Ask for payroll registers, time records and the employment tax filings covering the claimed positions, period by period. Job titles, organisation charts and headcount slides are not evidence of hours. Gaps will not always sink a case, but they can produce a request for evidence or a refusal, so find them now.
Turning a marketing number into a checkable record
Build a simple table: position, person, pay periods, hours per period, source document. Identify the support for each figure; an unsupported assertion may not establish the hours claimed. Corporate documents such as employment agreements and staffing schedules can also be relevant to eligibility, so collect them in the same pass. Where a project statement and the payroll data disagree, record the conflict and put it to counsel rather than choosing the friendlier figure.
For a direct investment the capital evidence is the wire records into the company, the company’s bank statements showing the funds spent on the press, tanks, bottling line, lease improvements and working capital, purchase invoices, and financial statements for each year prepared by an accountant. Provide the signed bank loan, the bank's disbursement record, the investor's receiving statements, the currency-conversion records and the transfer into escrow or the new commercial enterprise.