We Do the Work
You Get the Credit
We designed our solution with your busy schedule in mind, providing a clear path to obtain the R&D tax credit. Our customers spend a short amount of their time while we take care of the rest. Our technology-driven solution simplifies the process, maximizes your benefit, and reduces overall cost.
Do You Own a Business?
If your business involves creating, designing, improving a product, process, formula, or software, and the business incurs expenses for wages, contractors, and supplies related to that work, chances are you may qualify for an R&D tax credit. Want to learn more?
Technology Driven
SaaS-based application to collect your company's R&D activities. Self-guided and time-efficient with credible support from tax professionals.
True Partnership
We handle all the touchpoints with your CPA or tax preparer, payroll provider, and inquiries from the IRS.
Pricing That Fits
We offer pricing that fits your business and reflects the efficiency of our process.
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We provide clear, easy-to-understand reports required by the IRS and verified by our expert tax professionals.
Register your company details and get assigned to one of our representatives.
Using our R&D web-based technology. Once your info has been entered, it is reviewed by our team of tax experts. Your qualification and calculation reports, plus all necessary tax forms, are generated and kept for your records.
Completed after the year-end financial close. Calculations are based on wages, contracted work, and supplies used during R&D activities.
Determine an appropriate monetization strategy with your representative (payroll tax offset or income tax credit).
Coordination with your tax preparer and payroll provider to realize benefits. Handled by our team.
Tax Credits for Your Business
Most R&D credits claimed in the US go to larger corporations. Recent changes, however, have allowed SMBs and even pre-revenue start-ups to access one of the country's biggest tax incentives. And with us behind you, it's your turn to benefit from the innovative investments you've made. The incentive is there, let's take it.
Unsure if You Qualify for R&D Tax Credits?
Don't worry! We'll clear that up as soon as you're connected. But if you're creating or improving a product, process, formula, or software and incur expenses for wages, contractors, or supplies related to that work, then chances are you've done the hard part, and now you need the credits you deserve.
New Ways to Earn
Claim against an amount of up to $250k in payroll taxes per calendar year.
Simplified Software
Software projects that are easier and clearer to understand.
Not Going Anywhere
The program was enacted into legislation permanently by Congress with full bipartisan support.
Businesses That Qualify
Manufacturing
- Experimenting with new defining specifications and design concepts.
- Engineering new processes and products.
- Enhancing existing product design.
- Enhancing production or manufacturing practices.
- Creating manufacturing plans.
- Simulating, engineering, modeling, and analyzing new processes or products.
- Creating specialized tooling and equipment used in the production process.
- Developing, creating, and testing prototypes.
- Examining the sufficiency of a new or improved design.
- Developing software technology for customer and/or vendor interaction.
Professional Services
- Evaluating and integrating new technologies and materials.
- Creating and producing new or enhanced technologies.
- Engineering new and innovative structure designs.
- Creating new or improved products, systems, or materials.
- Developing new or improved tooling, machinery, or equipment.
- Using CAD technology and BIM activities.
- Conducting scientific computations to assess the physical properties of materials.
- Evaluating alternative design materials, methods, and subcomponents.
- Inventing or enhancing LEED or energy-efficient systems and structures.
- Designing and developing new or enhanced infrastructure components, including dams, subsurface tunnels, rail systems, and bridges.
- Designing and developing new or enhanced pump facilities, wastewater treatment stations, or other water supply stations.
- Creating or improving control, communication, lighting, alarm, and electrical systems.
- Creating or improving mechanical, building envelope, and HVAC systems.
- Evaluating subterranean conditions and a multitude of related development and design efforts.
- Experimenting with new or enhanced designs for testing and evaluation practice.
Aerospace and Defense
- Creating new or improved manufacturing procedures.
- Designing new customer components.
- Developing new composite materials.
- Generating testing and validation prototypes.
- Producing new machines, tools, fixtures, and jigs for aircraft assembly and manufacturing.
- Creating new or improved welding, machining strategies, and metal forming.
- Automating various processes.
- Designing engineering plans or integration kits.
- Improving design or development of new or existing components or monuments.
- Creating new software.
- Experimenting to improve output or reduce cycle periods.
- Inventing new surface-hardening solutions.
Agriculture
- Creating new field/warehouse processes.
- Inventing specialized harvesting and manufacturing tooling.
- Developing new hybrids for livestock, plants, or crops.
- Changing harvesting techniques to improve harvest or yield efficiency.
- Automating processes.
- Updating or enhancing pest management.
- Designing or utilizing new irrigation systems.
- Developing new or improved packaging or preservative chemicals.
- Improving soil and rootstock processes.
- Designing new software.
Apparel
- Utilizing new or improved functions to design clothing and accessories.
- Inventing apparel innovations that may qualify for utility patents.
- Creating new product and performance specifications for fabric and materials construction technologies.
