New partnership: We’ve partnered with leading R&D tax consultancy, Bonham & Brook, to create a fully integrated ecosystem that helps businesses transform ideas into market-ready products, while maximising the financial return from innovation.
This partnership bridges the gap between strategic product design and tax-based innovation funding, ensuring businesses can innovate with confidence, minimise risk, and maintain cash flow for business growth.
De-risking innovation through design and financial strategy
Innovation remains one of the UK’s most powerful drivers of competitiveness and productivity. Yet, for many companies, the journey from concept to commercial success can be both technically and financially daunting. This makes it essential for companies to have the right partners who can help efficiently navigate these challenges to minimise the journey from concept to market.
This partnership integrates Simple Design Work’s expertise in design and product development with Bonham & Brook’s specialism in tax reliefs and funding. Together we offer clients end-to-end support – from design and development through to financial optimisation.
Simple Design Works specialises in strategic, user-centric product design that transforms complex ideas into viable, market-ready solutions. Our ability to handle technical complexity ensures that product innovation is both achievable and commercially sound.
In parallel, Bonham & Brook brings a decade of experience in R&D tax reliefs, Patent Box and innovation funding. All underpinned by their close collaboration with HMRC and unrivalled compliance expertise. The firm’s proven success in resolving HMRC inquiries makes them a trusted partner to support R&D claims, ensuring clients receive the full benefits they are entitled to.
A seamless integration of design and tax expertise
Through this collaboration, businesses gain end-to-end support from concept design, prototype development and design for manufacture through to strategic financial planning with a compliance-centric approach.
By aligning the design process with R&D tax strategy from the outset, projects are structured to capture eligible activities as they happen – not after the fact. This means design documentation, testing records and technical reports feed directly into the tax claim. This eliminates duplication and reduces the risk of missed opportunities. Businesses benefit from shorter claim cycles, stronger audit readiness and greater confidence that every pound invested in development brings both commercial and financial returns.
Compliance, collaboration and confidence
Through this collaboration, businesses gain end-to-end support from concept design, prototype development and design for manufacture through to strategic financial planning with a compliance-centric approach.
By aligning the design process with R&D tax strategy from the outset, projects are structured to capture eligible activities as they happen – not after the fact. This means design documentation, testing records and technical reports feed directly into the tax claim. This eliminates duplication and reduces the risk of missed opportunities. Businesses benefit from shorter claim cycles, stronger audit readiness and greater confidence that every pound invested in development brings both commercial and financial returns.
Building the future of innovation support
