Results · AnonymizedCanada-wide · 20+ industries
over a decade of real work —
Hundreds of claims. Software and shop floor. Honest about failure.
What sets this track record apart isn’t a number — it’s the range. We’ve documented R&D from machine-learning platforms to CNC finishing to robotic panel assembly, and is candid about the approaches that didn’t work. That honesty is exactly what makes a claim defensible.
Over a decade
preparing SR&ED claims
~96%
of SR&ED claims CRA acceptsprogram-wide; 90% as filed
No win
no fee — pure contingency
Acceptance rate: CRA SR&ED annual program statistics, 2025–26 — a program-wide figure, not a Longhand-specific guarantee.
What a previous preparer missed · anonymized patterns
Home builder · was filing with a Big 4Already claiming, still under-claiming
A modest claim
Nearly doubled
rewritten and re-scoped days before the deadline
Food processor · Western CanadaTold it wasn’t worth the effort
Not claiming
Six figures recovered
years of recipe and shelf-life work, finally documented
IT / data firm · waved off by a Big 4 and CRATold there was nothing there
No claim
Approved — then scaled abroad
a defensible technical narrative changed the answer — they grew, and kept qualifying even on imported technology
Oilfield-equipment maker · AlbertaField R&D, never written up
No claim
Recovered
instrumenting equipment for conditions standard sensors couldn’t read
real client patterns, anonymized — no names, and no numbers we can’t stand behind.
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IT / AIFoodManufacturingConstructionElectronics
No sector is left out — we’ve filed across health (ophthalmology, psychiatry), food sciences, and well beyond.
Advanced manufacturing · BC
Shop-floor R&D counts
A precision millwork shop solving problems off-the-shelf methods couldn’t — glass-smooth finishes on large curved panels, vented doors that pass air but block sound. A documented progression of experiments, including the ones that failed.
IT / AI · Alberta
Black-box machine learning
An ML team controlling industrial processes too messy for standard control — including the hard case of batch, interrupted data where the usual assumptions break. Uncertainty was the whole job.
Electronics · Alberta
Past the spec sheet
An audio-electronics firm pushing hardware past published limits — many simultaneous channels on a new multi-core DSP, a noise floor driven extremely low. We traced the real, undocumented engineering uncertainties.
Construction · Alberta
Industrializing how homes are built
A builder manufacturing wall, floor and roof panels in a factory — the R&D was in the robotic automation: tooling that handles dimensionally inconsistent lumber, and Net-Zero homes made economical.
Food science · Alberta
Reformulation, by trial and error
A processor hitting several conflicting targets at once — allergen-free, the right texture, a long shelf life, freeze-thaw stable — using only natural ingredients. Systematic trial-and-error across proteins, starches and fats.
Software / security · Alberta
Anomaly detection at scale
A security firm catching brand-impersonating domain registrations in near-real-time across an enormous global volume — novel detection workflows where naive pattern-matching simply failed.
Our strength is identifying those technical challenges and articulating them in a way CRA will recognize. That’s all we do.
Amin Jivraj · Principal, Longhand