Spend less time on SR&ED claims. More time building products.
Chrono automatically turns your team's everyday engineering activity into audit-ready SR&ED documentation.
Connect Jira, GitHub, Azure DevOps, and other tools to recover R&D hours, generate technical summaries, and build stronger claims with less effort.
Estimate your SR&ED credit- SOC 2 Type II
- Built in Canada
Your team qualifies for SR&ED, but…
Gathering documentation turns into a puzzle every year
Filing season becomes a last-minute scramble
Your consultant spends weeks gathering information
Your team hates filling out timesheets
You're worried about defending your claim during a CRA review
You think you may be underclaiming SR&ED
If this sounds familiar, Chrono R&D is built for you.
How Chrono R&D helps
Recover R&D hours automatically
Chrono R&D turns your team's daily work into documented R&D effort, without manual tracking.
Generate technical documentation faster
Lucius, our AI agent, transforms engineering activity into clustered projects and technical summaries, giving your team something to review instead of starting from a blank page.
Gain complete visibility into your R&D activities
Understand where time goes, identify R&D activities, and make better planning decisions.
Stay audit-ready all year
Automatically capture and organize supporting documentation throughout the year, so you're always prepared for filing season and CRA reviews.
Three ways to work with Chrono.
Self-file
Connect your tools and let Lucius surface clusters of work, help structure them into R&D projects, reconstruct the hours, and pull your evidence together into technical summaries. Your team reviews everything and takes it forward. Fastest path, lowest cost.
- For teams comfortable filing themselves
- Lowest fee structure
- Full ownership of the claim
Bring your own consultant
Keep the consultant you trust. Chrono does the heavy prep, your consultant reviews, refines, and files. They work faster. You pay less in billable hours.
- Your consultant keeps their seat
- Less time billed, same expertise
- Audit-ready evidence handed over
Partner network
Hand it off to a Chrono-vetted SR&ED partner. They run the engagement on top of Lucius. You get full-service support without the 20% sticker shock.
- For teams that want it handled
- Vetted Canadian partners
- Capped fees — no surprise invoices
How does it work?
Meet Lucius, the AI agent behind Chrono R&D. It reads your team's engineering activity and turns it into structured, audit-ready R&D evidence.
Connect your tools
Connect Jira, GitHub, Slack, and the other tools your team already uses.
Lucius structures the work
Lucius surfaces clusters of work, helps structure R&D projects, reconstructs the hours, and organizes engineering evidence.
Technical summaries and insights
Lucius provides technical summaries and insights.
Review and file
Your team or consultant validates the output, then files a stronger, evidence-backed claim.
Who uses Chrono R&D?
Founders & CEOs
Reduce the administrative burden of SR&ED and maximize available credits.
CTOs & VPs of Engineering
Stop interrupting engineers for timesheets and documentation requests.
CFOs & Finance Teams
Gain confidence that supporting documentation exists before filing season.
SR&ED Consultants
Accelerate claim preparation with organized technical evidence.
Why leading companies switch to Chrono R&D
- Timesheets
- Last-minute interviews with the eng team
- Manual evidence gathering
- Reconstructing months of work
- Stress before filing deadlines
- Automated evidence collection
- Reconstructed engineering activity
- Technical summaries
- Year-round documentation
- Audit-ready claim foundation
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Plays nice with your stack
Chrono R&D runs alongside your engineering work year-round. Connect your tools once, and Lucius keeps building from what your team logs.
Jira Project Management. Focus on delivering value, not tracking time 
Azure DevOps Project Management. Automatically create timesheets based on your Azure DevOps utilization 
Asana Project Management. Focus on delivering value, not tracking time 
Linear Project Management. Focus on shipping, not tracking time 
GitHub Version Control. Track commits and pull requests automatically 
GitLab Version Control. Track commits and merge requests automatically 
Google Calendar Calendar. Keep track of your hours and see where your time is being spent 
Outlook Calendar Calendar. Keep track of your hours and see where your time is being spent Connect once and Chrono reads activity automatically across all your repos, projects, and calendars. Most engineering teams are fully covered within a day. The more tools you connect, the more complete your SR&ED documentation becomes.
Less time on SR&ED. More time building.