Cadence — by Vantage R&D
Your R&D claim, built while the work happens — not rebuilt from memory in March.
One example project, walked screen by screen — from the monthly email to the moment it’s fully in our hands. This is exactly how working with us looks.
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Step 01 — The nudge
One email. No chasing.
Every month, Cadence emails the client a single link. No portal login to remember, no spreadsheet to hunt down — just one click into their update.
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Step 02 — All projects, one screen
Every live project, at a glance.
Clients see every R&D project in the claim year in one place, with a live progress bar. Nothing to fill in blind — just work through what’s outstanding.
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Step 03 — A conversation, not a form
The AI opens with a real question.
No 500-word tax questionnaire. The interview starts exactly where a good adviser would — asking what the project actually does, and why it exists.
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Step 04 — Probing for substance
It knows what HMRC actually wants to hear.
The AI digs past the marketing description straight to the technical uncertainty — the part of the story that makes or breaks a claim.
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Step 05 — Grading as it goes
Every answer is scored, live.
Inline quality tags — strong, weak, needs more — tell the client, and you, exactly how defensible each answer is before the interview even ends.
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Step 06 — Quantified evidence
It won’t settle for vague.
A measurable failure rate on real SKUs, not a hand-wave. Quick-reply options keep the conversation moving without losing precision.
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Step 07 — Following the thread
One good answer earns the next question.
Root cause, then resolution — the AI builds the exact narrative HMRC needs to see: uncertainty, investigation, outcome.
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Step 08 — Time, not guesswork
Who worked on it — and how much.
A simple percentage-of-month form per team member. No timesheets, no spreadsheets to reconcile weeks later.
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Step 08 — Time, not guesswork
Thirty seconds, not thirty minutes.
Filled in and submitted — that allocation feeds straight into the qualifying expenditure calculation, automatically.
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Step 09 — Progress that updates itself
Done is done.
The project flips to Complete the moment the client finishes — no admin needed to mark it off.
From here
That’s your part done. From here, it’s on us.
Our analyst picks it up within days — reviewing it, chasing anything HMRC would flag, and folding it into your evidence file. If anything needs a closer look, we’ll ask precisely for it in next month’s conversation, which already has full context from this one. You never fill in the same blank twice.
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That’s not a mockup. That’s the real product, screen by screen, exactly as it runs for every client.
Cadence is how we run every claim at Vantage R&D — the only platform built specifically for UK R&D tax credit claims, from the first monthly nudge to the final, audit-ready figure.
The product shown is real. The company, contact and figures are an illustrative example, built to demonstrate the workflow end to end.