How it works

From Tickets to a Finished Claim.

Logbook reads what your team already logged, asks the few questions a computer can’t answer, and hands you a claim with the evidence behind it.

1

Connect

Read-only access to Jira and GitHub. We never see source code.

2

Map

We group the year into projects with hours. You tick the ones that count.

3

Interview

Ten minutes per project. AI drafts the write-up from your answers and tickets.

4

Submit

You get the claim, the write-up and a dated evidence file, ready to file.

1Project map

A Year of Tickets, Grouped Into Projects.

We group a year of tickets and commits into projects. You tick the ones that count.

  • Read-only Jira and GitHub access
  • Hours per project from ticket and commit activity
  • "Likely R&D" tags you can overrule
app.getlogbook.io/projects
Claim year 2025
Offline sync engineSYNC · 182 tickets · 1,240 commits
1,180hLikely R&D
Route optimiser v2ROUTE · 96 tickets · 610 commits
740hLikely R&D
Fraud scoring modelRISK · 54 tickets · 380 commits
520hCheck
Billing page redesignWEB · 71 tickets · 402 commits
310hNot R&D
4 projects found · 3 ticked for the claim
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210-minute interview

Ten Minutes Per Project, Not Ten Meetings.

A short Q&A per project, and AI drafts the write-up from your answers and tickets.

  • Questions written around what HMRC and RVO ask
  • Every sentence linked to the tickets behind it
  • Edit the draft until it says what you mean
Project: Offline sync engine

What did you not know at the start?

We didn’t know if we could merge edits from 40,000 devices without a central lock. Two published approaches failed under real load (tickets SYNC-212, SYNC-240).

SYNC-212a41f9c2
Drafted write-upFrom 3 answers and 46 tickets

Technological uncertainty

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3Evidence file

Ready If HMRC or RVO Ask.

Hours, costs and the write-up, dated and bundled, ready if HMRC or RVO asks.

  • An hours log per project
  • Costs split the way the scheme wants them
  • One dated bundle per claim year
Evidence fileClaim year 2025, bundled 14 Mar 2026
4/4
Hours log by project.xlsx
12 Mar 2026
Technical write-up.pdf
13 Mar 2026
Tickets and commits by project.csv
13 Mar 2026
Qualifying costs.xlsx
14 Mar 2026
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How it works

What You Get Each Claim Year.

The write-up

Per project: the aim, the uncertainty, what you tried and what failed, in the words HMRC and RVO expect.

The hours log

Hours per person per project, from ticket and commit activity, which you confirm.

The costs

Qualifying staff costs per project, split the way the scheme asks for them.

The evidence file

Every document dated and bundled, kept for the years HMRC or RVO can ask.

A person to ask

Tim and the team set up every one of the first 10 firms by hand.

Specialist review

A tax specialist can review the claim on request before you submit it.

Founding offer

Founding customers pay half for the first 12 months. Nothing is charged until it’s live for you. Cancel any time.

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