UK companies can claim up to 16.2% of eligible R&D expenditure back from HMRC. Our AI connects to your Jira, GitHub, or Asana data and generates HMRC-ready claims in hours—not weeks.
Launching Summer 2026 • Free eligibility check in under 10 minutes
Research and Development tax relief is a UK government incentive designed to encourage companies to innovate. It offers eligible companies the opportunity to reclaim a portion of the money they have invested in qualifying research and development activity.
Companies of all sizes can qualify—from sole traders through to large corporations—if they are developing new products and services, or enhancing existing ones. You may receive either a cash payment, a corporation tax reduction, or both.
The scheme was originally designed for small and medium-sized enterprises, but on 1st April 2024 it underwent its most significant overhaul in years. The former two-tiered approach (one for SMEs, one for larger companies) was merged into a single, unified RDEC scheme.
Up to 16.2% Credit
Under the merged RDEC scheme on eligible R&D expenditure
ERIS Higher Rate
Even higher cash credit for loss-making companies spending 30%+ on qualifying activity
£80,000+ Potential Return
For a company investing £500,000 in R&D — every single year
The R&D tax relief landscape has evolved significantly. HMRC has expanded its scrutiny, and the cost of getting it wrong has never been higher.
HMRC has substantially expanded its Incentives and Reliefs units to scrutinise complex or high-value submissions. Compliance checks are more frequent, detailed, and technically sophisticated.
Companies who once submitted straightforward claims without question are now facing formal enquiries requiring detailed supporting evidence. Without robust documentation, genuine claims can be challenged, delayed, or disallowed.
Rather than spending weeks reconstructing activity from memory at year-end, our AI-powered approach collects evidence continuously from your project tools — faster, more accurate, and HMRC-ready.
R&D tax relief applies to work that aims to make advancements in science or technology. HMRC's test centres on two key concepts: the advance must not be readily deducible by a competent professional, and the work must involve resolving genuine uncertainty through systematic investigation.
The distinction matters enormously when calculating the value of a claim — and it's precisely where most manual processes fall short.
A straightforward process from integration to HMRC-ready claim. No data migration, no workflow changes.
Connect your Jira workspace, GitHub repos, Asana boards, or Linear projects. A simple integration — no data migration, no workflow changes required.
Our AI analyses your project data — tickets, epics, sprints, comments, and logs — and identifies work that meets HMRC's definition of qualifying R&D activity. It maps activity to technological uncertainty, systematic approach, and the advance being sought.
The output is an audit-ready claim — not a first draft to be reworked, but a complete, compliant submission supported by contemporaneous evidence drawn directly from your own records. Technical narrative and qualifying expenditure schedule, both formatted to meet current HMRC expectations.
A light-touch solution that does the heavy lifting for you.
Our platform is designed for UK companies of any size, across any sector, that use project management tools to run R&D work.
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If your team uses Jira or a comparable tool to manage technical projects, you already have the raw material for a strong R&D claim. Our software unlocks it.
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Your data is encrypted in transit and at rest. We never store source code.
Our output is formatted to current HMRC expectations under RDEC and ERIS schemes.
Fixed platform pricing. No hidden fees. No percentage-based surprises.
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We offer a free eligibility assessment that takes less than ten minutes. It covers the key HMRC criteria and gives you an indicative view of your qualifying expenditure.
From there, connecting your project tools takes minutes. Our team supports you through the first claim cycle — and from that point on, the process runs automatically for every accounting period.
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