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Our autonomous agents reconcile accounts, investigate exceptions, prepare entries and keep the close moving, before your team has to chase the work by hand.

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An illustration of the March 2026 close on business day 1: six account reconciliations, four of them tied, a $7,200.00 payables difference under investigation, an $18,600.00 accrual proposed, and two items waiting on the Controller.
Month-end closeMarch 2026
Close tasks
31 of 36
Accounts tied
40 of 42
Open exceptions
2
Waiting on review
2
ReconciliationsBusiness day 1 of 2
AccountDifferenceStatus
1010 · Operating account0.00Tied
1200 · Accounts receivable0.00Tied
1500 · Prepaid expenses0.00Tied
2000 · Accounts payable−7,200.00Investigating
2100 · Accrued expenses−11,400.00Entry proposed
2200 · Payroll liabilities0.00Tied
Close Agent
  • Tied 1010 to the bank: 2,480 lines, every one matched
  • Drafted JE-4472 from Carter & Webb's March statement
  • Tracing the $7,200.00 difference in 2000 · Accounts payable
  • Explained 12 of 12 P&L movements over threshold

Waiting on you

  • JE-4472$18,600.00

    Accrue March legal fees, Carter & Webb

    Dr 6410 · Cr 2100 · statement attached

    ControllerApprove
  • Variance memo12 accounts

    March P&L variance commentary

    Every movement over threshold, with its transactions

    ControllerReview

The close slows down between systems.

Finance teams gather data by hand, reconcile accounts, investigate differences and wait for reviews before they can close.

  • Bank
  • Expenses
  • Payroll
  • ERP
  • Invoices
  • Spreadsheets
  • Email

Your team, at month-end

  1. 1Export every source and reformat it
  2. 2Match balances line by line
  3. 3Chase the missing invoice or approval
  4. 4Wait for review, then fix and wait again

Business day 10, and the month is still open

An illustration of seven sources — bank, expenses, payroll, ERP, invoices, spreadsheets and email — all feeding one team that exports, matches, chases and waits by hand.

Start the close before month-end.

Our agents move the work forward every day of the month, so month-end is a review of what's left rather than a backlog.

  1. Connect dataERP, bank, cards, payroll and the inbox.
  2. Reconcile continuouslyEvery transaction matched as it posts.
  3. Identify exceptionsWhatever doesn't tie is raised the same day.
  4. Investigate automaticallyThe records behind it, gathered and read.
  5. Prepare adjustmentsEntries and accruals, with the support attached.
  6. Route for approvalTo the person your policy names.
  7. Post and completeWritten back once approved, and logged.
An illustration of the Close Agent reconciling through March 2026: transactions matched every day of the month, 17 exceptions raised and 15 resolved or explained before month-end, with two carried into the close.
Continuous closeMarch 2026

Transactions matched each day

1 Mar31 Mar
transactions matched as they posted
23,914
exceptions raised in March
17
resolved or explained before month-end
15

Exceptions this month

  • 6 MarDuplicate Ramp charge of $2,140.00, refunded by the vendor
  • 14 MarAWS charge missing from the GL, JE-4471 approved
  • 27 MarPayroll clearing difference, a timing item that clears 2 April
  • 31 Mar$7,200.00 difference in accounts payable, under investigation
  • 31 MarCarter & Webb legal fees, accrual awaiting approval

The close, task by task.

Six parts of the month-end our Close Agent prepares before anyone asks. Open one to see what it does and what it leaves behind.

  • ReconciliationsMatch bank, card, payroll and subledger activity against the GL.
    What our agent does

    Pulls both sides live, matches line by line, and prepares the workpaper with every unmatched item listed and explained.

    1010 · Operating account — 2,480 bank lines · 2,480 matched · difference 0.00

  • Exception investigationTrace unmatched transactions and gather supporting evidence automatically.
    What our agent does

    Searches the ledger, the subledgers and the inbox for the records behind an unmatched line, and says what it found and what is still missing.

    AWS $12,480.00 — bank ✓ · invoice ✓ · GL 6120 ✗ → posting missing

  • AccrualsIdentify missing period expenses and prepare supported accrual entries.
    What our agent does

    Compares recurring vendors, contracts and statements against what has been invoiced, and drafts the accrual with its basis attached.

