AI drafts the work. A human owns the result. Here's how that actually looks, end to end.

Most of bookkeeping is repetitive: categorizing transactions, reconciling accounts, entering routine items. AI does that drafting. Then a real accountant reviews it and signs off. You get the speed of automation without handing your books to a machine.

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Your books · May · Closed

Acme Studio

Reconciled through May 31

Cash flow

Cash on hand+7.9% this month
$48,230.00
Money in$62,400.00Deposits & payments
Money out$52,900.00Bills, payroll & spend

Owed to you & by you

Invoiced, not yet paid$12,400.003 open invoices
Bills due$3,860.00Due by Jun 10
Set aside for taxesMay
$2,565.00

Reviewed May 3 · your CPA

of entries reviewed by a real CPA before posting
100%
of entries reviewed by a real CPA before posting
of the month — every close, on the same day
5th
of the month — every close, on the same day
Sample figure
in books ever posted without sign-off
$0
in books ever posted without sign-off

Your Daybook inbox

acme@in.daybook.com

3 filed this week
  • Fieldstone Design Co.$1,800.00

    Forwarded · Jun 3 · PDF

    Design servicesMatched to card
  • Harbor Freight Supply$425.00

    Vendor email · Jun 4 · PDF

    MaterialsMatched to bank
  • Sunline Office Rentals$3,100.00

    Forwarded · Jun 5 · Photo

    RentMatched to bank
FiledAll reviewed

All 3 filed to this month’s books and checked by your accountant.

Ways in— forward an email · vendor billing · snap on mobile

Getting started

Connect your accounts once. After that, we do the matching.

Link your bank and card accounts and every transaction flows in automatically. Forward a receipt — or hand out your Daybook inbox address as a vendor's billing email — and we pull the vendor, amount, and category, then match it to the transaction it belongs to. Reviewed, not guessed. You do nothing.

Every draft comes with its reasoning.

Our accountants don't rubber-stamp a black box. Each proposed entry shows the transaction it came from, the treatment proposed, and how confident the system is. The accountant's attention goes to the entries that need judgment, and moves fast on the ones that don't.

This month’s close · May

Acme Studio

Closed
  1. Bank accounts reconciled
  2. Cards reconciled
  3. Transactions categorized
  4. 1 question for you

    “The $3,200.00 laptop — a regular expense, or equipment you’ll use for years?”

    Daybook suggested: Equipment— big-ticket purchases you’ll use for years are usually tracked here.

    Evidence attachedSigned off by your CPA
  5. Accrual entries posted (invoices & bills)
  6. Tax set-aside calculated
  7. Reviewed & posted by your CPA
  8. Closed, tax-ready
Apr · Mar Closes on the 5th, every month.
The close loop

Reconciled, entered, reviewed — every month, on the same day.

Every month, Daybook closes your books end to end: bank and card accounts reconciled, transactions categorized, accrual entries posted for invoices and bills, taxes set aside. The only time we interrupt you is for the handful of calls only you can make. Then a real CPA reviews everything and signs off — nothing posts to your books until they do.

Ask about your finances

Plain English
How much did I spend on contractors this quarter?

You spent $13,800.00 on contractors from April to June — about 18% of your spending, across 9 payments to 3 people.

  • Northlight StudioDesign · 3 payments$5,400.00
  • Fielding DevworksContract dev · 4 payments$6,120.00
  • CopyhouseCopywriting · 2 payments$2,280.00
Based on your reviewed booksSee the 9 payments →
Is my margin better or worse than last quarter?

Better. Your gross margin was 61.8% in Q2, up from 57.4% in Q1 — both from your closed, reconciled books, not an estimate.

Both quarters closed & reconciledSee the calculation →
That kind of comparison only works because last quarter's books were already closed and reconciled — not estimated after the fact.

Ask in plain English. Get the number, and where it came from.

From a quick spend lookup to “is my margin better than last quarter?” — you get a straight answer in seconds, drawn from books a human already reviewed, with the actual transactions behind it. No spreadsheets, no jargon, no waiting on an email.

Real double-entry books, balanced and auditable by construction.

Under the product is a genuine double-entry ledger. Every entry is balanced. History is never edited — corrections are new entries that reference the original. So every figure on your statements traces back to its source, and your books stand up to a CPA or an auditor without reconstruction.

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May · Profit & Loss

Marketing

$4,470.00

3 entries behind this number

  • Brightline Print Co.$1,800.00

    Categorized by AI · reviewed by your CPA · posted May 3

    Source: Receipt →
  • Meridian Ads$1,530.00

    Categorized by AI · reviewed by your CPA · posted May 9

    Source: Bank transaction →
  • Wren & Co. Signage$1,140.00

    Categorized by AI · reviewed by your CPA · posted May 21

    Source: Bank transaction →
3 of 3 entries shownView full history →

May · Balance Sheet

Accounts receivable

$12,400.00

2 open invoices behind this number

  • Fieldstone Design Co. — Invoice 1042$7,400.00

    Invoiced May 12 · due Jun 11 · reviewed by your CPA

    Source: Invoice →
  • Northlight Studio — Invoice 1043$5,000.00

    Invoiced May 28 · due Jun 27 · reviewed by your CPA

    Source: Invoice →
2 of 2 entries shownView full history →
Every number on every report drills to its source — income statement, balance sheet, all of it.

The Accurate Books Guarantee.

If our error causes a mistake in your books, we find it, fix it, and make it right — free. That's not a disclaimer buried in a contract. It's how we think about being accountable for your numbers.

Covers errors in work Daybook performed and posted. Does not cover errors in information you provided.

See it on your own books.

The best way to judge it is against your actual business. Tell us about it and we'll show you whether we're a fit.

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