Guided monthly interviews
Short, structured conversations with your engineers. No blank-page questionnaires and no need to reconstruct projects months later.
The platform behind Vantage R&D
Steady evidence.
Stronger claims.
Most R&D claims are built under pressure at the end of the year. Evidence is reconstructed, costs are pieced together, and important details are often missing.
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Cadence changes that.
It is the system we use at Vantage R&D to gather technical information and costs during the year. This creates the contemporaneous records HMRC expects, while making the whole process far less disruptive for your team.
You stay in control. We handle the structure, the follow-up, and the final claim.
Why it matters
Why Cadence is needed.
HMRC now places much greater weight on contemporaneous evidence—records created while the R&D was taking place, not reconstructed months later.
Most claims are still prepared the traditional way: a concentrated push at year-end, relying on memory and incomplete records. This often leaves gaps in the technical story and makes the claim harder to defend.
We have seen this directly in our work with HMRC. Where contemporaneous evidence exists, discussions are clearer and more straightforward. Where it does not, enquiries become longer, more detailed, and more disruptive. Weak or reconstructed evidence significantly increases the risk of challenge.
Cadence addresses this by gathering technical information and costs at a steady monthly pace. Short structured interviews capture the work while it is still fresh, and costs are tracked as projects progress. By the time the claim is prepared, the key evidence is already in place.
The result is a stronger, better-documented claim that is easier to prepare, easier to explain, and far more robust if HMRC asks questions.
What Cadence does
One clear process. Less disruption. Better evidence.
Cadence is not a self-serve form or a generic questionnaire. It is the working system behind every claim we deliver. It keeps technical detail and costs organised in one place, so nothing is left to memory at year-end.
What this means for you:
Clear cost tracking
Costs are captured and allocated properly as the work happens, reducing last-minute scrambling and errors.
Technical reports ready on Day 1
Cadence helps produce a solid first draft of the technical narrative as soon as the year ends. We then review and refine every line before anything is finalised.
A simple client portal
You can see progress, answer questions, and sign off in one place. No more wondering where the claim has got to.
How it works
The claim, in four steps.
Interview
We capture the technical story while it is still fresh.
Quantify
Costs are organised and allocated properly.
Draft
A clear technical report is prepared and reviewed by us.
Sign off
You approve the finished claim before we file it.
For clients
You see the claim as it develops — not just at the end.
Most advisers go quiet until filing day. With Cadence you can see the claim taking shape: a place to answer our questions as they come up, and clear sign-off points before anything is filed in your name.
The result is a stronger, better-documented claim with far less disruption to your team.
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