Automate your R&D tax evidence. Secure your claim as you build.

You're probably doing eligible R&D. You're almost certainly not capturing it.

R&D appears in every industry

R&D isn't confined to lab coats. If you are solving complex technical problems, building software, iterating manufacturing processes, or developing new products where the outcome isn't known in advance, you may be entitled to a refundable offset of up to 43.5%.

The retrospective crackdown

Building a claim retrospectively creates immense audit risk. The ATO is actively scrutinising year-end guesswork, and failing to document your experimental activities day-by-day can undermine your offset.

The guardrails have changed

Under newly enacted frameworks, the refundable threshold has expanded to $50 million to back fast-growing companies, but the criteria for keeping timestamped, contemporaneous evidence are stricter than ever. The infrastructure of how you claim must change.

How it works: Capture. Classify. Claim.

Capture

Engineers log R&D as the work happens — hypothesis, experiment, outcome, and hours in a Work Log tied to each project. Structured, time-stamped, and mapped to ATO activity categories. No retrospective reconstruction.

Classify

R&D Spend Autopilot maps every dollar of expenditure to Division 355. A deterministic rule engine makes the call; the AI narrates the reasoning. Every classification lands as a DRAFT until a registered adviser approves or overrides it.

Claim

Your specialist tax adviser reviews the verified, contemporaneous evidence pack, resolves any flags, and lodges — audit-ready before it's lodged, not assembled retrospectively at year-end.

Why this matters now

A multi-billion-dollar incentive, still assembled by hand — and most eligible businesses opt out entirely.

• 43.5% — refundable cash offset for companies under $20M turnover.
• $15B+ — claimed in R&D offsets every year, and the rules behind it are shifting.
• 86% — of claimants pay advisers to assemble claims by hand (Denholm review).
• 12,000+ — businesses claim each year; thousands more qualify but opt out.

Why Dossio — the evidence layer is the product

Keeping an expert in the loop is the floor, not the difference. The difference is where the evidence comes from, the regime it's built for, and who owns it.

Every R&D industry — not just software

Manufacturing, construction, mining, agriculture, life sciences and software. Evidence is captured from how your teams actually work — not only from code repositories.

Built for Australian rules

Aligned to Division 355 and the AusIndustry/ATO regime, and ready for the post-Denholm shift where core-activity precision decides the claim. Built in Australia; your data stays in Sydney.

Audit-ready at the point of work

Evidence is structured and time-stamped as the work happens, not reconstructed at year-end. You own it, you export it, you can defend it.

AI does the evidence. A registered adviser signs off.

The Denholm review found 86% of claimants pay intermediaries to navigate the RDTI. Dossio is the transition: software does the assembly, your adviser keeps the judgement.

Software captures

Evidence assembles from the work you already do — structured, time-stamped, and mapped to Division 355 categories.

AI structures — as draft

Rules classify the spend and the AI explains it. Every narrative and classification is flagged DRAFT, with a full audit trail on each output.

A registered adviser signs off

Your adviser reviews, resolves the flags, and approves. Nothing reaches a claim without expert sign-off.

Frequently asked questions

Does Dossio replace my R&D adviser?

No — Dossio is built around adviser sign-off. The platform assembles evidence and drafts structure; a registered adviser reviews, resolves flags, and approves before anything reaches a claim. What changes is the hours your adviser bills for assembly, not whether you have one.

Why are advisory fees lower with Dossio?

Because the time-consuming work — collecting evidence, structuring records, drafting narratives — is automated. Your adviser prices judgement and oversight instead of paperwork. Same expert accountability, fewer billable hours behind it.

Is AI-generated content safe to put in a tax claim?

Rules classify the spend; your adviser makes the call. Every AI output is flagged DRAFT until a registered adviser approves it, each AI call is logged with a full audit trail, and the AI can be switched off instantly. Nothing is self-lodging.

How does Dossio charge?

Fixed SaaS tiers based on capacity — never a percentage of your refund or offset. Contingent pricing is how the old model worked; it is also what ATO promoter rules (Division 290) are designed to police.

What do the Denholm review and the 2028 changes mean for my claim?

The Strategic Examination of R&D (final report, March 2026) recommended an overhaul of the RDTI, and from 1 July 2028 'supporting activities' expenditure loses eligibility. Claims will increasingly stand on precise core-activity classification backed by contemporaneous evidence — which is exactly what Dossio captures as you work.

Where is my data?

Sydney, Australia (ap-southeast-2), encrypted in transit and at rest, with tenant isolation enforced at the database layer. Our AI providers are contractually prohibited from training on your data.

What does Dossio connect to?

Xero, Jira, and ServiceM8 today, with MYOB and more on the roadmap — evidence assembles from the systems you already use.

Is my Dossio subscription claimable R&D expenditure?

Software costs can form part of eligible R&D expenditure where they relate to eligible activities — but eligibility is fact-specific. Ask your adviser; Dossio does not provide eligibility advice.