A research lab powering the future of finance through AI
AI Augmented
Financial Control
Big 4-grade close, FP&A, board reporting and AI economics — delivered as finished outcomes, produced with AI and signed off by certified accountants. You keep every approval.
Built by practitioners
Founded by an ex-Big 4 management consultant.
FinanceAI Labs was founded by a chartered accountant with a Big 4 consulting and global asset-management background — 15+ years across financial control and M&A. This is not generalist AI consulting bolted onto finance. It is finance expertise that happens to build AI.
Every engagement is delivered and reviewed by certified accountants — ACCA-qualified and Big 4 trained. AI does the production; qualified judgement signs it off. There is no junior pyramid learning on your fees.
Ex-Big 4 management consultant
Founder trained and practised at Big 4 level
Certified accountants only
ACCA-qualified, Big 4-trained senior team
15+ years in control & M&A
Financial control and transactions across global markets
The gap we close
Two professions talking past each other.
AI consultants have never closed a month-end. Accountants have never built an agent. The gap between those two worlds is exactly where AI projects in finance fail.
FinanceAI Labs lives in that gap: chartered-level finance expertise and hands-on AI engineering in one place. The result is finance work to an audit-ready standard, at a fraction of the cost and time of building the function in-house.
What we do
Five service lines. Bought separately, or stacked.
Every engagement is a finished deliverable — produced with AI, reviewed by a certified accountant.
AI Cost Audit
A forensic audit of what your organisation actually spends on AI — across every vendor, the cloud bill, and the hidden costs that never appear on an invoice. You get a full spend map, a ranked savings plan, and a budget modelled at today's prices and beyond.
Finance Operations
Month-end close to a day-3 timetable, board packs your directors read in ten minutes, and variance analysis that explains the why. An AI-augmented financial control function for companies between bookkeeper and full team.
Skills Library
Our Big 4-grade methodology, installed into your own AI workspace: close controller, reconciliations, variance commentary, board packs and audit prep — configured to your accounts and house style.
Agent Design & Deployment
Production agents for recurring work — reconciliation matching, accrual prep, AI-spend monitoring — built with controls first and connected to Xero, QuickBooks and your ledger. Agents prepare; humans approve.
Training & Research
Corporate training on AI economics and AI accounting, the AI-Augmented Financial Controller programme, and commissioned research notes for boards and investors.
Not sure where to start?
Most clients begin with the AI Cost Audit, then move to a retainer. We'll tell you honestly which fits — including if you don't need us yet.
Book a scoping call →How we work
Assess. Prove. Run.
One method, three phases. You see the quality before you ever commit to it.
Assess
We review your current close, reconciliations and reporting, and agree materiality, scope and timetable. You get a findings note whether or not we proceed.
Prove
We run one cycle in parallel with your existing process. You compare the output side by side, and judge the standard for yourself, before committing to anything.
Run
We take ownership of the timetable. Qualified review on everything, your team keeps every approval. Nothing is posted without your sign-off.
Every number traced to source · every deliverable independently reviewed · unverifiable output removed, never shipped
Why us
The lines we hold.
Six commitments that shape every engagement.
Vendor independent
No reseller margins, referral fees or infrastructure markup. When we recommend a cheaper model, nothing in our P&L disagrees.
Certified review on everything
AI does the production; a certified accountant signs off. No deliverable leaves on AI authority alone.
You keep authority
We prepare; you approve. Posting permission stays with your team in every engagement, agents included.
Outcome pricing
Fixed prices for finished deliverables. You buy certainty; we keep the gain from our own efficiency.
Honest scoping
The audit that finds nothing reports nothing found. We'll tell you when you don't need us.
Research-led
Built on a continuously maintained base covering frontier model pricing, AI vendor economics and AI accounting.
Start here
Bring one problem and your latest AI invoice.
A 45-minute scoping call. We'll tell you whether and how we can help — and if a sample close report or board pack would be useful, it's yours before we ever speak.