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Built by Big 4 auditors

Send the routine to AI. Keep the judgment.

Zero hours wasted.

Reading clauses, citing paragraphs, tying out balances, drafting memos. All automated. The judgment calls are yours.

Example 1: ASC 842 lease reconciliation
Client reconciliation workbook
Acct Begin Activity End
10100 120,000 -3,400 116,600
10100 ? 2,100 ???
20300 bal:50k
-- blank row --
Total 1,254,221.55
Reconciled workbook
GL Account Begin Activity End
Office Lease 120,000 -1,300 118,700
Equip Lease 88,500 7,800 96,300
Total per TB 1,254,221.55
Difference 0.00
Example 2: ASC 606 contract determination
Customer contract bundle
MSA: 24-month subscription, $180k/yr
Order Form: 250 seats, $720/seat/yr
Auto-renew: greater of 7% or CPI-U
Variable: $60/seat overage; SLA credits
Amendment: +200 seats, +12-mo extension,
add-on $67.5k/yr
ASC 606 determination memo
Step 1: Contract identified ✓
Step 2: 1 PO (combined SaaS service)
Step 3: TP $360k fixed + variable
Step 5: Over-time, ratable / 24 mo
Modification: prospective re-allocation
Cite: ASC 606-10-25-19, 32-11, 25-13(a)

The busy season grunt work problem

Whether at a firm or in-house, accounting teams lose more time to grunt work than to the judgment that actually matters.

Reconciliation prep eats the day

Different formats per source, hidden subtotals, missing headers. Hours of cleanup before you can tie out a single number.

Memos take 4-40 hours, every time

Reading every clause, mapping it to the standard, citing paragraphs, drafting prose, building the schedule. Senior accountant time, every time.

Judgment time gets stolen by grunt work

Lease classification, distinct vs. combined performance obligations, modification treatment, materiality calls. These should be where your hours go. Instead they get burned on data wrangling and formatting.

How Benthic works

Upload, review, deliver. Days of work in minutes.

01

Upload your inputs

Reconciliation: Client workbook plus your firm's template.
Contract analysis: Master agreement, order forms, amendments, side letters.
02

Benthic does the routine

Reconciliation: Ties client support to the TB, calculates activity, fills your firm's template.
Contract analysis: Walks the 5-step ASC 606 framework, cites paragraphs, drafts the memo with clause-level citations.
03

You review and finalize

Reconciliation: Reconciliation workbook in your firm's format. Override anything you disagree with.
Contract analysis: Structured memo with full citations. Accept or override each conclusion.

AI augments. You decide.

Auditors stay in control of every judgment. The agent only handles the deterministic, mechanical work that shouldn't need a human in the first place.

You

You make the judgment

  • Scoping decisions: in vs out of population
  • Materiality and risk assessment
  • Reviewing tie-outs and exceptions
  • Client communication and judgment calls
Agent

Agent handles the busy work

  • Parsing messy client support
  • Reformatting data into your firm's template
  • Calculating activity and tying to client totals
  • Flagging anomalies and gaps for your review

Everything you need, nothing you don't

Purpose-built for audit teams. No generic AI fluff, no irrelevant features.

Smart parsing

Reads any messy client file format. Hidden headers, blank rows, weird subtotals, all detected automatically.

Scope detection

Identifies in-scope vs out-of-scope accounts based on your engagement's materiality.

Audit-ready output

Filled reconciliation in your firm's exact template format. Drop-in ready for workpaper review.

Built by Big 4 auditors

Designed by people who lived the busy season grind. Workflows match how audit teams actually work.

SOC 2 ready

Encryption in transit and at rest. Files stored only as long as your engagement requires.

PCAOB compliant

Human-in-the-loop by design. Every output is a proposal you review and sign off on.

Get hours back per engagement

Reclaim the time your team spends on busy work, and put it where it actually moves the audit forward.

10+
Hours saved per audit
<5 min
From upload to tied-out workbook
100%
Of work reviewed by a human auditor

Ready to start substantive testing on day one?

See it in action with one of your own client reconciliation workbooks. No credit card. No sales pitch.