R&D tax credits · Ireland · powered by R&D-Pal
Claim
It.
Keep It.
An R&D credit isn't worth what you receive — it's worth what you keep.
What “keep it” means
Revenue can query an R&D claim years after it is filed.
We build every
claim from your engineering record, with very little of your team's time. If Revenue asks, the answer is
already there.
Introducing R&D-Pal
From source data to claim value to cash.
Source record
Proj 1
✓ Filed
Proj 2
✓ Filed
Proj 3
✓ Filed
Proj 4
✕ Not filed
- Evidence sourced from your own repositories
- People allocation matched to logged effort
- Narrative tested against Revenue's framework
Our assessment · Bulletproof
Ground-up evidence
Built from a year of GitHub, Linear and Jira activity, not memory.
People allocation
Each person's day is classified from the signals they actually left.
Narrative tested
Every narrative is tested against Revenue's qualifying criteria.
Defensible filing
Only projects that clear the bar are filed, and you see which ones before we file.
01 · Why now
The odds of Revenue asking you to prove your claim are rising.
AI did not just change how claims get written. It changed how they get checked, and opened a gap in between.
The market
Easier to write
Generative tools can produce a polished, plausible claim. Good writing is now the baseline, not the differentiator.
Revenue
Easier to test
The same tools can check a claim against known patterns, boilerplate and what a real claim looks like underneath.
The gap
Harder to defend
Neither shift makes a claim easier to trace to real engineering work. Closing that gap is what R&D-Pal was built for.
Which means the real question was never whether you can claim it. It is whether you can keep it.
Which is why
We build every claim bottom-up, from your engineering record, before a word of narrative is written. The evidence comes first. The story is built to match it, not the other way around.
See how painless this actually is.
A working session on your own repositories — we run the Evidence Engine live and show you a first defensibility read before the call ends.
No surveys.
No timesheets.
Nothing reconstructed from memory.
Prefer to talk it through first? Talk to an expert →
02 · Track record
Twelve years of claims that held.
ProfitPal has filed R&D claims for Ireland's scaling technology companies since 2014. R&D-Pal turns that experience into a repeatable method. Every new claim starts with the engineering record, not assertion.
12 yrs
Filing R&D claims for Irish tech
€40M+
Claimed to date
250+
Claims processed
100%
Not one claim lost
Trusted by Ireland's technology companies
What clients say
We have worked with ProfitPal for a number of years now to assist with our R&D Tax Credit claims. The new R&D-Pal product they have built has been a real step change in assembling both the claim and evidence materials with minimal overhead / time input needed from our team. The quality of the resulting packs produced and the corresponding evidence is super impressive!
R&D-Pal gave us real certainty — a claim built from our actual engineering data, not assumptions. Combined with ProfitPal's years of experience taking a claim all the way through to cash, it's given us genuine confidence in a process that used to feel like a black box.
What actually landed for me wasn't just the claim number; it was how little of my time it took, and knowing there were no blind spots in how the claim was built. That's what made it easy to trust.
We wanted a claim we could stand behind if it was ever queried. ProfitPal's approach, grounded in real engineering effort rather than estimates, gave us that confidence from day one.
ProfitPal has been a true, high performing partner for NewsWhip in all of our complex R&D tax credits.
Twitter complimented ProfitPal on their R&D prowess during the acquisition.
03 · How it works
From source commit to a claim.
The same blocks of engineering activity travel the whole way through: captured, classified, structured into projects, tested, allocated and traceable at Revenue review.
Stage 5 of 5
Submit
Scored, banded, and traceable to source
Each project carries a band, and only what clears the bar is filed. At Revenue review, every section still traces back to the exact blocks it came from.
Project 1
Traced to 14 commits, 6 PRs
✓ Passes our R&D test
Project 2
Traced to 11 commits, 9 tickets
✓ Passes our R&D test
Project 3
Traced to 17 commits, 5 PRs
✓ Passes our R&D test
Project 4
Fails the third lens, held out
Not filed
Sample engineer · working year, day by day
Chosen allocation 72%
Projects filed
3 of 4
Chosen allocation
72%
Our assessment
Bulletproof
Only the projects that clear the bar are filed, and every section still traces back to the exact blocks it came from.
The full methodology (the Evidence Engine, Frascati testing, how Revenue reviews a claim, the scoring model and per-employee allocation) is set out in detail.
Read the full methodologyFind out where your claim actually stands.
A short call, your own engineering record, and an honest read on what would hold if Revenue looked closely.
Talk to an expertWould you rather see it running first? Schedule a demo →
04 · Fee structure
Commercial alignment: we charge for outcomes, not reports.
No engagement fee and no retainer. We are paid when the credit lands, so we do not file work we are unwilling to stand behind.
Schedule a demoNo engagement fee, no retainer and no charge for the report itself.
We do not charge until the cash lands, so we do not add to your burn.
