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Industries / Accounting & bookkeeping

The firms automating preparation are taking clients from the firms that haven’t.

Accounting and bookkeeping practices: the prep layer stops being billable hours, and the judgment layer becomes the product.

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01 / Your expertise

Nobody pays a premium for the categorising. They pay for the read.

What a set of numbers means for a specific business - and which treatment survives an inspection - is the part of your practice that cannot be bought off a shelf. Everything upstream of that is preparation, and preparation is where your hours currently go.

What is scarce

Judgment on treatment, on what the numbers imply for this business, and on what an inspector will accept.

What is not

Categorising transactions, reconciling, chasing receipts, assembling workpapers, re-answering the same questions.

What we do about it

Agents own the preparation layer end to end; your people review exceptions and sell the interpretation.

02 / Automate internally

Start with the preparation layer, because that is where the hours are.

Not a chatbot in your inbox. Whole workflows in production - across every person and system they touch - on one layer that the next workflow reuses.

Categorisation & reconciliation

Transactions coded and reconciled continuously against your rules, with only the genuine exceptions surfaced.

Close & workpapers

Month-end checklists driven to completion and workpapers assembled ready for review, not built from scratch.

Document chasing

Receipts, statements and missing invoices requested, chased and filed without anyone on your team writing the email.

Year-end & management reporting

Year-end packs and management reports drafted from source data in your house format, with the narrative proposed.

VAT returns

Returns prepared with rule checks and cross-checks against the ledger, and every figure traceable to its source.

Client email triage

The same forty questions answered weekly - answered from your own knowledge base, escalated when they should not be.

Historic book onboarding

A new client’s prior-year books ingested, cleaned and mapped to your chart of accounts in days.

03 / Build together

Then a vertical product for the industry you already know best.

Not generic accounting software - there is enough of that. Software that already knows one industry’s chart of accounts, its typical fraud patterns and its seasonality: restaurants, clinics, construction, hauliers. Pick the vertical where your practice is already deep.

€150–400 per business, per month

Recurring product revenue that is not capped by the hours your team can bill.

Your client base is the launch list

The first hundred customers are businesses already paying you, in a vertical you can speak to credibly.

Depth is the moat

Knowing that industry’s seasonality and fraud patterns is the feature a horizontal competitor cannot copy quickly.

04 / Why you

A billion dollars of software is being built for your clients. None of it has your relationships.

Basis raised $100M at a $1.15B valuation in February 2026 selling AI accounting agents to firms. Accrual launched the same month with $75M from General Catalyst. Rillet hit a $1B valuation. FloQast passed $200M ARR. Every one of them has to buy the trust you already have.

You own it, not us

Code, models, prompts and runbooks transfer to your practice. If we disappeared tomorrow, the system keeps running.

One layer, reused everywhere

The second workflow costs a fraction of the first, because permissions, integrations and audit trail are already built.

Inspection-ready by construction

Human-approved gates, evidence on every decision, ISO 27001 and GDPR alignment, deployable in your own environment.

Forward-deployed, not handed over

Our engineers sit inside your practice until it runs - then your people build on it, not just operate it.

05 / The pressure

The capacity gap is being filled by software either way. The question is whose.

340,000+

Accountants the US has lost since 2019. The work did not go anywhere.

$1B+ each

Announced AI investment at every Big Four firm - aimed at the mid-market you serve.

Whose software?

The gap gets filled either way. The only open question is whether your practice owns the thing that fills it.

The AI-native grant

Change the operating model, not just the tooling.

We invest €50,000 of engineering into one real process inside your firm. Two minutes to apply, twenty to find out if you are a fit.

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