About Adviser Radar
Our mission
The R&D tax adviser market is hard to navigate. It should not be.
Every year, thousands of UK businesses make R&D tax claims, often guided by advisers they had little practical means of assessing objectively before appointing them. A polished website and bold marketing claims can look equally convincing, whether the adviser behind them is highly experienced or poorly suited to the company's needs.
That information gap has real consequences. Poorly prepared claims can leave businesses exposed to HMRC scrutiny. Overstated claims undermine a relief scheme designed to support genuine UK innovation. In many cases, businesses only discover a problem once HMRC starts asking questions.
Adviser Radar exists to help close that gap.
Why it matters
R&D tax relief represents a substantial public investment in UK innovation. HMRC's annual report puts expenditure on R&D reliefs at £8.0 billion in 2025 to 2026. That investment works best when it reaches the right companies, for qualifying work, through properly prepared claims.
Adviser choice matters, but the information needed to choose well has not previously been available in one place, in a form that makes comparison practical.
How we help
Adviser Radar brings together structured information about UK R&D tax advisers in one place and presents it clearly and consistently, so you can make a more informed choice before deciding who to appoint.
The platform helps you compare advisers using clear information, identify potential warning signs and build a better-informed shortlist before deciding who to contact.
It does not replace professional judgement or due diligence, but it gives you a clearer, more reliable starting point.
The Radar Assessment
Each profile carries a Radar Assessment, a structured view of the adviser based on public record data and other information we hold.
The assessment places each adviser in a band. The band reflects both the strength of the information we hold and any adverse findings on the public record, so a firm with a serious record issue is banded accordingly regardless of how well it scores elsewhere.
Behind the assessment sits an internal Radar Score. We do not publish it, both to protect the methodology and to reduce the risk of advisers gaming it. You can read more in our FAQs.
A Radar Assessment is not a recommendation, definitive judgement, endorsement or guarantee of quality, but it gives you a consistent basis for starting your own research across every adviser on the platform. Advisers cannot pay to improve their assessment, their band or their position in results.
Our principles
Adviser Radar is built on transparency, consistency and independence.
Transparency
We bring adviser information that already sits on the public record into one place, where it can be seen and compared.
Consistency
Every adviser is assessed using the same approach.
Independence
No adviser can pay to improve their Radar Assessment or their position in results, so you can compare the market on the same terms we do.
Our aim
A better informed market is a better market. When businesses choose advisers more carefully, claims are stronger, standards rise and public money is better protected.
The R&D tax adviser market has long favoured those who know how to market themselves well. Adviser Radar is designed to shift that balance and put clearer, more useful information in the hands of the businesses doing the R&D work.
Our aim is simple: to help R&D tax relief claimants see past the sales pitch and choose better R&D tax advisers with greater confidence.