Stakes
18-month window
Prior-year spend expires permanently. Many shops leave one or two years on the table by waiting.
SRED for software companies
SRED for Software Development Companies
You ship custom software for clients, or your own product, or both. Your team hits walls that off-the-shelf stacks cannot solve: scale, integrations, data models, performance, AI behaviour. That is where SRED lives, not in the routine ticket queue.
If other firms said your claims were too small or "not innovative enough," they may have looked at the wrong projects.
Who this is for
Custom shops, product teams, and hybrid studios
- Custom software development firms (client delivery)
- Product companies with in-house R&D and platform work
- Studios that build proprietary tools alongside client work
- Teams told their claim size was "too low" to bother with
Worked example
What the money can look like
12-person custom shop · Ontario CCPC
$220K
Eligible tech spend
~35-43%
Rate band (fed + ON)
$77-95K
Illustrative range
Actual credits depend on eligible expenditures, company type, province, and CRA assessment. We never promise approval.
What often qualifies
Hard projects, not every sprint
- Platform work where architecture had to change under real constraints
- Integrations against unstable or undocumented APIs
- Performance, reliability, or data-consistency problems that forced experimentation
- Custom AI/ML systems past prompt wrapping
- Failed or abandoned builds that still generated technical knowledge
Objection
"Our claims are too small."
Volume shops walk away when the first-pass number looks modest. That does not mean there is no claim. It often means the narrative is wrong, prior years are missing, or only the developer line was counted.
We build claims around the projects that actually carried uncertainty, including inside an 18-month window when multiple years are still open.
Contracts
IP and risk matter
Client-owned work-for-hire can kill eligibility. We review contracts early so you do not waste a filing cycle.
Plan
4-6 hours of your time
We interview builders, write the CRA-grade narrative, and run the financials. You stay in delivery.
Find out if your software shop has a claim
Free call. Straight answer. Success-based if we proceed.
Book a Free Eligibility Call