SR&ED claims should not require full-service consultants.

For decades, accessing Canada's SR&ED program has usually meant hiring specialized firms that charge a large percentage of the credit recovered. But in most claims, much of the underlying work is already being done internally. The specialist layer is real, just not nearly as large as the fee model suggests.

That fee model persisted because preparing a compliant claim required translating technical work into the specific format the CRA expects to see: a clear description of technological uncertainty, evidence of systematic investigation, and properly classified project expenditures.

Most engineering teams do not write in that format, which left consultants acting as translators between product development and tax policy, and charging accordingly.

execom removes the expensive middle layer.

The execom platform allows founders and technical teams to construct their claims directly by guiding them through the information required to produce a properly structured filing.

Projects are described in the format CRA reviewers expect, expenditures are organized as the claim is assembled, and supporting documentation is captured in a way that reduces the likelihood of review.

The process that traditionally required weeks of back-and-forth with a consulting firm can instead be completed in a few hours by the people who actually performed the work.

Some organizations will always prefer the traditional consulting model, particularly large companies that already maintain advisory relationships with accounting firms and external specialists.

execom is designed for a different group: companies capable of doing things themselves, discerning enough to recognize value when they see it, and uninterested in wasting time or money on layers of unnecessary intermediaries.

These are typically founder-led teams and technical organizations that understand their own work better than anyone else and prefer straightforward tools over elaborate consulting processes.