🎓 Capability Academy

Train Your Team to Think Scientifically, Innovate Boldly & File SR&ED-Ready Work

Not every R&D challenge needs a consultant. Sometimes, what your team really needs is the framework, language, and habits that make innovation both fundable and repeatable.

At Robust Solutions Pro, our Capability Academy empowers your in-house scientists, engineers, and innovators to adopt the practices that lead to better experiments, clearer documentation, and higher SR&ED success rates—without slowing your team down.

🧠 What We Offer

âś… TRIZ-in-a-Day

A focused, one-day workshop introducing the 40 Inventive Principles, Contradiction Matrix, and how to spot hidden innovation opportunities—ideal for teams stuck in “incremental thinking.”

 

âś… Cognitive-Bias Boot Camp

Train your team to spot and counteract R&D bias—confirmation bias, functional fixedness, sunk-cost fallacy—so they can make better, faster decisions rooted in evidence.

 

âś… Statistics, AI & DOE for R&D

We bridge the gap between scientific experimentation and statistical rigor:

  • Design of Experiments (DOE) for optimizing trial plans
  • Intro to ML & AI for research workflows
  • When & how to apply regression, ANOVA, and power analysis

âś… Best-in-Class Documentation Practices

Simple frameworks to make sure hypotheses, methods, results, and insights are captured in real time—and in the language CRA expects. No more post-facto guesswork.

 

âś… Custom Protocols & Certification (Optional)

Tailor documentation templates and tracking systems to your team’s tools (e.g. Jira, Git, lab notebooks), and certify completion for internal compliance or audit readiness.

 

🎯 Outcomes

  • Faster onboarding of new researchers and engineers

  • Sharper thinking and experiment design aligned with CRA’s expectations

  • Reduced reliance on external consultants over time

  • More eligible work—built from within

đź’ˇ Ideal For:

  • R&D teams seeking to internalize SR&ED-readiness

  • Scaleups needing to document at speed without chaos

  • Organizations building an SR&ED-ready innovation culture

🎓 Mini Case: From Rejected Claims to Repeatable Success

 Problem
A seasoned R&D team faced two consecutive SR&ED claim rejections:
• Year 1: Rejected for “lack of technological uncertainty”
• The team questioned, “Are we too competent for SR&ED?”
• Year 2: They increased experimentation and had junior staff prepare the narrative—only to be rejected again for being vague and unscientific
The team felt confused and discouraged.

 

 Intervention
Through our Capability Academy, we helped the team reset their approach by:
• Clearly identifying genuine technological uncertainties—not retrofitting them afterward
• Using TRIZ to uncover non-obvious technical barriers
• Applying Design of Experiments (DOE) to structure meaningful, bias-resistant tests
• Training the team to document work in a CRA-ready format in real time

 

Outcome
• Experimentation cycle time reduced by 35%
• Claim narrative accepted with no revisions
• CRA refund: $240,000
• Audit turnaround: 14 days
• The team now runs SR&ED-eligible projects independently—with repeatable success

 

✅ Training that pays off—in confidence, clarity, and cash.

“Capability isn’t about checklists—it’s about teaching teams to think and work in ways that make innovation sustainable.”
– Dr. Alec Zhou, Ph.D.

Book a Capability Academy Call and we’ll walk you through how to turn your R&D into a sustainable endeavor.

đź“Ť Ottawa | đź“ž (343) 300-3615
đź“Ť Vancouver | đź“ž (236) 339-7057
📧 [email protected]