The old boys club, flipped.

Karen is sick of consulting firms.

15-30% success fees? Not on her watch.

Same compliance bar as the old boys club. Half the time, a fraction of the fee.

Start free — see my estimate 60-sec eligibility check

Flat 5% of the benefit. You only pay when the cash lands.

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

The queen of admin, on your side - without the desk next to yours.

See it for yourself

Your indicative FY26 offset, in seconds.

FY26 ATO formula, baked in. No signup.

Calculator · FY26
Live indicative offset, ATO formula
$

Group revenue including connected/affiliated entities.

$

Total eligible R&D expenditure for the year.

$

Used to compute R&D intensity (non-refundable tier only).

25% for base-rate entities; 30% otherwise.

Estimated offset
$261,000
RefundablePaid as cash if in tax loss

Refundable: company tax rate (25.0%) + 18.5pp premium. Applies because aggregated turnover is under $20M.

From this estimate to a review-ready draft, in days.

We structure your evidence and draft the AusIndustry Project Description plus the ATO R&D Schedule inputs. You review with your registered tax agent, you approve, you lodge.

Start free

Indicative only. Subject to AusIndustry registration, eligible expenditure rules, feedstock adjustments and the $150M R&D cap.

  • 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.
  • Flat 5% of benefit
    Never 25% like old-school consultants. Pay only when cash lands.

How Karen stays defensible

Grounded in your data. Never guessed.

Every narrative and risk score traces back to your own activities, spend and dates. Karen flags what she doesn't know instead of inventing it.

  • Outputs validated against AusIndustry HEEC fields - every figure traces to your data.
  • Per-activity risk score (0-100) with the weak spots a reviewer would pick on.
  • Prior-art scan evidences the s355-25 'new knowledge' limb.
  • Data stays in Australia. RLS-scoped. Never used to train upstream models.
Security & data handling →
800+
AusIndustry R&DTI registrations reviewed in training
70+
Published AusIndustry findings of ineligible activity studied
s355-25
Every activity scored against the four-part eligibility test
RLS
Row-level security on every table. Your data is yours.
The platform

A real workspace, not a chat window.

Software your finance and engineering team log into. Version-controlled, audit-ready, Karen built in.

  • Claim workspace
    Structured the way AusIndustry reads it.
  • Evidence vault
    Tickets, payroll, invoices - linked to the activity they support.
  • Bring your own data
    Upload or paste. Integrations rolling out.
  • Audit log
    Every edit, export and approval, timestamped.
  • Tax-agent handover
    PD, schedules and evidence pack in one click.
  • Multi-claim ready
    RDTI today, EMDG next. One login.
KarenGrants · Workspace
FY26
R&DTI · 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
Payroll · uploadLedger · uploadTickets · uploadContracts · upload
Meet your free compliance hire

Karen from Accounts flags the gaps before AusIndustry does.

Her attitude, used for good. Strict, evidence-first, thorough - 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.

Built around the four-part test. Karen reads your Xero, payroll and engineering tools, and won't let anything sloppy through.

Four-part test sweep

Every activity mapped, gaps flagged in plain English.

Auto-drafted narrative

Karen drafts the AusIndustry technical narrative. Your tax agent edits, not authors.

Eligible spend reconstruction

Payroll, contractors and cloud apportioned and audit-trailed.

Deadline calendar

AusIndustry and ATO dates pinged before they close.

Evidence vault

Tickets, payroll, invoices, contracts - one audit-ready pack.

Tax-agent handover

A draft your tax agent signs off in an hour. Keep your accountant.

Put Karen on my R&D claim →Sign in to your workspace
02 · Also on Karen's desk

Export Market Development Grant.

Selling overseas? Karen builds your EMDG plan-to-market with the same compliance-first instinct.

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

Tier check, expense tracker and plan-to-market narrative, aligned to Austrade. Up to $770,000 across the tiers.

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 · curated roster
  • +More joining the roster

Queued the moment your RDTI claim is filed. No double-dipping.

04 · The principle
"Only file what you'd happily defend at audit."
House rule · KarenGrants

Put Karen to work on your RDTI claim.

Free to start. Only file what you'd defend at audit.

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