# July 2026 product update

The first half of 2026 focused on making your projects match how your teams actually work — and stand up to audit.

#### Hi there,

The first half of 2026 focused on making your projects match how your teams actually work — and stand up to audit. Highlights below, grouped by product.

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#### R&D Credit

**R&D projects built for fast review — and audit**

- Project names come straight from your Epics, so they read like the work your engineers actually did.
- Narratives (description, uncertainty, experimentation) upgraded for enterprise IRS audits — a 2× improvement in our internal audit-quality evals.
- Generated by upgraded self-hosted models: better quality, your data stays in our environment.

![Screenshot from July 2026 product update](https://vaffozzswoq4jjsz.public.blob.vercel-storage.com/help-center/d7df0a8d-f401-4a5b-b5ea-f3839b33545a/july-2026-1.png)

**Supervisor & Creator R&D %**

- Blends a supervisor's own R&D with their team's average and spreads it across the right projects — as a preview you approve before anything is applied.
- Optionally uses ticket creators to catch contributors who shape the work without being assigned tickets.
- → [Supervisor R&D Calculation](/help-center/rd/supervisor-rd)

![Screenshot from July 2026 product update](https://vaffozzswoq4jjsz.public.blob.vercel-storage.com/help-center/4a04709d-cd6a-4463-9ec3-40a1643bbbfa/july-2026-2.png)

**Payroll matching that catches everyone**

- See your match rate at a glance and filter straight to unmatched people.
- Handles name variations and employees who moved or worked across multiple states; clearer, faster upload validation.

![Screenshot from July 2026 product update](https://vaffozzswoq4jjsz.public.blob.vercel-storage.com/help-center/e4cc7d05-ace0-4808-8b93-5762d64ea17a/july-2026-3.png)

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#### ASC 350-40

**Use your own project list**

- Match new engineering work to the consolidated project list your team already tracks, aligned to your accounting names.
- Maintenance, KTLO, and ops work is routed out of feature projects automatically. If you don't have a list, we generate one.
- → [Project Matching for ASC 350](/help-center/asc/asc-project-matching)

![Screenshot from July 2026 product update](https://vaffozzswoq4jjsz.public.blob.vercel-storage.com/help-center/781a9ed5-79e2-49e9-a5b5-ec0ff9a182d6/july-2026-4.png)

**Capitalization that follows your policy**

- Include or exclude specific projects and teams from matching.
- Set how aggressively work is capitalized, plus a non-project-time minimum.
- → [Project Matching for ASC 350](/help-center/asc/asc-project-matching)

![Screenshot from July 2026 product update](https://vaffozzswoq4jjsz.public.blob.vercel-storage.com/help-center/02c41ad9-acab-496d-954b-1eb369b81af6/july-2026-5.png)

**Close on your schedule**

- Sync ASC data earlier in the month to close faster.
- Effort from tickets completed before your sync date stays in the month it belongs to.

**Auditor-ready ASC export**

- Adds project start and end dates, capitalization end-date reasoning, and capitalization status.
- Employee IDs and added columns let you pivot capitalization by team or department.

![Screenshot from July 2026 product update](https://vaffozzswoq4jjsz.public.blob.vercel-storage.com/help-center/5ecef97b-cf69-45fd-a493-ccb9eac1bd56/july-2026-6.png)

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#### Platform

**Full Jira Data Center integration**

- Connect self-hosted Jira without a cloud migration.
- Parent Epics from Jira Plans and Advanced Roadmaps are captured correctly, so more work rolls up to the right project.

**Faster syncing at enterprise scale**

- Companies with millions of tickets sync without hitting memory or timeout limits.
- Pull ticket data from your Snowflake warehouse with full parity to the Jira API.