For Bookkeeping Practices
AI-Powered Bookkeeping at Scale
Your practice is at capacity. Hiring is expensive. Tax season is relentless. There's a better way to grow.
We build AI engines for bookkeeping practices — encoded with your methodology, running at any volume, handling the repeatable work so you don't have to.
Sound familiar?
These aren't capacity problems. They're structural ones. And structure is exactly what an AI engine solves.
Capacity Ceiling
Every new client adds hours you don't have. Your expertise isn't the bottleneck — your bandwidth is. There are only so many hours in the working week, and your best clients are noticing the wait.
Tax Season Burnout
January and July arrive like clockwork. So does the exhaustion. Late nights, weekend reconciliations, and a client inbox that never empties. The work is predictable — the suffering doesn't have to be.
Hiring Overhead
Taking on a bookkeeper means recruitment, training, supervision, payroll, and still explaining your methodology from scratch. Headcount solves capacity by creating complexity.
MTD Compliance Pressure
Making Tax Digital isn't slowing down. Quarterly submissions, digital links, and audit trails — keeping every client compliant is relentless. Errors compound. Fines land on your reputation.
What the Engine Does
Concrete capabilities built around bookkeeping — not generic AI.
Transaction Categorisation
Every bank transaction is categorised against your chart of accounts using your own classification rules — not generic AI guesswork. Payroll runs, supplier invoices, card purchases: correctly coded, every time.
VAT Treatment
Standard-rated, zero-rated, exempt, reverse charge — applied consistently across every transaction. Your VAT logic is encoded into the engine, so the same judgement is applied at scale without manual review.
Bank Reconciliation
Statements matched to ledger entries automatically. Unmatched items surfaced for review with context. Month-end closes faster, with a clear audit trail your clients can share with their accountant.
Anomaly Detection
Duplicate transactions, unusual spend patterns, missing invoices, timing mismatches — flagged before they become problems. The engine watches for what you'd catch manually, so nothing slips through.
MTD Preparation
Digital records maintained in the correct format. Quarterly obligation data compiled and reviewed before submission. Your clients stay compliant without chasing you — and you stop chasing them.
Exception Escalation
Not everything is automatable, and the engine knows it. Complex transactions, client-specific edge cases, and anything outside defined confidence thresholds are escalated to you — not silently guessed.
How It Works
From your existing practice to a scalable AI engine — in three steps.
You Bring Your Methodology
Your chart of accounts, VAT logic, reconciliation rules, client communication style, and exception-handling process. The expertise you've built over years of practice — that's the foundation we build on. We spend time understanding how you actually work, not fitting you into a generic template.
We Build Your Engine
Protocol-88 encodes your methodology into a dedicated AI engine. We handle the architecture, the training, the testing, and the infrastructure. You don't touch a line of code. Within 30–60 days, you have a working engine that operates the way you do — at any volume.
You Scale Without Hiring
Take on more clients without adding headcount. Your engine handles the volume — categorising, reconciling, flagging, and preparing MTD submissions — while you focus on review, relationships, and growth. You stay in control. The engine does the legwork.
Priced for where you are
No upfront build cost. No long-term lock-in before you've seen it work. Start with a free assessment — we'll tell you honestly whether an engine is right for your practice.
Solo Bookkeeper
From £39/month
- ✓AI engine built around your methodology
- ✓Transaction categorisation & VAT treatment
- ✓Bank reconciliation & MTD preparation
- ✓Exception escalation to your review queue
Bookkeeping Practice
From £199/month
- ✓Everything in Solo, plus multi-client volume
- ✓Anomaly detection across your client base
- ✓Priority onboarding & methodology sessions
- ✓Dedicated engine — not shared infrastructure
Not sure which fits? The free assessment will tell you.
Get a Free AssessmentCommon Questions
Straight answers to the questions every bookkeeper asks.
No commitment. No sales pitch.
Ready to stop being the bottleneck?
A free assessment takes 30 minutes. We'll look at your practice, your methodology, and tell you honestly whether an AI engine is the right move — and what it would look like.
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