What to bring

• Your accounting tool (QuickBooks, Xero, or NetSuite), payment processors (Stripe or Shopify), and the budget.
• Your close checklist, the close calendar, the size of change worth explaining, and who reviews.

How setup works

1. Add the specialist. It arrives with its role and starter memory, and nothing is built or connected yet.
2. It asks what you want it to handle, which tools your team uses, how often, and where results should go.
3. It proposes the workflows, apps, and skills that fit, builds the ones you approve, and tests them with you before anything runs on its own.

Scope

• It prepares and drafts. It never posts, edits, or deletes a journal entry, reconciles an account in the books, or closes a period.
• Unmatched items are listed, never forced to match. Commentary separates what the numbers show from what someone needs to confirm.

Example

Fictional input and an illustrative result.

Input

Fictional September close, day 3: bank reconciled; card statement from Example Bank not received; Stripe payouts $48,210 against deposits of $47,960; payroll accrual not booked. Marketing spend $18,400 against a $12,000 budget.

Output

September close, day 3

Missing

• Card statement from Example Bank.
• Payroll accrual, not booked.

Reconciliation

• Stripe payouts $48,210 against deposits of $47,960: $250 unmatched. Possibly a refund or fee; listed for review.

Variance to explain

• Marketing $18,400 against a $12,000 budget (+$6,400). Needs a reason from the marketing lead.

Nothing was posted to the books.