The old boys club, flipped.

Karen is sick of consulting firms.

Smoke, mirrors and 15% success fees - not on her watch.

So we flipped the old boys club on its head. Easy onboarding, state-of-the-art tech doing the heavy lifting, and the time it takes to build a claim cut in half - for you and for us. Fees going the same way.

Start free - see my estimate 5% - see the math

Flat fee. No commission on your refund. No 90-minute "discovery call" before you see a number.

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Drafts generated
21
Founders started
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Claims in progress
Made in Australia Data stored in Sydney AusIndustry & ATO aligned
Employee #001 · Compliance
On shift
Karen, your compliance hire
$0/mo to hire
Hi, I'm
Karen
Senior Compliance, KarenGrants
Reports to
You
All the rules. None of the strings.
  • Four-part test, by the book
  • Evidence chased, politely
  • Deadlines pinged early
  • Audit trail, immaculate
  • Office birthday roster
  • Tupperware politics
  • Kitchen passive-aggression
  • Annual leave, ever

Karen's attitude - used for good. The queen of admin, on your side, without the desk next to yours.

  • Free, no credit card
    Estimate, draft and review at zero cost.
  • FY26 rates baked in
    43.5% refundable & 38.5% non-refundable.
  • AusIndustry & ATO aligned
    Four-part test structure, evidence linked.
  • Self-serve, no commission
    Software fee only - never a % of your claim.
The platform

A real workspace, not a chat window.

KarenGrants is software your finance and engineering team log into. Projects, activities, evidence, schedules and exports - all in one place, all version- controlled, all audit-ready. Karen sits inside it.

  • Claim workspace
    Projects, activities, hypotheses and supporting work, structured the way AusIndustry reads them.
  • Evidence vault
    Tickets, commits, payroll splits, invoices and contracts, linked to the activity they support.
  • Live integrations
    Xero, MYOB, payroll, Jira, Linear, GitHub. Karen reads the data - you don't re-key it.
  • Audit log
    Every edit, every export, every approval - timestamped and exportable for your tax agent.
  • Tax-agent handover
    Generate the AusIndustry PD, schedules and evidence pack with one click.
  • Multi-claim ready
    RDTI today, EMDG next, the wider grants library queued - one login, one workspace.
KarenGrants · Workspace
FY26
RDTI Lodge · Claim FY26
Activities
Draft
ActivityTypeEvidenceStatus
Realtime ingestion at 10k rpsCore142ready
Sub-50ms vector retrievalCore98ready
Cross-tenant isolation, GPUCore37gaps
Eval harness for retrieval driftSupporting61ready
Synthetic load rigSupporting74review
Xero · syncedGitHub · syncedLinear · syncedPayroll · synced
Meet your free compliance hire

Karen from Accounts flags the gaps before AusIndustry does.

We're using Karen's attitude for once - strict, evidence-first, seamlessly thorough. The best version of her, quietly doing the role she was born for: keeping your claim water-tight.

“That's a lovely feature. Was it actually experimental?”
“I'll need the Jira ticket for that one, sweetheart.”
“You've double-counted the AWS bill. I've flagged it.”
“AusIndustry registration for FY25 closes 30 April. Pop it on the calendar, love.”
Put Karen to work (free)

Software tool, not a registered tax agent.

01 · Karen's primary role

R&D Tax Incentive, end-to-end.

Karen is built around the RDTI four-part test. She reads your Xero, payroll and engineering tools, pieces the evidence together, and refuses to let anything sloppy through.

Four-part test sweep

Every activity mapped to hypothesis, unknown outcome, systematic progression and new knowledge. Gaps flagged in plain English.

Auto-drafted narrative

Karen reads Jira, Linear and GitHub and drafts the AusIndustry technical narrative - your tax agent edits, doesn't author.

Eligible spend reconstruction

Xero + payroll splits, contractor allocations and AWS apportionment, recalculated and audit-trailed.

Round & deadline calendar

AusIndustry registration windows, ATO schedule lodgement dates - pinged before they close, not after.

Evidence vault

Tickets, commits, payroll, invoices, contracts - bundled into a single audit-ready evidence pack.

Tax-agent handover

Karen hands a draft your registered tax agent signs off in an hour. You keep your accountant. They keep their relationship.

Put Karen on my RDTI claim →Open RDTI Lodge
02 · Also on Karen's desk

Export Market Development Grant.

If you're selling overseas, Karen pulls your EMDG plan-to-market together with the same compliance-first instinct. A second lodgement, same trustworthy desk.

Module · EMDG Lodge
Plan-to-market, drafted.
Round open

Tier eligibility check, expense tracker and a plan-to-market narrative builder trained on successful Austrade applications. Up to $770,000 over eight years.

Ask Karen about EMDG →Open EMDG Lodge
03 · Next on Karen's desk

What Karen is ready to work on next.

See the full library →
  • IGIndustry Growth Program
  • CSCSIRO Kick-Start
  • NSNSW MVP Ventures
  • QLAdvance QLD Ignite Ideas
  • MRMRFF Medtech
  • ARARENA Clean Energy
  • GRGrant Radar · 180+ programs
  • +More joining the roster

Karen queues these the moment your RDTI claim is filed. One desk, one tone of voice, no double-dipping.

04 · From founders
"Karen keeps our claim water-tight - something the queen of admin would call her own. We just didn't want her desk next to ours."
Founder · Australian SaaS · Series A

Put Karen to work on your RDTI claim.

Free to start. She'll only file what she'd happily defend at audit.

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