The engineer you deal with directly — and a claim written by hand that he can answer for.

Amin began as an applications engineer at Imperial Oil (Esso), responsible for online controls and optimization at Canada’s largest and most automated refinery — process control, the discipline of treating any operation as a system to be understood and optimized. As he puts it: “you look at any process, figure out the best way to make it more economical, more profitable for the owners. That’s been my whole life.” He went on to build a 140-store retail chain, then an executive MBA (Queen’s–Cornell) followed.

He turned that instinct into a consulting practice built on a simple observation: most of Canada’s SR&ED money is left on the table — not because companies aren’t innovating, but because the people preparing the claims can’t see or articulate the technical challenge. SR&ED, as Amin says, is “only 15% accounting and 85% technical.”

Over more than a decade and hundreds of claims across 20-plus industries — oil & gas, food and dairy processing, home building, advanced manufacturing, IT and AI — that engineer-first approach has meant clients routinely recover more than they would elsewhere, sometimes after being told by a Big-4 firm, or even CRA, not to bother. Case after case, we find entire projects or expenses a competitor missed — sometimes increasing the claim significantly. And the relationship doesn’t end at filing: “you can treat us as part of your team.”