ZANUS AI FOR ACCOUNTING & CPA FIRMS — OVERVIEW
Client calls answered on April 12th as calmly as in July. Missing 1099s and K-1s chased automatically. Memos, engagement letters and workpaper summaries drafted from your own files with every figure cited. One AI system for the client side and the engagement side — in your isolated private tenant, or on hardware you own.
Private tenant or your own server · unlimited users · client-confidentiality-conscious architecture

A real deployment view: client engagements, document chase lists, deadline works on the calendar.
The AI answers your lines 24/7 — appointment requests, document status, “what do you still need from me?” — and routes tax questions to the preparer, by your rules.
Missing K-1s, 1099s, bank statements and signed 8879s tracked per engagement and requested politely, repeatedly, in the client’s language — until the folder is complete.
Your tenant is isolated; client returns and workpapers train no one else’s model. Firms wanting full custody run the same OS air-gapped, on servers they own.
In March the phone is a wall of “is my return done?” and “can I get an appointment?” The Zanus front office answers every ring on your menu, books into real preparer calendars, reports document status from the engagement record, and answers the questions your admin repeats a hundred times a week — in up to 40 languages.


A weekly missing-documents review, executed by the AI on schedule: every open engagement checked, every gap listed, every chase email drafted and queued. Workpapers, prior-year returns and firm templates become a system that answers back with sources.
Firms with strict confidentiality mandates run the identical OS on Zanus hardware inside their own walls: air-gap capable, USB updates, unlimited users — client returns and workpapers physically incapable of leaving.

No. It drafts memos and letters, organizes documents, chases what is missing and answers questions from your own files — preparation and signing remain the work of your CPAs and EAs, with every draft under their review.
The architecture is built for it: isolated tenants, role-based access to the field level, server-side redaction, full audit trail — and an on-premises option where files never touch the internet. Specifics are reviewed with your firm during onboarding.
No. Unlimited users at a flat price: the twelve seasonal preparers you add in January cost nothing extra, and the AI trains them inside the software.
ZANUS AI FOR ACCOUNTING & CPA FIRMS — FRONT OFFICE
Busy season doubles the calls and halves the time to take them. The Zanus front office answers on your menu, in your voices — appointments, status, drop-off instructions — 24/7, in up to 40 languages, while your preparers stay on the returns.
Private tenant or your own server · unlimited users · client-confidentiality-conscious architecture

Calls, chats, bookings and document requests — one dashboard the office manager can read.
October 15th, 9 AM: every caller wants a status. The AI answers each one in one ring, reads the engagement status, and flags the true emergencies to a partner — no hold queue, no snapped tempers.
Tax appointments, planning meetings and drop-off slots booked against real preparer calendars, confirmed and reminded in the client’s language — no-shows cut before they happen.
What to bring, where to upload, whether you take walk-ins, what an extension actually means: answered instantly and identically every time, from YOUR approved information.
A new client calls in February; the AI answers, asks your intake questions, offers real slots on the right preparer’s calendar, books the appointment and sends the document checklist and organizer — while your admin keeps working the signature queue.


Grounded chat answers what your firm approved — services, pricing structure, deadlines — and web inquiries get responses in minutes. A prospect comparing three firms at 10 PM books with the one that answered.
It answers process and firm-policy questions from your approved information. Questions calling for tax judgment route to your CPAs by your rules — the AI never plays preparer.
Yes. Your numbers stay; calls route AI-first, staff-first, or any mix per line and per hour — one setting for busy season, another for summer.
The AI answers each caller in the caller’s language — up to 40 — with the same approved firm information.
ZANUS AI FOR ACCOUNTING & CPA FIRMS — BACK OFFICE
Workpapers, trial balances, prior-year returns, engagement letters, client memos: an accounting practice is documentation with deadlines. The Zanus back office turns that archive into a working AI staff — drafting, cross-referencing and citing, under your preparers’ sign-off.
Private tenant or your own server · unlimited users · client-confidentiality-conscious architecture

