SR&ED by industry
SR&ED success can vary by sector. We provide industry-specific guidance to help you build defensible claims, avoid common risk flags, and secure the right funding for your R&D work.
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Agriculture & Agri-Food
SR&ED can play a pivotal role in advancing Canadian agriculture by supporting innovative projects that push technology and sustainability forward.
Eligibility often depends on demonstrating technological advancement through methodical research—while accounting for the realities of working with living organisms and seasonal cycles.
Eligibility often depends on demonstrating technological advancement through methodical research—while accounting for the realities of working with living organisms and seasonal cycles.
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Plants & Horticulture
SR&ED in plant agriculture often hinges on structured trials, measurable outcomes, and clear links between environmental cycles and technological advancement.
Animal Husbandry & Fisheries
Strategic study planning matters—especially where scope and claimable inputs (including feed and operational variables) can materially impact defensibility and outcomes.
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Software Engineering
SR&ED eligibility in software engineering typically depends on creating novel programming solutions or making meaningful improvements to complex systems—where you can demonstrate technological uncertainty, experimentation, and measurable advancement.
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Cloud Computing & Distributed Systems
Qualifying cloud work often involves advances in security, scalability, reliability, or infrastructure optimization—supported by clear technical evidence.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) & Machine Learning (ML)
SR&ED in AI/ML is strongest when you can distinguish true algorithmic or data-processing innovation from standard implementation—and document the experimentation clearly.
Mobile Development
Mobile SR&ED often requires proving that performance, architecture, or UI/UX-related changes represent technological advancement—not just product iteration.
Firmware & Embedded Systems
Firmware claims are strongest when they clearly separate routine updates from genuine technological advancement and document the engineering uncertainty and tests.
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Electronics & Hardware
SR&ED in electronics and hardware is strongest when you can show real technological uncertainty and systematic engineering work—not routine design iterations.
This often includes new design approaches, advanced materials, performance and reliability improvements, power/thermal optimization, signal integrity challenges, embedded systems development, and validation under strict constraints.
Defensibility depends on evidence: test plans, measurements and benchmarks, prototypes and iterations, failure analysis, and clear documentation of trade-offs and learning outcomes.
This often includes new design approaches, advanced materials, performance and reliability improvements, power/thermal optimization, signal integrity challenges, embedded systems development, and validation under strict constraints.
Defensibility depends on evidence: test plans, measurements and benchmarks, prototypes and iterations, failure analysis, and clear documentation of trade-offs and learning outcomes.
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Healthcare & MedTech
Health care SR&ED claims are strongest when they clearly separate routine clinical operations from true technological uncertainty and systematic investigation.
Innovation can appear in clinical research workflows, diagnostic methods, data-driven decision support, and technology-enabled care—provided the work demonstrates measurable experimentation, iteration, and learning outcomes.
Innovation can appear in clinical research workflows, diagnostic methods, data-driven decision support, and technology-enabled care—provided the work demonstrates measurable experimentation, iteration, and learning outcomes.
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Dental & Orthodontics
Dental SR&ED often requires especially clear boundaries between routine treatment delivery and eligible experimental work.
Strong claims usually involve documented trials or structured validation tied to new methods, tooling, materials, digital workflows, or patient-specific constraints—supported by measurable outcomes, iterations, and clear technical rationale.
Strong claims usually involve documented trials or structured validation tied to new methods, tooling, materials, digital workflows, or patient-specific constraints—supported by measurable outcomes, iterations, and clear technical rationale.
Doctors and Medical Research
Medical research SR&ED is strongest when research questions, uncertainty, and methodology are clearly defined—then supported by an evidence trail (protocol changes, iterations, measurements, and conclusions).
We help structure documentation so the work reads as systematic investigation rather than general clinical activity.
We help structure documentation so the work reads as systematic investigation rather than general clinical activity.
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[Pharmaceuticals]
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[Pharmaceuticals]
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Pharmaceuticals & Biotech
Pharma SR&ED is evidence-driven by nature, but defensibility still depends on clarity: what uncertainty you were addressing, what systematic work you performed, and what measurable outcomes resulted.
Strong claims connect R&D activities to traceable protocols, iteration cycles, validation steps, and learning—while keeping the technical narrative aligned with the financial story.
The goal is to make the file review-ready from the start.
Strong claims connect R&D activities to traceable protocols, iteration cycles, validation steps, and learning—while keeping the technical narrative aligned with the financial story.
The goal is to make the file review-ready from the start.
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Construction & Engineering
Construction SR&ED is most defensible when it reflects genuine engineering uncertainty solved through systematic investigation—not routine project delivery.
Eligible work often appears where teams must innovate under real constraints: site conditions, performance requirements, material behavior, safety, or sequencing challenges that require non-obvious solutions.
