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# Empty Spaces vs Trintech: Who prepares the close, what gets auto-approved, and which to choose

Published November 10, 2026 19 min read

Prepaid insurance correcting entry for October 2026: cyber insurance expense $750 and prepaid insurance $210 debited, D&O insurance expense $960 credited, marked approved, on a deep teal patterned panel.

## Empty Spaces vs Trintech at a glance (November 8, 2026)

| What's compared | Trintech | Empty Spaces |
| --------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| What it is | “The World's Most Trusted Reconciliation and Financial Close AI Agentic Platform,” sold as Adra and Cadency | AI agents for month-end close, reconciliation and FP&A |
| Who prepares the work | Your team with matching rules, templates, and workflows, plus agents for variance, flux, exceptions, accruals, and data | The Close Agent, task by task through the month |
| What skips a reviewer | Low-risk accounts within “a defined deviation” (Adra Balancer) and journals under Cadency's “auto-approval capabilities” | Nothing: every entry waits for a named approver, and every task has a named reviewer |
| Entries post to | SAP, Oracle, NetSuite, Microsoft Dynamics 365, and Workday through certified connectors | NetSuite, Oracle, SAP S/4HANA, Microsoft Dynamics 365, Business Central, and QuickBooks; reads Odoo |
| Where it runs | Trintech's cloud, with its own model in a single tenant | SaaS, your own cloud (BYOC), a private cloud, or on-premises |

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Key takeaways

- Trintech sells two close platforms, Adra for mid-sized teams and Cadency for large enterprises, and added five AI agents in 2026 that analyze, investigate, recommend, and move data. Our Close Agent prepares the close itself and posts only the lines a named approver approves.
- Trintech lets rules auto-reconcile low-risk accounts and auto-approve routine journals. That saves review time at high volume, but a small net variance can hide larger errors, as the worked example shows.
- Neither publishes a price. Trintech leads on matching volume, certified connectors, and compliance breadth. Our Close Agent posts to six ERPs and runs as SaaS, in your own cloud, in a private cloud, or on-premises.

Empty Spaces vs Trintech comes down to who prepares the work and which items a person must approve. Trintech is a long-established close and reconciliation platform with rules, workflows, and new AI agents. Our Close Agent does the preparation and sends every entry to a named approver.

We make one of the two products compared on this page. We hold ourselves to the same test we ask you to run on Trintech. Every Trintech fact below comes from Trintech's own pages, read on November 8, 2026, unless another source and date are named. Our agents do the finance work itself (reconciliations, exceptions, entries, variance analysis, reports) and hand it to your team to approve, on top of your existing ERP.

## Empty Spaces vs Trintech: What's the difference?

Trintech is a financial close and reconciliation platform sold as Adra for mid-sized teams and Cadency for large enterprises, with AI agents added in 2026. Our Close Agent prepares the close itself and posts only entries a named approver approves, on top of your existing ERP.

- **Rule-based auto-approval** A rule you configure certifies a reconciliation or approves a journal without a person reviewing that item
- **Exact-line approval** A named person approves every line of one balanced entry, and the approval covers only that version; nothing posts in part
- **Close agent** AI that prepares the work across the checklist, such as reconciliations, exceptions, and entries, and hands each item to a named reviewer

Trintech is used to automate reconciliations, matching, close tasks, journal entries, and intercompany, and it calls itself “trusted by thousands of organizations worldwide.” It sits on top of your ERP, as our Close Agent does. To see which tool performs the work instead of tracking it, open a reconciliation on day 2 of the close and check whether it waits for a preparer or a reviewer. If you're new to the process both support, start with [What is month-end close?](https://emptyspaces.ai/resources/blog/month-end-close)

## Adra or Cadency: Which Trintech product are you comparing?

Trintech sells two separate products. Adra is its mid-market suite: Matcher, Balancer, Task Manager, Analytics, and Journal Entry. Cadency is its record-to-report platform for large, multi-entity, multi-ERP groups. CFO Shortlist wrote on September 24, 2026, that moving from Adra to Cadency later is a reimplementation.

