For accounting firms

AI for accounting firms.
More clients. Same team.

Zeni's AI Accountant categorizes, reconciles and drafts the month-end close for every client, and its AI CFO turns those books into answers your team can bring to the next client meeting.
Every AI call explained · Your team approves what posts
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Built by an accounting firm

Battle-tested on our own clients' books before it reaches yours.

Zeni is an accounting firm too. More than 250 of our own accountants, bookkeepers and controllers use this platform every day to close the books for 1,000+ customers. It was built to do their work, it helped us double our revenue without adding headcount costs, and now we're bringing it to accounting firms like yours.

250+
accountants, bookkeepers and controllers on our own team use it daily
1,000+
customers whose books close on Zeni
$20B+
in finances processed on the platform
2x
revenue for our own firm, with no added headcount costs
We deploy it. We run the AI agents.

Zeni sets the platform up for your firm without you lifting a finger, and our team manages the AI agents for you, so everything works out of the box. With other AI accounting tools, keeping the agents working the way they should is your team's job. With Zeni, it's ours.

✓ Set up by Zeni
✓ AI agents managed by our team
✓ Works out of the box
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Every client, one login

Switch between client companies in a click, with roles controlling who sees what.

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Close work, drafted

Transactions, receipts, journal entry schedules, flux and reconciliations prepared before your team opens the file.

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Review, don't redo

Every suggestion shows its reasoning and change history, and waits for your approval.

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Advise between closes

The AI CFO answers client questions from live books, with a chart and the math shown.

Your firm's new teammates

An AI Accountant for the books.
An AI CFO for the answers.

The AI Accountant does the close work for every client file. The AI CFO turns those books into answers.

AI Accountant

Codes every client's transactions with its reasoning attached, routes low-confidence calls to your reviewers, and reconciles bank and card accounts as each close moves toward sign-off.

AI CFO

Answers client questions from live books, shows how it reasoned, and models scenarios like cutting vendor spend.

How it works

Connect the client. Review the close.

Your firm keeps the relationship and the sign-off. Zeni does the repetitive work in between.

1

Connect each client: link the client's QuickBooks Online file and bank feeds. QuickBooks stays the ledger of record.

2

The AI Accountant works the month: it categorizes transactions, matches receipts, builds prepaid, fixed asset and accrual schedules, and runs flux and reconciliations.

3

Your team reviews and advises: approve what's pending, watch each client's Confidence Score climb, then use the AI CFO for month-end insights.

An accounting firm team catching up over coffee in their open officeClose work drafted by AI
Zeni transaction card showing a category assigned by AI
Capacity

Busy season, without the backlog.

More than 300,000 accountants left the profession between 2019 and 2021.¹ Zeni's AI Accountant takes the repetitive close work off your staff's plate, so their hours go to review and judgment instead of re-keying.

Your standards

Your sign-off stays the standard.

Each AI suggestion arrives with its reasoning and confidence, so a reviewer can see why a transaction landed where it did. Approval rules enforce separation of duties, and nothing changes in a closed period.

Built for review
"Show reason" on every AI categorization
Change history on every transaction
Journal entry schedules wait for approval
Created entries can be reverted
Submitters can never approve their own work
An accountant reviewing marked-up financials with a client in a sunlit conference roomAI CFO · answers from live books
Advisory

Turn every close into a client conversation.

Client advisory services grew a median 17% in the latest AICPA and CPA.com benchmark.² Zeni's AI CFO answers questions on burn, runway, margins and vendor spend from each client's live books, shows how every metric was calculated, and builds a 13-week cash forecast.³

On top of QuickBooks Online

One close workspace for every client file.

Receipts chased by email
→
Receipts matched to transactions
Prepaid schedules in a spreadsheet
→
Schedules built and maintained by AI
Variance hunt in pivot tables
→
Flux by category, vendor and employee
Client questions answered next week
→
Answers with a chart, from live books

Zeni works on top of each client's QuickBooks Online file, so the chart of accounts and history stay where they are. The AI Accountant keeps the books current, and the AI CFO answers from those same books.

Meet the AI Accountant →
Inside the close

Every step of the close, in one workspace.

Zeni Transactions screen with AI-suggested categories pending reviewThought process on every AI call
TRANSACTIONS

Coded, with the reasoning attached.

Every transaction gets a category, class and vendor, plus an explanation of how the AI decided. Reviewers approve with the evidence in front of them.

Explore transactions →
Zeni Journal Entries screen with AI-created schedules pending reviewPrepaid schedule drafted, waiting on your approval
JE SCHEDULES

Schedules that post themselves.