The strongest claims show structured testing, iteration, measurement, and clear learning outcomes tied to technical decisions.
Eligible work often appears where teams must innovate under real constraints: site conditions, performance requirements, material behavior, safety, or sequencing challenges that require non-obvious solutions.
The strongest claims show structured testing, iteration, measurement, and clear learning outcomes tied to technical decisions.
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Energy
Energy SR&ED often centers on performance, efficiency, reliability, and safety improvements—where solutions must be proven under real-world constraints.
Strong claims demonstrate technological uncertainty, structured experimentation, and measurable results (data, benchmarks, testing outcomes).
We help teams build a clear evidence story that remains consistent across technical narratives and eligible costs, reducing risk if the claim is reviewed.
Strong claims demonstrate technological uncertainty, structured experimentation, and measurable results (data, benchmarks, testing outcomes).
We help teams build a clear evidence story that remains consistent across technical narratives and eligible costs, reducing risk if the claim is reviewed.
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Manufacturing & Automation
Manufacturing SR&ED claims become defensible when innovation is shown through measurable experimentation—new machinery designs, process improvements, material behavior, throughput constraints, reliability targets, and non-obvious engineering trade-offs.
The strongest claims map clearly: technological uncertainty → iterations/tests → results/learning → aligned costs. We help industrial teams structure documentation in a way that reads as engineering investigation, not general production activity.
The strongest claims map clearly: technological uncertainty → iterations/tests → results/learning → aligned costs. We help industrial teams structure documentation in a way that reads as engineering investigation, not general production activity.
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Equipment & Machinery Manufacturing
Equipment-focused SR&ED is strongest when it documents iterative engineering: design constraints, performance targets, testing cycles, failure analysis, and how evidence drove each change.
We help differentiate routine redesign from true technological advancement supported by measurements and learning outcomes.
We help differentiate routine redesign from true technological advancement supported by measurements and learning outcomes.
Robotics & Mechatronics
Robotics SR&ED often involves complex uncertainty across sensing, control, reliability, integration, and real-world performance.
Defensibility depends on showing structured experiments, iteration cycles, and measurable outcomes—especially where solutions are non-obvious and constrained by hardware and environment.
Defensibility depends on showing structured experiments, iteration cycles, and measurable outcomes—especially where solutions are non-obvious and constrained by hardware and environment.
Industrial Automation
Automation SR&ED is most defensible when system integration challenges are framed as technological uncertainty resolved through iterative testing—process constraints, performance bottlenecks, reliability, and validation results.
We help structure the evidence so “integration work” doesn’t read as routine implementation.
We help structure the evidence so “integration work” doesn’t read as routine implementation.
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Food & Beverage
SR&ED in food and beverage often focuses on solving non-obvious process, formulation, shelf-life, or quality challenges through structured testing—supported by measurable results and clear documentation.
This can include improving consistency and yield, reducing waste, optimizing ingredients or packaging interactions, and validating new methods under real production constraints.
This can include improving consistency and yield, reducing waste, optimizing ingredients or packaging interactions, and validating new methods under real production constraints.
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Chemical Industry
Chemical SR&ED claims are most defensible when process or formulation work is documented as structured experimentation—what was uncertain, what was tested, what changed, and what was learned.
The strongest files show traceability: experiments and results are linked to technical decisions and to the eligible costs reported.
Claims become risky when documentation is reconstructed late or when routine production improvements are presented as SR&ED without evidence of technological advancement.
The strongest files show traceability: experiments and results are linked to technical decisions and to the eligible costs reported.
Claims become risky when documentation is reconstructed late or when routine production improvements are presented as SR&ED without evidence of technological advancement.
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Peer-To-Peer Expertise
Our technical specialists speak your language.
Whether you are architecting a cloud database, scaling a bioreactor, or overcoming mechanical failure, we understand your underlying constraints without needing a beginner's explanation.
Whether you are architecting a cloud database, scaling a bioreactor, or overcoming mechanical failure, we understand your underlying constraints without needing a beginner's explanation.
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Background Tracking
We completely remove the administrative burden.
We extract the necessary technical artifacts in the background—pulling directly from your Jira tickets, CAD files, lab logs, or test bench reports—keeping your team focused on their actual work.
We extract the necessary technical artifacts in the background—pulling directly from your Jira tickets, CAD files, lab logs, or test bench reports—keeping your team focused on their actual work.
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Audit-Proof Architecture
We don't do aggressive accounting; we do deep technical dives.
By aligning your specific investigations and processes directly with CRA criteria, we build bulletproof claims that provide absolute peace of mind.
By aligning your specific investigations and processes directly with CRA criteria, we build bulletproof claims that provide absolute peace of mind.
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You don’t need perfect paperwork. You need a consistent evidence trail.
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