    Carter & Webb · March services $18,600.00 · not yet invoiced → Dr 6410 / Cr 2100

  • Journal entriesPrepare entries with source evidence and route them for review.
    What our agent does

    Drafts the lines, attaches the records they rest on, and sends the entry to the approver your policy names. Nothing posts before that.

    JE-4472 · 2 lines · statement attached · awaiting Controller

  • Variance investigationInvestigate unusual account movements before final review.
    What our agent does

    Flags movements over your threshold, drills into the transactions behind them, and writes the explanation a reviewer would ask for.

    6510 · Travel +65.4% on February → 3 offsites, 41 transactions

  • Close reviewGive Controllers a live view of remaining exceptions, approvals and risk.
    What our agent does

    One view of what is tied, what is open, who is holding what, and which items carry the most money, updated as the agent works.

    40 of 42 accounts tied · 2 exceptions open · 2 items waiting on review

Worked example

One exception, from bank line to approved entry.

An AWS charge clears the bank in March, but nothing reaches the ledger. This is what our Close Agent does before anyone goes looking.

14 March. A $12,480.00 debit from Amazon Web Services clears the operating account. There is no matching posting in the general ledger.
  1. Finds the debit on the bank feed while reconciling 1010.Agent
  2. Searches the ledger: nothing posted to 6120 Cloud hosting, or anywhere else, for that amount.Agent
  3. Finds AWS invoice INV-2026-0314 in the AP inbox: same amount, same date.Agent
  4. Concludes the charge was paid but never recorded: a missing posting, not a mismatch.Agent
  5. Prepares JE-4471 with the bank line and the invoice attached.Agent
  6. Routes it to the Controller, who approves it as proposed.Controller
An illustration of the journal entry the Close Agent prepared for the AWS charge: $12,480.00 debited to cloud hosting and credited to operating cash, with the bank line, the invoice and the ledger search attached, waiting on Controller approval.
Journal entry JE-4471Draft · 14 Mar 2026

Memo

AWS February usage, paid 14 March and not recorded.

AccountDebitCredit
6120 · Cloud hosting12,480.00
1010 · Operating account12,480.00
Total12,480.0012,480.00

Attached evidence

  • Bank · AMAZON WEB SERVICES · 14 MarMatched
  • INV-2026-0314 · aws-march.pdfMatched
  • GL search · 6120 · MarchNo entry

Why this entry

The invoice and the bank debit agree to the cent. Nothing was posted in the period, so the charge is missing from the ledger, not mismatched.

Requires Controller approval

Request changesApprove

Faster doesn't mean uncontrolled.

Every entry arrives with its evidence and waits for the person your policy names. The record shows who prepared it, who approved it and what was posted.

Audit trailExceptionAWS charge not found in GLResolved
  1. 01

    Agent investigation

    1. Exception found14 Mar · 09:12Close Agent

      Bank debit of $12,480.00 with no matching entry in 6120.

  2. 02

    Evidence and proposed entry

    1. Evidence gathered14 Mar · 09:12Close Agent

      Three sources pulled and checked against the ledger.

      • Bank transactionMatched
      • AWS invoice INV-2026-0314Matched
      • General ledger 6120No entry
    2. Entry proposed14 Mar · 09:13Close Agent

      Debit 6120 Cloud hosting, credit 1010 Operating account, $12,480.00, dated 14 March.

  3. 03

    Review and approval

    Requires Controller approval

    1. Reviewed14 Mar · 11:40Controller

      Opened the exception and the three records behind it.

    2. Approved14 Mar · 11:41Controller

      Approved the entry as proposed, with no amendment.

      Decision: approved

  4. 04

    Posted and recorded

    1. Journal entry posted14 Mar · 11:41Close Agent

      JE-4471 posted to 6120 Cloud hosting for $12,480.00.

Each step recorded

6 events · 3 sources · 1 approval

An illustration of the audit trail for one exception, in four stages: the agent's investigation, the evidence and proposed entry, a controller's review and approval, and the journal entry posted afterwards.
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