Run a continuous R&D tax claim instead of a year-end forensic.
It’s March and a consultant is asking your engineers to remember what was technically uncertain last April. Most companies under-claim because the evidence is scattered across timesheets, GitHub, Jira and chat, and nobody wrote it down at the time.
We build the claim in the background as the work happens. Eligible-effort attribution, audit-ready narratives, IRS Section 41 support with Section 174 amortization handled alongside it. We also cover UK RDEC and HMRC for teams filing in more than one jurisdiction. The claim is ready the day the year closes.
The compliance bar is rising. The forensic model is breaking.
The IRS is tightening Form 6765 documentation requirements, and in the UK, HMRC’s inquiry rate has surged and SME claims have collapsed. The companies still claiming successfully are the ones with contemporaneous evidence, not the ones with a clever consultant in March.
Driven by tighter compliance requirements and an increase in HMRC inquiries into submitted claims. Poorly evidenced claims now fail. Well-evidenced ones still pay out.
HMRC R&D tax credit statistics, 2024 release →A market-wide compression. The relief pool didn’t shrink. The claim-able evidence did. Companies with continuous capture stand out against a thinning field.
HMRC R&D tax credit statistics 2025 analysis →Enhancement rate reduced from 130% to 86%. Payable credit for loss-makers dropped from 14.5% to 10%. The math still works, if the claim does.
EmpowerRD, SME R&D tax credit scheme rates →On one UK customer project we flagged around £750k of R&D potential that would otherwise have gone unclaimed.
The modules that solve this
Two products that turn a March forensic exercise into a year-round operating rhythm.
Stop discovering eligible effort in March
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