Substantiate
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IRC §41 substantiation & R&D program reporting

Your engineers did the work. Write it down like it counts.

Fill in sixteen structured sections once. Substantiate turns them into an audit-ready technical narrative with the figures, tables and exhibits an examiner expects — or into a clean executive brief for the board, from the same intake.

TEST 1
Permitted purpose
A business component being improved
TEST 2
Technological in nature
Grounded in hard science
TEST 3
Uncertainty
Capability, method, or design unknown
TEST 4
Experimentation
A systematic process of evaluation

New to this? Start with what counts as technological uncertainty, or read what Form 6765 Section G requires from tax year 2026.

Substantiate organizes and formats what you tell it. It is not a tax advisor and does not determine whether an activity qualifies — have a qualified CPA or tax counsel review any claim before you file.

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Plans

Priced against what a study costs you today

A specialty firm charges a percentage of the credit — often 15–25%. A self-prepared study with no narrative is the thing examiners disallow. This sits in between.

Solo
$49/mo

One entity, one tax year at a time.

  • 3 active business components
  • Both report modes
  • PDF & Word export
  • Prior-year carryforward
Firm
$249/mo

For CPAs and consultancies running client studies.

  • Unlimited components & entities
  • Client workspaces with separate sign-in
  • Your logo and letterhead on exports
  • Reviewer comments & sign-off trail
  • Form 6765 figure summary
Enterprise
Custom

Multi-entity groups with an internal tax function.

  • SSO & role-based access
  • Time-tracking & payroll import
  • Retention policy and audit log
  • Named support

Prototype note: these buttons are not wired to a payment processor. In production this is where a Stripe subscription checkout would sit, with the plan gating component count, export branding and team seats.

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