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See only the transactions that actually need you.

A system that watches reconciliations across your clients and surfaces the genuine exceptions — duplicates, miscategorizations, unmatched items, odd amounts — so your team reviews twelve transactions instead of scrolling past three thousand.

Reconciliation Exceptions — Week of May 12

3,180 transactions reconciled cleanly and hidden from review

Riverside Dental

$4,210.00

ACH · Henry Schein

Possible duplicate of txn #4471 (same vendor, amount, 2 days apart)

Duplicate

Atlas Freight

$1,880.40

Card · Shell Oil

4.1× the 6-month trailing average for this vendor

Anomaly

Birch Dental

$640.00

Check · #2092

Category changed: Meals → Equipment vs. last 6 months

Category drift

Cove Realty

$12,500.00

Wire · unmatched

No matching invoice or bill found in the period

Unmatched

The problem

Why this work is quietly expensive.

94%

of transactions filtered out before review

Illustrative — exact rate depends on client mix and rule tuning.

Most reconciliation work is reviewing transactions that are completely fine. The skill is in catching the handful that aren't — a duplicated payment, a personal expense in the business account, a vendor suddenly billing 3x.

But to find those, someone scrolls through everything. It's slow, it's numbing, and tired eyes miss things. The exceptions that slip through are exactly the ones a client notices later.

The review work scales linearly with transaction volume, while the actual judgment — the part clients pay for — is a tiny fraction of it.

How the automation works

Step by step, on your existing tools.

1

Every transaction is checked against rules

As transactions come in, the system runs them against duplicate detection, category sanity checks, amount thresholds, and unusual-vendor patterns — across all your clients, every day.

2

Clean items pass silently

The thousands of normal transactions don't generate noise. They reconcile and move on. Your team never sees them unless they ask.

3

Real exceptions are surfaced with context

Each flagged item comes with why it was flagged — "possible duplicate of #4471", "category change vs. last 6 months", "amount 4x trailing average" — so review is a decision, not an investigation.

4

You decide; the system learns the call

Mark an exception resolved or legitimate and the system remembers, so the same benign pattern stops surfacing for that client. The judgment stays yours.

Connects to the tools you already run:

QuickBooksXeroPlaidSlack

What's included

Everything in the system.

Built, connected, tuned, and maintained — not handed over as a template you have to run yourself.

Duplicate and double-payment detection

Category drift and miscategorization flags

Amount-threshold and trailing-average anomaly checks

Unmatched and uncleared item surfacing

Per-client exception queue with full context

Resolution memory so benign patterns stop re-flagging

Questions

The things firm owners ask first.

Straight answers. If yours isn't here, it's the first thing we'll cover on the call.

Ready to stop running bank reconciliation by hand?

A focused 15-minute call. We look at how you do this today and show you exactly what the automated version looks like on your tools.

Built for US & Canadian firms with 2–20 staff.