| Aspect | Adra | Cadency |
| ---------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Trintech's description | “Quick to implement and built to deliver measurable value sooner” | “Financial Close Platform for Large Enterprises” |
| Modules | Adra Matcher, Adra Balancer, Adra Task Manager, Adra Analytics, Adra Journal Entry | Balance sheet reconciliations, transaction matching, close management, journal entry, governance, risk and compliance, intercompany |
| Matching | “one-to-one, one-to-many, many-to-one, and many-to-many matches,” reading data “in its raw form” | Transaction matching at volumes such as H&R Block's busy-season “over a million credit card transactions a month” |
| Named scale | Mid-sized customers such as Fidelis MGU, which “Cuts Bank Reconciliations from Day 8 to Day 2” | Boston Scientific: “93 entities, 53 countries, and 29K+ accounts” |
| Delivery | Cloud; “the first and only financial close solution embedded in Microsoft 365” | Cloud, and CadencyDirect on ServiceNow |

Ask which product your quote covers before the demo, because the modules, connectors, and price differ.

## What do Trintech's AI agents do, and what does the Close Agent do?

Trintech's five agents, launched June 25 and September 28, 2026, analyze variances and fluctuations, prioritize exceptions, recommend accrual amounts, and move data, and reviewers act on their output. The Close Agent works the checklist itself: it reconciles, investigates exceptions, and prepares each balanced entry with its workpaper.

Trintech says the agents mark its “shift from AI that surfaces insights to AI that executes the work itself,” working “within the same controls, approvals and audit trails finance teams already rely on.”

AI in each product, in each vendor's words (November 8, 2026)

| Agent or feature | What the vendor says it does |
| ------------------------------------ | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Trintech Variance Analysis Agent | “Reviewer-ready narrative generation with supporting evidence” |
| Trintech Flux Agent | “Period-over-period balance analysis across entities, currencies, and reporting hierarchies” |
| Trintech Exception Management Agent | “investigates each one, names a likely root cause, attaches a confidence score to that finding, and gathers its own supporting evidence” |
| Trintech Accruals Intelligence Agent | Reviews prior periods “to recommend accrual amounts, rather than repeating a fixed number from a template, and it catches true-ups and reversals” |
| Trintech Data Access Agent | “Centralized data retrieval across cloud, on-premise, login-only, MFA-gated, API, and no-API sources” |
| Trintech Beacon | “the LLM-powered, built-in AI assistant embedded in our platform” |
| Trintech Journal Entry | “Where appropriate, Journal surfaces suggested entries tied to reconciliations and variances, while always ensuring human approval according to your controls” |
| Empty Spaces (Close Agent) | Reconciles the ledger to bank statements, subledgers, invoices, and other sources; logs exceptions; prepares the balanced entry and its workpaper; stops and asks when data is missing |

In the roadmap section of its AI solution page, Trintech says its agents “support final review, and even post journal entries or initiate close steps,” with governance and human oversight, and that its platform “will support secure integration of customer-trained AI.” On mid-market ERPs such as NetSuite and Business Central, both products add agents on top of the ledger rather than inside it. The Close Agent's tasks run from cash and bank to accruals, prepaids, and intercompany, with every line checked and no sampling. For how both kinds of AI fit each close step, see [AI in month-end close](https://emptyspaces.ai/resources/blog/ai-month-end-close).

## Does Trintech post journal entries automatically? What the approver approves

It can. Trintech routes journals by value and risk, documents “auto-approval capabilities” in Cadency, and lets Adra Balancer reconcile low-risk accounts with no further review. With our Close Agent, every entry waits for a named approver to approve its exact lines, the requester can never approve it, and each approval covers one write.

Journal and reconciliation controls, in each vendor's words (November 8, 2026)

| Control | Trintech (journal entry, Balancer, close task, and AI pages) | Empty Spaces (Close Agent) |
| -------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Routing | “Configurable workflows route journal entries through preparer and approver hierarchies,” and Severn Trent uses “different approval routings based on journal value” | Named approvers by amount tier |
| Auto-approval | “Cadency provides auto-approval capabilities” (Trintech blog, September 15, 2020) and “batch creation and approval of recurring journal entries” | None: “Nothing posts to your ledger until a person approves it” |
| Low-risk reconciliations | “if no errors are found within a defined deviation, then no further review is needed” (Adra Balancer) | Every task needs a named reviewer, separate from the preparer |
| AI output | “Every Trintech AI output is reviewed by a human before anything is finalized,” and “Nothing gets posted without an approval attached to it, so when the AI is wrong, the reviewer catches it before it matters” | The agent's entries go to Draft, then Awaiting approval; rejected entries go back to the agent |
| Segregation of duties | “Enforce segregation of duties and approval requirements directly within close workflows” | The requester can never approve their own entry |
| What the approval binds to | The journal, through approval workflows that prevent “unauthorized edits”; whether an edit after approval voids it is not listed on Trintech's product or trust pages as of November 8, 2026; ask Trintech | The exact lines; any change needs a new approval, and an approved entry posts once |
| Change after sign-off | “If a balance changes after it is certified, the preparer and approver are automatically alerted to re-validate the account” | The month can't lock until every task is signed off, and closed months block ERP writes |
| Audit trail | “Every action from preparation, review, and approval to posting is logged with timestamps and user attribution” | An append-only log of every person's change and every agent step, including ERP queries with parameters and results |

