For Canadian accounting firms

Tax season, without the retyping.

We are building BrightHarbour to read last year's return, check every slip on arrival, and put each figure beside its source.

In development with a Canadian firm on Karbon, for the 2027 season

T1 Season ScoreQuestion 1 of 13

Where does your T1 season lose the most time?

Getting clients to send everything, and chasing what is missing Checking what arrives: wrong year, wrong person, things nobody sent Typing slip and receipt figures into the tax software Review, signatures, payment and knowing where every return stands Honestly, all of it, or I am not sure

About 2 minutesFreeNo sales callYour score on screen

Where BrightHarbour wins

Your practice software stores the files and your tax software files the return. The work in between is what fills tax season, and it is left to people. That is where BrightHarbour is being built to win.

StageTodayWith BrightHarbour
Last year's returnOpened by a preparer when the work starts, if they rememberRead the day the work starts, and a brief written for your team
The client checklistThe same request for every clientBuilt from each client's own return, asking only what changed
UploadsOpened and checked by eye, often days laterChecked on arrival: right slip, right person, right year
Missing slipsFound at the CRA download, or not at allThe CRA download compared with what the client sent, gaps flagged
Data entryRetyped from paper, PDFs and phone photosReviewed figures go into your tax software by import
ReviewThe reviewer digs through the fileEvery figure beside the page it came from, with an audit trail

What BrightHarbour is being built to do for the 2027 season. Books are powered by BlueAnchor, below.

BlueAnchor

Books all year, so tax season starts from finished books

BlueAnchor is the bookkeeping side of BrightHarbour, from the same company. It is built to replace Dext, Hubdoc and Uncat for your bookkeeping clients.

Receipts in, all yearClients snap a receipt or forward the email. Each one is read and matched to its bank line.
Only the questions that matterUnclear transactions go to the client in the app. Your bookkeeper sees only what needs a person.
Totals ready for the returnReviewed books post to QuickBooks Online or Xero, and rental and business totals reach the T776 and T2125.

See BlueAnchorTax slips never go through BlueAnchor: they stay with BrightHarbour.

Nothing new to learn, and nothing filed without you

No new app for clientsThey keep the portal they know. BrightHarbour works behind it.
Keep your toolsYour practice and tax software stay. Use ours only where you want to.
A person signs offEvery figure is reviewed by your team, and your firm files every return.
Client data in CanadaHosted in a Canadian region from the first firm on, SINs encrypted, each firm walled off.

Designed to work alongside KarbonCCH iFirm TaxprepTaxCycleQuickBooks OnlineXero

Trevor Jamieson

Built in Nova Scotia, with a Canadian firm on Karbon

Trevor Jamieson, founder of Blue Harbour Solutions. Twenty years across the owner, sales, vendor and cloud partner sides of technology decisions. BrightHarbour is being built alongside a working Canadian accounting firm, one T1 season at a time.

See where your T1 season leaks time

Thirteen quick questions, a score for each stage of your season, and the first thing to fix. Free, and no sales call.

Rather talk? Email trevor@blueharboursolutions.com
Score your T1 season
Score your T1 season · 2 min