Turn your Linear history into R&D tax credit evidence
Claimship reads the issues, projects, and cycles in your Linear workspace to show the technical uncertainty behind your product roadmap.
What Claimship reads from Linear
Claimship connects to the Linear workspace you choose and reads issues, including titles, descriptions, and comment threads. It also reads the projects and cycles those issues belong to.
Issue status history matters too. Claimship tracks how an issue moved through your workflow, including issues that got reopened, blocked, or reworked after an initial attempt failed.
Projects and cycles give Claimship the structure to group related issues into a single research effort, which makes it easier to tie a set of issues to a specific feature or technical problem for the study.
The evidence it extracts
Issue descriptions capture the technical question
A well-written Linear issue states the problem and the unknown. That framing is close to what the four-part test asks for directly.
Reopened and blocked issues show real uncertainty
An issue that got reopened after a first attempt failed is strong evidence of trial and error, not routine work.
Comment threads document the process of experimentation
Engineers debating an approach inside an issue thread create a written record of the alternatives they tested.
Cycles tie work to a timeframe
Linear cycles map issues to specific sprints, which helps Claimship place work correctly within the tax year.
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 Linear through a read-only OAuth integration. It cannot create, edit, or close issues.
- You choose which teams and projects to share when you connect, and you can adjust that later.
- Revoke access from Linear's integrations settings or your Claimship dashboard. Syncing stops right away.
Setup
- 1Open the Integrations tab in your Claimship dashboard.
- 2Click Connect on Linear and authorize with your Linear account.
- 3Select the teams or projects you want Claimship to read.
- 4Claimship begins pulling issue and cycle history within minutes.
Common questions
Setup in 15 minutes. First estimate the same week.