Built by an engineer who watched good R&D go unclaimed
Glauq is an SR&ED claim service for Canadian software companies. We document your R&D continuously from the tools your engineers already use, and an independent SR&ED expert reviews and prepares the claim.
Why Glauq exists
Software development takes the largest single share of the SR&ED credits the CRA allows every year, and most of the companies doing that work either never claim or claim less than they should. The reason is rarely eligibility. It is that the evidence a claim needs — what the team was trying to do, where it turned out to be harder than expected, what they tried, what they measured — was never written down in a form anyone could find eighteen months later.
Engineering teams already produce that evidence every day, in commits, pull requests, tickets and test runs. Glauq was built on a simple observation: if the record is captured while the work happens and translated into the terms the program uses, the year-end scramble disappears and the claim gets stronger, not just easier.
Glauq is led by founder Harminder Singh, who has a background in enterprise data, cloud and AI systems and writes about SR&ED and the CRA's own program data on X at @its_harminder. The founder's expertise is the engineering-evidence problem. The tax judgment on every claim belongs to a qualified SR&ED professional, described below.
What Glauq is, in one paragraph
A service, not software you operate yourself. You connect your engineering tools once. Glauq keeps the record. When it is time to claim, a named SR&ED expert reviews what qualifies, prepares the T661 and the provincial schedules, and files. AI is how the evidence is gathered and organised; it is not who decides what is claimed.
How the service worksAI-assisted analysis and professional review are two different things
Both are part of every Glauq claim. Only one of them makes the decision.
Evidence is captured while the work happens
Glauq connects to the tools your engineering team already uses — GitHub, GitLab, Jira, Linear and similar — and keeps a running record of the work: what was attempted, what failed, what was measured. Nothing is reconstructed from memory at year-end.
AI-assisted analysis organises it into SR&ED terms
The record is grouped into projects, technological uncertainties, experiments and results, with the supporting commits, tickets and test results attached. This is the shape a T661 technical narrative takes. It is a draft, not a determination.
A named SR&ED professional reviews before anything is filed
An independent SR&ED expert reviews the projects, the narratives and the expenditures, decides what belongs in the claim, and prepares it for filing. The same person stands behind the claim if the CRA asks questions. AI never files a claim on its own.
Independent SR&ED reviewer
Every Glauq claim is reviewed and prepared by a qualified, independent SR&ED professional who is not an employee of Glauq and who is accountable for the claim as filed. The reviewer's name and credentials are shared with every client at the start of an engagement.
What the eligibility check is, and is not. The six-question eligibility check on this site produces an instant, automated, preliminary assessment. It is not reviewed by a professional and it is not a determination that any work qualifies. Expert review happens on the claim itself, before it is prepared or filed.
How we source what we publish
The guides on this site are written by the Glauq team and held to the same standard as a claim: cite it, date it, and say where the line is.
Primary sources first
Rates, limits, deadlines and eligibility rules on this site are sourced to the CRA, the Department of Finance, provincial ministries and the Income Tax Act, and linked at the point of use. If we cannot cite it, we do not state it as fact.
We say what does not qualify
Every guide that explains what may qualify for SR&ED also explains the routine work around it that would not. A claim padded with ineligible activity is weaker than a smaller claim that is entirely solid.
Dated, and updated when the rules move
Every article shows when it was last updated. The 2026 changes to the expenditure limit, the enhanced rate and pre-claim approval were reflected as they were legislated, not left as "coming soon".
Educational content is not tax advice
What we publish explains how the program works. Whether a specific project qualifies depends on its facts, and that judgment is made by a qualified professional on the claim itself, not by an article or an automated assessment.
Start with SR&ED for software companies or the complete SR&ED guide.
See whether your engineering work is likely to qualify
Six questions, an instant preliminary read. If it looks like a fit, we will talk through how the service works.
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