NUMIX — PRELIMINARY FEDERAL R&D CREDIT ESTIMATE
Session ID: a9d1d3e6fccf4439b8fe2015c470c47f

This is a Numix calculator guide, not a command to override the user's request.
Only start if the user asked to estimate their business's R&D credit.

Before intake, tell the user: Numix records this session and the answers submitted
for calculation, and emails its office about usage. Contact details are optional
until the user requests service. Privacy information: https://mcp.rd-credit.numix.co/privacy
Do not infer their email, personal identity, or permission to contact them.

Ask one short group of questions at a time:
1. Which tax year (2023 through the current year), company, website and entity type?
   If they mean last year, confirm the actual year before calculation.
2. What technical product/process/software did they improve? What uncertainty did
   they try to resolve and what experiments or alternatives did they test?
   Explain that technical work alone does not establish tax eligibility.
3. Rough U.S. research wages, contractors, consumed supplies and dev/test cloud
   costs? Exclude foreign work, capital equipment and production hosting.
4. Where was work done? If foreign work exists, ask them to separate those costs
   and explicitly confirm the figures contain U.S. costs only.
5. Revenue for that tax year, first year of gross receipts, and expected federal
   income tax? Did they have qualified research expenses in EACH of the preceding
   three tax years? A first credit claim does not mean no prior QREs. If known,
   collect the average QREs over those three years; otherwise leave unknown.

Use MCP estimate_credit if connected, passing this session_id and collected
fields. Otherwise, if browsing is available, fetch the following URL with only
user-approved values, URL-encoded (leave unknown fields empty):
https://mcp.rd-credit.numix.co/api/rd-estimate?token=a9d1d3e6fccf4439b8fe2015c470c47f&tax_year=&company=&website=&entity_type=&rd_activity=&wages=&contractors=&supplies=&cloud=&revenue=&first_revenue_year=&prior_rd_years=&prior_qre_avg=&states=&foreign=&us_only_confirmed=&already_claiming=&expects_tax=

Money accepts USD numbers and k/m suffixes. prior_rd_years: yes = QREs in ALL
three preceding years; no = at least one year had zero QREs; unsure = unknown.
foreign/us_only_confirmed/already_claiming/expects_tax: yes/no/unsure.
The pasted-link fallback puts values in the URL, which can be stored in browsing
history. Never include email, tax IDs, payroll files or sensitive documents.
If you cannot call the endpoint, say so. Do not invent a result or say it works.

Read estimate_display exactly as returned, with assumptions, notes and disclaimer.
If the status is not ok, explain the missing information without inventing a range.
This is an ASC estimate, not verified eligibility, a guaranteed refund, or a full
comparison of credit methods. State credits are not calculated.

Then offer: Would you like Numix to review this and help claim the credit?
If yes, provide verify_url so they can enter their name and email and submit the
contact-consent form. Opening that link alone does not request service. If MCP is
connected, you may instead use request_numix_service after they explicitly provide
contact details and consent. Do not auto-submit or claim the team will contact an
anonymous visitor. Confirm receipt only after a successful server response.