Bookkeeping

Books that run while you sleep.

The agents handle the mechanical work overnight — categorization, AP, anomaly detection, close readiness. Our accountants stand behind every close.

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The books aren't hard. They're endless.

Nothing in a month of bookkeeping requires a second opinion. It just requires someone to sit there and do it — every day, forever. That is the part DayZero takes, starting from your playbook: your chart of accounts, your categorization rules, your review templates — applied the same way on every close.

The volume never stops

Thousands of transactions a month, and the same handful of merchants over and over. You are not solving a hard problem — you are re-solving an easy one, forever.

The work arrives as email

Invoices land in an inbox, get forwarded, get lost, get paid twice. The system of record is a thread nobody owns.

Nobody knows if you can close

Close week is a scramble to find out what is missing — which is exactly the thing you should have known on day 3.

01 — Categorization that learns

Show it three times. It handles the next three thousand.

Categorize a few transactions yourself. DayZero learns the pattern and auto-handles the rest — quietly, in the background. Your team reviews the handful it wasn't sure about, not the thousands it already knew.

app.ondayzero.com/books?section=bank-rules

Bank Rules

Learned from your historical categorizations
Learning
Active rules
59
learned, not written
Auto-categorized · 7d
0
99% avg confidence
Sent to review
11
low confidence only

Learns, doesn't ask

Show DayZero three examples of how you categorize your phone bill and it writes the rule itself — no syntax to learn. Our team tunes it against your full ledger during your pilot.

Confidence-graded

High-confidence rules auto-apply. Low-confidence transactions land in your review queue, surfaced with the reason.

Reversible by design

Don't like a rule? Edit it, pause it, or train it differently. The audit trail shows what was auto-categorized and why.

02 — AP Inbox

An invoice arrives. The bill is already drafted.

Vendors send invoices to your DayZero AP email. The agent reads them, pulls vendor, amount, due date, line items, and the expense account — and drafts the bill in pending. By the time someone opens the inbox, the work is done.

app.ondayzero.com/ap?section=bills

AP Inbox

Drafted from forwarded invoices · sample data
4 bills
Captured today
4
from email
Awaiting review
2
draft bills
Auto-coded
94%
expense accounts
Vendor
Status
Account
Due
Amount
Verizon Wireless
draft
Utilities & Telecom
Jul 22
−$182.40
Uline
received
Shipping Supplies
Jul 13
−$1,840.00
Shopify Plus
approved
Software
Jul 18
−$2,300.00
Cocoa Trade Co.
draft
COGS — Cacao Beans
Jul 27
−$60,000.00

Reads PDFs natively

Scanned invoices, structured PDFs, plain-text emails, image-only — the AP agent handles all of them. No OCR setup.

Routes to the right account

Pulls the expense account from your historical categorizations. If it's a known vendor, it picks the same one you would.

You stay in the loop

Nothing posts without approval. Drafts sit in pending, ready for you to review, approve, or send back to the vendor.

03 — Overnight controls

Duplicate payments, caught before the wire goes out.

An agent re-scans the last 30 days every night looking for duplicate bills, rapid-succession payments, and patterns that don't smell right. By morning, you have a triaged list with the evidence and a recommended action.

Runs while you sleep — a nightly re-scan of the last 30 days, so there is no Monday morning fire drill
Evidence, not just flags — the supporting transactions, the pattern that triggered it, and a recommended action
Learns from your dismissals — clear a false positive once and the same pattern stops surfacing
app.ondayzero.com/books?section=anomalies

Anomalies

Pattern-typed and grouped · triaged by severity
Last run · 2:14 AM
Active
6
High severity
2
Medium
4
Duplicate Bill Payments2 foundHigh
Rapid Succession3 foundMedium
Duplicate Vendors1 foundMedium
04 — Close

A close that grades itself.

DayZero runs a readiness check across categorization, reconciliation, anomalies, and variance. You get a score — and the exact list of what's blocking it. No more “I think we're ready.”

Score, not status — “66/100, blocked by these 2 things” beats “close is in progress”
Always current — run the check on day 1 and the score recomputes as work gets done. No big-bang close week
Auditor-friendly — every score change is logged with the underlying evidence
app.ondayzero.com/books?section=accounting-periods

Close Readiness

June 2026 period · sample data
66 / 100
Readiness score
66
/ 100
Blockers
2
must clear to close
Checks passed
8
of 10
Bank reconciliationAll accounts matched Pass
Uncategorized transactions11 still need reviewBlocked
Open anomalies2 high-severity itemsBlocked
AR/AP balancesSubledgers tie to GL Pass
Period variancesWithin materiality threshold Pass
The pilot

Five days. Then it's running.

This isn't a self-serve setup wizard. Our accountants and engineers connect your data, configure the agents, and run your first close with you — live, over five days.

1
Day 1 — Connect

Bank feeds via Plaid, plus direct migration connectors for QuickBooks Online and Xero. Our team connects your chart of accounts, vendors, and history alongside you.

2
Days 2–4 — Configure and learn

Your existing categorizations become rules, tuned against your real ledger by our engineers — not a solo config screen. You review the exceptions it flags, not the thousands it already knew.

3
Day 5 — First close review

You and our accountants walk the close-readiness score together, clear what's outstanding, and set the cadence for every month after.

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For controllers & bookkeeping firms

The infrastructure behind the books.

DayZero gives bookkeeping firms and fractional CFOs a multi-client cockpit with the same agents working across every client. Same rules, same controls, same close scores — at scale.

Books that stay close-ready. Teams that do the real work.

See what your books look like when the agents handle the busywork and our accountants stand behind the close — schedule a five-day pilot on your real data.

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