A Salt Lake City, Utah-based Public Benefit Corporation and certified B Corp has built the world's most comprehensive real-time and historical weather and environmental data platform, aggregating observations from over 170,000 stations across more than 320 networks worldwide and delivering them via a lightning-fast API to government agencies, utilities, emergency management organizations, aviation operators, and commercial businesses. The company's platform underpins critical public safety and operational decision-making across dozens of industries, and its engineering team continuously develops new data ingestion pipelines, quality control algorithms, visualization tools, and push-streaming services to expand the platform's capabilities. TaxTaker was engaged to assess whether the company's ongoing software and data engineering work met the criteria for federal and state R&D Tax Credits.

TaxTaker's specialists interviewed the company's software engineers, data scientists, and atmospheric scientists to map qualified research activities, which included development of automated real-time data quality control algorithms capable of detecting and flagging anomalies across millions of daily observations, engineering of low-latency push-streaming infrastructure for sub-minute data delivery, creation of spatial visualization and dashboard tools for environmental monitoring, development of precipitation data processing and radar integration modules, and design of new API endpoints and data normalization frameworks to support WMO information system standards. Each activity was evaluated for technical uncertainty and the experimental nature of the development process, with particular attention to distinguishing novel engineering work from routine maintenance.

The credit analysis identified $217,600 in qualifying federal R&D expenses and $18,900 in eligible state-level costs, generating a combined R&D Tax Credit of approximately $223,000. The credits support the company's mission-driven growth, enabling it to continue expanding data coverage, develop new government and commercial data products, and broaden access to environmental data for public safety purposes.