SR&ED for software teams.
Software companies are the most common SR&ED claimants, but writing code isn't enough on its own. The credit rewards work where the outcome was genuinely uncertain: pushing past performance limits, designing novel algorithms, or making systems scale in ways no documentation covered.
What qualifies in Software & SaaS?
Eligibility comes down to one test: did your team work through genuine technical uncertainty? In software & saas, that usually looks like this.
- Designing algorithms with no known or documented solution
- Achieving performance or scalability beyond published limits
- Building novel architectures, protocols, or data structures
- Integrating systems where the behaviour was genuinely unpredictable
- Developing new ML models or data pipelines under technical uncertainty
What a claim looks like
A SaaS team rebuilt its query engine to cut p99 latency tenfold, with no guarantee the approach would hold at scale.
A fintech built a real-time reconciliation system after existing tools couldn't meet the required throughput.
A platform team designed a custom consensus protocol once off-the-shelf options failed under load.
How Chrono builds your claim
Chrono reconstructs defensible, evidence-linked timesheets and technical narratives from the records you already keep. No manual time tracking required.
- GitHub / GitLab commits and PRs
- Jira / Linear tickets
- CI/CD and deployment logs
- Architecture and design docs
Software & SaaS, answered
Is routine coding or bug-fixing eligible?
No. Day-to-day development and maintenance don't qualify. Only work that resolves genuine technical uncertainty, where the solution wasn't obvious to a competent professional, is eligible.
Does using open-source or cloud services disqualify us?
No. Assembling known components isn't eligible on its own, but the novel work you build on top of them can be. Chrono links each eligible hour to the evidence that proves it.
See what your Software & SaaS claim is worth.
Estimate your credit in two minutes, then let Chrono build the claim from the data you already have.