Grants & Incentives

Fast, effective, efficient applications and compliance

Our Grants & Incentives practice is built to help businesses access non-dilutive funding with confidence, speed, and control. We combine deep technical expertise with a fully AI-powered delivery model to improve consistency, quality, and efficiency across every engagement. With our role extending well beyond preparing claims, we act as a long-term partner, helping businesses fund innovation, manage risk, and scale with confidence.

AI-powered R&D Tax
Incentive Service

  • Unique real-time, AI-powered service.
  • Continuous validation of eligibility, expenditure, and documentation throughout year.
  • Custom-developed R&D governance agent reviews all claims. Ensures consistency, removes reliance on individual interpretation of legislation. 
  • Accurate, defensible, and audit-ready claims.
  • Constant compliance with governance requirements. Strong controls. Clear audit trails. Contemporaneous evidence. 
  • Reduced regulatory risk.  Claim integrity confidence for boards, finance teams, and investors.
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Commercial focus


  • A focus on commercial outcomes as much as compliance.
  • Improving cash flow predictability, accelerating access to R&D financing, enabling faster reinvestment into growth, innovation, and commercialisation initiatives.
  • Wide range of programs support. From $25K energy efficiency upgrades through to large-scale $25m carbon reduction and transformation programs.
  • All industry sectors, at every stage of growth, with a particular focus on start-ups and scale-ups.
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Free Grant Identification Service


  • All clients receive our free Grant Identification Service. 
  • Continuous monitoring of federal and state programs to ensure no opportunity is missed. 
  • Funding strategies remain proactive rather than reactive.
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The Stannards Difference

The Stannards Difference

Real-time, AI powered delivery
Our R&D Tax Incentive model supports eligibility, expenditure and documentation review throughout the year, rather than relying on a retrospective year-end process.
Strong governance and audit readiness
Custom claim review, clear audit trails and contemporaneous evidence help improve consistency, defensibility and confidence for boards, finance teams and investors.
Commercial focus beyond compliance
We help clients use grants and incentives to improve cash flow predictability, support reinvestment and fund growth, innovation and commercialisation.
Proactive opportunity identification
Our free Grant Identification Service continuously monitors federal and state programs so clients can act early and avoid missed funding opportunities.

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Laurens Visscher

Grants & Incentives

Director

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