Solutions for Scaleups
GrowWise helps Canadian scaleups identify, capture, and maximize SR&ED tax credits without slowing down your engineering, product, or AI teams.
Our supervised AI platform captures eligible R&D work continuously throughout the year, reduces documentation burden, and builds stronger, audit-ready claims so your team stays focused on scaling.
Minimal engineering drag
AI-assisted capture keeps engineers focused on building, not on documentation
Stronger SR&ED claims
Scaleup-specific technical narratives with precise project framing and audit-ready support
Year-round capture
Document qualifying work as it happens, no scrambling at year-end or relying on engineer recall
More growth capital
Recover $50k–$500k+ in non-dilutive credits to reinvest in hiring, product, and scaling
Designed for scaleups with growing engineering teams: Light on time, heavy on results
What SR&ED means for your scaleup’s growth runway
64%
Canadian-controlled private corporations can recover up to 64% of eligible SR&ED labour costs through combined federal and provincial credits. Money that stays on your cap table.
$0
Equity given up
SR&ED is 100% non-dilutive. No equity, no debt, no warrants. Your scaleup recovers cash from R&D you are already doing without giving anything up.
$50k – $300k+
GrowWise scaleup clients typically recover $200k–$500k+ annually, depending on team size, engineering headcount, and eligible R&D spend.
70%
GrowWise’s AI-assisted capture and structured review process dramatically reduces the time founders and engineering leads spend on SR&ED compared to traditional consulting models.
GrowWise pairs supervised AI with expert SR&ED review to deliver lighter documentation burdens and stronger claims — built specifically for the pace and complexity of Canadian scaleups.
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Scaleup-focused SR&ED support should protect your team’s time, strengthen your documentation, and produce claims that hold up under CRA review.
Category | Legacy Consultants | GrowWise |
|---|---|---|
Founder and engineering time required | Heavy founder and engineering involvement | Designed to minimize time from founders and technical teams |
Documentation timing | Year-end reconstruction of work | Continuous capture throughout the year |
Documentation approach | Manual, inconsistent documentation | Structured AI-assisted capture with expert oversight |
Project framing | Generic project framing | Scaleup-specific positioning around real technical uncertainty |
Claim preparation style | Reactive claim preparation | Proactive claim development with better audit readiness |
Who this is for
GrowWise is purpose-built for pre-seed through Series B scaleups building novel products, systems, AI, infrastructure, hardware, or technical capabilities in Canada.
Most scaleup founders aren’t sure what to expect from SR&ED. Here is the complete process — from your first GrowWise conversation to refundable credits in your account.
SR&ED isn’t just for enterprise R&D teams. GrowWise is designed for fast-moving Canadian scaleups at every growth stage — from pre-seed through Series B — building novel technology and tackling unsolved technical problems.
Pre-Seed & Seed
Pre-revenue scaleups are eligible for SR&ED refundable tax credits even before your first commercial product. If your team is solving technical problems without known solutions, that work may qualify — and GrowWise helps you capture it from day one.
Technical feasibility experiments
Series A & Growth
Performance engineering challenges
If your scaleup is building novel hardware, life sciences technology, or foundational AI systems, your claims require a higher level of technical framing. GrowWise’s expert reviewers have domain depth across deep tech, biotech, medtech, and advanced software to position complex claims correctly.
SR&ED covers work that involves technical uncertainty where your team had to experiment, iterate, or solve problems without a clear, known solution. Here are the types of work that frequently qualify across scaleup categories.