In both, posting runs through an ERP connection after approval: Trintech's certified connectors, and the Close Agent's ERP connection, which posts each approved entry once. Rule-based approval scales to thousands of routine items, while per-entry approval puts a person on every line that reaches the ledger. For a 12-entity shared services team, ask both vendors to show one approval policy applied across every entity. For the entries most teams post each month, see [month-end journal entries](https://emptyspaces.ai/resources/blog/month-end-journal-entries).

## How does each handle a balance sheet reconciliation? A worked example

Both can reconcile prepaid insurance to its schedule and post a correcting entry to SAP S/4HANA. They differ when a small net variance sits under an auto-reconciliation threshold.

Example

Your company runs SAP S/4HANA. At October 31, 2026, prepaid insurance shows $44,600 in the general ledger, and the amortization schedule shows $44,810, a net variance of $210. Your policy uses two review triggers: a net variance above $1,000 goes to a senior reviewer, and entries above $10,000 go to the controller. In Adra Balancer, the same $1,000 could be set as an auto-reconciliation threshold. All figures are illustrative, amortized straight-line by month. **Prepaid insurance schedule, October 31, 2026 ($)**

| Policy | Premium | Term (months) | Monthly | Remaining at October 31 |
| -------------------------------------------------- | ------- | ------------- | ------- | ----------------------- |
| D&O, July 1, 2026, to June 30, 2027 | 48,000 | 12 | 4,000 | 32,000 |
| D&O endorsement, October 1, 2026, to June 30, 2027 | 1,080 | 9 | 120 | 960 |
| General liability, calendar 2026 | 21,600 | 12 | 1,800 | 3,600 |
| Cyber, October 1, 2026, to September 30, 2027 | 9,000 | 12 | 750 | 8,250 |
| Total | 79,680 | | 6,670 | 44,810 |

The $210 hides two errors that offset. The recurring amortization entry missed October's $750 for the new cyber policy, so the ledger is $750 too high. The $1,080 endorsement was coded entirely to D&O expense, so the ledger is $960 too low. Net: $750 − $960 = −$210, while the gross errors total $1,710.

Correcting entry, October 31, 2026 ($)

| Account | Debit | Credit |
| ------------------------ | ----- | ------ |
| Insurance expense, cyber | 750 | |
| Prepaid insurance | 210 | |
| Insurance expense, D&O | | 960 |
| Total | 960 | 960 |

After the entry, the ledger shows $44,600 + $210 = $44,810 and ties to the schedule. October insurance expense had been overstated by $960 − $750 = $210. Left alone, with the recurring entry still missing the cyber policy, the cyber gap grows by $750 a month, while the endorsement gap shrinks by $120 a month as that prepaid would have amortized through June 2027. The ledger then sits $660 above the schedule in November, still under $1,000, and $1,530 above it in December, when it would first cross the trigger.

The same reconciliation in each tool

| Step | Trintech (Adra Balancer and Journal Entry, per its pages) | Empty Spaces (Close Agent) |
| -------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Compare | Pulls the SAP balance through the certified connector and compares it with the schedule | Ties the account to the schedule policy by policy, with no sampling |
| Variance | Under a $1,000 rule, $210 is “within a defined deviation,” so October needs “no further review”; a stricter rule routes it to a reviewer | Lists both differences with amount, date, source, and reference, and asks for the endorsement invoice if it's missing |
| Prepare | A preparer builds the correcting journal, with AI suggestions where Trintech offers them | Prepares the three-line entry and a workpaper |
| Review | Routes by value through your approval workflow | Under $10,000, so any named approver other than the requester approves the exact three lines |
| Change | If the balance changes after certification, the preparer and approver are alerted | If anyone edits a line after approval, the approval no longer applies |
| Post | Posts to SAP after approval through the certified connector | Posts once to SAP S/4HANA after approval |

