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AI for CPA firms

AI employees for your CPA firm — run for you, inside the tools you already use.

Hire the role. We run the AI employee. A named person is accountable.

Document chasing, bookkeeping entries, scheduling and deadlines, collections — the work that swallows your staff every busy season, done by managed AI employees working in QuickBooks, Xero, Karbon and your inbox, supervised by a Mesaya account manager. Built for §7216 from day one.

From $400 a month · live in about three weeks · free week in shadow mode · no setup fee
375graduated agents
7departments run this way
3 wksto a working role
From $400per month, per role
§7216compliant by design
See how it works · 2 min 46

Who it's for, how a role runs, what it costs — from our CEO. Also in Español, Français, Italiano, Português, עברית, Русский and 中文 at mesaya.com/explainer.

The roles hired first

AI employees, each working a real job end to end.

Every role is configured from agents already running in production — never a blank prompt. Each one gets its own service account, limited to the permissions you grant, and works inside the tools you already run.

L
Lena
Client document chasing
On duty

Chases missing PBC documents until the file is complete — polite, persistent, on your schedule, in your firm's voice.

How it works
  1. 1

    Reads the open-items list

  2. 2

    Emails and texts clients

  3. 3

    Files what comes back

Deliberate limit · nothing above your thresholds without a named approver.
O
Otto
Bookkeeping entries
On duty

Codes and reconciles transactions in QuickBooks Online or Xero, ready for your review — categorized, matched, exceptions flagged.

How it works
  1. 1

    Bank and card feeds coded

  2. 2

    Reconciliations with variances explained

  3. 3

    Month-end close checklist run and reported

Deliberate limit · nothing above your thresholds without a named approver.
Q
Quinn
Scheduling & deadlines
On duty

Books client calls, keeps every filing deadline on the calendar, and reminds the right person before it's late.

How it works
  1. 1

    Extension and filing deadlines tracked

  2. 2

    Calls booked from your inbox

  3. 3

    Weekly deadline digest to partners

Deliberate limit · nothing above your thresholds without a named approver.
C
Cora
Collections & billing
On duty

Chases overdue invoices, reconciles every payment in Bill.com or QuickBooks, and tells you what's still open.

How it works
  1. 1

    Reminder sequences you approve once

  2. 2

    Payment matching and aging report

  3. 3

    Escalation to a partner

Deliberate limit · nothing above your thresholds without a named approver.
Plugs into: QuickBooks Online · Xero · Bill.com · Karbon · Canopy · TaxDome · Google Workspace · Microsoft 365 — and any other role your business needs, from the same roster and the same account manager.
How it works

Three weeks from a scoping call to an AI employee at work. Then the next role.

Week 1

Discover & scope

A discovery call on your business and its bottlenecks; one role picked for the trial; a scoping call on systems, rules and approvals. Our audit agent reads your email and systems so the history is understood in days, without meetings.

Week 2

Deploy & train

A graduated agent configured for the role, pre-trained with your manager on examples and edge cases. Service accounts, permissions and approval gates set in your own systems.

Week 3 · free

Shadow mode

The agent works; a human approves everything consequential. Every deliverable logged with its approval chain. Outcomes verified at the source.

Month 2+

Earned autonomy

Approvals recede as results prove out; exceptions and samples stay reviewed. Your account manager stays in the loop — and scopes the next role.

Tax data, handled properly

Built for §7216 before the first return is touched.

Our position, in writing

Auxiliary services, US-only, your cloud.

Mesaya processes tax return information as an auxiliary service provider under Treas.

Tax return information is processed only in the United States and only at Level 2
Used solely for your engagement. Never for training, benchmarking, or any other purpose
Every subprocessor touching tax data is US-based and bound to the same restrictions

A privileged position memo prepared by counsel is available to your firm's attorney on request.

You stay in control

Trust is earned — then extended.

How control works
  1. 1

    Shadow · week 1 — it drafts, you send.

  2. 2

    Ask first — it proposes, you approve.

  3. 3

    Routine — standard cases handled, exceptions to you.

  4. 4

    Autopilot — it runs; you get the digest.

Every action recordedPause in one tapRe-performed at our cost
Pricing

From $400 a month per role — and you only pay for completed work.

Simple as payroll, and a credit is always $1. No licenses, no implementation fee, month to month. Your first week is free.

Your plan
From $400

per month, per role. Each role is priced by its deliverables, so the minimum scales with the role.

Your credits at work
$1 = 1 credit

Every task has a credit price — a lead answered: 2, an invoice chased: 2, a listing published: 6. Itemized on your log, reported as KPIs, reviewed by you.

Busy month?
Top up

Add credit batches when you need more done. You set a monthly cap; the bill never passes it.

In aggregate, a role lands at a fraction of what the same work costs in payroll. Rates shown are examples; your order sets yours, and outcome pricing is available where results are measurable — collections on dollars recovered, lead response on booked meetings. You see the exact price for your roles on the scoping call.

Proof

We ran it on our own company before offering it to yours.

Customer zero

Modani — 375 agents, seven departments

We founded Modani, a national furniture retailer, in 2007, sold it in 2018, and bought it back in 2024 to rebuild it on AI. Revenue is up 39% year over year with less than 40% of its former workforce. Every Mesaya role was graduated there first, on a live P&L.

Live clients

Clients in this industry are live with Mesaya

They run several roles each, inside their own systems, with a named account manager on the account. We don't publish client names by default — a live portal demo and references are available on request.

Questions we get

Before the scoping call.

Can we use AI on tax return information without client consent?

Under the auxiliary-services exception at Treas. Reg. §301.7216-2(d), yes — provided processing is US-only, limited strictly to your engagement, and not a "substantive determination." That is the basis every tax-software and cloud vendor relies on. We add a further condition on ourselves: tax data runs only inside your own cloud tenant. Your firm attests to any required consents in the Statement of Work, and we never use tax data for anything else.

Which tools do the agents work in?

QuickBooks Online, Xero, Bill.com, Karbon, Canopy, TaxDome, Google Workspace and Microsoft 365. Each agent gets its own service account limited to the permissions you grant; you never share user credentials.

Can we start during busy season?

Yes — and it's when most firms start. Document chasing and scheduling are the roles to begin with: they take pressure off staff within the first week and involve no tax-return processing during the free week. Bookkeeping and tax-adjacent roles start once the Statement of Work is signed.

What happens when an agent gets something wrong?

Two cases. If the agent didn't act as trained, that's on us: we re-perform at our cost. If it was never trained for that case, we fix it once and it becomes part of the role permanently. Either way the miss is visible the same day, because nothing is "done" until it's verified in your systems.

Is this a tool we have to run?

No. You hire a role; we run the employee. A named Mesaya account manager sets up the agents, reviews the work, handles exceptions and answers when you call. Your partners approve what matters and read a digest.

How is this different from the AI features in our practice software?

Those features help your staff do the work faster. Mesaya does the work. The difference is who is accountable when the file isn't complete on the 14th — with Mesaya, it's a named person on our side.

Next step

Thirty minutes. One role. Free week.

Tell us where your team loses the most hours. We'll propose the first role, show you a prototype for your business, and have it working in shadow mode within three weeks.

Book a scoping call

Or tell us in writing — we reply within one business day.