All industries

For bookkeeping, tax and advisory firms

Clients send documents without being chased. Receipts post themselves.

Your staff send the same reminder emails every season, key invoices into the ledger by hand, and tick statements line by line. We build the chase sequence, the extraction into your accounting software, and a reconciliation pass that leaves your team only the mismatches. Partners still sign off every period.
  • Exceptions only

    Your team reviews mismatches, not every line

  • Audit trail

    Every automated entry keeps its source document and approver

Why now

Why the busy season still runs on reminder emails

Professional-services firms, including tax and accounting practices, are already adopting generative AI in their day-to-day work (Thomson Reuters, 2025 Generative AI in Professional Services report). Every hour not spent chasing documents is an hour back for client work in the busy season.

Every automated entry keeps its source document and a log of who approved it, so your audit trail improves instead of disappearing into a black box.

What we fix

The manual work, and what we build for each one

  • You do this by hand: Chasing clients for missing documents

    We build this: Checklist-driven reminder sequence by email and SMS, escalated to staff when overdue

    Result: Staff stop writing reminder emails

  • You do this by hand: Keying invoices and receipts

    We build this: OCR and AI extraction, vendor matching and ledger coding, with low-confidence items flagged

    Result: Staff review only what the system was unsure about

  • You do this by hand: Tax data spread across sources

    We build this: An intake form that validates totals and files documents to the right return

    Result: No rebuilding the same spreadsheet each year

  • You do this by hand: Line-by-line reconciliation

    We build this: Bank feed vs ledger matching, with exceptions listed and a suggested cause

    Result: Your team reviews mismatches only

  • You do this by hand: Copy-paste monthly reports

    We build this: Template report populated from the ledger, with a partner review step

    Result: Reports go out on schedule

Document chase sequence

  1. D0: Request sent

    Email
  2. D3: Reminder

    Email
  3. D7: Nudge

    SMS
  4. D10: Escalated to staff

    Person
  5. ✓: Received

    Filed to the client folder
IllustrativeExample cadence. You set the days and channels.

What we build

The workflows, step by step

01

Document intake to ledger

AI OCR, vendor matching and approval steps put invoices and receipts into the right ledger accounts, and tag exceptions for human review.

Expected impact

Invoices land coded in the right ledger account. Staff only review the ones the system was unsure about.

Document intake flow

  1. Client upload / email

  2. OCR + extract

  3. Vendor match

  4. Ledger code

    Branch: Low confidence

    Sent to a reviewer

  5. Approve

    Human approval
  6. Posted

02

Reconciliation with exception flags

Bank feeds are matched against ledger entries, anomalies are listed with a suggested cause, and the result is queued for sign-off without retyping statements.

Expected impact

Matched lines clear automatically, and your team works the unmatched list instead of the whole statement.

What reaches your team

Statement lineIssueSuggested cause
Card payment 412.80 (flagged)Amount mismatchLedger shows 421.80: likely transposed digits
Supplier direct debit (flagged)No matching invoiceInvoice not received yet: request sent to client
Office supplies 96.00 (flagged)Possible duplicateSame amount and payee posted twice
IllustrativeMatched lines clear automatically; only lines like these reach your team.

03

Draft client reports

KPIs are pulled from the ledger into your report template, with a narrative draft queued for partner review before anything is sent.

Expected impact

Partners review and edit instead of building decks from scratch.

How it goes live

From first workshop to a running workflow

≈ 6 weeks to first workflow live

  1. Clean chart of accounts

    Centralise the chart of accounts, vendor master and report templates, so automation applies codes by rule rather than guessing.

  2. Role-based approvals

    Define which exceptions go to a reviewer and which go to a partner, and build those thresholds into the rules.

  3. Prove it on last quarter first

    We rerun a closed period through the automation and compare it with your signed-off numbers before going live.

  4. Client communication

    Clients are told automatically when their financials are ready, not when someone remembers to send them.

Re-run last quarter and compare

AccountSigned offAutomated re-runResult
Bank balance48,210.5548,210.55Match ✓
Accounts payable12,904.1012,904.10Match ✓
VAT / sales tax6,118.426,118.42Match ✓
IllustrativeNothing goes live until the re-run matches your signed-off numbers.

Approval thresholds you set

AmountWhat happens
Below your auto-post limitPosted automatically and logged
Between your limitsSent to a reviewer
Above your partner limitSent to a partner

What we measure

The numbers we track from week one

We baseline each metric before go-live, so the change is measured on your data, not estimated.
  • Baseline in week 1higher is better

    Close days saved per client

  • Measured in the pilothigher is better

    Reconciliations auto-cleared

  • Baseline in week 1lower is better

    Document → ledger time

  • Baseline in week 1higher is better

    Client satisfaction with reporting cadence

Industry signals

What the sources say

FAQ

Questions we hear from teams like yours

How does automation handle client document requests?
We run reminders across email and SMS from your firm’s intake checklist, escalate to staff when documents are overdue, and log every interaction.
Can we automate our tax intake checklist?
Yes. Intake forms capture supporting documents, validate totals, and file them to the right tax module, so prep teams aren’t recreating the same spreadsheet each year.
Does this change our sign-off process?
No. Automation prepares entries and reconciliations; your reviewers approve exceptions and partners sign off, as now.

Next step

Bring your document checklist. We’ll show which chases and entries can run without staff.

In a 30-minute call we go through your intake, chasing and reconciliation steps and tell you which one to automate first.