Trintech's rules are yours to set: a zero threshold, or a review requirement on prepaid accounts, would catch October. The trade-off is review time on hundreds of clean accounts. For the full reconciliation method, see [balance sheet reconciliation](https://emptyspaces.ai/resources/blog/balance-sheet-reconciliation), and for building the schedule, see [prepaid expenses](https://emptyspaces.ai/resources/blog/prepaid-expenses).

## Which ERPs does each post approved entries to?

Trintech posts approved journals through certified connectors to SAP, Oracle EBS and Fusion, NetSuite, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance and Business Central, and Workday. Our Close Agent reads from and posts approved entries to NetSuite, Oracle, SAP S/4HANA, Microsoft Dynamics 365, Business Central, and QuickBooks, and reads from Odoo.

ERP coverage, from Trintech's integration and journal entry pages and our own (November 8, 2026)

| ERP | Trintech | Empty Spaces (Close Agent) |
| ---------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------- |
| SAP S/4HANA | SAP-certified connector, “Certified for S/4HANA On-Premise and HEC”; “Once it's approved it automatically updates the SAP system” (customer quote) | Reads and posts approved entries |
| SAP ECC and SAP 4.7 | Integrates “ECC6, S/4HANA, SAP 4.7, or a combination” | Not on our list |
| Oracle | EBS and Fusion: “Automatically post journals and track approvals through real-time dashboards” | Reads and posts approved entries |
| NetSuite | Certified connector, including OneWorld; posts journals “based on approved reconciliation and close activities” | Reads and posts approved entries |
| Microsoft Dynamics 365 | Dynamics 365 Finance, with automatic journal posting | Reads and posts approved entries |
| Business Central | Certified, pre-built connector | Reads and posts approved entries |
| Workday | “Trintech supports automated journal entry creation and posting for Workday,” its “only certified financial close partner” | Not on our list |
| Sage | Listed in a Trintech FAQ of ERP integrations that support “Journal posting back to ERP”; a Sage connector is not listed on Trintech's product or trust pages as of November 8, 2026; ask Trintech | Not on our list |
| QuickBooks | Not listed on Trintech's product or trust pages as of November 8, 2026; ask Trintech | Reads and posts approved entries |
| Odoo | Not listed on Trintech's product or trust pages as of November 8, 2026; ask Trintech | Reads only |

Trintech also says its “Certified ERP integration connectors are maintained with ERP updates,” which matters during SAP upgrades. For a 4-entity SAP group, or SAP plus NetSuite or Oracle, both cover your ledgers; for QuickBooks or Odoo, only ours does.

## Where does each run, and whose AI model does it use?

Trintech runs as a cloud service it hosts, with its own finance-native model deployed in a single tenant, and customer-trained models are on its roadmap. Our agents run as SaaS, in your own cloud (BYOC), in a private cloud, or on-premises, with the model you choose and your own model keys.

Deployment, models, and security (November 8, 2026)

| Aspect | Trintech (trust center, AI solution, and integration pages) | Empty Spaces |
| -------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Deployment | Trintech-hosted cloud: “Trintech hosts Boomi in our own secure data centers,” and an HP quote describes “switching from Trintech's on-premise solution”; customer-cloud and on-premises options not listed on Trintech's product or trust pages as of November 8, 2026; ask Trintech | SaaS, your own cloud (BYOC), a private cloud, or on-premises |
| Tenancy | “The LLM is deployed in a single, secure tenant” | Single-tenant |
| Model | “Trintech's proprietary and secure LLM”; model provider not listed on Trintech's product or trust pages as of November 8, 2026; ask Trintech | You choose the model and can bring your own keys, with AI spend caps per group |
| AI controls | “Opt-In AI Features: You control where and how AI is used,” and “Every model update goes through a rigorous RFC and rollback process” | Credentials are encrypted and never shown to models; every agent step is visible |
| Certifications | ISO/IEC 27001:2022, SSAE 18 SOC 1 and SOC 2 reports, TX-RAMP, FFIEC, and CSA STAR | SOC 2 Type I and Type II |
| Sign-in | Role-based access controls | SSO with SAML or OIDC, and custom roles |

### Is Trintech SOC 2?

Yes. Its trust center lists SSAE 18 SOC 1 and SOC 2 reports, and the SOC 1 report matters if your auditors rely on vendor controls over financial reporting.

