Turn your Gmail history into R&D tax credit evidence
Claimship reads technical email threads and vendor invoices to document engineering discussion and support contract research costs.
What Claimship reads from Gmail
Claimship reads two kinds of email: technical threads and vendor invoices. Technical threads include discussions with contractors, vendors, or outside engineers about product or infrastructure work.
Vendor invoices matter for a different reason. If your team pays US contractors for development work, those invoices support the contract research expense line in your study. US contractor costs count at 65 percent under the federal credit rules.
Claimship does not read your entire inbox. It looks for the threads and invoices relevant to engineering and contract research, based on the scope you set when you connect.
The evidence it extracts
Contractor invoices support contract research costs
An invoice from a US contractor doing development work becomes evidence for that portion of your qualified research expenses, counted at 65 percent.
Technical threads with vendors show scoped work
An email thread defining what a contractor was asked to build documents the technical uncertainty behind that work.
Threads fill gaps that code and issues don't cover
Some early technical discussion happens over email before it ever reaches GitHub or Linear. Claimship captures that context too.
Permissions
Read-only by design
Claimship can read your data. It cannot write, change, or delete anything in your tools. The one exception is the payroll credit push, which you approve first.
You choose the scope
Pick the repos, projects, and channels we can see. Skip anything sensitive. The study only uses what you share.
Revoke anytime
Disconnect a tool in one click from your dashboard or from the tool itself. Syncing stops immediately.
- Claimship connects to Gmail through a read-only OAuth scope. It cannot send, delete, or modify email.
- You control the scope: Claimship looks for technical and vendor-related threads, not your full inbox history.
- Revoke access from your Google account settings or your Claimship dashboard anytime. Syncing stops immediately.
Setup
- 1Open the Integrations tab in your Claimship dashboard.
- 2Click Connect on Gmail and sign in with your work Google account.
- 3Grant the read-only Gmail permission Claimship requests.
- 4Claimship begins scanning for relevant technical threads and invoices within minutes.
Common questions
Setup in 15 minutes. First estimate the same week.