Audit-ready evidence by default
Every match, variance, override, and AI proposal is timestamped with the human approver and the rule that fired. One-click CSV + PDF workpaper per engagement — drop it straight into your review binder.
Audit-grade AI · built for accounting firms
Make every book auditable — with AI.
AI agents tuned for accounting reasoning run each engagement's bank and credit-card reconciliation today — AR / AP, sales-tax, and variance analysis are shipping next — with an evidence trail on every proposal.
AI does the substantive work. Your partner signs the workpaper.
Audit trail by default · QuickBooks Online + the data around it · Xero (next)
Acme Inc · April closevariance found
HST payable is off by $412.55
Traced to 9 rows in the Stripe payouts feed — 3 refunds posted to the wrong account on Apr 11.
Rule R-014
Workpaper signed by partner
Sandra L. · Apr 30 · 4:18 PM EDT
4 / 18 engagements finalized
3 awaiting partner sign-off · 11 in agent review
Who we build for · firms
Built for 2–50-person CPA and bookkeeping firms.
If your firm's month-end looks like a dozen ledger tabs, three Excel trackers, and a Slack channel called #close-week — Auditable Books is built for you.
One workspace, every client
One login covers your full client roster. Switch between client ledgers without re-authenticating; surface a partner-level triage view of which engagements still need sign-off this month.
Firm-authored AI rules
Write a categorization, matching, or approval rule once — in plain English — and it applies consistently across every engagement your firm runs. The longer your firm uses Auditable Books, the larger your rule library grows.
Ledger-neutral by design
The core workflows are built on a ledger-agnostic data model. Your firm gets the same workspace whether the underlying books are in one major cloud accounting platform or another.
AI built for the close — not for chat
The AI does the mechanical work. Your team reviews, signs, and defends.
Your ledger has a chat box now, and general-purpose AI answers questions. Our agent does the other thing: it produces the workpaper artifact your reviewer asks for — starting with a reconciled bank account — with source data and rule citation attached to every proposal.
Reasoning over the ledger, not just search
The agent reads your general ledger end-to-end — chart of accounts, class / location dimensions, historical categorization — and makes proposals the way a staff accountant would.
Workpaper-grade answers, always
Every AI suggestion comes with the source rows, the rule that fired, and the numeric tie-out. If the agent says "HST payable is off by $412.55," the workpaper showing the 9 rows that caused it is one click away.
Natural-language firm rules
Write your firm’s categorization and approval rules once in plain English — "any Amazon charge under $200 on the ops card goes to Supplies" — and the agent applies them consistently across every client file.
Human-in-the-loop by construction
No auto-post to the books without explicit accountant approval. Every AI action lands as a proposal with its reasoning visible. Your partner signs — not the AI.
Reaches the data that isn’t in QuickBooks
Bank rec needs the bank statement; receipts and bills live in an inbox; payouts sit in Stripe. The agent reaches those sources — starting with receipts-by-email and bank statements — and completes the picture QuickBooks alone can’t see. The data your books depend on, not just the data already keyed in.
Design principle
The AI never posts to your clients' books without human approval. Every proposal is reviewable, every action is logged, and every workpaper is exportable. You stay accountable — the AI just does the typing.
Flagship workflows
Workflows that end in a workpaper — not a chat reply.
Each workflow runs the same way every time and ends in an exportable, audit-ready workpaper. They share your firm's rule library and a single auditable history — across QuickBooks and the source documents that never make it in.
Bank & credit-card recs
ShippingMatch QBO journals to statement lines; propose categorization with rule citation. One drawer per client, one decision per row.
GIFI export (T2 / T5013)
ShippingCanadian year-end: code every account to its CRA GIFI code from the live QBO statements — balanced, completeness-checked, prior-year mapping seeded, with a full change history. Removes the single most manual step of year-end.
Receipts by email
ShippingForward a receipt or bill; the agent reads it, finds the matching transaction, and proposes the posting with the document attached — so the source document stops living in an inbox.
AR / AP recs
NextAging buckets, invoice-to-payment matching, dunning suggestions — ranked by $ × age so the partner knows which clients to chase first.
Sales-tax recs (HST / GST / VAT)
PlannedHST/GST/VAT recompute with per-jurisdiction rule library; flags miscoded line items before the filing goes out.
Year-over-year variance
PlannedP&L and balance-sheet diffs across periods, with narrated reasoning. Ready for the board pack or the audit binder.
Who we build for
Built for the professionals who sign the workpaper.
Auditable Books is sold to accounting firms and in-house finance teams — not to business owners. Owners benefit through their firm's use of the product.
Business owner? Ask your accountant about Auditable Books — we work through them, not around them.
FAQ
Questions partners ask first.
Pilot · firms only
AI does the substantive work.
Your partner signs the workpaper.
We onboard 2–3 firms a month. Bring one client file; we'll run a parallel close against your existing process and you keep the workpapers.