The honest answers

A complete, reviewer-ready file: lead schedules at full granularity, balance sheet reconciliations, preliminary and final analytical review, financial statements, the corporation tax computation, the decision register, points for partner, the senior review pack, completion checklists, client documents drafted for sending, and journal and ledger exports. The file, as your firm understands a file. See The file for the item-by-item detail.

A trial balance and a general ledger, to varying degrees of goodness, plus whatever supporting documents exist: bank statements, lease agreements, loan agreements. It does not need a beautifully clean cloud file. The more you can feed it, the better the output, and the completeness check tells you exactly what is missing before the job starts.

On the roadmap, not built. Today the starting point is a trial balance and general ledger. If a client's records are a carrier bag, that job is not yet for AllDone, and we would rather say so here than in your review. You are, of course, welcome to attempt a trial balance and general ledger from your incomplete records. The engine will pick up the rest of the work and do it just as well.

Not today. You file from the software you already use: AllDone sits upstream of it, produces the full file and the exports, and the final keying and submission is part of the designed workflow. Kim Lanighan at Optics Accounting took the finished AllDone accounts and corporation tax computation into Iris to file, and everything matched, add-backs and capital allowances included. Filing is on the roadmap, and Founding Firms get it first.

Deliberately, almost anything. Going in, it needs no integration with the client's bookkeeping platform, because the trial balance and general ledger it works from can be produced from whatever the client uses. Coming out, it provides journal and ledger exports for Xero, QuickBooks and Sage, exports for IRIS, TaxCalc and other filing tools, and a file ready for your production and filing tool, with instructions for your stack.

No. Every number on the accounts and the corporation tax computation is calculated by the engine from UK tax legislation and accounting standards, the same way every time, with workings you can show HMRC. AI only suggests wording, mappings and options, shortlisting them for a person to choose from, and every suggestion goes through your partner.

No, and the difference is the whole product. Dump records into a chatbot and something confident comes back, with no working papers, no reconciliations, no audit trail, and no way of knowing which figures to trust. AllDone is the opposite shape: a structured accounts production workflow, the one an award-winning practice runs, with calculation doing the numbers, decision gates putting every judgement through your partner, and AI confined to the places judgement and wording genuinely need help. One accountant in our beta arrived assuming it was ChatGPT for accounts and left describing the structure as the benefit. That is the point.

UK small limited companies under FRS 102 Section 1A and micro-entities under FRS 105. The engine applies the Companies Act 2006, CTA 2010 and current tax rates, including employer NIC and marginal relief, updated regularly. Sole traders and partnerships are on the roadmap; if your book has the typical tail of them, those jobs stay on your current process for now.

Client names and identifiers stay inside the application. The AI works from a reference code, every prompt passes a personal-data check before it is sent, and the real name is only restored when your documents are produced. Data is encrypted in transit and at rest, access is least-privilege with structural isolation between firms, and sign-in requires multi-factor authentication. The full detail, including the data processing agreement and subprocessor list, lives on Trust & security.

Your team, always. Signed off by another senior or partner. Every judgement the engine detects becomes a decision gate: options, a recommendation, your call. The choice, the reason and the timestamp go to a permanent audit trail and carry into the review pack. Over time the engine learns your firm's patterns, so recommendations arrive already sounding like you, and any deviation from your usual treatment is flagged and recorded.

The accounts take seconds. The job takes as long as you want. We would spend an hour, because the process we like is deliberately paced so the firm stays in control: profit intent settled at planning, no start until the records are complete, every judgement gated through the partner, sign-off unchanged. Against the ten to twenty hours the same job takes a firm today, the economics speak for themselves; run your own numbers on the calculator.

That's your choice, and it is the point. More jobs than before, same people, no recruitment. Time back for the team, or for you. Or the push into the advisory work that pays three times what compliance does. Fifteen hours a file was the reason there was never time for any of it. That's gone.

We only sell and only market to accountants. No campaigns aimed at business owners, ever; your clients will never hear about AllDone from us. This puts the production advantage, and the control over what's coming, with you.

It is priced between £100 and £200 per job, depending on term, volume and number of users. Above 1,000 files a year, pricing is by enterprise quote. Book a call with a member of the team so we can understand your requirements and price accordingly. And then we would rather you put the number through the calculator with your own figures than take our word for the maths; use the worst case of £200 and see if the case still clears.

Maybe, eventually. Turning a trial balance into a set of accounts was never the hard part; the working papers, the granularity and the judgement flow are, and building that takes people who have actually run accounts practices, not just development teams. Our view on the timing, and on why waiting to find out is the one strategy with no upside, is set out in Why now.

Honestly: the shape of the work changes. The hours come back, review starts at the judgement rather than the casting, and the file needs one capable senior rather than a chain of hand-offs. What your firm does with the returned hours is the real decision, and it is a better problem than the one you have now. The firms that get this right will not bank the hours as slack. They will spend them on the work clients keep asking for and compliance kept crowding out: proper conversations about the numbers, planning, advice. The doorway is already in the file, in the story of the year and the value generated report; the hour to walk through it is what AllDone gives back.

Then your review catches it, exactly as your review is there to do today. Nothing about your professional obligations moves: the partner reviews, the partner signs, the firm remains responsible for the accounts it issues. What changes is what stands behind the signature: every figure carries its workings, and every judgement carries its reasoning, on the record. And before you trust any of that, test it: hand us ten finished jobs and see what a cold review finds.

Three doors, in ascending order of commitment: watch the demo, then book a call about your firm; book a call to set up the Cold Review Challenge on ten completed jobs; or run the dual-track pilot on a live job with your biggest sceptic reviewing. Details on Proof.