Mat Rutishauser and Joshua Martin are back for Part 2 of their Office Hours conversation on Quebec AI financing. In Part 1, they broke down what SR&ED, CDAE-IA, and CRIC actually are. This time, they get practical: can a company claim all three at once, what does a strong audit position actually look like, and where should a CFO or CTO even start if they haven't looked into any of this yet?

Also in this episode: a real story about AI drafting an SR&ED claim, and the CRA using its own AI to challenge it, and why the human narrative behind a claim still matters more than ever.

Recorded ahead of the All In 2026 conference in Montreal, where Joshua and the Boast team will be at Booth V6 all week.

Timestamps
0:00 Welcome back: Office Hours, Part 2
0:00 Can you stack SR&ED, CDAE-IA, and CRIC together?
0:04 The one program combination that's genuinely rare
0:06 What a strong audit position actually looks like
0:10 The hidden cost of an audit, even when you win
0:11 Quebec-specific audit triggers: SR&ED vs. CDAE-IA
0:15 When AI drafts your claim and AI reviews it too
0:17 Where should a CFO or CTO even start?
0:21 Why this matters for Quebec's innovation economy

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Intro and Outro music provided by Dennis Ma whose mixes you can find on Soundcloud at DJ DennyDex.