Built for the Australian R&D Tax Incentive  ·  Est. 2026

Your R&D claim, written as you ship.

Canopy turns the tools your team already uses into audit-ready R&DTI claims. We ingest code, tickets, design docs, lab notes, and technical records continuously, structure the evidence the way AusIndustry expects to see it, and draft narratives that hold up at review.

Claim.FY26.Draft V0.1
43.5%
Refundable tax offset for eligible entities under $20M turnover
10×
Faster than running year-end engineer interviews and consultant back-and-forth
0hrs
Team time spent reconstructing project histories six months after the work
The problem
The problem

Your strongest R&D claims are written in April.
They should be captured as the work happens.

01

Evidence is reconstructed, not captured

By the time your consultant asks "what did you work on in August?", the thread is cold. AusIndustry wants contemporaneous records — the ATO explicitly focuses on timesheets and test results. Memory doesn't qualify.

02

Your team wastes weeks on forms

Questionnaires. Interviews. Write-ups. A senior engineer or scientist's hourly rate × ten hours × five people is enough to pay for the product three times over — and they'd rather be back in the work.

03

Narratives read like marketing

Most claim narratives miss the hypothesis-experiment-result structure AusIndustry is trained to look for. "We built X" isn't an experiment. It's a tell.

04

Audit risk is compounding

AusIndustry reviews have tightened across all sectors. The bar for "genuine technical uncertainty" keeps rising. Weak evidence today is a clawback tomorrow.

The product
How it works

Built to reduce
founder drag.

01 Fits into your existing workflow
No new system. We work from the tools your team already uses — GitHub, Linear, Jira, Notion, Slack, and more.
02 Finds the work that actually qualifies
We separate real R&D from BAU, maintenance and implementation. You see the reasoning behind every call.
03 Turns messy work into structured claims
Source material becomes clear, defensible claim narratives — structured the way AusIndustry expects to read them.
04 Cuts founder and team involvement
Missing detail is captured through short, targeted forms sent only where needed. No 40-field surveys. No year-end scramble.
05 Gets you to claim-ready faster
Outputs are structured, evidence-backed and ready for submission. Hand to your agent or self-lodge.
canopy · sources
GitHub
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Linear
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Jira
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Notion
Slack
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Drive
canopy · classification
Implement adaptive rate-limiting under load variance eligible
Update Stripe webhook endpoint URL routine
Novel ML tokenisation for domain-specific corpus eligible
Fix broken CI pipeline step (Node version mismatch) routine
Evaluate uncertainty quantification methods eligible
canopy · narrative draft
ticket #4421
14 commits
RFC.pdf
Hypothesis
Adaptive rate-limiting can maintain <5ms tail latency under 10× burst load without static thresholds.
Experiment
Implemented token-bucket variant; tested against synthetic load profiles across 3 environments.
canopy · clarification
SK
→ Sarah Kim · Engineering
1 question · 2 min
What was the key technical uncertainty you were trying to resolve with the adaptive rate-limiting work in Q3?
We weren't sure if a token-bucket approach could maintain tail latency guarantees without…
canopy · export package
Technical narrative descriptions 4 claims · 3,200w
Supporting evidence index 47 artefacts
Time apportionment schedule FY2025 · 6 engineers
AusIndustry registration XML schema v3.2
The bottleneck isn't the form.
It's the evidence that should have been captured twelve months ago.
Our thesis, in one sentence
Integrations
What we connect to

We meet your team where they already work. Passive capture across the tools, documents, and records your people actually use — whatever your industry.

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Canopy is in development. We're building R&D evidence infrastructure for Australian teams — software, hardware, food tech, biotech. Join the waitlist and we'll be in touch when early access opens.

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