From source documents to signed return. Instead prepares workpapers, populates returns, resolves diagnostics, and files for 1040, Schedules C, E, F, and Farm.
Assign an agent to a client and it holds context across everything: source docs, workpapers, returns, plans, and filings. Ask it a question, run a workflow, or build a plan. It doesn't assist. It does the work.
Every step of the individual return process, automated.
Upload W-2s, 1099s, K-1s, brokerage statements. Complete workpapers built automatically.
Populates every line of the 1040. Schedules C, E, F, Farm. Diagnostics resolved.
Compliance review against source docs, workpapers, and tax law. Issues flagged before you see them.
1-year or 20-year plans. Strategy identification, scenario modeling, client-ready output.
Quarterly federal and state. Safe harbor calculations. Strategy impact analysis.
Ability-to-pay, installment plans, OIC. The agent drafts the response.
From intake through analysis to final deliverable with projected impact.
Your firm's process, codified. Describe it and the agent builds it.
Upload source docs and the agent classifies, renames, and organizes them by tax year. Connect your existing document store and everything syncs.
Agent reads, renames, and files every document into the right folder.
Full audit trail on every document. Revert any change at any time.
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Track every asset. Calculate depreciation across MACRS, ADS, and Section 179. The agent handles cost segregation, like-kind exchanges, bonus depreciation, and disposition tracking. Every asset flows directly into the return.
Select clients. Click prepare returns. The grid runs workflows in parallel, every client, every schedule, simultaneously.
Cited answers from the IRC, Treasury Regs, court cases, and IRS Audit Technique Guides. Client breeds horses and lost money 6 of the last 7 years? Foreign rental income with a treaty position? Instead finds the answer and shows you exactly where it comes from.
Owner and Member roles. Control who accesses which clients.
Visibility at the document and folder level. Sensitive returns stay restricted.
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