About RDKit

Built for the companies that don’t fit the big firm model

We’re a lean R&DTI service with deep expertise and a simple belief: if you’re doing genuine R&D, you deserve to claim it — without paying a fortune to do so.

To make the R&D Tax Incentive actually accessible to Australian companies doing real innovation — not just the ones with big advisory budgets.

Our values

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Radical transparency

We show you our fee before we start. We tell you honestly if we think your claim is weak. We don't oversell. The R&DTI landscape is complex enough without your advisor adding confusion.

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We only win when you do

Our success fee model means we're incentivised to maximise your legitimate claim — not bill hours. If you don't get money back, we don't either. That's how it should work.

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Substance over tick-boxes

AusIndustry can spot templated claims immediately. We write genuine project descriptions that reflect your actual R&D — which is both the right thing to do and what gets claims approved.

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Accessible to founders

Enterprise consulting firms built their pricing for ASX-listed companies. We built RDKit for the startup trying to make payroll, the SME investing in product, the founder doing real innovation without a finance team.

K
Biomedical Science
5yr+ R&DTI
AusIndustry Expert
Lab Research
Technical Writing
Meet Kay

Hey, I’m Kay. I built this because the system was broken.

I started in biomedical research — lab bench work, experimental design, writing up methodologies for work where the outcome genuinely wasn’t known in advance. That experience taught me how to articulate technical uncertainty in a way that non-specialists can evaluate. Turns out that’s exactly what R&DTI claims require.

After moving into R&DTI consulting, I kept running into the same situation: genuinely innovative companies — software founders, manufacturing engineers, biotech researchers — doing work that clearly qualified, but either couldn’t afford the consulting fees or had been told by a generalist accountant that they “probably don’t qualify.”

The big consulting firms charge 15–25% of the refund, or $15k+ upfront. For a company recovering $80k, that’s $12–20k in fees. It’s excessive, and it prices out exactly the companies the R&DTI was designed for.

RDKit charges 5% — and I credit your $500 upfront payment against the final fee. I handle the technical writing, the expenditure mapping, and the AusIndustry submission. You review, approve, and receive your offset. Simple.

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