Case Study · SR&ED · Canadian SaaS

A SR&ED claim from a
third-party codebase.

How a Canadian SaaS company filed 18 months of R&D activity without interviewing a single developer — and how HammerLedger surfaced a mid-year contractor change from the data alone.

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At a Glance

What HammerLedger extracted from the code alone.

605

files analyzed in 44 minutes (vs ~240 hours traditional)

516

R&D findings extracted (98% at moderate confidence or higher)

85%

client-verified accuracy on team and project allocations

developer interviews required

product components mapped to the T661

mid-year contractor change, detected automatically

In the Full Case Study

What you'll learn from the PDF.

→Why the traditional SR&ED workflow breaks when developers aren't reachable — and what to do instead.
→The 4-step process specialists run today, and which 3 of those steps disappear when evidence is captured at the source.
→How HammerLedger detected the mid-year contractor change from commit patterns without anyone telling it about the handoff.
→Plain-English explanations of finding confidence and evidence quality — what they mean for an auditor's eye on the file.
→The honest 15% gap: what evidence isn't in the code, and how the client filled it in during review.

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A SR&ED claim from a third-party codebase.

What HammerLedger extracted from the code alone.

What you'll learn from the PDF.

Curious what this looks like for your own codebase?

A SR&ED claim from a
third-party codebase.