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HyBrayn Funding Service

R&D tax allowance: up to 24.5 % of your AI development back

Via the German R&D tax incentive as contract research, you reclaim a large share of our development invoice: nationwide, a legal entitlement, retroactive. We guide the whole path — from pre-check to submission.

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Free pre-check · No approval guarantee · Your tax advisor files it

How your funding service works

Four steps, minimal effort for you. We do the work; you submit in your own name.

  1. Discovery & free R&D pre-check

    We work out the fundable project with you and check whether it meets the technical development risk the R&D tax incentive requires.

  2. Cost calculation

    We compile the eligible costs cleanly — transparent and traceable.

  3. R&D evidence & application preparation

    We write the technical evidence of our development work and prepare all documents for the certification body and the application.

  4. Support through to submission

    You submit in your own name; your tax advisor handles the tax assessment. We support you technically and organisationally — not tax or legal advice.

Result: up to ~24.5% of your development costs back

Under the R&D tax incentive, 70% of our invoice counts as an eligible expense × the 35% SME rate (≈ 24.5%); 25% for larger companies (≈ 17.5%). Nationwide, retroactive, no budget cap.

What we deliver — and what not

So you know exactly where HyBrayn acts for you and where you act on your own.

Core product

R&D tax incentive (nationwide)

Our actively delivered core product — we handle the whole process from pre-check to submission. For any company in Germany.

We assist

State funding Saxony & Brandenburg

In Saxony (EFRE) and Brandenburg (BIG-Digital) we additionally support you with matching state programmes.

Self-service

Other states

We point you to further state programmes, but applications there are usually filed independently (sometimes by lottery) — they are outside our service scope.

The honest conditions

So it's clear when the R&D tax incentive applies — and when it doesn't.

  • Only for genuine technical development risk (novelty, open outcome). Routine use of established standard tools does not qualify.
  • No approval guarantee. The project must be certified as R&D by the certification body (BSFZ).
  • The applicant is your company. The tax claim is made through your tax advisor — we do not provide tax or legal advice.
  • HyBrayn qualifies as an EU contractor (§ 2 (5) FZulG). The incentive lowers your effective development price — we ourselves claim nothing.

Frequently asked questions about the research allowance

Always your company — never HyBrayn. You apply for the BSFZ certificate and claim the research allowance (Forschungszulage) through your tax return. HyBrayn provides the eligible development work as contract research plus the draft of the technical R&D documentation; filing is done by you or your tax advisor.

For contract research, 70 % of the invoice amount counts as eligible expenditure. On this, the German Research Allowance Act (FZulG) grants SMEs a funding rate of 35 % — effectively up to 24.5 % of the development invoice. For larger companies the rate is 25 %, effectively 17.5 %.

Only genuine research and development projects with technical uncertainty — projects whose success is not certain from the outset. Merely rolling out proven standard tools is not eligible. That is exactly what we assess honestly in the free preliminary check, before you invest any effort.

Recommended, yes: the research allowance is credited through your tax return, and your tax advisor incorporates the BSFZ certificate there. HyBrayn delivers the technical part — no tax or legal advice; eligibility in your specific case is for you to clarify with your tax advisor or tax office.

No. The BSFZ decides on the certificate, the tax office on the crediting. There is a legal entitlement if the statutory criteria are met — in the preliminary check we tell you honestly how we rate your chances, but we give no approval guarantee.

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