustion of the funds” and allow leftover funds from earlier calls to be redistributed (BOE-A-2026-2070). The adhesion procedure for agents stays published on the Red.es electronic office (sede.red.gob.es), and Red.es runs a parallel adhesion for digital advisers under the Kit Consulting programme.
So the honest framing is: becoming an agent today positions you for leftover-fund rounds and for whatever the next call looks like, and the same file serves Kit Consulting. It is not a queue of vouchers waiting for you this month.
What you need
- A company or self-employed activity with an EU tax domicile and main centre of activity.
- Two years of invoicing history, see the table in Step 1.
- Certificates of good standing from the tax agency and Social Security, both free online.
- A digital certificate to sign at the Red.es electronic office.
- One page on your own domain dedicated to Kit Digital.
Step 1: The numeric gates (5 minutes)
The requirements published by Acelera pyme (how to become a digitising agent):
| Applicant | Accumulated turnover, two years before the application | Or, one year before |
|---|---|---|
| Company or self-employed with staff | EUR 100,000 | EUR 50,000 |
| Self-employed without employees | EUR 70,000 | EUR 35,000 |
The turnover must come from projects similar to the solutions you will offer. A consultancy that has never delivered a piece of software cannot register to deliver process-management software. Add to the table: up to date with tax and Social Security obligations, not a company in crisis, and a tax domicile inside the EU.
If you are below the threshold, skip to the last section; there is a legitimate way in.
Step 2: Gather five documents (30 minutes)
| Document | Where | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| Deed of incorporation or self-employed registration (Modelo 036/037) | Your files or the notary | 0 |
| Tax standing certificate | AEAT electronic office, with certificate | 0 |
| Social Security standing certificate | Import@ss / TGSS | 0 |
| Proof of turnover: annual accounts or Modelo 390 for the two years | Your accountant | 0 |
| Portfolio of similar projects: client, dates, what was delivered | Write it, one paragraph each | 0 |
Anonymise the portfolio where your client contracts require it; the reviewer needs to see the type of work, not the client’s data.
Step 3: Build the Kit Digital page on your own domain (2 hours)
The adhesion announcement requires “a web page dedicated to the Digital Kit Programme in a domain name of the Digitalising Agent”, with minimum content defined in an annex to the announcement. Download the current annex from the Red.es procedure page and check every item; the list has changed between versions. In practice the page describes the programme, names the solution categories you offer with prices, carries the mandatory programme and Next Generation EU acknowledgements, and gives a contact path.
A local model writes a first draft in a minute and keeps the exercise off the cloud:
ollama run qwen2.5-coder:7b "Write, in Spanish, the copy for a web page titled 'Kit Digital' for a \
small Valencian company that offers these digital solutions: [list]. Include: a 60-word explanation of \
the programme for an SME owner, one paragraph per solution with what is delivered and the price, and a \
closing paragraph on how the voucher is applied. Plain language, no superlatives."Then compare the draft with the annex, line by line, and add whatever the annex demands.
Step 4: File at the Red.es electronic office (30 minutes)
- Open the adhesion procedure at sede.red.gob.es and check its current status line before you start.
- Sign in with the digital certificate of the company representative.
- Select the solution categories you will offer. Choose only what the portfolio supports.
- Upload the five documents and the URL of the Kit Digital page.
- Submit and keep the receipt. Acelera pyme states a maximum resolution period of six months from submission; incomplete files get a ten-working-day request to correct.
Step 5: What changes once you are in the catalogue
- SMEs find you in the public catalogue of agents on acelerapyme.es and sign a service agreement (acuerdo de prestación de soluciones) with you through the platform.
- You deliver, the SME confirms, and you justify the delivery to Red.es, which pays the voucher amount to you, not to the SME. Plan working capital for the months between delivery and payment.
- Obligations you sign up to: cooperate with verification of the service, never make the voucher conditional on buying something outside the catalogue, and credit Next Generation EU financing in your communications. Read the current version of Orden ETD/1498/2021, as amended, for the service and maintenance periods per category (BOE).
Where local AI fits the catalogue
Kit Digital pays for categories, not for technology. The categories where a company that deploys local models has something distinctive to offer are business intelligence and analytics (a dashboard fed by a model that runs on the client’s premises), process management, cybersecurity, and advanced web presence with an assistant on the client’s own hardware. The pitch to the SME is the one in our Kit Digital and grants guide: the voucher buys the deployment, and the client keeps the machine and the data.
Below the threshold: the legitimate route in
Subcontract through an existing agent. The agent signs the agreement with the SME and answers to Red.es; you deliver. Every delivery goes into your portfolio for Step 2, and after a year or two of this you clear the turnover gate on your own numbers. Search the public catalogue for agents in your province registered in the categories you want, and offer them the delivery capacity they lack.
Honest limits
- Calls for beneficiaries are closed as of the verification date. Do not promise vouchers to clients until a new call or a leftover-fund resolution is published in the BOE.
- Payment follows justification. Agents fund the work first.
- The thresholds and the annex are set by Red.es and have changed before. Re-read the procedure page on the day you file.
Next steps
- What the voucher buys and how the SME side works: Kit Digital and Spanish AI grants guide 2026.
- Regional money for bigger projects: IVACE grants for AI projects in Valencia.
- Our overview of Spanish and Valencian funding: grants page.
Work with us
We deliver local AI deployments as the technical partner behind agents, and we help small tech companies assemble the five documents and the page. If either is useful, get in touch or read how our consulting works.