LIGHTHOUSE×COMING2026

Turn voice notes into tax credits.

Lighthouse

ROLE

Product Engineer

TIMELINE

1 week

TEAM

Solo

01 / OVERVIEW

Lighthouse came out of a real problem. While building getmorley.com I discovered the SR&ED tax credit program and realized I was leaving thousands of dollars on the table, mostly because I don't write documentation. Working solo means that kind of overhead just doesn't happen. Lighthouse is built to fix that, for me and for anyone else in the same position.

02 / SOLUTION

The challenge was making evidence capture feel like a natural part of how founders already work, not an additional task. Record yourself, upload a voice note, paste in messy notes. Lighthouse handles the structure so you don't have to. Lighthouse uses Groq for fast, accurate transcription, a lightweight model to clean messy notes and transcripts, and a heavier model to extract and synthesize. Different models for different jobs keeps costs down without sacrificing quality.

03 / REFLECTION

I spent years building products for other people. Building for myself has changed everything. I didn't go looking for a SR&ED tool to build, I stumbled into it by doing the work.