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For Architecture & Design Firms

Subcontractor payments with no invoice in the folder — flagged, not buried.

Give your AI your milestone invoices, checking statements, vendor bills, and software receipts. Milestone invoices are matched to their deposits, and subcontractor payments with no invoice come back flagged.

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The documents in this sample case.

Give these documents to your AI and say “run my books.”
Milestone 2 invoice — Harborview DD phase
Milestone 1 invoice — Oakwood School
Checking — April, 17 txns
Business Visa — April
Autodesk AEC Collection — 3 seats
Blueprint printing bill
Telecom bundle — phone + fiber
Maine AIA annual dues

The parts that eat your evening.

  • Milestone billing is not revenue recognition — each phase invoice has to be compared with the work actually completed, and anything billed ahead of it is deferred
  • Subcontractor and license-board payments hit the bank with no invoice in the folder (sub invoices go to the project file)
  • Recurring SaaS seats, telecom bundles, and AIA dues need to be split out from project costs and matched month to month
What FinStat caught in this case

It matches the $18,400 Harborview Design Development milestone invoice to its April 4 deposit and the $14,200 Oakwood School milestone to its April 17 deposit, then flags the $4,800 and $3,600 Praxis subcontractor ACH payments that have no invoice in the folder at all.

Reconciled to the bank. Then ask your AI anything about your books.

Harborview DD milestone
$18,400.00
Oakwood School milestone
$14,200.00
Praxis subcontract · April
$4,800.00
Checking close · May
$46,650.00

Figures from the Atlas & Vine Architecture PLLC sample case — a fictional business — each transaction tied to its source document, balanced and review-ready.

Once connected, two steps.

  1. Give your AI the documents.

    Give your AI your statements, payouts, receipts, and bills — attach them, then say: run my books. Your statements are processed only for the work you ask for and never sold; they go to the AI sub-processors on our subprocessor list to be read.

  2. Ask for any report.

    “Give me a P&L.” “Reconcile May.” “Show the uncategorized transactions.” Review-ready accounting output, in chat. Each entry traces to its source line, so you can question any number in the chat.

Your books

Start with one month.

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