The platform R&D tax specialists run their practice on
Projects, financials, reviews and AIFs in one connected workspace, built by R&D advisers.
See how Novel fits the way your team already works.
Start with the step that slows you down most
Every stage works from the same claim, so what you enter once carries through to the AIF, tax computation and reports.
Novel Intelligence: Financial
Upload financial files and payroll. Costs come back categorised, with live formulas and every figure traced to source.
- Raw account transactions or payroll files
- Full audit trail
- Export to your own templates
Novel Intelligence: Technical
Get from project material to a first draft in hours, not a day. Start from a report, document or call transcript, and Novel AI drafts it with DSIT references and a hallucination check, ready for you to review, edit and verify.
- Activities linked to their uncertainty
- Automatic baseline review checks each project against what’s already known in the field to spot routine work
- Competent professional profiles generated from a CV or LinkedIn profile
AIF & CNF preparation
Pre-filled from your projects, financials and claims, checked against HMRC requirements.
- Built-in compliance checks
- Copies stored with the claim
Tax computation
Shift between scenarios and compare the results side by side. Claim figures flow straight into a full corporation tax computation, so you can show clients exactly what their claim is worth and which scenario suits them best.
- Side-by-side scenario comparison
- Branded PDF reports
Client collaboration
Run the claim yourself, or bring your client in when it helps. They can collaborate with you or fill in the details they know best.
- Comments and tags on the claim
- Fewer files to send, save and keep track of
- In-app history log of every client change, so you can verify it and keep a full audit trail
Corporation Tax Tracker
Checks every claim’s HMRC status and notifies you of any changes to the claim, so you’re never waiting on the client or checking manually every day.
- No more checking each claim by hand
- In-app and email notifications
- Every client in one view
Only need one part? Novel Intelligence: Financial and Corporation Tax Tracker are also sold on their own. See pricing →
Every claim and every client in one place
Consultants, reviewers and clients all work from the same, up-to-date version, so nothing slips through the cracks or gets lost in an email thread.
Practice insights. Status, deadlines, forecast benefit and fees for every client.
Tasks by role. Split between technical users, financial users and advisers, with reminders before deadlines.
Review and sign-off. Choose a reviewer, attach preparer’s notes and finalise. Finalised claims stay locked unless someone explicitly requests permission to reopen them, providing a preserved submission state and full audit trail.
Capture R&D detail whilst the client is talking
Turns a client call into draft projects, picking out uncertainties, the baseline and the advancement sought as they’re mentioned.
Each activity links to the uncertainty it addresses, so the narrative’s logic is built in.
Upload an expert’s CV and Novel AI builds their profile.
Drafted with DSIT references and a hallucination check, ready for you to review, edit and verify.
Client
Once we got below minus ten degrees, the sensors just kept drifting.
You
Had anyone solved that commercially?
Client
Not that we could find. Every datasheet quotes about half a percent.
You
So what were you aiming for?
Client
Under 0.2%, and holding down to minus twenty.
Uncertainty: sensor drift below −10°C
Baseline: commercial sensors drift 0.5% at −10°C
Advancement: drift below 0.2% at −20°C
What leaves Novel at the end of every claim
Every report goes out under your firm’s name and branding, from your logo and colours to your cover page, written the way your team already writes.
R&D projects and activities, qualifying information and the competent professional’s details.
Qualifying expenditure by category and project, with the tax computation and the client’s forecast benefit.
Pre-filled from the claim and checked against HMRC requirements.
Flagged when required and tracked to its deadline.
How Novel compares
Advisers first, software second
Novel started inside an advisory firm. Tom brings over a decade of experience preparing R&D tax relief claims, and Ben has spent over a decade advising SMEs. Together, they first built Novel as an in-house tool for their own team of consultants. Today it’s still shaped by people who know what a claim season feels like.
Tom brought the tribunal case that required HMRC to disclose its use of AI in R&D tax relief reviews. We’ve always cared about how AI handles your clients’ data, and we take great care to make sure it stays protected.
Meet the team →See how much time Novel could save your team
Enter your claim volume and team cost to see the hours Novel could give back each year.
Illustrative. Assumes about 7 hours saved per claim: technical narrative (7.5 h → 3 h), financials (3.75 h → 2 h), AIF (30 → 10 min), tax computation (30 → 4 min).
Before you book a walkthrough
Will we have to change how we work?
No. You’ll work through the same stages you follow today: projects, financials, internal review and the AIF. The only difference is that you can do it all in one place.
Is Novel just an AI narrative writer?
No. Narratives are only one part. Novel also handles financials, apportionment, AIFs, reviews and deadlines.
How long does it take to get going?
Teams that are ready can be up and running within a week, and most feel completely at home within a month. You’re never on your own. Unlimited in-app support is one click away, with replies from our team in minutes.
How is pricing worked out?
Choose a plan that fits your practice. Plans are tiered by organisations, users and features. Novel Intelligence: Financial and Corporation Tax Tracker can also be sold separately. See pricing
Is our client data secure?
Yes. Your clients’ data is fully protected, secured to ISO 27001 standards and handled in line with your contract.
Where is your data stored?
All client data is stored within the UK and the EEA (European Economic Area).
See how a claim comes together in Novel
We’ll take you through a sample claim, from first project to a finished AIF and report, with no client data needed.
Book a 30-minute walkthrough