- Using new apparel technologies and materials in new or improved clothing designs.
- Inventing new manufacturing practices.
- Producing and testing prototypes and samples.
- Designing new industry-related or process-oriented software.
Architecture
- Innovative or unique designs for various structures.
- Computer-aided design (CAD) and computer-aided engineering (CAE) activities.
- Designing and developing innovative or unique new LEED, energy-efficient, or "green" alternatives.
- Assessing design through various forms of modeling and computational analysis.
Civil Engineering
- Designing infrastructure utilizing green and solar technologies.
- Designing a wastewater treatment plant.
- Designing water and sewage systems in complex environments.
- Developing solutions to infrastructure challenges.
- Developing solutions around potential environmental issues.
- Designing roads, bridges, and tunnels.
Communications and Media
- Creating or expanding network technology/architecture.
- Algorithm development for dynamic web applications.
- Developing data analysis technologies and tools using new algorithms.
- Conceptualizing and building physical system networks.
- Designing cloud-based platforms.
- Expanding telecommunication networks to better serve customers.
- Designing and testing enhanced automation methods.
- Developing transceivers, software, network tools, and applications.
Food And Beverage
- Creating new product flavors, textures, appearances, or health advantages.
- Designing solutions to extend product shelf life.
- Improving manufacturing technology, processes, and procedures.
- Creating new or redesigning existing packaging.
- Developing or improving fermentation techniques.
- Producing and testing prototype product samples.
- Validating new recipe formulations.
- Improving designs for environmental compliance.
- Inventing specialized tools or producing prototype machinery.
- Establishing new or improving existing bottling tactics.
- Designing new software systems for use internally or with customers.
Heavy Civil Construction
- Road and bridge design and construction.
- Engineering and construction solutions for pipelines.
- Developing solutions for grading, storm drainage, pipeline installation, and erosion.
Information Technology
- Firmware development.
- Network security design.
- New infrastructure design.
Life Sciences
- Establishing production processes for new products.
- Creating new or existing devices, diagnostics, and pharmaceuticals.
- Producing experimental clinical trial pharmaceutical lots.
- Enhancing factory processes or production using innovative methods or new technologies.
- Designing technology to comply with EPA requirements.
- Creating software or hardware components for research and clinical development use.
- Developing medical equipment for use in research practices.
- Improving product stability or increasing product shelf life.
- Producing new medical products, equipment, technology, or devices.
- Producing next-generation products and product enhancements.
- Conducting unit, functional, integration, and performance assessments.
- Designing, testing, and enhancing code for firmware.
- Utilizing CAD technology for new product development.
- Developing and testing new product validation prototypes.
- Testing products and processes to comply with both domestic and foreign regulatory mandates.
- Developing software technology for customer and/or vendor interaction.
Software
- Programming software source code.
- Compiling and testing source code.
- Designing and developing software.
- Developing new or improved technologies.
- Evaluating and establishing functional specifications.
System Integration
- Programming of control systems.
- Developing schematic drawings for the integration of system components.
- Providing custom control solutions for different applications.
Technology
- Developing new software algorithms or architecture code.
- Engineering new capabilities or functional upgrades for existing technology to establish a competitive advantage.
- Developing intranet and Internet software with complexity and scale to create technological challenges.
- Creating technology to manage and automate complex business models and structures.
- Designing interactive technology used in multimedia entertainment, including internet video games as well as music or video streaming.
- Developing software technology for customer and/or vendor interaction.
- Inventing specialized innovations, including voice recognition or artificial intelligence technology.
Wineries and Vineyards
- Creating or improving distillation and fermentation processes/equipment.
- Producing custom manufacturing equipment.
- Designing or integrating automated processes.
- Producing new irrigation, filtration, or straining systems/methodologies.
- Creating or enhancing bottling and packing procedures.
- Creating or enhancing product formulations and preservative chemicals.
- Creating or enhancing prototype lots.
- Evaluating and improving product consistency and shelf life.
- Investing in green technologies for use in manufacturing.
- Developing software technology for customer and/or vendor interaction.
Tool and Die
- Prototyping and 3D solid modeling.
- CAD design of die prints.
- Optimizing manufacturing processes.
Construction
- Creating new or improving existing plant operations.
- Designing energy-efficiency strategies.
- Innovating wastewater technologies.
- Developing plans that optimize plant efficiency or capacity.
- Designing innovative bridges, roadway structures, or sanitary sewer systems for new residential communities.
- Creating new or enhancing existing construction practices.
- Developing renewable energy technologies.
- Designing new software systems for use internally or with customers.
Ready to Get Started?
Schedule a free consultation today with our knowledgeable and experienced team of experts to learn more about how we can help your business. We'll provide information regarding the R&D tax credit and answer any questions you might have to determine if our solution is a fit for your company's needs.