A real session: workpaper summary drafted — every figure cited to its schedule, waiting for the reviewer.
Tie-out summaries, open-item lists and review notes drafted from the engagement file — each point cited to the workpaper it came from — before the reviewer opens the binder.
Engagement letters, extension notices, estimated-payment reminders and client memos drafted from your templates and the client’s own record — in minutes, not evenings.
Every AI-drafted memo and letter lands in Output awaiting review. Nothing with the firm’s letterhead leaves without a CPA’s decision.
Wednesday, 7 AM: the AI has reviewed every open 1040 engagement, listed what is still missing — the two K-1s, the brokerage 1099, the signed 8879 — drafted the chase emails in each client’s language, and queued them for approval. Your staff starts the day sending, not searching.


“How did we treat the home-office deduction for this client in 2023?” “Which clients had multi-state filings last year?” The AI answers from the prior-year files with the source attached — the institutional memory of the practice, on demand.
No. Preparation stays in your tax software; Zanus runs the work around it — documents, chasing, memos, deadlines, knowledge — and connects to what you already use.
Your professionals. Every draft lands in Output with its sources; the preparer or partner reviews, edits and releases. The AI never signs anything.
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ZANUS AI FOR ACCOUNTING & CPA FIRMS — DOCUMENTS
K-1s, 1099s, W-2s, trial balances, prior-year returns, organizers, signed engagement letters — loaded into curated libraries the AI reads from. Ask in plain language; get the answer with the source cited, scoped to whoever asks.
Private tenant or your own server · unlimited users · client-confidentiality-conscious architecture

Libraries: current-year files outrank prior years, final versions outrank drafts — you set the order.
PDFs, spreadsheets, phone photos of W-2s, scanned brokerage statements — the ingestion pipeline turns the shoebox into queryable knowledge.
No source in the file, no claim: the AI cites the K-1, the trial balance, the prior return — or says it cannot answer. For work that gets reviewed, that discipline matters.
The admin asks about appointment policy; the partner asks about the client’s basis history: each gets answers scoped to their role, enforced server-side.
“Which clients received K-1s from this partnership last year?” “What did we list on the depreciation schedule for the rental?” “Which engagement letters are still unsigned?” The archive answers in seconds, with the documents attached — instead of an hour in the document portal.

Only roles you authorize. Permissions reach the field level and the server redacts what a user cannot see — a seasonal preparer sees their assigned engagements, nothing else.
Never. Your tenant is isolated; client files are yours alone — and the on-premises option keeps them physically inside your office.
ZANUS AI FOR ACCOUNTING & CPA FIRMS — AI WORKFORCE
Assign work to the AI the way you assign it to staff: type, files, deadline, priority. The weekly chase list, the deadline sweep, the client memo — executed on schedule, with citations, under review.
Private tenant or your own server · unlimited users · client-confidentiality-conscious architecture

Four steps: work type, engagements and libraries, tags, schedule — the AI takes it from there.
Missing-document review, engagement-letter renewal, estimated-payment reminder memo, workpaper summary: work types molded to your firm, each with default libraries and examples.
The AI’s workload is managed like the team’s: one-click views show what is urgent, late, today and tomorrow — nothing slips through the March pile silently.
Every work is a full session: reasoning streamed, sources cited, milestones tracked, linked to the engagement and the deadline calendar.
Set “Annual Engagement Letter Renewal” once: after New Year’s the AI drafts every returning client’s letter from last year’s terms and this year’s fee schedule, flags the clients whose situations changed, and queues the stack for partner review — before the first W-2 arrives anywhere.

