Accounting automation
Staff for compliance. Founderwright takes care of the rest.
Accounting teams usually grow with revenue: every new location, entity, or lender adds reconciliations, reports, and close work. Founderwright automates that work above the compliance line, so you only need enough people to satisfy your company’s compliance requirements.
What gets automated
The work that grows with volume.
Each item is prepared by the system and approved by a person before anything posts.
Bank and card matching
Transactions matched to the books every day. Only the exceptions go to a person.
Transaction coding
Accounts and classes suggested from history, approved before anything posts.
Close checklist
Tasks, maker-checker review, and period locks, tracked to the day.
Accruals and recurring entries
Prepared on schedule with support attached, reviewed, then posted.
Management reporting
P&L by location, KPI packs, and variance commentary drafted for review.
13-week cash
Built from the bank, receivables, and payables instead of a spreadsheet.
Covenant and lender packs
Ratios tested monthly and the package drafted from the same numbers.
Multi-entity consolidation
Entities rolled up with intercompany balances matched and eliminated.
What stays with your people
Compliance stays with the people accountable for it.
The books of record, payroll and payroll tax, tax filings, banking, and your outside CPA’s audit or review stay below the line. Founderwright reads from those systems and posts approved entries back where they allow it.
Above the line
Built, run, and automated by Founderwright. Every entry the system prepares is approved by a named person before it posts.
Below the line
Your compliance team and the regulated systems you are required to keep. We read from them and, where they allow it, post approved entries back.
How it stays safe
AI prepares. A named person approves.
Agents work in four tiers. The higher the tier, the closer the work is to your books, and the more it needs a person.
Look, never touch.
Agents read every connected system, reconcile, and flag what moved.
Prepare the work.
Entries, emails, and reports drafted with the source records attached.
Ask for review.
Proposed changes wait in a queue for the person who owns that decision.
Only with approval.
Work posts to the books or reaches a customer only after a named person approves. Every step is logged.
As the system hardens
It takes on more each month.
Automation starts with the work that repeats most, usually bank and card matching, coding suggestions, and the close checklist. With our support, rules that hold up on your own data move from suggestion to prepared entry, and anything unusual still goes to a person. The team stays the size compliance requires.
Questions
What controllers and owners ask.
Does this replace our accounting software?
No. The books of record stay in the accounting system you are required to keep. Founderwright reads from it, reconciles what flows in, and posts approved entries back where the system offers a write API.
Does it replace our bookkeeper or controller?
It changes what they spend time on. You still need people accountable for compliance: the books of record, payroll, tax filings, and banking. The work that grows with volume, such as matching, coding, and assembling reports, is automated, so the team doesn’t have to grow with revenue.
Can AI post entries to our books?
Only after a named person approves them. Agents read and draft freely and propose entries for review. Nothing posts to the books, reaches a customer, or pays a vendor without an approval, and every approval is logged.
Which accounting systems do you work with?
The common small and mid-market accounting, payroll, and banking systems, with read access everywhere and approved write-back where the system allows it. The integration directory lists the systems we connect.
How fast does automation expand?
Each company starts with the work that repeats most, usually bank and card matching, coding suggestions, and the close checklist. With our support, more moves into the system each month as the rules prove out on your own data.
Find the work that shouldn’t need a hire.
One conversation about your close, your reporting, and your team. You leave with a list of what can be automated first.
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