Not by what we would like to sell you.
We conduct research. Tax advisers prepare claims. Nothing here overlaps with the accountant you already have.
Each service is one link in the same six-step value chain — Frame, Design, Execute, Integrate, Govern, Return. See the full chain. This is Ignition Research's research methodology, not a government standard for R&D Tax Incentive eligibility.
Assess
“Is this project routine implementation, or is there something genuinely uncertain in it?”
An initial review of your project's uncertainty and an honest view on whether further R&D scoping is worthwhile.
Step 1 · Frame
Design
“If it may be R&D, what exactly would we test — and how?”
Defined technical uncertainty, research questions and hypotheses, and a staged pathway your team can execute.
Step 2 · Design
Document
“How should we record our tests, evidence and process?”
Evidence logs, experiment record templates and a documentation framework embedded in your team's workflow.
Step 5 · Govern
Deliver
“Can IR stay involved while the work is delivered?”
Research governance, specialist coordination and project-cycle records — working inside the research, not after it.
Steps 3–4 · Execute and Integrate
Navigate
“Which support pathways may become relevant to this project later?”
Orientation across R&DTI, CRC-P, CRC and ARC Linkage, and what preparation each pathway may require.
Step 6 · Return
Most work starts small and stays project-shaped. Some businesses need the capability standing by instead.
A short, fixed-fee check on whether there is genuine technical uncertainty in the project, and what the first research question would be.
Read more →Research capability on retainer rather than project by project, for businesses where the uncertainty keeps arriving.
Read more →We do not publish a rate card — every project is different. The process does not change.
We work out what is actually uncertain in the project.
You see both in writing before anything starts.
No commitment to continue, and no cost for stopping here.
We work with companies facing unresolved technical challenges, teams building software, AI or engineering solutions without formal research methods, businesses with no internal research capability, and international companies establishing R&D in Australia.
Not a salesperson. If a research pathway is not the right tool for what you describe, that is what you will be told.
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