R&D evidence ledger

Your R&D,
on the record.

PriorSeal records your R&D as it happens: each hypothesis, experiment and result, tied to its activity and timestamped. When claim time comes, the evidence is already there. And when the work produces an invention, you’ll know before it slips out.

Ledger entryREC-2026-0412
RecordThermal coating trial 3 — adhesion failed above 180°C; switching binder.
ActivityCore R&D · Hypothesis 2
Hashsha256 9f2c 41ab e07d 3b18 c6a2 55f0 8e9d 17c4
IP flagPossible invention: binder formulation. Decide protection route.
Sealed 14:02 AEDT · 08 Oct 2026Sealed
01 — The problem

Most R&D claims are reconstructed after the fact.

A blank sealing-wax seal pressed into textured paper, in deep ink blue.
i.

Records written at claim time

Months later, teams rebuild the year from memory, inboxes and timesheets. Reconstructed records are the weakest kind of evidence, and they take the most time and effort to produce.

ii.

Activities that are hard to substantiate

A claim has to show a hypothesis, the experiments that tested it, and what was learned. Those records rarely exist in that shape.

iii.

Exposure if you’re reviewed

AusIndustry and the ATO can review a claim years after it is lodged. If the records don’t hold up, the benefit can be clawed back.

02 — How it works

A ledger that keeps itself.

01

Capture

Log experiments, decisions and results where your team already works, each tied to a core or supporting R&D activity.

02

Seal

Every record is hashed and timestamped the moment it’s made, so you can show what you knew, and when.

03

Claim

At year end, records come out organised by activity, in the shape a claim needs: hypothesis, experiment, result, conclusion. Ready for your adviser.

04

Protect

Along the way, PriorSeal flags possible inventions, so you can choose formal protection, defensive publication or the trade-secret register before anything is disclosed.

03 — AI Guard · Coming soon

Check the prompt before it leaves the building.

Your team uses AI tools every day. AI Guard will screen prompts for confidential technical detail and unprotected inventions, and record what was shared.

Prompt screened · 14:07

“Summarise why the new binder holds adhesion above 180°C, including the ratio we landed on…”

Contains a flagged, unprotected formulation.Held for review
04 — Who it’s for

One record, three readers.

Innovative SMEs

Claim with confidence: contemporaneous records for every R&D activity, without a documentation burden on your engineers.

For SMEs

R&D tax advisers

Receive clients’ records already organised by activity and timestamped, instead of chasing them at year end.

For advisers

Patent attorneys

See possible inventions when they are flagged, with a dated record behind them, before disclosure closes the door.

For attorneys
05 — Foundation partners

Help shape PriorSeal.

We’re opening PriorSeal to a small group of foundation partners. You get three months free, help setting up, and a direct say in what we build next. Places are limited to [20].

Become a foundation partnerNo documents needed to apply.