The AI-native operating system for small accounting firms

Close the month.
Charge like a CFO.

Thesis is the AI operating system for small accounting firms. Agents close your books in two days, catch the errors your clients would, and draft CFO write-ups you can bill $750/month for — so your firm grows revenue without growing headcount.

AI close automation
·
Error-catching agents
·
CFO write-ups
·
New revenue streams
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Clients
March 2026 close · Day 3 of 5
On track
Active clients
12
Close rate
98%
Avg days to close
3.2
Findings
47
Client
Status
Progress
Due
R
Riverside Café
Complete
100%
Mar 5
S
Summit Legal Group
In Review
85%
Mar 5
P
Pinnacle Construction
In Progress
72%
Mar 5
H
Harbor Marina LLC
In Progress
45%
Mar 5
M
Meadow Farms Inc.
Not Started
20%
Mar 5
Trusted by forward-thinking accounting firms
HORIZON CPA
NORTHWIND ADVISORY
BASELINE BOOKS
OAKRIDGE FINANCIAL
SUMMIT TAX GROUP
MERIDIAN & CO
What it feels like to run a small firm in 2026

You're doing CFO work
in a bookkeeping operating system.

Small accounting firms are stuck in the gap between QuickBooks and a real advisory firm — drowning in manual work, watching mistakes slip through, and leaving advisory revenue on the table. Thesis is built to fix all four at once.

01
60+
hour weeks during close

Your week disappears into manual close work

Reconciliations, journal entries, chasing clients for receipts, copying numbers from QBO into Excel. Your team works 60-hour weeks during close and still ships late.

02
$138K
avg errors found per client / year

Errors get caught by clients (or worse, the IRS)

Missed accruals. Cutoff problems. A vendor invoice booked in the wrong period. By the time anyone notices, you're three days into rework and one trust point down.

03
advisory revenue left on the table

You deliver CFO insights, charge bookkeeping rates

Clients call you for budgeting, cash flow, hiring decisions — the whole thing. Your invoice says 'Monthly bookkeeping — $650'. The gap between what you give and what you charge is pure unclaimed revenue.

04
1:1
new clients = new headcount

You can't grow without hiring

Every new client means more headcount. There's no leverage in your firm — just more hours. Meanwhile, the partners you refer clients to are billing 5× what you do for the same engagement.

Pillar 01 · AI Close Automation

Your firm's best close,
running itself.

Template-driven workflows populate from your last close, inherit QBO balances, and route work automatically. Add a tool, add a step — your SOPs become living software.

  • Pulls live trial balance, chart of accounts, JEs, and aging from QBO
  • Agents auto-draft reconciliation journal entries for your review
  • Routes each step preparer → reviewer → sign-off with full audit trail
  • One SOP library for your whole firm — version-controlled and inheritable
60%
close time saved
2 days
avg time-to-close
March 2026 Close · Summit Legal Group
0h 48m remaining · Preparer: MT · Reviewer: SH
12/18 done
Reconcile all bank accounts
MT
Reconcile credit cards
MT
Post monthly payroll JE
SH
Review AR aging — follow up > 60 days
TB
Accrue March utilities + rent
TB
Lock period & send to reviewer
SH
Close Review — AI findings
11 items · $138,929 impact
Deferred revenue not released
high severity · AI-proposed fix ready
$24,500
Missed rent accrual — March
high severity · AI-proposed fix ready
$8,500
Unusual payroll variance (+18%)
med severity · AI-proposed fix ready
$3,200
Duplicate vendor bill (Acme Supply)
med severity · AI-proposed fix ready
$1,180
Uncategorized transactions
low severity · AI-proposed fix ready
6 items
Proposed JE: Dr Deferred Revenue $24,500 · Cr Revenue $24,500 — recognize March ratable portion of annual contracts.
Pillar 02 · Error-catching Agents

Clients won't catch errors
before you do.

Thesis scans every account, every period, for cutoff errors, missed accruals, suspicious JEs, and balance-sheet drift — and writes the remediation step for you.

  • Scans every account in every period — doesn't wait for you to look
  • Flags cutoff errors, missed accruals, and balance-sheet drift
  • Writes the remediation journal entry and explains the fix in plain English
  • Learns your firm's materiality thresholds over time
$138K
avg errors caught / client / yr
0
client-found surprises
Pillar 03 · CFO Write-Ups

Close the month.
Bill like a CFO.

