First project free forever

First project free forever.

Automate the heavy lifting of your R&D claim. Prepare the ultimate, evidence-backed draft so your accountant only bills you for 1 hour of review, not 30 hours of drafting.

Always free. No sign-up to check eligibility, estimate your offset, or draft an activity description.

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Drafts generated
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Founders started
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Claims in progress
Made in Australia Data stored in Sydney AusIndustry & ATO aligned
RDTI Lodge · Claim FY26
Estimated refundable offset
$184,250
on $545,000 notional R&D · refundable tier
DRAFT
3
Core activities
7
Supporting
412
Evidence items
Hypothesis · Realtime ingestion at 10k rps✓ ready
Hypothesis · Sub-50ms vector retrieval✓ ready
Hypothesis · Cross-tenant isolation under GPU contentiondrafting…
Xero · synced 9 min agoMYOB · coming soonAudit log · live
Free, no credit cardFY26 rates baked inAusIndustry & ATO alignedSelf-serve, no commission
Security & IP Privacy

Enterprise-grade by default. Your IP stays yours.

We built RDTI Lodge for technical founders who care where their codebase, payroll and financial data end up.

Zero-Retention APIs

Your data is passed through secure, zero-retention enterprise API endpoints. Your proprietary code and financials are never used to train external LLMs.

Metadata Only

We don't read your core logic. We only read metadata — commit timestamps, PR titles, and ticket tags — to mathematically tether your workflow to your financials.

Local Storage

All compliance ledgers and sensitive financial data are securely stored in Sydney, Australia.

Karen from Accounts, the RDTI Lodge compliance assistant
Karen, Accountson shift
Meet your free compliance hire

Karen from Accounts flags the gaps before AusIndustry does.

Karen is the polite-but-thorough compliance reference baked into RDTI Lodge. She quietly aggregates your evidence and flags what's missing against the four-part test, so your registered tax agent can sign off in an hour instead of thirty.

  • “That's a lovely feature. Was it actually experimental?”
  • “I'll need the Jira ticket for that one, sweetheart.”
  • “You've double-counted the AWS bill. I've flagged it.”
  • “AusIndustry registration for FY25 closes 30 April. Pop it on the calendar, love.”
Put Karen to work (free) Software tool, not a registered tax agent.
Always free, no sign-up

Everything you need to brief your tax agent, free to download.

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The four-step claim flow

From kickoff to a review-ready draft, automated.

The AI Audit Assistant aggregates evidence and flags what's missing against the four-part test — your accountant still owns the sign-off.

01
Tell us what you built

Describe your R&D project in plain English. Our AI Audit Assistant maps it to AusIndustry's four-part test and flags gaps before you hit submit.

02
Connect Xero (or upload)

One-click sync pulls GL and payroll into structured expenditure lines. No accounting stack? Upload invoices and payroll exports — the assistant interviews you for the rest.

03
Compliance Engine aggregates evidence

Activities, hypotheses, contributors and expenditure are grouped into Core and Supporting buckets with year-locked ATO math. You approve every grouping.

04
Hand a finished draft to your accountant

AusIndustry PD, ATO R&D Schedule and a row-level audit file. Your accountant reviews and signs off in an hour, not 30.

No Xero? No worries.Plenty of eligible companies run on spreadsheets. The assistant runs a guided interview, pulls evidence from documents, emails and finance exports, and structures the narrative with you.
Live FY26 math

Find out what you'd get back, in 30 seconds.

Plug in your aggregated turnover and notional R&D spend. We apply the current refundable / non-refundable tiered formula from the ATO and show you the offset, the intensity tier you fall into, and a plain-English explanation.

  • Refundable offset for turnover under $20M
  • Tiered 8.5pp / 16.5pp split at 2% intensity
  • $150M R&D expenditure cap respected
Open the calculator
Sample · early-stage SaaS
Aggregated turnover
$3.2M
Notional R&D
$612,000
Company tax rate
25%
Total expenses
$2.1M
Refundable offset
$266,220
company tax rate + 18.5pp · refundable tier
Indicative only. Final claim depends on eligible expenditure and AusIndustry registration.
Why this is different

Not another consultant portal.

R&D tax software used to be the front door to a $30k consulting bill. We took the consultant out of the way and made the software free, so you keep the offset.

Evidence-linked

Every line of your PD links back to the commit, ticket or GL row that justifies it. Audit-ready by construction.

AusIndustry format-perfect

Hypothesis 4,000 chars. Sources 1,000 chars. Field of Research dropdown. Drops into the portal field-for-field.

Year-locked math

Re-run a 2024 claim in 2027 and get the same offset. Rate schedules versioned in the database.

Free early access

Be in the first FY26 cohort.

We're onboarding a small group of Australian companies preparing FY26 claims. Full product, free. White-glove setup and a direct line to the team building it.

  • White-glove onboarding
  • Free for the full FY26 claim preparation cycle
  • Direct line to the engineering team
No spam. We email when your cohort opens.