For Bell Canada, a large-scale initiative to automate the SR&ED (Scientific Research, Experimentation and Development) claim would only deliver ROI if it amounted to tens of millions of dollars’ additional reduction in tax payable in the first year. Knowing that our success would be measured on real dollar benefits, our teams knew they had to focus more on a solution that intelligently mined project data for tax credit opportunities and made sure they were correctly classified and exposed to maximize Bell’s SR&ED claim. In our first year of production, the SR&ED claims automation system, built exclusively by Thoughtcorp working side-by-side with the CRA and Bell Canada, delivered Millions of dollars in tax reductions.