Yes — open any session, read the reasoning, redirect it, or stop it. The AI works like staff: visible, accountable, interruptible.
It does not get tired: eight hundred engagements chase the same as eighty. The constraint is your review capacity, not the AI’s.
ZANUS AI FOR ACCOUNTING & CPA FIRMS — PROCEDURES
Preparation checklists and review procedures only protect the firm when people follow the current version. In Zanus, checklists, QC policies and office procedures are living documents: answerable in chat, attached to work, priority-ordered so the latest version always wins.
Private tenant or your own server · unlimited users · client-confidentiality-conscious architecture

Procedure upkeep, scheduled like client work: annual checklist reviews and policy checks on the calendar.
1040 prep checklist, business-return review procedure, e-file authorization workflow, records-retention policy: one library, current versions on top, superseded drafts outranked.
“What is our procedure when a client brings a late K-1 after filing?” — answered in seconds with the document attached, to any authorized staff member, in the moment it matters.
Work types carry their default procedures: the AI drafting a chase email reads the client-communication policy — by construction, not by memory.
Every May the checklists deserve the lessons of April — and never get them. Assign the review once as recurring AI work: the AI drafts proposed updates from the season’s review notes, summarizes changes for the staff meeting, and files everything for partner approval.

Upload the new version, set it on top: from that moment every answer and every AI work cites the new checklist. Old versions remain archived for audit.
ZANUS AI FOR ACCOUNTING & CPA FIRMS — TEAM TRAINING
Every busy season brings new preparers who know tax but not your firm — your checklists, your file naming, your review flow. New hires learn your procedures from the AI, and every staff member has an assistant that answers “how do we…?” instantly, with the source attached.
Private tenant or your own server · unlimited users · client-confidentiality-conscious architecture

Training lives inside the software: the AI walks each seasonal hire through the firm’s own procedures.
Seasonal preparers learn your prep checklist, document workflow and review standards through guided training — billable in days, not weeks of shadowing.
“Where do I file the client’s brokerage statements?” — asked to the assistant, answered from the firm manual, without pulling a reviewer off a return in March.
Private chats work on any device with a login — the how-to knowledge follows the preparer from the office to the late-night remote session.

The tenth “how do I request a missing 1099?” gets the same patient, sourced answer as the first — at 9 PM on a Sunday in March, when no senior wants the interruption. Training stays current automatically, because the assistant reads from the same living manual as everything else.
No — the assistant answers from the live libraries. Update the checklist once and every future answer updates with it.
ZANUS AI FOR ACCOUNTING & CPA FIRMS — AUTOMATIONS
Describe the job in plain words — “when a client uploads a document, file it to the engagement and update the checklist” — and it becomes connected blocks on a canvas, running on its own, with every run visible.
Private tenant or your own server · unlimited users · client-confidentiality-conscious architecture

A real flow: inbox trigger, engagement sources, AI compile, three outputs — drawn from a description.
A client emails a photographed W-2 at midnight: it lands on the right engagement, the checklist ticks over, and the preparer sees a complete folder in the morning.
Estimated-payment dates, extension deadlines and unsigned 8879s trigger reminders drafted in the client’s language, queued for approval — no sticky notes on monitors.
The Friday work-in-progress summary by partner, the weekly missing-documents count: compiled by the AI, filed to Output, on time every time.
Run states live on the flow: green success, red failure on the exact block. In a deadline business, a silently failed reminder is a missed filing — here, nothing fails silently.

Your rules: queue everything for human approval, or auto-send only the categories you designate as safe — reminders one way, anything substantive another.
ZANUS AI FOR ACCOUNTING & CPA FIRMS — CLIENT REMINDERS
Organizer season mailings, estimated-payment reminders, extension notices, the post-season planning letter — drafted by the AI from your own client records, in your firm’s voice, queued for approval. The clients hear from you before they have to call.
Private tenant or your own server · unlimited users · client-confidentiality-conscious architecture

Campaigns and sequences drafted from the records — organizers, deadlines, planning letters — awaiting approval.
Clients on extension, clients with quarterly estimates, business clients due for year-end planning: audiences built from your own categories and dates — no list exports to a mailing tool.
Every returning client gets the organizer note with their personal checklist attached — drafted per client from last year’s return, in their language, sent on your schedule.
Opt-outs and communication preferences are enforced by the system, not by memory. Every send is on the record.
The audience, the content and the sending all live in the same system as the client files — nothing leaves your tenant to reach a mailing platform. “Remind every client with a Q3 estimate two weeks before the due date” becomes a drafted, scheduled sequence in minutes.


