Terms of Service
The terms on which Bison & Bird Inc. provides SREDDY. Buying access is agreeing to them. They are written to be read, so read them.
1. Who we are
SREDDY is provided by Bison & Bird Inc., an Alberta corporation carrying on business as SREDDY, at #302, 1812 4th St SW, Calgary, Alberta T2S 1W1 (“we”, “us”). You are the corporation that buys access, acting through the person who completes the purchase (“you”). That person confirms they are authorised to bind the corporation.
2. What SREDDY is, and is not
SREDDY is software that prepares a Canadian Scientific Research and Experimental Development (SR&ED) claim — the federal T661 and Schedule 31 and, for work done in Alberta, the Innovation Employment Grant schedule — from information and documents you supply. Your own AI assistant connects to SREDDY and does the interviewing and drafting; SREDDY does the arithmetic, tracks the dates, keeps the state, and produces the filing package.
SREDDY is claim-preparation support. It is not tax, legal or accounting advice, and no output of it is an opinion on whether your work qualifies or on how the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) or Alberta Tax and Revenue Administration (TRA) will treat it. Every figure it produces is a calculation from the data you gave it, shown with the chain that produced it.
SREDDY does not file anything. An SR&ED claim is part of your corporate income tax return. You, or the accountant or tax preparer you choose, file the T2 and the AT1 in the usual way, using the package SREDDY produces.
Your AI is yours. The assistant you connect (Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Cursor or another) is provided by its vendor under that vendor’s terms. It runs where that vendor runs it and reads what you choose to share with it. SREDDY has no control over it and no responsibility for it.
3. You are preparing the claim; SREDDY is software
SREDDY is self-preparation software. You prepare your claim from your own files, with your own AI assistant, using SREDDY’s calculations; no person at Bison & Bird Inc. prepares, reviews or drafts any part of it. On that footing, Bison & Bird Inc. does not act as a claim preparer within section 162(5.3) of the Income Tax Act, in the same way the vendor of commercial tax-return software does not, and it is not listed in Part 9 of your T661.
Part 9 asks whether a claim preparer was engaged, and that answer is yours. If your corporation paid a person or firm — an accountant, a consultant, anyone other than its own employees — to prepare or assist in preparing the form, answer “Yes” and list them as the form requires. Otherwise answer “No”. Missing or inaccurate preparer information is a $1,000 penalty under section 162(5.1), and it is your corporation that is liable for it. SREDDY’s filing sheet states this rule beside the section so it is not missed.
The certification on lines 970 and 975 of the T661 is likewise yours. Only an authorised officer of your corporation signs it, and by signing it you are certifying the return.
4. Your responsibilities
- Accuracy. Everything SREDDY computes rests on what you supply. You are responsible for the accuracy and completeness of the documents, figures and answers you provide, and for the project narratives, which are your own account of your own work in your own words.
- Authority over other people’s information. To prepare a claim you will give SREDDY personal information about your employees and contractors: names, salaries, time allocations, ownership. You confirm you are entitled to disclose that information for this purpose, and that you handle it in accordance with the privacy law that applies to you.
- Review before filing. Read the filing package. Check the figures, the assumptions listed with them, and the open items on the status card. What you file is your decision and your responsibility.
- Deadlines. The T661 must reach CRA within 18 months of your tax year end, and the Alberta schedule must be received by TRA within its own deadline. SREDDY shows the dates; meeting them is up to you.
- Records. Download and keep every document in the package. CRA can ask for supporting records for six years after the end of the tax year. Document links SREDDY issues expire after seven days.
- Your access key. The key is your login. Anyone holding it can read and change your claim. Keep it secret, do not share it, and use the recovery page if it is lost or exposed. You are responsible for what is done with your key.
5. Fees, taxes and refunds
Access costs $4,700 CAD per corporation per tax year, paid once, in advance, through Stripe. Fees are exclusive of GST/HST and any other applicable tax, which is added at checkout where we are required to charge it. Refunds are governed by the Refund Policy, which forms part of these terms. We may change the price for future purchases; a purchase already made is not affected.
6. Your data
How we collect, use, store and delete information is set out in the Privacy Policy, which forms part of these terms. In short: your claim data is stored and processed in Canada by SREDDY, it is isolated to your key, we use it only to provide the service to you, and we keep it for the retention period the policy states or until you ask us to delete it. Your AI vendor is outside that statement.
7. Ownership
Your data, your documents and the narratives you write are yours. The documents SREDDY produces from them are yours to use for your tax filings and your records. The SREDDY software, engine, templates, guides and this website are ours; access gives you a licence to use them for the tax year you purchased, not ownership of them. You will not copy, resell, reverse-engineer or provide the service to third parties.
8. No guarantee of outcome
SREDDY is provided as it is. We do not warrant that CRA or TRA will accept any claim, allow any amount, or refrain from review, and we do not warrant that the service will be uninterrupted or error-free. The value SREDDY shows is an estimate from your data, not a promise. Tax law and administrative practice change; SREDDY’s parameters are dated and shown, and you should confirm anything that matters with a professional before relying on it.
9. Limitation of liability
To the fullest extent the law allows, our total liability to you for anything arising out of or connected with SREDDY — in contract, tort, statute or otherwise — is limited to the fees you paid us in the twelve months before the event giving rise to the claim. We are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, lost credits, lost profits, penalties or interest assessed by any tax authority, or loss arising from information you supplied or from the acts of your AI vendor or your accountant. Nothing in these terms excludes liability that cannot be excluded by law, including for our own fraud.
10. Suspension and termination
Access lasts for the tax year you purchased and for as long as we retain your claim under the Privacy Policy. We may suspend a key that is being used to attack the service, to access data that is not yours, or in breach of these terms, and we will tell you why. You may stop using SREDDY at any time; the Refund Policy says what, if anything, is returned.
11. Changes
We may update these terms. The version and effective date are at the top of this page. A change applies to purchases made after it; a material change that affects an existing purchase will be sent to the email address on the account.
12. Law and disputes
These terms are governed by the laws of Alberta and the federal laws of Canada that apply there. The courts of Alberta have exclusive jurisdiction, and you attorn to them. If any part of these terms is unenforceable, the rest stands.
13. Contact
Questions, notices and requests: sreddy@teambisonandbird.com, or by post to Bison & Bird Inc., #302, 1812 4th St SW, Calgary, Alberta T2S 1W1. We reply within one business day.