California is tightening its R&D tax credit cap. New York just overtook San Francisco as the country's top hub for new tech jobs. In Episode 1 of Office Hours, Boast's Ashley Crawford (Director of Customer Delivery) and Mfon Ubaha (Head of Partnerships) join host Paul Davenport to unpack both stories, plus EY's newest CFO survey on the "ownership gap" in R&D investment, whether AI is actually ready to handle your R&D tax credit claim, and the two filing deadlines every claimant needs on their calendar right now.

Office Hours is a new weekly companion series to What The Tech, going deep on the R&D tax credit news shaping how CFOs, founders, and finance teams plan for innovation funding.

Timestamps
0:00 Welcome to Office Hours, Episode 1
0:01 What's on Ashley and Mfon's radar this week
0:03 California's R&D tax credit cap fight
0:07 New York's talent surge and "a tale of two cities"
0:10 Is the pushback on California's biggest employers fair?
0:13 EY's CFO survey and the R&D "ownership gap"
0:15 Is AI ready to handle your R&D tax credit claim?
0:19 Rapid-fire: filing deadlines and the #1 last-minute mistake
0:21 Action items and where to go next

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