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For businesses that already have an R&D adviser
Keep your adviser.
Lose the busywork.
86% of R&D claimants use an adviser — and most of that fee pays for paperwork, not expertise. Your adviser makes the eligibility call. Dossio captures the evidence behind it as the work happens, so your claim is audit-ready all year — without the hundreds of hours your team loses pulling it together at year-end.
No adviser names. No firm details. Just your numbers.
Audit-ready, all year
86% of claimants use an adviser12,000+ businesses claim each yearSuccess fees run 10–25% of the benefit (Intellect Labs)SERD: ~10% average success feeThe ATO now publishes claimant dataGIC non-deductible since July 202586% of claimants use an adviser12,000+ businesses claim each yearSuccess fees run 10–25% of the benefit (Intellect Labs)SERD: ~10% average success feeThe ATO now publishes claimant dataGIC non-deductible since July 2025
Quote reality check
See the hidden cost.
Three numbers in. We'll show you what producing your claim the manual way really costs each year.
Your numbers
Your result shows instantly — no sign-up, no adviser or firm names. Email it to yourself only if you want a copy.
Not sure where to start? Try one:
A$600,000
or type exact:
11 staff
We estimate ~40 hours per R&D staff member per year on evidence-gathering — that's just our starting point for the hours slider below, which you can drag to match your team.
or type exact:
440 hrs
A$100/hr
10% of refund
Success fees typically run 10–25% of the benefit (Intellect Labs); the SERD Issues Paper (Sept 2025) puts the average at ~10%.
What the manual way costs you / year
A$70,100
A$26,100 adviser fee (10% of the refund) + A$44,000 of internal hours — the form-filling, not the expertise.
Within typical range
Your 10% vs the typical 10–25% success-fee range for R&D claims (Intellect Labs) — the SERD Issues Paper (Sept 2025) puts the average at ~10%.
A$16,000/yr
Dossio · flat ($500K–$750K)
A$26,100
your success fee @ 10%
Estimated refund at 43.5%: A$261,000. Success fees typically run 10–25% of the benefit (Intellect Labs) — the SERD Issues Paper (Sept 2025) puts the average at ~10%.
Dossio is flat at A$16,000 and doesn't grow with your refund. At 10%, one year of your success fee is 1.6× that — every year. Keep your adviser; lose the busywork.
Most June–year-end companies must register their FY2025–26 R&D activities with AusIndustry by 30 April 2027.
Illustrative only — based on your inputs and stated assumptions, not a quote or a guarantee. Not financial, tax, or eligibility advice; Dossio does not make R&D eligibility determinations. Typical success fee = 10–25% of the benefit (Intellect Labs); the SERD Issues Paper (Sept 2025) puts the average at ~10%. The fee slider is your own number, not ours. Dossio's licence is shown flat and is a tax-deductible business expense. Estimated evidence-gathering hours assume ~40 hrs/R&D staff/year — a starting point, not a sourced figure.
Same claim, two ways
Same R&D. Very different year-end.
The manual way
Evidence reconstructed from memory at year-end
Hundreds of staff hours pulled into the claim
A success fee that grows every time your refund does
Substantiation assembled after the fact
With Dossio
Evidence captured the moment the work happens
60–80% fewer staff hours on evidence admin
A flat, tax-deductible licence — it doesn’t move with your refund
Audit-ready before you lodge, your adviser signs off
How the cost disappears
The form-filling is the cost — not the expertise.
Dossio moves the admin upstream, captured as the work happens — so your adviser's fee attaches to judgement, oversight and audit defence.
01
Your work, scattered
Commits, invoices, tickets and experiments — spread across the tools your team already uses.
02
Dossio captures & structures
Pulled in and structured against the R&D rules as the work happens. AI drafts; nothing is ever final on its own.
03
Audit-ready claim
Your adviser reviews and signs off. Defensible documentation, ready before you lodge.
See it in the platform
Real software, doing the paperwork.
Turn existing evidence into audit-ready documentation
Bulk-import what you already have. Dossio structures it against the R&D rules and surfaces the gaps — before you lodge, not after.
Your whole programme, structured and benchmarked
Track expenditure over time and see each claim against programme-wide data — with a trail an examiner can actually follow.
Why this is changing
Funding consultants to fill in forms.
86%
of RDTI claimants rely on third-party intermediaries to access the program.
SERD Issues Paper, Sept 2025
12,000+
businesses claim the R&D Tax Incentive each year, on average across the program.
ATO RDTI Transparency Report, 2024
Mar 2026
the Denholm review found the system is “funding a lot of consultants to do application forms.”
Ambitious Australia: Strategic Examination of R&D
Most of an R&D fee has historically paid for manual evidence-gathering and year-end reconstruction. That admin is the cost centre. Dossio moves it upstream — captured as the work happens — so your adviser's fee attaches to judgement, oversight, and audit defence. A flat licence doesn't grow with your refund the way a percentage success fee does. We disrupt the paperwork, never the human.
A low-risk pilot
Feel the relief before you pay a cent.
You're busy — that's the whole point. So we make the first step risk-free, and you're the one who decides whether it worked.
Run a current or recently-lodged claim through Dossio as a pilot. If it doesn't take the evidence busywork off your team's plate, you don't pay — and that's your call to make, not your adviser's. Like the relief? Your first year is half price.
Already mid-engagement with an adviser? Keep them — they still make every eligibility call. We work alongside, so you're never paying twice just to find out how much lighter the process can be.
A better claim, both sides
Good for the business. Good for the adviser.
What businesses gain
Hundreds of staff hours back each year
Audit-ready evidence captured at the point of work, not reconstructed at year-end
A flat, predictable, tax-deductible cost that doesn’t scale with your refund
Full ownership of your own evidence and process
What advisers gain
Clients arrive with clean, structured evidence — far less reconstruction
Higher-value work: judgement, oversight, and audit defence, not data-chasing
More claims on the same headcount
Stronger substantiation when the ATO asks
Never locked in
Your data. Your call. Always.
You own your evidence
Everything you capture is yours — always exportable, never held hostage.
Switch advisers freely
Not happy with your adviser? Give a new one your access. Your evidence comes with you.
Clean offboarding
Not happy with us? One-click export and a tidy exit. No lock-in, no drama.
Before you ask
The questions everyone asks.
You're not buying software. You're buying the time back.
See what the manual way is costing you, then take fifteen minutes with us. No switching, no risk — just less between you and an audit-ready claim.
Are you the adviser?
A faster practice, stronger claims.
Introduce R&D-eligible clients and earn recurring rewards on their licence fees — never a percentage of anyone's refund.
General information only, current as at June 2026 — not financial, tax, or eligibility advice. Dossio captures and structures evidence; your registered adviser determines R&D eligibility and stands behind the claim. Figures shown — including estimated savings and hours reduced — are illustrative estimates based on your inputs and sourced industry ranges, not a quote or a guarantee of any tax outcome.