Responsibility · Coming next
Your AI Compliance & Finance Specialist — for audit preparation.
Coming next
OpenBooks will assemble the prepared-by-client schedules and the evidence your auditors ask for — reconciled, tied to source, and cross-referenced — so audit season is a review, not a fire drill.
What the audit binder will contain
- PBC schedules reconciled to the ledger
- Every balance tied to its source document
- Evidence collected and cross-referenced
- Binder assembled for your team to review
The person who pulls the audit binder together every year.
A staff accountant, a bookkeeper, an audit-prep consultant — someone spends weeks assembling schedules and chasing evidence before the auditors arrive. OpenBooks becomes that specialist, working from a record that is already reconciled and evidenced year-round.
What audit prep takes today
- Build the PBC schedules
- Reconcile every account
- Chase down source documents
- Cross-reference the evidence
- Answer auditor follow-ups
- Fix ties that don’t match
With OpenBooks
OpenBooks will own all of the above.
Your team and your auditors do the judgment.
What OpenBooks will own for audit preparation.
The audit-prep specialist’s job description, held by one teammate, all year — not just in season.
Draft — refined with founding partners.
- Financial RecordOne reconciled, verifiable record the auditors can trace — kept current, not rebuilt at year-end.
- PBC SchedulesThe prepared-by-client schedules assembled and tied to the ledger.
- ReconciliationEvery account reconciled to the statement and the source behind it.
- Evidence CollectionThe source documents gathered, labeled, and cross-referenced to the schedules.
- Audit TrailEvery entry timestamped and sealed to the one before it, so history cannot be quietly changed.
- Binder AssemblyThe full request list assembled and handed to your team ready for the auditors.
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. Audit preparation 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 will work an audit.
The four acts of audit readiness — done year-round, not in a three-week panic.
- Act 1 · ConnectPoint it at the booksPoint OpenBooks at the accounts and the prior-year workpapers. It maps them once and learns what your auditors ask for.
- Act 2 · Keep currentReconcile and evidence, year-roundBetween audits it reconciles every account and attaches the source document as the transaction happens — so nothing is chased in season.
- Act 3 · AssembleBuild the binderAhead of fieldwork it assembles the PBC schedules, ties each balance to its source, and hands your team a complete request list.
- Act 4 · ReviewYour team and auditors decideYour team reviews and the auditors do their work. OpenBooks prepares the evidence; the professional judgment stays with people.
The Ownership Contract.
A specialist you can hand this to knows exactly where their job ends. So does this one.
OpenBooks owns
- Financial Record
- PBC Schedules
- Reconciliation
- Evidence Collection
- Audit Trail
- Binder Assembly
OpenBooks does not own
- The audit opinion
- Professional judgment
- Management representations
The right-hand column is the human boundary, and it does not move. OpenBooks prepares the evidence; your team and your auditors do the judgment. It never moves money, never signs a report, and never rewrites a record it has already sealed — including on our own instruction.
Audit preparation is coming next. Help shape how OpenBooks owns it.
This responsibility is on the roadmap, next on the same Financial Memory that runs campaign compliance today. Founding partners shape the Ownership Contract before it ships and get locked pricing as capacity expands. Tell us what your auditors ask for, or ask to be notified when it’s live.