SR&ED
Scientific Research & Experimental Development
Your business may be sitting on a major refund.
SR&ED (Scientific Research & Experimental Development) is a Canadian program that can return significant cash refunds and/or tax reductions when your business is doing work that creates new knowledge to solve problems that aren't predictable in advance.
SR&ED applies when competent professionals can't reliably predict whether an approach will work under real operating conditions, so the business has to learn through structured testing, iteration, and evidence.
SR&ED is not limited to labs or "research companies."It often shows up in normal businesses when:
The standard method should work in theory, but fails or behaves unpredictably in real conditions.
You have to test and compare different approaches because the outcome isn't obvious.
You gain useful knowledge even when an attempt fails because it tells you what doesn't work and why.
The federal SR&ED credit allows CCPCs to claim upwards of
of eligible SR&ED costs*
(often driven by T4 wages)
The federal SR&ED credit allows CCPCs to claim upwards of
of eligible SR&ED costs*
(often driven by T4 wages)
If your payroll includes work that qualifies, SR&ED can turn a portion of what you already spend into cash back / tax credits.
Cash refunds / credits that can be significant relative to your payroll.
Lower corporate tax.
More room to hire, buy equipment, build systems, and grow.
We specialize in finding the SR&ED angle that isnʼt obvious and then structuring it properly so your real work becomes a clean, defensible SR&ED claim. The SR&ED process has been slow and painful for decades, but our process saves you up to 60 hours of claim prep.
We identify hidden experimentation, organize a clean CRA-aligned claim file, and help you recover eligible dollars.
Thorough SR&ED Consultant, Goran Ogar
For the right projects, there's NO upfront investment required from your business
We complete the upfront eligibility assessment, enablement setup, and claim preparation work.
Our fee is payable only if SR&ED credits are ultimately received
That means your risk is low, and the incentives are aligned:
we win when you win
Most owners donʼt naturally describe their work in “SR&ED language.ˮ Thatʼs normal. Our job is to ask the right questions and build a system around what youʼre already doing so the SR&ED becomes clear and easy to capture.
You keep making changes to get something working reliably (it works sometimes, then fails), and the “normal wayˮ still canʼt make it
You try a few different fixes on purpose—test it, measure what happened, change one thing, test again—because the answer isnʼt obvious.
Standard methods/tools donʼt fit because of real technical constraints (environmental variability, data ambiguity, operational limits), so you must experiment to determine feasibility or a new method.
Real-world messiness (weather, job sites, customers, timing) makes results inconsistent, so you have to try, measure, learn, and try again—and write down what you learned each time.
After a quick analysis, we learn what keeps failing, where unpredictability lives, and what youʼve already tried.
We isolate the best SR&ED‐fit uncertainty and map what counts (and what doesnʼt) in plain language.
We install an operating rhythm so the experimentation is clear and trackable while you build.
Your team and any contractors do the work; we keep the SR&ED story clean and focused.
We package the yearʼs work into a tight, readable SR&ED claim file.