Prepaid, fixed asset and accrual schedules are built and maintained automatically, and every entry waits for approval before it posts.

Explore month-end close →
Zeni Receipts screen listing transactions missing receiptsReceipt matched to its charge, on the record
RECEIPTS

Never chase a receipt again.

Zeni flags every transaction missing a receipt, gives your team one place to upload or email them, and matches each receipt to its charge.

Explore receipts →
Zeni Flux Analysis screen comparing October and September spend by vendorAI CFO explains the spike: up 167% from September
FLUX ANALYSIS

Catch the swing before the client does.

Month-over-month variances by vendor, with a drill-down into the spend trend and an AI CFO summary of what changed.

Explore month-end close →
Zeni Reconciliation screen for a client bank accountFound 3 statement transactions missing from the books
RECONCILIATIONS

Matched to the bank, to the penny.

Zeni compares each statement to the cleared balance, finds transactions missing from the books, suggests the entries to create and flags checks that haven’t cleared.

Explore reconciliation →
Zeni Task Checklist with close tasks, owners and due datesEvery close task has an owner, a due date and time tracked
TASK CHECKLIST

Split the close across your team.

Assign owners, priorities and due dates to every close task, break them into subtasks, and see who owns what while the month is still open.

Explore month-end close →
Beyond the close

Run the whole client workflow in one place.

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Invoicing

Bill clients, manage subscriptions and track payments, with automated dunning for past-due invoices and sync to QuickBooks Online.

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Task management

Assign owners, priorities and due dates to every close task, break them into subtasks, and see who owns what across each client.

Explore month-end close →
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Commenting

Ask a client for a receipt, memo or approval right on the transaction, bill or report, @mention whoever you need, and keep the answer on the record.

Explore commenting →
Client questions, answered

What clients ask. What the AI CFO answers.

Every month
"How much cash do we have, and what's our runway?"
"What were our top five vendors last quarter?"
After close
"Why did gross margin drop in September?"
"Break down salaries and benefits for June."
Planning
"Build a 13-week cash forecast."
"Summarize Q3 for the owner's investor update."
Who it's for

Built for the people who keep the books.

Accounting firm colleagues chatting with coffee and client folders in their officeYour team, plus an AI Accountant and AI CFO

Partners and CAS leaders

Grow the client roster and the advisory practice without growing headcount at the same pace.

  • See every client's close status in one place
  • Package month-end insights into advisory work
  • Save your firm's analysis as reusable AI CFO Skills

Staff and senior accountants

Spend the month reviewing and advising instead of categorizing and chasing.

  • Work a review queue, not a raw bank feed
  • Split the close with the task checklist
  • Answer client questions without building a report
Built for the profession

Grow your client roster. Keep your standards.

See the AI Accountant and AI CFO on a client file of your own.

Review by design
QuickBooks Online stays the ledger
Reasoning on every AI call
Approvals before anything posts
Separation of duties
Role-based access per client
FAQ

Questions, answered.

Can our firm manage multiple clients in Zeni?+
Yes. Each client is its own company in Zeni, and you switch between them from one login. Roles control what each team member can see and do.
Who sets up and manages the AI agents?+
Zeni does. Our team deploys the platform for your firm and manages the AI agents for you, so everything works out of the box. Your team reviews and approves the work.
Is the platform proven on real books?+
Yes. Zeni is an accounting firm too. More than 250 of our own accountants, bookkeepers and controllers use this platform every day to close the books for 1,000+ customers, with more than $20 billion in finances processed.
Does Zeni replace our accountants?+
No. The AI Accountant drafts the routine close work and your team reviews and approves it. The AI CFO supports the client relationship; it doesn't replace it.
Which ledger does Zeni work with?+
QuickBooks Online is the ledger of record. Zeni reads from and writes to the client's QuickBooks file, so the existing chart of accounts stays in place.
How do we see what the AI did?+
Every suggestion carries its reasoning and a change history. Journal entry schedules wait in review until someone approves them, and created entries can be reverted.
Can the AI make mistakes?+
Yes. Lower-confidence transactions go to a review queue instead of posting, and the AI CFO is in beta, so check anything important against the books.
Sources and notes
  1. The Wall Street Journal, citing U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data, on accountants leaving the profession between 2019 and 2021.
  2. 2024 CPA.com and AICPA PCPS CAS Benchmark Survey, median growth in client advisory services.
  3. AI CFO is in beta and can make mistakes; check anything important against the books.