Turn your Outlook history into R&D tax credit evidence
Claimship reads technical email threads and vendor invoices from your Microsoft 365 mailbox to document engineering discussion and support contract research costs.
What Claimship reads from Outlook
Claimship reads two kinds of email from Outlook: 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 mailbox. 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 show scoped vendor 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 Jira. 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 Outlook through a read-only scope. It cannot send, delete, or modify email.
- You control the scope: Claimship looks for technical and vendor-related threads, not your full mailbox history.
- Revoke access from your Microsoft account settings or your Claimship dashboard anytime. Syncing stops immediately.
Setup
- 1Open the Integrations tab in your Claimship dashboard.
- 2Click Connect on Outlook and sign in with your work Microsoft account.
- 3Grant the read-only mailbox 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.