Let the government fund a chunk of your build.
The R&D Tax Incentive can return up to 43.5% of eligible development spend. State and federal grants can cover more. We build your software and document it for the claim from day one — instead of reconstructing it at tax time, which is how claims get rejected.
The programs most often relevant to a software build.
Eligibility depends on your circumstances, and we'll be straight with you about whether you qualify.
R&D Tax Incentive
Up to 43.5% refundable offset for eligible R&D activity. The most commonly relevant program for software work — and the one most often claimed badly.
Industry Growth Program
Federal grants from A$50k to A$5M for innovative businesses in priority areas, with advisory support attached.
Advance Queensland
State programs supporting Queensland innovators, from early-stage through to commercialisation.
MVP Ventures (NSW)
Support for NSW startups moving from proof of concept to a minimum viable product.
EMDG
Export Market Development Grants — relevant once you're selling your product beyond Australia.
Callaghan Innovation (NZ)
For clients operating across the Tasman.
Documentation is what gets claims rejected.
A claim isn't rejected because the work wasn't R&D. It's rejected because nobody wrote down the hypothesis, the experiment and the result at the time — and a reconstruction twelve months later doesn't hold up.
Hypotheses recorded up front
Before we build an experimental component, we write down what we're testing and why the outcome is uncertain.
Contemporaneous records
Time, activity and outcome captured as the work happens — in a form your adviser can actually use.
Adviser-ready pack
At the end you get a documentation pack your R&D adviser or accountant can work from directly.
To be clear about what we don't do: we're not R&D tax advisers and we don't lodge your claim. We build the software and document it properly, then work alongside your adviser — or introduce you to one if you don't have one. We never take a percentage of your grant.
Find out in twenty minutes whether you qualify.
Free eligibility check on the call. No grant-writing fees, no percentages, no obligation.