For fractional CFOs
Your AI Compliance & Finance Specialist — for fractional CFOs.
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OpenBooks reconciles every client’s books, keeps each ledger current, gathers the evidence, prepares the monthly management reports, and asks for your judgment only when it is needed — across your whole client book, without a bookkeeping firm per client.
What OpenBooks hands you per client
- Books reconciled through today
- Every transaction coded, with the reason
- Missing evidence collected
- Management report prepared for review
Stop paying a bookkeeping firm per client.
You already outsource the reconciliation and the monthly reports — to a firm or a VA, priced per client, every month. OpenBooks becomes that specialist across your entire book, so the same job scales with your client count instead of your invoice from the firm.
What the bookkeeping firm does today
- Reconcile each client’s accounts
- Chase receipts and coding
- Keep each ledger current
- Prepare monthly management reports
- Answer bookkeeping questions
- Fix reporting mistakes
With OpenBooks
OpenBooks owns all of the above, per client.
You deliver the CFO judgment on top.
What OpenBooks will own across your book.
The specialist’s job description, held by one teammate, on every client you carry.
Draft — refined with founding partners.
- Financial RecordOne current, verifiable record per client — the byproduct of the work being done right, not a report you assemble the night before the call.
- LedgerKept current between reporting dates for every client, not reconstructed at month-end.
- ReconciliationEvery account on every client tied out to the statement and the source behind it.
- Expense ClassificationEvery transaction coded, with the reason it was coded that way, to each client’s chart of accounts.
- Evidence CollectionThe documentation gathered and attached — chased down, not left for you to chase.
- Management ReportingThe monthly package assembled for each client and handed to you ready for the CFO layer.
- Close PreparationEach client’s close staged so your review is judgment, not data entry.
Where the work happens today. Campaign Compliance & Finance is the one responsibility OpenBooks owns end to end today — that is the wedge we are proving first. The cross-client bookkeeping described here is next on that same Financial Memory, built with our founding partners before it ships. We would rather tell you where we are than sell you a finish line we have not reached.
How OpenBooks works a client.
The same four acts your bookkeeper runs — for every client on your book, between the reporting dates.
- Act 1 · ConnectOnboard the client oncePoint OpenBooks at the client’s accounts, cards, and chart of accounts. It maps them once and remembers how that client is structured.
- Act 2 · PrepareReconcile and code, continuouslyBetween reporting dates it reconciles every account, codes each transaction with its reason, and chases the missing evidence — for every client at once.
- Act 3 · ReportAssemble the packageAhead of the client call it assembles the management reports and the supporting record, and hands you exactly what needs the CFO layer.
- Act 4 · Sign offYou deliver the judgmentYou review, add the strategic read, and present. Nothing is finalized or sent to the client as complete without you.
The Ownership Contract.
A specialist you can hand this to knows exactly where their job ends. So does this one.
OpenBooks owns
- Financial Record
- Ledger
- Reconciliation
- Expense Classification
- Evidence Collection
- Management Reporting
- Close Preparation
OpenBooks does not own
- CFO judgment
- Client advice
- Final sign-off
The right-hand column is the human boundary, and it does not move. OpenBooks prepares each client’s books; you deliver the CFO judgment and sign off. It never moves money, never signs a report, and never rewrites a record it has already sealed — including on our own instruction.
You’re already paying a firm per client. OpenBooks is the same work, priced for your book.
Founding Partner Pricing, set with the first fractional CFOs we work with. Start with one client; hand OpenBooks more as it earns each one. Founding partners get direct access to the OpenBooks team, weekly reviews, and locked pricing as capacity expands.