R&D claims from your code

Your R&D Claim, Built From Jira and GitHub.

Advisers keep 10 to 15% of your relief. Logbook writes the claim from work you already logged, for one flat fee.

  • Read-only access
  • Evidence file included
  • Cancel any time

Work out your claim

Your relief a year£43,200
An adviser’s 12%£5,184
Logbook, flat fee£1,750
You keep with an adviser£38,016
You keep with Logbook£41,450

A rough estimate, not tax advice.

10 to 15%of the relief goes to the adviser, every year, and up to 30% on small claims.

Built for: software, SaaS and engineering teams of 5 to 100 people.

Now taking our first 10 firms
The problem

You Did the Work Twice. Once in Code, Once for the Adviser.

The hard part of a claim is the write-up: what was uncertain, what you tried, what failed. It’s already in your tickets and commits. Advisers charge you every year to type it up again.

10 to 15%

of the relief goes to the adviser, every year, and up to 30% on small claims.

Source: randdtax.co.uk
Expensive

A share of your relief, every year, for a write-up of work you already documented.

Slow

Weeks of interviews and spreadsheets while your best engineers explain last year again.

How it works

From Tickets to a Finished Claim.

app.getlogbook.io/projects
Claim year 2025
Offline sync engineSYNC · 182 tickets · 1,240 commits
1,180hLikely R&D
Route optimiser v2ROUTE · 96 tickets · 610 commits
740hLikely R&D
Fraud scoring modelRISK · 54 tickets · 380 commits
520hCheck
Billing page redesignWEB · 71 tickets · 402 commits
310hNot R&D
4 projects found · 3 ticked for the claim
Sample
1Project map

A Year of Tickets, Grouped Into Projects.

We group a year of tickets and commits into projects. You tick the ones that count.

  • Read-only Jira and GitHub access
  • Hours per project from ticket and commit activity
  • "Likely R&D" tags you can overrule
Project: Offline sync engine

What did you not know at the start?

We didn’t know if we could merge edits from 40,000 devices without a central lock. Two published approaches failed under real load (tickets SYNC-212, SYNC-240).

SYNC-212a41f9c2
Drafted write-upFrom 3 answers and 46 tickets

Technological uncertainty

Sample
210-minute interview

Ten Minutes Per Project, Not Ten Meetings.

A short Q&A per project, and AI drafts the write-up from your answers and tickets.

  • Questions written around what HMRC and RVO ask
  • Every sentence linked to the tickets behind it
  • Edit the draft until it says what you mean
Evidence fileClaim year 2025, bundled 14 Mar 2026
4/4
Hours log by project.xlsx
12 Mar 2026
Technical write-up.pdf
13 Mar 2026
Tickets and commits by project.csv
13 Mar 2026
Qualifying costs.xlsx
14 Mar 2026
Sample
3Evidence file

Ready If HMRC or RVO Ask.

Hours, costs and the write-up, dated and bundled, ready if HMRC or RVO asks.

  • An hours log per project
  • Costs split the way the scheme wants them
  • One dated bundle per claim year
Inside Logbook

Everything You Get, Set Up for You.

10founding places, each one set up by hand

We set up our first 10 customers by hand. Pick a plan and join them.

Pick a plan
Founding offer

Founding customers pay half for the first 12 months. Nothing is charged until it’s live for you. Cancel any time.

Pricing

One Flat Fee Per Claim Year.

Not a share of your relief. The same price whether your claim is small or large, and founding firms pay half for the first year.

£1,750per claim year£875 for founding firmsSee pricing
Questions

Frequently Asked Questions

Write to Tim. You get an answer from a person, usually the same day.

All questions

Will the claim hold up if HMRC or RVO ask questions?

Every claim comes with a dated evidence file, and a tax specialist can review it on request.

Do you see our code?

No. Ticket titles, descriptions and commit messages, read-only.

We already have an adviser, can we switch?

Yes, most firms switch at the start of a claim year.

Does it work for the WBSO?

Yes, with the WBSO text and the hours log RVO asks for.

What does it cost?

One flat fee per claim year: £1,750 in the UK or €1,950 in the Netherlands. Founding firms pay half for the first 12 months.

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