Just because you burned the prototype doesn’t mean the development can’t qualify. Development is a lengthy process. Early failure may lead to technological advancement.

To establish trust with users, you want to develop confidence through data transparency. Enter the blockchain, but it’s not good enough out of the box, so you experiment to develop your variant. This could indicate SR&ED.

 To qualify for the credit, companies must tackle technological uncertainty. Leading the market will not qualify by itself. Perhaps a second look from an SR&ED specialist could uncover SR&ED activity elsewhere in your operations.

Although integrating with various data sources can generate new business insights, it’s likely not SR&ED if you used known techniques and technologies. However, advances are occurring in machine learning and other areas of artificial intelligence and in mathematical modelling. Perhaps you can find SR&ED there?

You think you are just ‘grinding away’ at work. In fact, those multiple design rewrites may be considered experimental. And that’s a key criterion for SR&ED.

SR&ED indeed supports only domestic activities. But technical guidance is an eligible activity—even if your offshore team wrote the code. The same goes for local testing.

Evaluation technology typically isn’t SR&ED because the outcome isn’t new technology knowledge or advancement. However, perhaps a consultant can help you find SR&ED elsewhere.