Make the R&D credit a right, not a luxury.
Today, the U.S. R&D Tax Credit is dominated by Big Four advisory firms charging $400K+ per study. Mid-size businesses — the ones doing the most actual research — skip it entirely. We're building R&DCredit AI so any engineering team with a Git repo can claim what the IRS already owes them.
A credit that was supposed to fund innovation is gatekept by billable hours.
R&DCredit AI was founded in 2024 by a team of ex-Big-4 tax engineers and AI researchers from MIT and Stanford. We watched hundreds of mid-size engineering teams — 50 to 500-person companies shipping serious technical work — skip the R&D credit because the study cost outweighed the benefit.
The information to qualify a project was always in the codebase. Commits prove experimentation. Tickets prove uncertainty resolution. Payroll proves qualified wages. The bottleneck wasn't evidence — it was the manual assembly of that evidence into an IRS-defensible narrative. That's the agent we built.
Today, R&DCredit AI runs the four-part test on every project, calculates QREs across payroll systems, and produces narratives reviewed annually by external tax counsel. We're proud to be the credit's biggest fan — and its biggest critic.
Tax engineers, AI researchers, and Big-4 veterans.
Operating principles for a tax product.
Every claim we make is backed by a citation. If we can't point to the artifact, we don't say it.
We build the artifacts. Your CPA files. This keeps us sharp and you compliant.
If the IRS audits, you shouldn't need us in the room. The package should speak for itself.