Federal R&D Tax Credit for AI and ML Companies

Federal R&D Tax Credit (IRC Section 41) for AI and ML Companies

Your AI team's engineering work may be a federal tax credit you haven't claimed yet

Model development, training runs, novel data pipelines, and evaluation are often strong qualifying research. A licensed CPA reviews your QuickBooks Online, identifies the wages, contractor costs, and compute that likely qualify, and shows you the credit a study would support. Even pre-profit startups can claim up to $500,000 a year against payroll taxes.

Free and no-obligation. A licensed CPA does the review, not software. We tell you what we find either way.

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Illustrative example only. Your credit depends on a study a CPA performs.

US engineering wages on qualified R&D

$800,000

US engineering wages on qualified R&D

$800,000

Estimated qualified research expenses (QREs)

$1,050,000

Illustrative first-year credit at ~6% (ASC)

~$63,000

Estimated federal R&D credit (example)

~$63,000

Figures are an example to show the math, not a quote or a promise. The 6% rate reflects the first-year Alternative Simplified Credit and can be higher with history or the regular method. A CPA confirms your actual numbers.

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Built for QuickBooks Online

IRC Section 41 and current-year Section 174 handled

We identify, document, and file the credit

The problem

A runway number you guessed at versus one you can defend

When compute is committed, prepaid, or reserved, burn stops behaving like a flat monthly line. Here is the difference between the runway most AI companies are working from and the runway a CPA can actually stand behind.

Monthly Financial Reporting Package

Clean monthly financials built straight from your QuickBooks Online, the way GCs and bonding agents expect them.

One $30M sitework contractor booked $1.03M in January and lost $57,940 at gross profit. This package flagged it that month. The tax return would have buried it for a year.

13 Week Cash Flow Forecast

A weekly cash picture reconciled to your bank, built on pay-when-paid reality, not the dates printed on your invoices.

One contractor had $440,975 in the bank on a Monday, on pace for negative $340,218 by week 11. That is seven weeks of warning to act, instead of finding out on payroll Friday.

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