B2B AI software company (name withheld)
£142,000 Recovered under the merged scheme with no HMRC enquiry
The challenge
A venture-backed AI company had never claimed R&D tax relief, assuming grant funding and rapid product iteration made the process too complex. Its engineering work involved genuine advances in model architecture and training efficiency, but none of it was documented in the language HMRC expects, and a previous accountant had advised that software work rarely qualifies.
What we did
- Interviewed the engineering leads to identify the projects with genuine scientific or technological uncertainty, separating qualifying R&D from routine product development.
- Wrote the technical narrative in the competent professional's own terms, evidencing the advances sought, the uncertainties faced and why existing solutions could not resolve them.
- Built the cost schedule across staff, UK subcontractors, software and cloud compute, and submitted the Additional Information Form with the claim.
The result
£142,000 recovered under the merged scheme, paid without enquiry. The company now claims annually with a documented methodology that takes its team under a day of input per claim.
Written and submitted by the GrantUp team; references available on request.
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