The compliance pack, as a byproduct.
Once the ledger is real, the R&D credit lifts because the substantiation holds up. Drag the sliders to see what a comparable claim could look like.
Where the numbers come from
Federal: we model the Alternative Simplified Credit (ASC) — 14% of qualifying spend above 50% of the prior-three-year average, which lands around 7–10% for a typical software org. We default to 8%. Regional rates come from published 2024–2025 R&D credit surveys (BDO, EY, Deloitte, KBKG) and represent typical effective rates for a software company claiming for 3+ years. Canada SR&ED is shown as the federal 15% basic rate.
Qualifying spend = wages for employees performing qualified research, supplies consumed in R&D, 65% of contract research, and certain capitalized software-development costs. Management and back-office time generally doesn't qualify.
Why substantiation matters more than the math
The math is the easy part. The hard part — why most organizations under-claim — is substantiation: contemporaneous evidence tied to specific projects and workers. That's what falls out of the Tymr ledger: every hour traces back to a Jira ticket, a PR, a calendar block, an incident, or an agent run. See the compliance view →
The switch math. What an accurate ledger saves you in year one.
Recovered hours, admin time saved, allocation accuracy, productivity lift. Drag the sliders for your team.
Where the ROI comes from
Manual time tracking leaks in three places. An accurate ledger seals each one.
Captured hours
Every calendar event, ticket move, commit, incident, and agent run becomes an event — recovering roughly half the hours timesheets miss. For billable practices, recovered hours convert at full rate.
Admin time
Auto-drafting eliminates 1–3 hours per week per worker of timesheet entry. Compounded across the team, that's a full FTE recovered per ~25 workers.
Allocation accuracy
Real per-worker, per-project hours show where effort actually went. Managers and PMOs use the data to rebalance — typical productivity lift is 4–7%.
The sample pack. Anonymized, but real.
Ten slides from a representative software company — the same structure your tax firm receives. Names scrubbed, dollars rounded; the methodology is real.