If a project is not defensible, we tell you before it is filed, not after.
05 · Who it is for
Built for you.
Engineering lead
“My team's actual work becomes the record, not a memory exercise six months later.”
Under an hour of the team's active time
Runs locally with your own access
Commits and tickets become the substance of the claim
Finance lead
“A number I can put in the model and defend eighteen months from now.”
Every allocation traces to logged activity
Defensibility is visible before filing
Fees follow the outcome
Owner / CEO
“Cash I can plan around, not cash I might have to give back.”
Non-dilutive funding built to survive scrutiny
The team stays focused on the business
No engagement fee
Investor
“One process, applied the same way across the portfolio.”
A consistent method across portfolio companies
Diligence-ready source linkage
Clawback risk surfaced before filing
One process, on your own repositories.
Whichever seat you are in, the claim is built the same way: from the engineering record your team already produced.
Talk to an expertOr watch it run against your own stack: Schedule a demo →
06 · Alternatives
A claim is only as strong as what sits underneath it.
Five questions Revenue will ask of any claim, read across the three ways of making one.
Doing it yourself
ASSERTEDLarger advisory firms
PARTIALR&D-Pal
BUILT TO HOLDWhat sits underneath
Doing it yourself
Memory
Larger advisory firms
Interviews
R&D-Pal
The engineering record
Where the narrative comes from
Doing it yourself
Memory. It is strongest the day you write it and weaker every day after.
Larger advisory firms
Interviews. Evidence assembled from memory, just someone else's.
R&D-Pal
The record, captured at source. Built from what happened, not from what is remembered.
How the allocation is set
Doing it yourself
A judgement call rather than a calculation. No data behind the number, only a sense of how the year went.
Larger advisory firms
Judgement and benchmarks, not what the team actually did, day by day.
R&D-Pal
Calculated from day-level engineering signal. Every percentage traces back to real activity.
When you learn where it stands
Doing it yourself
When Revenue asks. Push on the claim and you are defending it in the hope it holds, not proving that it does.
Larger advisory firms
Rarely before filing. You find out how strong it was after Revenue asks.
R&D-Pal
Before filing. Per-project defensibility is tested first, not discovered after.
Who stands behind it
Doing it yourself
You, and you know the engineering better than anyone.
Larger advisory firms
An experienced sign-off and a professional pack.
R&D-Pal
ProfitPal. Every claim is signed off with the evidence file behind it.
What it costs, and when
Doing it yourself
Your own time, and the risk stays with you.
Larger advisory firms
Fees charged when the pack is submitted, not when the cash is received.
R&D-Pal
Under an hour of engineering time. The fee follows the outcome, charged when the cash lands, so it does not add to your burn.
Ready to see it on your own engineering record?
We run the Evidence Engine against your own stack and show you what a defensible claim looks like before you commit to anything.
Schedule a demoPrefer to talk it through first? Talk to an expert →
07 · FAQ
Frequently asked.
A credit is not yours until it survives review. Revenue can query a claim years after it is filed. Claiming is the easy half; keeping it is the half R&D-Pal is built for.
Qualifying R&D is systematic, investigative or experimental work seeking a scientific or technological advancement while resolving an uncertainty a competent professional could not readily resolve.
The guided setup takes around 10 to 15 minutes of active time, followed by four short questions per R&D project. Total active engineering time is designed to stay under an hour.
Not during extraction. The Evidence Engine runs locally with your own access. You review the resulting evidence folder before anything leaves your machine.
Extraction runs locally on your own machines, with your own repository access and your own AI account, so your code and tickets are not sent to us while evidence is collected. A built-in exclusion list filters secrets, API keys, personal data and source code before anything is written to the evidence folder, and you review that folder before it leaves your machine. ProfitPal, Denis Breen & Co Limited, is the data controller for what you then share with us. We process it only to prepare and support your claim. Our privacy policy and GDPR statement set out retention periods and your rights.
It is our internal read on how a project's narrative and evidence would hold up if Revenue looked closely. We use it to decide what still needs work before filing.
Most contact starts as a query into one aspect of a claim. Because every section traces back to source activity, the answer begins with a record that is already there.
General AI can produce plausible R&D copy. The problem is not whether it can write; it is whether the claim is grounded in your engineering record. General tools can hallucinate, miss context and leave blind spots. R&D-Pal starts from the source evidence, and ProfitPal applies professional judgement before anything is filed.
There is no engagement fee and no charge for the report. The fee follows the outcome, after the refund or credit lands.
R&D-Pal
Claim it. Keep it.
Talk to the team.
Book a call to arrange a demo and an initial claim assessment.
- Under one hour of active engineering time
- Nothing leaves your machine during extraction
- No engagement fee, and no charge for the report
How to reach us
You talk to the people who sign off the claim, not a sales desk.
Email the team- [email protected]
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