Built for accounting firms, Arc works across connected systems to investigate discrepancies, prepare analyses and produce work ready for review.

Accrual today launched Arc, an AI agent platform that lets accounting firms delegate complex, multi-step work across their existing systems. Practitioners give Arc an objective, approve its plan and receive the completed work for review, from Excel workbooks and client reports to analyses and workpapers.

Arc launches with 20 agents for common accounting firm workflows, with new agents added each week. Firms can also teach Arc their own processes, save them as reusable agents, share them across teams and schedule recurring work.

Accounting software provides defined workflows for tax preparation, audit engagements and recurring client accounting work. But much of a firm’s work falls between those workflows: investigating a recurring discrepancy, pulling together information for a client meeting, responding to a tax notice or answering a partner’s question across several engagements.

That work often starts with a practitioner searching documents, reading client conversations and pulling data from multiple systems. Accrual calls it “the work that has no screen.” Arc gives firms a way to delegate it.

Delegate the work. Review the result.

Arc gathers information it has permission to access, asks questions when something material is unclear and proposes a plan. Once the practitioner approves, Arc works across connected systems to combine information, perform calculations and produce the requested deliverable.

Jobs can run for minutes or hours, with multiple assignments underway at once. Practitioners can move on to other work, then review the results alongside a record of the sources, tools and actions used to produce them.

“The breakthrough isn’t simply giving accountants access to a more capable AI model. It’s giving that model the context, tools, controls and accounting-specific understanding required to do real work,” said Siddarth Chandrasekaran, co-founder and CTO of Accrual.

Teach it once. Use it firmwide.

Firms can teach Arc how they handle tax notices, for example: review the notice against client records and firm templates, identify missing information, ask questions and prepare supporting work after the practitioner approves the plan.

Once they’re satisfied with the process, they save it as an agent for others to use. The next practitioner starts with the firm’s established approach. Teams can also schedule agents to handle recurring work.

“Accrual can really become the connective layer across your work ecosystem with the ability to create agents and connect to all the applications you already use,” said Alex Gyorffy, Director of Product and Innovation at Armanino.

Arc extends Accrual’s platform across tax, audit, client accounting services and advisory. It works alongside Accrual’s dedicated workflow products to handle investigations, analyses and other assignments that span systems. Permissions, recorded actions and human review are built into the process; practitioners retain responsibility for final judgment and approval.

“Accounting is well suited to this next phase of AI because the profession already knows how to get reliable work from people who need supervision,” said Marc Bhargava, Managing Director, General Catalyst. “Scope the work. Tie conclusions to evidence. Preserve the record. Review what was done. Keep judgment with the professional.”

Arc is available now to Accrual customers. Learn more at accrual.com/contact.

About Accrual

Accrual is the intelligence platform for ambitious accounting firms. Its AI agents use the full client record and the firm’s methodology to prepare tax, audit, client accounting and advisory work for review. Accrual partners with leading accounting firms across the U.S. to put AI into practice, expand capacity and give professionals more time for work that requires their judgment. The company is led by engineers and technology leaders who previously built financial infrastructure at Stripe and Brex, and is backed by General Catalyst, Pruven Capital, Edward Jones Ventures, and accounting industry executives and technology founders. Learn more at accrual.com.

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