## Where Trintech is stronger

Trintech has decades of close software and named enterprise customers behind it. It leads on matching volume, certified connectors across SAP, Oracle, and Workday, and a compliance list that includes FFIEC and TX-RAMP, which matter most to regulated, high-volume, multi-ERP groups.

- **Volume** H&R Block ramps up to “over a million credit card transactions a month” in its busy season, and Abercrombie & Fitch is named for “150 Million Transactions a Year.”
- **Financial services** Trintech says it “supports 6 of the Top 10 global banks and 6 of the Top 10 global insurance providers.”
- **Connectors** SAP integration from SAP 4.7 and ECC6 to S/4HANA, multiple ERP instances in “a single console,” and Workday's only certified close partner.
- **Controls** Post-certification change alerts, value-based routing, and auditor access to “reconciliations, history, approvals, and supporting evidence.”
- **Recognition** Its September 3, 2026, release says it ranked #1 in G2's Fall 2026 Enterprise Grid Report for Financial Reconciliation.

A Perplexity summary of r/Accounting threads on November 8, 2026, described Cadency as powerful but hard to use. It said configuration can need support during the close and that Adra is more approachable. For other reconciliation tools, see [Best account reconciliation software](https://emptyspaces.ai/resources/blog/best-account-reconciliation-software).

## Is choosing an AI-native vendor a risk? Trintech's argument, answered

Trintech's “Trintech vs. AI Startups” page argues that newer vendors lack governance, ERP depth, and staying power. Judge any vendor on controls you can test on your own month: who can approve, what an approval covers, whether closed periods stay locked, and where your data and model keys live.

Trintech's page says closing the books “requires governed workflows, role-based access, segregation of duties, cross-ERP integration, daily reconciliations, multi-entity support, audit trails, documentation and exception management, and built-in regulatory alignment.” It also warns, “Your close roadmap shouldn't depend on someone else's runway.” It's a fair question for any vendor, and these tests answer it with evidence.

| Test you can run | What Empty Spaces should show |
| ------------------------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| Approve an entry, then edit one line | The approval no longer applies, and the entry needs a new one |
| Retry the post of an approved entry | It posts once; each approval covers one write |
| Have the requester approve their own entry | Blocked |
| Post an entry dated in a closed month | Blocked: closed months block ERP writes |
| Lock the month with one task unsigned | Blocked until every task is signed off |
| Export the log for one entry | An append-only record of who prepared it, who approved it, why, and every agent step |
| Start with no write access | The agent runs read-only; posting is switched on later |
| Ask for audit reports and tenancy | SOC 2 Type I and Type II, single-tenant |

If you run it in your own cloud, the deployment and its data sit in an account you control. Ask Trintech the same ownership question. Reuters reported on August 26, 2024, that Summit Partners, majority owner since January 2018, and Vista Equity Partners were exploring a sale at about $2 billion including debt. We found no reported deal as of November 8, 2026, and Trintech, headquartered in Plano, Texas, appears as a private company in its August 11, 2026, Inc. 5000 release. Ask either vendor for change-of-control terms in your contract.

## How much does each cost, and how long does it take?

Neither publishes a price: Trintech's pricing page returned a 404 on November 8, 2026, and Vendr has no Trintech listing. SpendHound's spend data from 160 Trintech customers puts the average at $271,885 a year for companies with 1,000+ employees and $71,819 for companies with 50 to 1,000. We publish no price.

| Aspect | Trintech | Empty Spaces |
| -------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Public price | None | None |
| Buyer data | SpendHound: $271,885 average a year for 1,000+ employee customers and $71,819 for 50 to 1,000 employees, from 160 Trintech customers; enterprise pricing up 7.22% year over year, based on 26 enterprise customers (read November 8, 2026); not split by Adra or Cadency | None published |
| Implementation | Oracle and Workday integrations “typically completed in weeks, not months”; mid-sized teams “typically deploy faster than large-scale enterprise programs”; Trintech's implementation partners “Lead implementations and integrations” | Works on top of your existing ERP, with no rip and replace; can start read-only |
| What to ask | Which product and modules the quote covers, partner fees, and whether agents cost extra | What the quote covers for your entities, ERPs, and deployment choice |

AI answers tested on November 8, 2026, gave Trintech price ranges that contradicted each other, so anchor on your own quote. Treat SpendHound's figure as an enterprise reference, not an Adra price.