Point the agent at a closed month. It drafts a client-ready write-up with charts, variance explanations, and forward-looking recommendations. A deliverable that took three hours now takes fifteen minutes — and reads better than the one you wrote by hand.

  • Pulls P&L, balance sheet, trailing KPIs, prior commentary, your tone
  • Drafts variance explanations, trend analysis, and forward-looking recs
  • You review the last 10%, brand it, and send — 15 minutes end-to-end
  • Every draft is linked back to its source — full audit trail for review
15 min
from closed → client-ready
$1,800
avg monthly fee uplift
0 → 1
CFO deliverable, every month
92%
drafts accepted with light edits
March 2026 · Pinnacle Construction · CFO Write-Up
CFO Agent
Drafting report from March close
Executive summary

March 2026 financial review

Revenue
$482K
+12.3% MoM
Gross margin
38.2%
+1.1pt MoM
Net income
$71K
−4.8% MoM

March came in 12% above February, driven by the Riverside and Oakwood project closings. Margin expansion is healthy and on plan.

Net income dipped 5% MoM due to the one-time equipment repair. Normalized net income is $79K (+4.6%).

I'd watch labor utilization this quarter. It's drifting toward the 76% threshold you set in February…

P&L · March
BS · March
YTD variance
KPI board
Client portal
P
Revenue
$482K
Margin
38.2%
Cash
$214K
March CFO Review readyNew
2 data requests openAction
Service catalog
MRR $4.2K
Monthly CFO Review
$750/mo
Active
Cash Flow Forecast
$300/mo
Active
Budget vs Actual
$250/mo
Offered
Fractional Controller
$2.5K/mo
Quote
Partner referrals
+$3,400 YTD
A
Apex Tax Advisors
Tax
+$400
B
BrightPath Legal
Legal
+$350
I
Ironclad Insurance
Insurance
+$280
Pillar 04 · Revenue Engine

Every close becomes
a sales surface.

Three built-in revenue surfaces: a branded client portal, a productized service catalog, and a partner marketplace that pays commission on referrals you already make.

  • Client portal with live financials, data requests, and upsell prompts
  • Drag-and-drop service catalog — quote, accept, deliver in one flow
  • Partner marketplace with trackable referral links and payouts
  • MRR tracking + per-client expansion metrics in the firm dashboard
The revenue math

Per client, per year.

The math on a single client that upgrades from bookkeeping-only to bookkeeping + CFO review + one referred partner:

Base bookkeeping
Compliance rate
$650/mo
+ CFO Review
Unlocked by AI write-up
+ $750/mo
+ Cash flow forecast
Service catalog upsell
+ $300/mo
+ Partner referral
Marketplace commission
+ $200/mo avg
New ARR per client
From $7.8K → $22.8K
+$15K
Integrations

Plugs into the stack you already use.

Live sync with the ledgers, payroll, and payment tools your clients depend on.

  • QuickBooks
  • Xero
  • Stripe
  • Gusto
  • Ramp
  • HubSpot
  • Bill.com
  • Plaid
  • Rippling
  • Shopify
  • Square
  • Amazon
  • Expensify
  • NetSuite
  • Brex
  • Deel
The workflow

From trial balance
to CFO write-up in one afternoon.

01

Connect QuickBooks

Thesis pulls your live trial balance, chart of accounts, JEs, and aging. Setup in 90 seconds — no CSV exports.

02

Run the close

Your firm's close checklist populates automatically. Every step knows its account, its owner, and its deadline.

03

Review AI findings

Thesis scans for cutoff errors, missed accruals, and balance-sheet drift. You approve or dismiss — in minutes, not hours.

04

Deliver the CFO write-up

One click turns your closed month into a client-ready presentation, narrated by AI and branded to your firm.

How Thesis compares

Built for firms that want to stay in business.

Karbon is great practice management. Bench and Zeni are full-service bookkeepers — they replace your firm. Thesis is the only AI-native OS built for firms that want to keep their clients and move upstream.