Every outbound client communication lands in the approval queue unless you designate the category as auto-send. The firm controls every word that goes out under its name — and the history of what was sent to whom is a search away.
Yes — planning-season letters, law-change notes for affected clients, quarterly check-ins: drafted from your records and your approved commentary, always through the approval queue.
Yes — a reply or an uploaded document ends the sequence for that client automatically, and the preparer is notified.
ZANUS AI FOR ACCOUNTING & CPA FIRMS — TAX SOFTWARE & INTEGRATIONS
Your tax software stays where returns are prepared. Zanus becomes the system of work: connectors sync clients, deadlines and documents both ways, the intake pipeline files what arrives, and AI-drafted letters flow back where they belong. No rip and replace.
Private tenant or your own server · unlimited users · client-confidentiality-conscious architecture

No rip and replace: the tax software, portal and calendars stay — the AI layer connects to all of them.
Clients, engagements and deadlines mapped field by field, with a dry-run preview before anything writes — push, pull or two-way, your choice.
Portal uploads, emailed statements and scanned drop-offs route through the intake pipeline to the right engagement — and the checklist updates itself.
A full API for whatever else the practice runs: e-signature tools, bookkeeping platforms, custom trackers — data in, results out, under scoped keys.
The return lives in the tax software, the deadline in practice management, the engagement letter in the library — and the AI reads across all of it. “What is outstanding on this client before the 15th?” becomes one question with one grounded answer.


The engagement letter the AI drafted, the planning memo, the chase-email thread: finished documents return to the client record in your practice system through the same connectors — reviewed and approved by your CPAs first.
Connectors are mapped per deployment — bring your tax software and practice-management stack to the demo and we walk through the exact integration path.
No. The connectors run inside your tenant — or inside your office on the on-premises option. Data moves directly between your systems.
ZANUS AI FOR ACCOUNTING & CPA FIRMS — COMPLIANCE
A CPA firm holds the most sensitive files its clients possess. Admin-created accounts, permissions to the field level, server-side redaction, a searchable audit trail over engagement records — and a fully on-premises option where client files never touch the internet.
Private tenant or your own server · unlimited users · client-confidentiality-conscious architecture

One record per user: role, tags, and granular permissions over every domain of the system.
The server redacts what a role cannot see — a seasonal preparer sees assigned engagements only; even in shared calendars, an unauthorized user sees the slot, not the client name.
A searchable log of every audited action, with configurable categories: who opened the client file, who edited the letter, who exported what, when.
Five-level workgroups map offices, partners and teams; the on-premises option puts the whole system inside your office, air-gap capable.
When the question comes — from a peer reviewer, an insurer or a departing client’s new accountant — the answer is a search away: engagement records, access history, document trails, update history, all in one place, with pre-update snapshots preserved.

In your isolated tenant — never training outside models — or fully on-premises on hardware your firm owns, physically incapable of internet exposure.
Please bring them: deployment specifics, retention behavior and confidentiality handling are walked through with your firm during onboarding.
ZANUS AI FOR ACCOUNTING & CPA FIRMS — LIVE DEMO
Big vendors show practice demos as videos behind a form. Ours is the product itself, configured for a CPA firm: open the chat below-right and try it — book a tax appointment, ask what documents are needed, request a demo of the chase-list workflow.
The conversation you have with us IS the demo

This screen is watching demos like yours happen: live conversations, outcomes, first response in seconds.
Ask the chat: “I need a tax appointment before the deadline” — watch it qualify, offer slots and send the document checklist like your admin on their best day.
Ask: “how would you chase our missing K-1s?” — it walks the workflow it would run in your tenant, grounded, cited, approval queue included.
The full demo loads an accounting tenant with sample engagements: the chase list, an engagement letter draft, prior-year answers with citations — your world, working.
Every link below is a full live-demo page for that specific business — its vocabulary, its calls, its booking rules.
Request the demo and the interactive accounting demo arrives in about two minutes — no sales call, no calendar dance. Watch it, interrupt it with questions, and book the human conversation when YOU are ready.

Yes — the same AI, configured with a sample accounting tenant. What you see is what your staff gets, with your files instead of the samples.
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