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.
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.

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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$26,000/yr
= 10% of your refund
Dossio · flat ($500K–$750K)
A$26,100
= 10% of your refund
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$26,000 and doesn't grow with your refund. At 10%, one year of your success fee is 1× that — every year. Keep your adviser; lose the busywork.

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Most June–year-end companies must register their FY2025–26 R&D activities with AusIndustry by 30 April 2027.
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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.

Dossio · Evidence Onboarding
Evidence Onboarding — Turn existing evidence into audit-ready documentation

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.

Dossio · R&D Intelligence
R&D Intelligence — Your whole programme, structured and benchmarked

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.

Do I have to leave my adviser?

No — that's the whole point. Your adviser keeps making every eligibility call and signs off on the claim. Dossio just captures the evidence behind it as the work happens, so you're paying for judgement, not paperwork.

Is this financial or tax advice?

No. The calculator is illustrative — based on your inputs and sourced industry ranges, not a quote, and not eligibility or tax advice. Your registered adviser determines what's eligible and stands behind the claim.

What happens if the ATO reviews my claim?

That's exactly what Dossio is built for. Evidence is captured at the point of work — timestamped and structured against the R&D rules — so substantiation is ready before you lodge, not reconstructed under pressure after a review letter lands.

How is Dossio different from my adviser?

Dossio isn't an adviser and doesn't replace one. It's the software layer that does the evidence admin your team currently does by hand — or that your adviser bills for. Your adviser brings the judgement; Dossio brings the audit trail.

What does it cost?

A flat annual licence based on your R&D spend band, shown in the calculator above. It doesn't grow with your refund the way a percentage success fee does — and it's a tax-deductible business expense.

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.