Notes from inside a working firm.
We run an accounting firm and build the tool at the same time. This is where the two meet: what we changed, what broke, and what we’d tell another firm before they try it.
How firms actually choose this stuff.
Long-form answers to the questions accountants ask us on the first call. Written to be useful whether or not you buy anything from us.
Accounting tools for managing multiple client accounts
The five-layer stack for a firm running many QuickBooks Online clients: practice management, document intake, ledger access, review and close, and client reporting. Which products sit in each layer, what to buy first at 15, 40 and 150 clients, and the layer most firms never fill.
Accelerating transaction creation, seven ways
Bank rules, recurring templates, batch entry, file import, receipt capture, direct API sync, and an AI connector that drafts and waits. What each one speeds up, its ceiling, and how it fails. Plus why review, not entry, is the real constraint.
AI tools for bookkeeper workflows and client reporting
Four categories of AI accounting tool, eight questions that separate them, and a recommendation by situation, including the situations where the answer is somebody else. Covers the SOP library and the three-homes pattern for firm knowledge.
The best QuickBooks Online integration is the one for your job
Seven categories of QBO integration, how OAuth, realms, scopes and rate limits actually work, where Intuit’s own MCP server fits and where it stops, and eight checks before you connect anything to a client’s books.
Longer pieces, published off-site.
- Partner spotlight: Nicole of PrismEdge: the fractional CFO and M&A advisor behind PrismEdge, how she got there, and the gap she fills between a bookkeeper and a $300,000 CFO. The Numbers Game side of her work is written up as a use case study.
- AI bookkeeping in a QuickBooks accounting firm: how we ran an entire client book through Claude and QuickBooks Online, and what it changed about how the firm is staffed.
- Use case studies: the longer write-ups, the ask, the output, and what a person still had to decide.
What we’ll write about next.
- Pricing: what a firm can charge once the close stops taking a week.
- Review discipline, what we approve by hand and what we stopped checking.
- The parts that didn’t work, and what we pulled back out.
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