Sector · Accounting

Your AI drafts the entries. You approve them.

It reads incoming invoices, drafts the journal entries and chases late payers, so your bookkeeper stops retyping numbers by hand. Run it on open source you own, with no per-seat fee and an AI you can retrain yourself.

What your AI would do in Accounting.

Concrete jobs an AI operating system set up around your business could take on, including the ones that catch a problem before it lands on your desk.

01

Reads incoming supplier invoices and drafts the journal entry ready for your bookkeeper to approve.

02

Chases outstanding client balances by email on the schedule you set, and escalates the ones that need a phone call instead of another reminder.

03

Pulls the month's transactions into a draft management report before your review meeting starts.

04

Watches for a client's numbers drifting outside their normal pattern and flags it before the year-end review.

 

46%.

of South African small business owners say they spend 1-2 months on average chasing late payments

Xero, State of South African Small Business, 2024

What your AI does about it:

It emails clients who owe you on the schedule you set, and hands you only the ones who need a phone call.

Imagine it. Here it is.

See it work.

A short, fictional scenario. Watch the AI handle it end to end.

Ops console: Karabo & Associates (fictional)
● Invoice inbox: New invoice from Stellenberg Stationers: R 8,450.00, due in 30 days

Karabo & Associates is made up. Watch the AI turn a supplier invoice into a drafted journal entry.

Read what happens

Invoice inbox: New invoice from Stellenberg Stationers: R 8,450.00, due in 30 days Reading the invoice and matching the supplier to the ledger Stellenberg Stationers: Matched to supplier account SUP-0142, usual category: Office supplies Checking the chart of accounts for the right expense line Drafted the journal entry: debit Office Supplies, credit Accounts Payable, R 8,450.00. Account | Debit | Credit Office Supplies | R 8,450.00 | Accounts Payable, Stellenberg | | R 8,450.00 You choose. Approve entry: Posted to the ledger and filed against SUP-0142. Nothing else changes without a person's approval. Hold for review: Left in the review queue. No entry posted.

R 170K

Typical annual licence spend

Across 7 common accounting tools

R 153K

Recoverable each year

After self-hosted OSS migration

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Sector pain points we cover

From licensing to compliance to access control

The accounting stack, on the books

Tap a tool. See the open-source swap and the saving.

Bars show what the typical accounting firm spends annually on each licence. The sage portion is what the hosted open-source equivalent costs.

Typical Accounting stack

7 tools · R 170K/yr in licences

● Migrate to OSS · save 90%
Proprietary
Hosted OSS

Replace

DocuSign

E-Signatures · R 60K per year

With

DocuSeal

Self-hosted on your infra

Annual savings

R 54K

After hosting · approx 90% reduction

See migration brief →

Current annual spend

R 170K

Estimated OSS hosting

R 17K

Annual savings

R 153K

Tap any tool to see the open-source replacement and the per-tool saving

Where accounting time and money leak

What we hear on every accounting discovery call.

01

Retyping invoices instead of reviewing them

Someone still keys every supplier invoice into the ledger by hand. An AI reads the invoice and drafts the entry; a person just checks it.

02

Per-seat licensing eats small firms alive

R200 to R2,000 per accountant per month for the stack adds up to six figures a year by the time you include partners, associates and admin staff.

03

POPIA exposure across every client file

Financial records, IDs, tax numbers and bank statements, multiplied across every client. One badly configured SaaS vendor becomes an Information Regulator problem.

How we handle the accounting edges

The sector-specific things we get right.

01 · Concern

POPIA compliance

Client financial data is special-category information under POPIA. Self-hosted Nextcloud, LibreOffice and Odoo keep it on SA infrastructure you control.

02 · Concern

SARS audit trail

Immutable logs, version history, and retention controls. We configure Odoo and Nextcloud with the document retention policies SARS expects.

03 · Concern

Multi-partner access

Proper role-based access control without per-seat licence fees. Unlimited users on self-hosted stacks.

What we bring to a accounting engagement

The services your sector usually starts with.

Now it's real.

Four things stay true, whatever we build for you.

  • Your hardware or ours

    On your server, on ours, or on a machine in your office running an open model. Your call.

  • A person approves what matters

    Payments, deletions and anything going to a client wait for a yes from you or someone you choose.

  • Every action logged

    You can see what it read, what it did and why, for every task.

  • Built with POPIA in mind

    We set it up the way we set up any system that handles personal information, with the same care our compliance work gets.

Questions people ask

Can the AI post entries to our ledger on its own?

No. It drafts the entry and a person approves it before anything posts. You choose which entries need a second look.

Is client financial data safe under POPIA if we self-host?

Yes, that's the point. Self-hosted Nextcloud, Odoo and LibreOffice keep tax numbers, IDs and bank data on infrastructure you control, not a foreign SaaS vendor's.

How long does moving off Xero or QuickBooks take?

It depends on your chart of accounts and integrations, but most small firms run in parallel for a few weeks before we cut over fully.

Can your AI still work with Sage or Xero if we're not ready to switch?

Yes. We can connect the AI to your existing ledger first and move the hosting later, in whatever order suits your firm.

Your numbers, not the industry average. Free audit, on us.

Send your licence list. We'll map it to what an AI and open source could take off your plate, and quote a migration window.