Ben Dryden

Founder & CEO, ZeroDraft AI

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Ben Dryden is the founder and CEO of ZeroDraft AI, a Toronto startup that uses AI to automate Canadian SR&ED and R&D tax-credit claims. An engineer by training, he previously co-founded Renotag as CTO. He demoed ZeroDraft AI at TechTO's 2024 Build & Tell Hackathon during Collision week.

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ZeroDraftAI Demo with Ben Dryden | TechTO Hackathon

TechTO · June 2024

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We want to basically make it so that we can automate the whole industry.

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I have a lot of intuition I've built up over my career of actually doing it, but there is a pretty objective scoring system, like a rubric.

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Quick answers

What is Ben Dryden known for?

He founded ZeroDraft AI, which uses AI to automate Canadian SR&ED and R&D tax-credit claims, and demoed it at TechTO's 2024 Build & Tell Hackathon.

What does Ben Dryden do now?

He is founder and CEO of ZeroDraft AI in Toronto.

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