All the expertise. None of the commission.

Chrono R&D brings AI automation and expert support into one self-serve platform, so every innovative Canadian company can claim SR&ED with confidence.

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A flat fee, not a percentage.

Chrono R&D is an advanced AI platform that helps prepare SR&ED claims with on-demand expert support, without the percentage fee.

$250,000
Consultant fee

What would you do with $50,000?

Before, without Chrono$50,000(20%)
Now, with Chrono$2,000(0.8%)
Add Chrono expert help (optional)
You keep with Chrono$248,00099%
You save with Chrono$48,000
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Self-serve doesn't mean by yourself.

Chrono guides you through preparing a filing-ready claim. Need expert help? Bring in a vetted SR&ED expert with one click. They can review everything you've already prepared in Chrono, so there's no need to start over. Flat rates, never a percentage of your refund.

Narrative & Compliance Review

$2,500

Before you file, a Chrono SR&ED expert pressure-tests your narratives against CRA's current criteria, sharpening the language of technological uncertainty and systematic investigation, and applying the latest policy shifts so you don't have to track them.

Fiscal Optimization

$3,000

A specialist reviews your numbers to maximize the credit: proxy versus traditional method, every eligible salary, subcontractor, and material cost, plus the failed experiments and incremental work companies routinely leave off. You claim the full amount you're entitled to, not a conservative fraction of it.

Strategic Project Structuring

$1,500

A strategist reviews your raw data and shapes your projects into the structure CRA reviews best, neither fragmented into too many thin projects nor collapsed into too few vague ones, reducing red flags before they exist.

CRA Audit & Review Defense

$2,500pre-purchased at filing

Total peace of mind. Roughly 1 in 5 claims gets a closer look from CRA. If yours does, Chrono defense experts step in with your complete evidence file already in hand, managing the review, preparing responses, and defending the technical and financial merits of your claim directly with CRA. Available as a pre-purchased option at filing or on demand when a letter arrives.

Best value

“Full Confidence” bundle

All four expert services in one package. Narrative review, fiscal optimization, project structuring, and audit defense, from first draft to CRA.

$7,000 Save $2,500 vs buying separately

Four steps to a filing-ready claim.

Lucius, your AI claim agent, works with you at every step.

  1. Connect your work

    GitHub, Jira, Linear, or CSV exports. Chrono ingests a full fiscal year of activity from the records your team already produces.

  2. Get your timesheets back

    Lucius reverse-engineers defensible, week-by-week timesheets for every employee, with every hour traceable to real evidence. The contemporaneous documentation the CRA wants, reconstructed instead of reinvented.

  3. Turn work into SR&ED projects

    Lucius clusters your year into R&D themes, maps hours onto the projects you define, and drafts uncertainty-first technical summaries, every claim in the text linked to proof. You review, adjust, approve.

  4. Export and fileComing soon

    Payroll-reconciled financials, proxy vs. traditional comparison, and provincial credit calculations, exported as a CSV your accountant imports into iFirm, with a complete evidence file behind every number.

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SR&ED is too complex to start on your own.

Your claim is built on evidence you didn't even know you had.

We've rebuilt claim years from GitHub histories, lab notebooks, and plant schedules. Every industry, every data situation. With Lucius and our expert network behind you, any eligible company can do this.

Self-serve doesn't mean undefended.

Chrono builds a claim where every hour, dollar, and sentence traces back to evidence.

Evidence-first by construction

Timesheets rebuilt from commits, tickets, and attestations, each entry provenance-tagged and linked to its source.

Coverage audited, automatically

Lucius verifies every employee's hours are accounted for and flags duplicates and gaps so you can resolve them before you file.

Built for the new CRA era

Pre-claim approval support and technical summaries framed around technological uncertainty, not marketing copy.

Experts one click away

Vetted SR&ED professionals can review your claim before filing or defend it in an audit, on your terms, at flat rates. Like TurboTax with a CPA on call.

  • Data hosted in Canada
  • SOC 2 Type II

Built for every kind of claimant.

First time claiming?

Many eligible companies never file. The process felt too complex, or no consultant would take a small claim. Chrono was built for you: guided from the first step, CRA pre-claim approval support included, from $2,000 flat.

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Already claiming with a consultant?

Build your claim with Chrono for a flat fee instead of a percentage, and let your consultant handle the filing. Or keep them and use Chrono as your evidence engine. No restrictions, no lock-in.

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Not a software company?

SR&ED isn't just for coders. Manufacturing, agri-food, biotech, hardware. Chrono reconstructs R&D time from the operational records your team already keeps, no GitHub required.

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Accountant or advisor?

Offer SR&ED to your clients without becoming a consultancy. Multi-claim practitioner tools, with an iFirm-ready CSV export.

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SR&ED self-filing, answered

Is a self-prepared claim riskier with the CRA?

Risk comes from unsupported claims, not from who prepared them. Chrono builds evidence-linked claims and audits coverage before export, and you can add a flat-rate expert review anytime.

What if I get reviewed?

You won't face it alone. Every number in your claim links back to the source evidence Chrono built it from, and Chrono defense experts can step in the moment a letter arrives, with your full claim context already in hand. No re-collection, no scramble. You can also pre-purchase Audit & Review Defense at filing for full peace of mind.

Am I on my own between the software and the CRA?

Never. Experts are available inside the product at every step: a one-time narrative review, a deep-dive to find missed expenditures, project structuring, or full audit defense. Flat rates shown upfront. You choose if and when.

Can I keep working with my consultant or accountant?

Yes, no restrictions. Many clients use Chrono as the evidence and preparation engine and keep their existing advisors.

We have no time-tracking at all. Would you be able to get evidence nonetheless?

Yes. Lucius reconstructs timesheets from the records you already have: dev tools, calendars, tickets, and CSV exports, every hour linked to its source.

Do you support Quebec and provincial credits?

Yes. Provincial credits are included in every tier, and the entire product works in French.

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