Monetizing the technical risks of novel formulation and chemical scale-up.
KNOWN RECIPES VS. NEW CHEMISTRY
The Canada Revenue Agency doesn't fund mixing known ingredients by known recipes. They fund the hard chemistry required when established methods stop working. Adjusting a formulation within documented parameters or running routine QC batches is standard practice, not R&D. But what happens when a reaction that delivers 95% yield in a 2-litre flask collapses to 60% in a 2,000-litre reactor for reasons no supplier datasheet can explain? Or when you're developing a solvent system to stabilize an active ingredient that degrades under every published protocol?
That is genuine technological advancement. The problem is that chemists naturally document their success in terms of purity specs, batch approvals, and regulatory milestones — metrics that the CRA completely ignores when evaluating SR&ED eligibility.
The Financial Advisor Disconnect
A specialty coatings manufacturer came to us after their previous accounting firm nearly tanked their claim. The CPAs treated an eighteen-month formulation program as routine product development and built the narrative around "improving product quality" and "meeting customer requirements." They completely missed the failed catalyst screenings, the rheology conflicts between adhesion and cure time, and the dozens of scrapped pilot batches burned on resolving them.
The CRA rejected the claim because it read like a sales sheet, lacking any mention of the actual chemical constraints the team had to overcome — the exact evidence that would have made the claim bulletproof.
Chemical Precision & Frictionless Tracking
We separate routine formulation work from the systematic experimental chemistry that the CRA demands to see:
- Chemist-to-Chemist Translation: Our specialists understand reaction kinetics, polymer science, and process scale-up. We dive deep into your development programs to isolate the exact hours and materials dedicated to resolving yield losses, stability failures, and impurity control.
- Invisible Extraction: Your chemists are busy running experiments, not writing tax essays. We pull the necessary technical artifacts directly from your ELN records, HPLC and GC data, batch records, and failed stability studies.
- Audit-Proof Architecture: We structure your claim to prove that the work was a systematic attempt to overcome a chemical or process constraint — not routine reformulation — delivering a bulletproof narrative that satisfies the CRA's strictest technical reviewers.
Cross-Industry Intelligence
Your specific R&D requires a specific assessment?
Peer-To-Peer Expertise
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.
Background Tracking
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.
Audit-Proof Architecture
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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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.
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