T1 Automation
Not just EFILE software, Blackspark Armada is advanced tech to automate your entire T1 workflow, increase your firm’s capacity for growth and leverage tax intelligence to create advisor opportunities.
“Blackspark is a new, more efficient way to prepare taxes. We are excited to see where it goes next.”
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Why use Armada?
““Blackspark rolls out new features continually. The solution keeps getting better and better.”
— Zoltan Makula, Owner - Capital Bookkeeping
Stay organized with a modern, cloud-based user interface
Set up new client files in minutes with Setup Assistant
Import CRA data with Auto-Fill my Return (AFR)
(Optional) Use AI to extract data from client documents (T-slips, T5008s, donations, medical expenses, etc.)
Ensure tax return accuracy with comprehensive diagnostics
Prepare all returns in a family account simultaneously with joint return optimizations
Generate customized cover letters automatically and enhance with AI (optional) to prevent client follow-up questions
Get T183 signed automatically with integrated e-signature (optional)
Enjoy responsive, human customer support
Generate Advisor Opportunities
Every tax return can open the door to a better planning conversation. Grow your firm business with automated and actionable insights for advisors.
Most tax workflows end when the return is complete. Armada insights help planners go further.
By converting tax-review outputs into clean, advisor-friendly reports, Armada helps identify the kinds of changes that often lead to planning opportunities—retirement transitions, drawdown strategy questions, medical-expense spikes, changing income sources, and more.
Blackspark Armada is the only T1 EFILE solution that generates the enhanced metrics backing key planning decisions:
What does this mean for the client?
What should the advisor review next?
Where are the biggest planning opportunities?
It gives planners a practical way to turn tax data into client engagement, deeper relationships, and more proactive advice.
Optional AI that really Works
“Blackspark literally saves me hours per day. The AI features make preparing client returns a breeze.”
Armada uses Blackspark AI to generate detailed and customized cover letters for every tax return, explaining the results clearly to your client. Avoid unnecessary follow-up phone calls and the endless explanations.
Watch Armada leverage Blackspark AI extract and organize bulk T5008 transactions from a client uploaded document in seconds. Do the same for T-slips, donations, medical expenses, etc.
AI Security - You’re In Control
Usage of AI within the Armada EFILE software is entirely optional and includes safeguards to prevent the sharing of client Personally Identifiable Information (PII).
For example, when generating AI-enhanced cover letters, all client data is sanitized for PII and never sent to the AI.
For AI document extraction (extracting data from client uploads such as T-slips, T5008s, donations/medical expenses, etc.), you are in complete control of the documents that you submit for extraction and the AI supports extraction from documents where PII has been redacted.
Blackspark is committed to the safe usage of AI within our software and upholding the security and privacy standards required by professional accountants.
Armada EFILE may also be used without any AI, if you prefer. All features will still work as normal and provide the highest level of workflow automation available, from client onboarding through EFILE of the returns.