$ Sreditor · Glossary
Technical terms used elsewhere on Sreditor’s pages, translated for a reader who wasn’t in the room when the decision was made.
- SR&ED, in layman’s terms
- SR&ED (Scientific Research & Experimental Development) is a Canadian federal tax credit that refunds part of the cost of work spent resolving a genuine technical unknown — not just building a feature, but figuring out something that wasn't already known how to do. Think of it as the government sharing the cost of your company's real trial-and-error, the same way a research grant would, but claimed after the fact through the tax system instead of applied for in advance.
- T661, in layman’s terms
- Form T661 is the actual government form a company files to claim SR&ED — three short, word-limited sections asking what was technically uncertain, what was systematically tried, and what was learned. It's the paperwork the whole practice is ultimately in service of: good contemporaneous notes make filling this out honest and fast; reconstructed-after-the-fact notes make it slow and full of guesswork.
- Zod, in layman’s terms
- Zod is a code library for describing the exact shape data is supposed to have, then automatically checking real data against that shape and rejecting anything that doesn't match. Sreditor uses it so an AI model's judgment always comes back as a predictable, structured answer instead of loose paragraphs of prose that would need to be re-interpreted by hand.