The R&D Tax Incentive has traditionally been a documentation-heavy process. Businesses invest significant effort compiling technical narratives, mapping expenditure, and ensuring compliance with AusIndustry guidelines. AI is changing that equation.
Modern AI platforms like ExaRDTI analyse development artifacts — Jira tickets, code commits, sprint data — and draft compliant technical narratives that serve as a starting point for collaborative refinement. The AI understands what AusIndustry assessors look for and structures documentation accordingly.
But AI alone is not enough. The most effective approach is a true partnership: AI drafts, RDTI specialists guide, and you — the business — contribute the domain expertise that makes each narrative precise and defensible. ExaRDTI brings all three together in a single collaborative workflow that also handles AI-aided expense allocation and analysis.
The result is a claim process that requires 10x less effort, costs a fraction of traditional consulting fees, and produces more thorough documentation. For businesses that have been under-claiming or avoiding the RDTI program because of the documentation burden, this collaborative AI-powered approach is removing the barrier.