The AI-native OS 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

No credit card required · SOC 2 controls in place · Cancel any time

AI agents reconciling
Flagging missed accruals
Reviewing now
Senior Reviewer queue
AI-flagged exceptions routed to a human reviewer before the close locks.
CFO write-up
Drafted in minutes ✦
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
Long
weeks during close

Your week disappears into manual close work

Reconciliations, journal entries, chasing clients for receipts, copying numbers from QBO into Excel. The close runs long and still ships late.

02
Hidden
errors only caught later

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
Unbilled
advisory work delivered for free

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
Linear
growth tied to hiring

You can't grow without hiring

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

Four ways Thesis pays for itself

AI does the busywork.
Your firm does the upsell.

Every pillar maps to a real number on your P&L. Pillars one and two save your team time. Pillars three and four put new revenue on the table.

Pillar 01 · AI-streamlined close

Your AI close team

Agents reconcile accounts, draft journal entries, populate the checklist, chase data requests, and route work to the right preparer. The same close that took your team a week now takes two days.

See it in action
Pillar 02 · Error-catching agents

A second pair of eyes on every account

Thesis scans every account, every period, for cutoff errors, missed accruals, duplicate vendor bills, payroll variance, and balance-sheet drift — and writes the fix.

See it in action
Pillar 03 · CFO write-up upsells

Turn every close into a CFO report

An AI agent drafts a client-ready CFO write-up — variance commentary, trend analysis, forward-looking recommendations. You add 10% of the polish, charge 3× the fee.

See it in action
Pillar 04 · New revenue streams

Three revenue surfaces, built in

A branded client portal where clients see live financials and get upsell prompts. A productized service catalog. A partner marketplace that pays commission on every referral.

See it in action
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
Preview · Close checklist
Product preview · Close checklist
AI-drafted, reviewer-approved close steps
Preview
Reconcile all bank accounts
Reconcile credit cards
Post monthly payroll JE
Review AR aging — follow up > 60 days
Accrue utilities + rent
Lock period & send to reviewer
Close Agent drafted 4 journal entries — review in 1 click
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
Preview · Close-review findings
Close Review — categories of AI findings
Surfaces missed accruals, cutoff errors, duplicates, and variance.
Preview
Deferred revenue not releasedhigh severityExample
Missed rent accrualhigh severityExample
Unusual payroll variancemed severityExample
Duplicate vendor billmed severityExample
Uncategorized transactionslow severityExample
Proposed JE: Each finding includes a draft journal entry the reviewer can approve, edit, or reject before posting to QuickBooks.
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
closed → client-ready
$1,800
avg monthly fee uplift
92%
drafts accepted with light edits
Preview · CFO write-up
Product preview · CFO write-up
Executive summary · drafted from your GL
Preview
Revenue
MoM trend
Gross margin
vs. prior
Net income
with normalization

Each paragraph traces back to specific rows in the GL via fact tokens — variance commentary, normalization, and forward-looking guidance grounded in the trial balance you just closed.

Reviewers can edit any paragraph; the prompt log shows which GL rows the agent cited.

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
Preview · Revenue surfaces
Service catalog
Your MRR
Monthly CFO Review
Firm-set price
Template
Cash Flow Forecast
Firm-set price
Template
Budget vs Actual
Firm-set price
Template
Fractional Controller
Firm-set price
Template
Partner referrals
Commission tracking
T
Tax partner
Tax
Commission
L
Legal partner
Legal
Commission
I
Insurance partner
Insurance
Commission
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
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

“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.”

Jordan Park
Jordan Park
Founder · Northwind Advisory · +$14K/mo new advisory ARR
ROI calculator

Run the numbers on your firm.

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

Your firm today
Number of monthly-close clients10
Average monthly bookkeeping fee$800
Hours to close one client per month8 hrs
Fully-loaded hourly cost$75 /hr
% of clients upsold to CFO write-ups20%
CFO write-up price / month$750
What Thesis unlocks
Hours saved / mo
48 hrs
≈ 6 business days back
Labor saved / mo
$3,600
48 × $75/hr
New ARR / mo
$1,500
2 clients × $750/mo
Net ROI / mo
$4,801
After Thesis $299/mo
Payback period
Pays for itself in 2 days

Close-time savings: 60% — Thesis beta cohort average (n=12 firms). Advisory attach: 20% default is conservative vs. beta data of 28%.

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
Most popular
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
Scale
Let's talk

For multi-partner firms with 25+ clients or custom needs.

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

Compare all features ↓

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.
Yes. Every firm runs in an isolated tenant with row-level security on every query. Your data is never used to train shared models, and only your firm's users can read or write it.
Yes — Thesis works with Xero, NetSuite, and Sage Intacct, and you can also import trial balances and JEs from CSV if you're between systems.
Pick a plan or your account pauses — nothing is auto-charged. Your data stays in place for 90 days so you can pick up where you left off.
We have SOC 2 Type II controls in place and an active audit window. Reach out to security@thesisapp.io for our latest report and security questionnaire.
Yes. Drop your Excel checklist, Notion doc, or PDF SOP — Thesis parses it into structured workflows in minutes, then runs them on every entity.
Close-time savings use 60% (Thesis beta cohort average across 12 firms). Labor savings = hours saved × your fully-loaded rate. Advisory uplift uses your attach rate × write-up price. All inputs are yours to edit.
No. Thesis is software for firms — your team owns the client relationship and signs off on every deliverable. We're the opposite of Bench or Zeni.
Still have questions?
Book a 20-minute call — we'll walk you through your first close.
Talk to us

Close the next month
with Thesis.

14 days free. No credit card. Your first close runs faster or it's on us.

or sign in · talk to sales

SOC 2 controls in place · Built in the U.S.