SR&ED tax credits · Canada

Claim every dollar
your R&D is owed.

We find what qualifies, write it up the way CRA expects, and file it — so your team gets back to building.

No upfront fees. We're paid from what we recover.
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The process

Four steps, start to refund.

Step 01 / 04

We scan your work for eligibility.

We review your codebase, tickets, and sprint history against CRA's technological-uncertainty test — free, no commitment.

Tap a step, or hit Next to walk through the process.

What counts

More of your sprint qualifies than you think.

SR&ED isn't just labs and lab coats. If your team hit a technical wall and worked through it systematically, it's likely eligible.

Failed experiments

The branch you scrapped and the approach that didn't scale count for as much as the one that shipped — sometimes more.

e.g. a caching layer you built, benchmarked, and pulled when it buckled under real load.

Architecture uncertainty

Redesigning a system when the fix wasn't obvious from documentation or prior art is exactly what the program is built for.

e.g. splitting a monolith when no reference design fit your data and traffic shape.

Prototype iterations

Each pass at a hard problem — new data structure, new model, new protocol — is a data point in the claim, not just a commit.

e.g. five model versions before one generalized past the toy dataset.

Process & tooling

Internal tooling and infrastructure work can qualify too, if it involved genuine technical uncertainty to resolve.

e.g. re-engineering a flaky, hours-long test suite into something deterministic.
Who it's for

Built for teams solving hard problems.

Software & SaaS

Novel architecture, performance at scale, ML systems, and platform work with no obvious answer in the docs.

Manufacturing & hardware

New processes, materials, tooling, and prototypes iterated on the floor until they finally held up.

Health & life sciences

Devices, diagnostics, lab methods and bioprocess work where the outcome genuinely wasn't known up front.

Cleantech & energy

Efficiency gains, new chemistries, storage and control systems developed through real experimentation.

Hardware & IoT

Firmware, embedded systems and connected devices where integration and reliability were the real challenge.

AI & data

Model development, novel training approaches and data pipelines built to solve problems off-the-shelf tools couldn't.

20,000+
Canadian companies claim annually.
~60%
of eligible dev costs recovered (CCPCs & ECPCs).
$4B+
in annual federal credits.
Questions

The things everyone asks first.

Do we have to be profitable to claim?

No. A Canadian-Controlled Private Corporation earns a refundable credit — CRA pays it out as cash even in a loss year. It's one of the few incentives that puts money back in the bank while you're still investing.

How far back can we claim?

You generally have up to 18 months after your fiscal year-end to file a SR&ED claim for that year. If you've never claimed, there's often still an open year we can file for right now.

What does it cost to work with you?

Nothing upfront. We're paid a share of what we actually recover for you, so our incentive is simply to get your claim right and maximized. If there's nothing to claim, you owe nothing.

How much time does it take from our team?

A few focused conversations with your engineers. We do the heavy lifting — pulling the technical narrative out of your existing tickets, commits and sprint history.

Will claiming trigger an audit?

Claims are sometimes selected for review — that's normal. We document every claim to CRA's standard and stay on the file to answer any follow-up, so a review is something we handle, not something you face alone.

We shipped features that worked. Does that still count?

Often, yes. What matters isn't whether it shipped — it's whether you faced technological uncertainty and worked through it systematically. The branches you scrapped along the way can count for just as much.

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