Smarter Software Capitalization and Team Insights
Optimize your team's performance while meeting new accounting standards — all without interrupting their flow.
Sensible Software Capitalization and R&D Tracking
With recent US tax changes to Section 174, companies now need to capitalize costs related to developing new software or improving features - while other activities such as bug fixes and maintenance are expensed.
This means needing to accurately track the time spent by engineering, design, and product teams on different activities in order to determine how much of their salaries and expenses need to be capitalized (or can count towards R&D tax credits). RelayMine provides a streamlined solution.
RelayMine collects time breakdown estimations from your team via lightweight, recurring reports that are automatically sent to users — giving leaders a clear and accurate picture of capitalizable activities while remaining non-intrusive to your team's workflow.
- Capture precise, real-time data for software capitalization or R&D credit studies
- Streamline compliance with new tax standards
- Lightweight and unobtrusive tracking that respects team workflows
Actionable Insights to Measure and Improve Team Performance
Your team is one of your greatest assets, and understanding how they allocate their time is crucial to ensuring team health and effective performance. The data RelayMine collects from your team also empowers engineering, product, and design leaders with valuable up-to-date insights into team activities, revealing potential bottlenecks, time spent on non-core tasks, and other trends.
You can now see issues such as when your team is becoming overly swamped with bugs and support requests and investigate swiftly. No more guesswork, reliance on anecdotal evidence, or slow feedback loops. With RelayMine, get a clear, aggregated, and quantified view of your team on demand.
- Observe time spent on core vs. non-core tasks (e.g., feature development, bug fixes, etc.)
- Spot emerging trends that signal potential blockers or issues
- RelayMine also provides individual team members with a valuable record for their own career development
Automated and Customized Reporting
Customizable, recurring reports ask team members for a breakdown of how their time was spent over a given period (e.g., last week). Users simply record the % of time spent on various work categories such as bug fixes or feature development. We provide templates so you can get started right away, but the questions you ask are all highly-customizable.
RelayMine operates without any invasive software installations, does not rely on inaccurate code or issues analysis, and does not require burdensome new procedures for your team to follow — we believe in keeping things simple but accurate.
- Customizable templates tailored for software teams
- Lightweight reports that do not interrupt workflows
- Automated scheduled reports and reminder emails
Powerful Summarization and Analytics
RelayMine compiles report responses into clear, actionable data, allowing leaders to monitor trends, capitalizable activities, and blockers in real time. See average values for work categories, visualize trends, and export the raw data for further analysis.