Thesis
AI-automated close workflow
Error-catching agents on trial balance
AI-generated CFO write-ups
Client portal with branded data requests
Service catalog + engagement packaging
Partner marketplace with referral payouts
QuickBooks Online integration
Xero integration
Bill pay / AP automation
Partial
Email + task practice management
Partial
White-label to your firm's brand
You own the client relationship
Starting price (5-client firm)
$99/mo
Karbon
AI-automated close workflow
Partial
Error-catching agents on trial balance
AI-generated CFO write-ups
Client portal with branded data requests
Service catalog + engagement packaging
Partial
Partner marketplace with referral payouts
QuickBooks Online integration
Xero integration
Bill pay / AP automation
Email + task practice management
White-label to your firm's brand
You own the client relationship
Starting price (5-client firm)
~$59/user/mo
Bench
AI-automated close workflow
Error-catching agents on trial balance
AI-generated CFO write-ups
Client portal with branded data requests
Service catalog + engagement packaging
Partner marketplace with referral payouts
QuickBooks Online integration
Partial
Xero integration
Bill pay / AP automation
Email + task practice management
White-label to your firm's brand
You own the client relationship
Bench IS the bookkeeper
Starting price (5-client firm)
Service
Zeni
AI-automated close workflow
Error-catching agents on trial balance
Partial
AI-generated CFO write-ups
Partial
Client portal with branded data requests
Service catalog + engagement packaging
Partner marketplace with referral payouts
QuickBooks Online integration
Xero integration
Bill pay / AP automation
Email + task practice management
White-label to your firm's brand
You own the client relationship
Zeni IS the bookkeeper
Starting price (5-client firm)
Service
Competitor names used for identification purposes. Thesis is not affiliated with Karbon, Bench, or Zeni.
ROI calculator

Run the numbers on your firm.

Thirty seconds. Honest math. The savings are yours before the month is over.

Your firm today
10
$800
8 hrs
$75 /hr
Advisory upsell (with Thesis)
20%
$750
What Thesis unlocks
Hours saved / month
48 hrs
≈ 6 business days back
Labor saved / mo
$3,600
48 × $75/hr
New ARR / month
$1,500
2 clients × $750/mo
Net ROI / month
$4,801
After Thesis $299/mo
Payback period
Pays for itself in 2 days
Recommended plan
Pro $299/mo
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Assumptions ↓

Close-time savings: 60% — Thesis beta cohort average (n=12 firms).

Advisory attach rate: user-supplied; 20% default is conservative vs. beta data of 28%.

Thesis plan cost: Starter $99 (≤5 clients), Pro $299 (≤25), Scale custom (25+). See pricing below.

Labor cost: your input — make sure it includes benefits, taxes, and utilization.

What firms are saying

Firms like yours, ahead of schedule.

Our close shrank from 7 days to 3, and we caught two accrual errors in month one that would have embarrassed us later. This is the kind of safety net I didn't know I needed.
MR
Maya Reyes, CPA
Managing Partner · Baseline Books
Closed 11 clients in 6 days
We raised every engagement by $800/month because we could finally show clients what they were paying for. The CFO write-up sells itself — my partners just have to sign off.
JP
Jordan Park
Founder · Northwind Advisory
+ $14K/mo new advisory ARR
Three of our preparers were burning out doing reconciliations by hand. Two months in, they're spending their afternoons on actual analysis. I don't have to hire as fast anymore.
SH
Samira Haddad
Director of Operations · Summit Tax Group
Caught a $38K prepaid error
The outcome

Your firm, rewired.

Before Thesis
With Thesis
Time to close a client
6–8 business days
2–3 business days
Review process
Email + spreadsheets
Routed + tracked in-app
Catching cutoff errors
Manual scan, if you have time
AI flags every period automatically
Client deliverable
Static P&L attached to email
Branded CFO write-up, 1 click
Onboarding a new preparer
1 quarter of shadowing
1 week of Thesis training modules
Average engagement fee
$500–$1,200 / mo
$1,500–$5,000 / mo advisory
Pricing

Pays for itself with the first client renewal.

14 days free · No credit card required · Cancel any time

Starter
$99
/ firm / month

For solo bookkeepers getting month-end under control.

  • Up to 5 clients
  • Close checklist + AI review
  • QuickBooks integration
  • Client portal
  • Email support
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Pro
$299
/ firm / month

For growing firms moving into advisory.

  • Up to 25 clients
  • Everything in Starter
  • CFO write-ups (AI)
  • Team training library
  • Partner marketplace
  • Custom SOP templates
  • Priority support
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Scale
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For multi-partner firms with 25+ clients or custom needs.

  • Unlimited clients
  • Everything in Pro
  • SSO + SAML
  • Dedicated CSM
  • Custom integrations
  • Volume discounts
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FAQ

Questions we hear a lot.

You authorize Thesis through Intuit's standard OAuth flow. We pull your chart of accounts, trial balance, journal entries, invoices, and aging on demand. We never store raw QBO credentials and you can disconnect at any time from either side.
Still have questions?
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