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Accounting runs on deadlines, materiality, and a paper trail that has to survive an audit. We build agents that do the repetitive preparation work — and stop at every point where judgment, sign-off, or a control belongs.
- Maker-checker on every posting
- GAAP / tax-rule-aware review
- Full workpaper-grade lineage
- Runs inside your perimeter
The work is precise, deadline-bound, and audited
Accounting is not a creative-writing problem. It is a controls problem.
A close cycle is hundreds of small, exacting tasks under a hard deadline: tie the subledger to the GL, chase the variance, document the accrual, and leave behind support a reviewer can sign. Most of that effort is preparation — pulling statements, matching transactions, drafting entries — not the judgment that makes someone a CPA.
The catch is that none of it can be sloppy. Every number has a materiality threshold, every entry needs a preparer and a reviewer, and every figure has to trace back to a source if a financial-statement auditor or a tax examiner asks. That is exactly the shape of work agents are good at: high-volume, rule-bound, and verifiable — provided the controls are wired into the system instead of bolted on after.
Where agents earn their keep
Concrete, bounded jobs in the accounting workflow — each one drafted by an agent and cleared by a person.
Month-end close
Agents pull statements, draft recurring journal entries and accruals, flag variances against budget and prior period, and assemble the close checklist for review.
Bank & account reconciliation
Match transactions across bank feeds, the GL, and subledgers; auto-clear the obvious, and route only genuine exceptions to a human with the evidence attached.
Workpaper preparation
Tie-outs, lead schedules, and supporting documentation drafted from source files, each entry linked to the document and the rule it relies on.
Tax data gathering
Extract figures from client documents, organizers, and prior returns; populate the tax suite and surface missing items before the preparer opens the file.
AP / AR triage
Code invoices, match them to POs and receipts, route approvals by threshold, and chase aging receivables — with policy exceptions escalated, not guessed.
Controls & anomaly checks
Continuous review for duplicate payments, out-of-policy entries, and segregation-of-duties conflicts, surfaced as a queue rather than a quarterly surprise.
Nothing hits the ledger unwitnessed
The control path every agent action follows, from draft to posted entry.
Gather
The agent pulls source documents and transactions from your ERP, bank feeds, and DMS — and cites each one.
Draft
It proposes the entry, reconciliation, or schedule, applying the GAAP or tax rule and showing its work.
Review
A preparer or reviewer sees the draft with full support and approves, edits, or rejects at a maker-checker gate.
Post & log
On approval it writes through the controlled interface, recording who, what, when, and why for the audit file.
Built for the engagement file, not just the demo
An accounting agent that can't defend its numbers is a liability. Ours treat the audit trail as a first-class output: every action carries the inputs it used, the documents it cited, the standard it applied, and the human who approved it — the same support a reviewer expects to see in a workpaper.
Client financial data covered by GLBA, SOC 2, and IRS safeguard rules stays inside your perimeter. Deployments run in your VPC, on-prem, or behind your tenant, and no client data trains an outside model. When the engagement team or an examiner asks how a figure was derived, the lineage is already there to export.
- Maker-checker approval on every GL-affecting action
- Segregation-of-duties enforced in the action layer
- Exportable lineage straight into the audit file
- Private deployment — data never leaves your perimeter
Offshore prep vs. an Automatic.co agent
How agent-assisted preparation compares to the usual answer for capacity crunches.
| Offshore / temp prep | An Automatic.co agent | |
|---|---|---|
| Turnaround | Hours to overnight | Minutes, on demand |
| Capacity at busy season | Hire and train ahead | Scales instantly, no ramp |
| Audit support | Varies by preparer | Cited and logged on every action |
| Data residency | Leaves your perimeter | Stays in your environment |
| Consistency | Person-dependent | Same rule applied every time |
Frequently asked questions
Will agents touch the general ledger directly?
Only through a governed action layer. Agents draft journal entries, reconciliations, and adjustments; nothing posts to the GL until it clears a maker-checker gate that a licensed preparer or reviewer signs off on. Every posting carries the agent's working papers and a reversible audit trail.
How does this hold up to a financial statement audit or peer review?
Each agent action is logged with inputs, the source documents it cited, the rule it applied, and who approved it — the same support a reviewer expects in a workpaper. We can export tie-outs and lineage to your audit file so the engagement team isn't reverse-engineering the agent's reasoning.
Where does our client financial data live?
In your environment. We deploy inside your VPC, on-prem, or behind your existing tenant so data covered by SOC 2, GLBA, and IRS Pub. 4557 obligations never leaves your perimeter or trains a third-party model.
Can it work with our existing stack — NetSuite, QuickBooks, Sage, a tax suite?
Yes. Agents integrate through your ERP and tax APIs, document management, and bank feeds. We meet your systems where they are rather than asking you to rip and replace; the agent reads and writes through the same controlled interfaces your staff use.
Related industries & capabilities
Agentic work for adjacent regulated and finance-heavy functions.
Bring your close checklist. Leave with an agent plan.
One working session to map your highest-volume prep tasks to agents — and the controls that keep them audit-ready.