Accounting and bookkeeping practices: the prep layer stops being billable hours, and the judgment layer becomes the product.
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.
Judgment on treatment, on what the numbers imply for this business, and on what an inspector will accept.
Categorising transactions, reconciling, chasing receipts, assembling workpapers, re-answering the same questions.
Agents own the preparation layer end to end; your people review exceptions and sell the interpretation.
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.
Transactions coded and reconciled continuously against your rules, with only the genuine exceptions surfaced.
Month-end checklists driven to completion and workpapers assembled ready for review, not built from scratch.
Receipts, statements and missing invoices requested, chased and filed without anyone on your team writing the email.
Year-end packs and management reports drafted from source data in your house format, with the narrative proposed.
Returns prepared with rule checks and cross-checks against the ledger, and every figure traceable to its source.
The same forty questions answered weekly - answered from your own knowledge base, escalated when they should not be.
A new client’s prior-year books ingested, cleaned and mapped to your chart of accounts in days.
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.
Recurring product revenue that is not capped by the hours your team can bill.
The first hundred customers are businesses already paying you, in a vertical you can speak to credibly.
Knowing that industry’s seasonality and fraud patterns is the feature a horizontal competitor cannot copy quickly.
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.
Code, models, prompts and runbooks transfer to your practice. If we disappeared tomorrow, the system keeps running.
The second workflow costs a fraction of the first, because permissions, integrations and audit trail are already built.
Human-approved gates, evidence on every decision, ISO 27001 and GDPR alignment, deployable in your own environment.
Our engineers sit inside your practice until it runs - then your people build on it, not just operate it.
Accountants the US has lost since 2019. The work did not go anywhere.
Announced AI investment at every Big Four firm - aimed at the mid-market you serve.
The gap gets filled either way. The only open question is whether your practice owns the thing that fills it.
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.