find your world below —
Pick your industry. Here’s what you’re probably missing.
Every sector has its own qualifying activities, its own misconceptions, its own traps. Our experience across a wide range of them gives us confidence we’ll know what qualifies. The language is plain on purpose — no lab coats.
Our strongest area
IT & AI
Seed-stage to scale-up. Model architecture, novel data pipelines, latency and cost uncertainty, hardware integration.
The bias to overcome: “we’re just a SaaS.” Most of your dev work probably qualifies — including the experiments that failed.
See the IT/AI page →
Consistently under-claimed
Food processing & agri-food
Processors, dairy, agri-food. Shelf-life, yield, allergen reformulation, batch-to-continuous work.
And under Bill C-15, capital equipment is eligible again — for the first time since 2014.
See the food page →
Capital-heavy R&D
Manufacturing & process
Industrial Heartland, Leduc, Sherwood Park. Process control, custom tooling, hydrogen supply chain, scaling a method.
The reforms reopened a segment that was partly dormant for a decade. Capital-intensive work benefits most.
See the manufacturing page →
Rarely claimed
Construction & trades
Home builders, specialty trades. Novel methods, material substitution, site-specific engineering problems.
The objection: “it’s just building.” No — innovation in the trades qualifies, and it’s rarely claimed.
See the construction page →Also under-served — ask us
If you tried something where you didn’t know the answer in advance — a new process, a new product, an integration that didn’t quite work — CRA calls that technological uncertainty. We call it Tuesday.
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