Case Study
Private AI for Accounting Firms
How accounting and tax advisory firms automate document collection, reconciliation, filing deadlines, and reporting — with client data redacted before any AI model is involved.
The Challenge
An accounting firm's month is a chase: chasing client documents, chasing reconciliation differences, chasing deadlines. The data is sensitive — financial records, salaries, tax IDs — so public AI tools were never an option. The hours went into email ping-pong and copy-paste instead of advice.
The Document Chase
Receipts, statements, and contracts arrive late, in every format, across email, portals, and paper. Every close starts with hunting.
Reconciliation by Hand
Matching bank statements to ledgers line by line — skilled people doing work a machine should pre-sort.
Deadline Pressure
Dozens of clients, each with filing dates, each missing something different three days before it's due.
Confidentiality Rules Out Public AI
Financial records and tax IDs in a public chatbot is a client-trust incident, not an efficiency gain.
The Solution
The same privacy layer as in every d2b deployment — real-time redaction, EU or on-premise processing, full audit trail — with five workflows plugged into the firm's existing tools: inbox, PDF folders, Excel, the ERP, and the shared calendar.
Client Document Collection
The system knows what each client owes for the period, requests it automatically, watches the inbox and PDF folders for arrivals, extracts the data into structured rows, and keeps chasing what's missing — politely, persistently, without an accountant writing a single reminder.
- Automated, per-client document requests with escalating reminders
- Inbox and folder watchers detect arrivals in any format
- Redacted extraction into Excel/ERP rows — typed by nobody
- Month-end close starts complete, not with a hunt
Reconciliation & Exception Flagging
Bank statements meet ledger entries automatically. Clean matches clear themselves; differences arrive ranked and explained. Accountants spend their time on the ten exceptions, not the thousand matches.
- Auto-matching on redacted, structured data
- Exceptions ranked by size and likelihood, each with a suggested cause
- Every decision logged for the audit trail
Filing-Deadline Calendar
Every client's filing dates live in one orchestrated calendar. Ahead of each deadline, the system checks document readiness, warns the right person, and escalates until someone acts.
- Per-client deadline calendar, maintained automatically
- Readiness check N days out: what's still missing, who owes it
- Escalation chain instead of silent expiry
Reporting Cadence
Daily intake digest, weekly per-client status board, monthly close checklist with management figures, quarterly filing-season capacity forecast — generated from live data, on schedule, without anyone compiling slides.
- Daily: what arrived, what's missing, what's urgent
- Weekly: status board across all clients
- Monthly: close checklist + management figures
- Quarterly: capacity forecast for filing season
Report Templating
Source documents and ledger data are aggregated, and the findings flow straight into the firm's templates — client letters, management reports, filing packages. Drafts arrive review-ready; partners edit instead of assemble.
- Firm templates filled from analyzed source data
- One data set, many outputs: letter, report, filing package
- Partners review and sign — assembly time near zero
IBAN: DE89 3704 0044 0532
Contact: a.schneider@…
Period: 01–31 March · 148 lines
System Architecture
Implementation Timeline
Audit
We map the firm's back office: where hours leak, which data is sensitive, what the regulator expects.
Connect
We plug into the tools already in use — email, calendar, document folders, Excel, and the practice systems.
Orchestrate
Workflows go live behind the privacy layer; the team approves exceptions while the system does the typing.
Report
Daily, weekly, monthly, and quarterly reporting runs itself from live data.
The Results
6–13 hours saved per person per week across participating teams
Thousands of documents collected, extracted, and reconciled behind the privacy layer
Closes start complete; deadlines escalate instead of expire
The firm talks to its data: "Which client files are missing for the March close?" is a question, not a morning of email
Technologies Used
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