## How to test both on your own data

Give both vendors the same closed month and run the control tests from the section above on each, before you judge speed. Then plant the hidden variance from the example, list every auto-approval rule, post to every ERP you run, and compare preparation hours and exceptions found.

Demo scorecard: Trintech vs Empty Spaces

| # | Test | What you do | What passes | Trintech | Empty Spaces |
| - | ------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------- | -------- | ------------ |
| 1 | Control tests | Run every test in the table in the section above | Each one passes | | |
| 2 | Hidden variance | Plant the two prepaid errors from the example | Both errors are found, not only the $210 net | | |
| 3 | Auto-approval rules | List every rule that can certify or approve without a person, and who can change it | A written list, and a log entry for each change | | |
| 4 | Each ERP | Post one test journal to every ERP you run | It posts to each, with the ERP's document number | | |
| 5 | Matching at volume | Load your highest-volume month of card or bank transactions | Matches clear, and every leftover has a reason | | |
| 6 | Accrual | Ask for one accrual from a contract | The amount comes with its source, and a person approves the entry | | |
| 7 | Missing data | Remove one statement before the run | The tool asks for it instead of guessing | | |

Record pass or fail, plus your team's hours. A tool that passes every control test but leaves your team preparing the work won't shorten your close. One that prepares everything but fails a control test isn't ready to post.

## Which should you choose: Stay with Trintech, run both, or switch?

Stay with Trintech if high-volume matching, auto-certification rules, and certified connectors are working and your bottleneck is governance. Add or switch to our Close Agent if your team still prepares reconciliations, accruals, and entries by hand. Because it works on top of the ERP, it can run alongside Trintech.

| Signal | Points to |
| -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------ |
| You match millions of card, payment, or bank transactions a month by rule | Trintech |
| You're a bank, insurer, or regulated group that wants FFIEC or TX-RAMP evidence | Trintech |
| You run SAP ECC, SAP 4.7, or Workday | Trintech |
| You want low-risk accounts certified by rule to save review time | Trintech |
| Staff spend most close hours preparing reconciliations, accruals, and entries | Empty Spaces |
| Your auditors want a named approver on the exact lines of every entry | Empty Spaces |
| You post to QuickBooks, or read from Odoo, alongside a larger ERP | Empty Spaces |
| Security requires your own cloud, a private cloud, on-premises, or your own model keys | Empty Spaces |
| You like Trintech's matching but are short on preparers | Both |

For a 250- to 300-person company on NetSuite, Adra and our Close Agent both fit the ERP. Weigh Adra's matching and rule-based certification against agent preparation, and let the scorecard decide.

To run both, start the Close Agent read-only on one closed month and compare its work with your Trintech reconciliations. Then pick two or three areas, such as accruals, prepaids, and [intercompany accounting](https://emptyspaces.ai/resources/blog/intercompany-accounting), and switch posting on with named approvers while matching stays in Trintech. Start at least three closes before your Trintech renewal. For other tools, see [Best AI agents for finance teams](https://emptyspaces.ai/resources/blog/best-ai-agents-for-finance-teams), [FloQast alternatives](https://emptyspaces.ai/resources/blog/floqast-alternatives), and [BlackLine alternatives](https://emptyspaces.ai/resources/blog/blackline-alternatives), and for every close tool side by side, [Best month-end close software](https://emptyspaces.ai/resources/blog/best-month-end-close-software).

## How we approach it

Our Close Agent works your close checklist and prepares the reconciliations, entries, and workpapers, finding the errors a net variance can hide. A named approver approves the exact lines of each entry before it posts to NetSuite, Oracle, SAP S/4HANA, Microsoft Dynamics 365, Business Central, or QuickBooks. It runs as SaaS, in your own cloud, in a private cloud, or on-premises. You can start it read-only beside Trintech, so [explore the Close Agent](https://emptyspaces.ai/product/close) on a closed month of your own data.

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