R&D Time Tracking
ReaDI-Watch enables you to capture how much time your team actually spends on R&D, helping you support more of your R&D labour costs with less risk and effort. Import existing timesheets, track time in ReaDI in minutes each week, or use the ReaDI Assistant to fill gaps through guided conversations. Connect every hour to the R&D project and work performed, replacing broad estimates with a clear, evidence-backed record that makes R&D labour costs easier to claim and defend against the relevant funding requirements.
R&D Time Tracking
Time connected to actual R&D work
Time assessed against funding requirements
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Project Management — Engineering Product Company
An engineering product company with 8 active development initiatives had no unified view of commercial viability, technology risk, or R&D tax eligibility. ReaDI brought structure, visibility, and funding.
The Situation
The company’s engineering team was running 8 concurrent development initiatives — spanning hardware platforms, software tooling, and new product lines. But leadership had no reliable way to answer three fundamental questions: Which projects are on track to deliver commercial value? Which projects have de-risked their core technology? Which projects — or parts of projects — qualify for SR&ED R&D tax credits? Teams met frequently but informally. Decisions were made verbally. Progress was tracked in disconnected spreadsheets. The board was flying blind — and significant SR&ED funding was being left unclaimed.
The Transformation
ReaDI delivered a live portfolio dashboard — a single view across all 8 projects covering commercial readiness, technology risk, and SR&ED claimability. Development gates were defined per project to structure progress and reduce ambiguity. Each project was assessed for technological uncertainty, with de-risked milestones documented to support both delivery confidence and tax claim evidence. ERP-linked project codes were introduced so engineering time and spend could be attributed directly to R&D work. Monthly board-ready reports replaced ad-hoc meetings, queryable on demand without requiring engineering input.
The Outcome
Faster development — defined gates and structured documentation replaced ad-hoc meetings, so teams moved faster with less ambiguity. SR&ED funding secured — R&D-eligible work was identified across multiple projects and captured in audit-ready claims, recovering significant government funding. Board confidence restored — leadership had a live, queryable view of all 8 projects: commercial pipeline, technical progress, and funding status in one place.
Running multiple development projects without a unified view?
ReaDI brings structure, visibility, and funding to your engineering portfolio — live project dashboards, development gates, R&D work packages, and SR&ED-ready claims. Your engineers stay focused on building.
Frequently asked questions
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ReaDI is a structured platform, supported by an expert team, that helps R&D-intensive organisations capture, document and fund their Research, Development and Innovation (RD&I) activity. It keeps the work organised, defensible and ready for reporting, funding and decision-making, instead of leaving it scattered across people’s memories, inboxes and spreadsheets.
Both. The platform provides a structured environment, while our team can help define projects, maintain momentum and support reporting where needed. You get a managed system with expert support, as well as access to the software.
No. Many organisations we work with do not have a formal R&D function. The work can sit across engineering, product, operations and quality. ReaDI helps when your team is solving technical problems but cannot easily show what was tried, what worked and why.
RD&I becomes more structured and easier to manage. Projects are framed clearly from the outset, documentation is captured as the work happens and leadership gains better visibility. This reduces the need to reconstruct technical activity at year-end.
The aim is to make capturing your team’s work feel like a natural part of the process, without adding a separate administrative burden. ReaDI works alongside your existing tools and workflows, so engineers do not have to adopt a completely different way of working.