After a year of solving hard problems, SR&ED shouldn't be one of them.

Your engineers logged the work. Lucius reads it and turns it into structured, reviewable draft material, so you're not piecing it together after the fact.

Connect your tools and see what Lucius finds. You review everything before it goes into a claim.

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Built from real engineering work
Start from draft claim material grounded in the work your team already logged.
Less manual reconstruction
Less time piecing together SR&ED documentation.
Works with your existing tools
Jira, GitHub, Azure DevOps, Slack, and more. If your team already logs work there, Lucius has something to work from.

Plays nice with your stack (even an imperfect one)

Chrono R&D runs alongside your engineering work year-round. Connect your tools once, and Lucius keeps building from what your team logs.

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.

What teams say after connecting Chrono R&D

"The automatic categorization of time saves us days of work in a year and creates concrete R&D evidence for our claims. Getting our team to document R&D work used to be painful. Once we connected our tools, Chrono automatically categorized thousands of engineering hours and pulled everything together. Our reports were structured and audit-ready within days - a huge shift from the manual chaos we were used to."
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Sophie
VP Eng at Healthcare Company

Frequently asked questions

How does Chrono R&D work?
Chrono connects to the tools your engineers already use — Jira, GitHub, Azure DevOps, Slack, and more — reads the commits, tickets, and sprint activity they've already logged, and turns it into draft claim material for your team to review. For a full breakdown of how it works with your stack, see the SR&ED page.
How are R&D hours estimated if my team doesn't track time?
Lucius reconstructs hours from activity already captured in your PM tools and repos — commits, tickets, sprint activity, and similar signals. Each entry links back to the original source record, so you can see what the estimate is based on and adjust anything that looks off.
Does my data need to be perfectly organized?
Chrono R&D is built for real engineering environments where data lives across different tools and is not always perfectly organized. You do not need a pristine setup to get useful output.
Do I have to install anything?
Nothing to install on your engineers' end. You'll connect your tools through Chrono R&D, confirm a few setup details, and Lucius starts pulling activity from there.
Is my data secure?
Chrono R&D uses end-to-end encryption and role-based access controls. All data is hosted in Canada, and the platform is SOC 2 compliant.
Who is Chrono R&D for?
Chrono R&D is built for Canadian companies doing R&D work that already log engineering activity in tools like Jira, GitHub, Azure DevOps, or similar systems. If you're filing SR&ED, or think you should be, Chrono R&D gives you a faster path through the technical documentation side of the process.
How long does setup take?
Most teams connect their tools in under a day and start seeing activity come through right away. Getting to a useful first draft takes longer because someone still needs to review the output and decide what belongs, but you'll have something real to react to much faster than if you started from scratch.

The data-driven solution for engineering leaders

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