Do AI agents for accounting firms give tax or financial advice?
No, and the agent is configured not to. It answers about the firm: which services you offer, what a package or a first meeting costs, what a new client needs to bring, when you are open, all from the material you gave it. When a caller asks what they can claim, whether they should incorporate, or whether a penalty notice is right, the agent says an accountant will answer that, takes the details needed to call back, and the thread lands in your inbox with the agent standing down. The rule is written into its instructions, and every reply is stored beside the source it was generated from, so a partner can check that it held.
Can it handle the tax-season surge?
That is what it is for. The agent answers the phone on your own Twilio number in real time, using the fastest model your provider offers on a call so it does not leave silences, and it answers the chat widget, the mailbox and the DMs at the same time. There is no queue and no per-call charge, so the week before the deadline costs the same as a quiet week in July. Calls are recorded and transcribed against the caller's record, and anything you named in its instructions comes to the inbox for an accountant. You can leave the answering switch off during office hours and on outside them, or on all the time.
Can it send document checklists and deadline reminders to existing clients?
Yes, as campaigns you write. Load the clients as a CSV or a HubSpot or GoHighLevel segment, write the checklist email and the reminder text in your own words, set the days, hours and time zone, and read the plan before you start it. A step can go only to clients who did not open the previous one. When a client replies, the agent answers from your material and stops the sequence on that person; when they ask something that needs an accountant, the thread comes to you. The campaign reports who was reached and who replied, so you know who is still outstanding, and it links only to pages of your site you allowed, such as your upload page.
Does it book the meeting, or just send a booking link?
It books. The agent is given your real open slots for the week ahead from Google Calendar, Microsoft 365, Calendly or one of the other supported calendars, offers a few of them, and when the client picks one, checks it against the slots that were offered, writes it into the calendar and confirms it in the reply. It cannot book a time that was not free and cannot cancel an appointment it was not shown. With one agent per partner, each agent books into that partner's own calendar, so a bookkeeping enquiry does not land in the tax partner's diary.
How does it follow up a proposal?
With a sequence you wrote. Add the prospect to a list, and the campaign sends an email two days after the engagement letter went out, a text a week later if they did not open it, and a final note after that, inside the hours you set. If the prospect replies with a question about the fee or the scope, the agent answers from your data points and Q&A pairs, offers a meeting slot if that is what they need, and stops the sequence. If they reply with a question about their own tax position, the thread comes to you. A booking, a reply or an opt-out on any channel ends the sequence on every channel.
Can AI agents for accounting firms run one per partner or per office?
Yes. Unlimited agents are included in the one plan, and each has its own number, mailbox, calendar, fee sheet, knowledge base, instructions and analytics. Nothing is shared between them: a knowledge base belongs to one agent and is never used to generate a reply for another. A partner or an office manager can be invited into one agent with their own login and sees that agent's inbox and funnel, and nothing else on the account, not the other partners' agents, the API keys, the settings or the billing.
Who can see the client conversations?
The people you give access to. Every conversation is stored in the account against the person it belongs to, and a login you create for a partner or an office manager opens onto one agent only, deny-by-default. The AI runs on your own key with the provider you chose, and the key is stored encrypted and sent nowhere but that provider. What the agent is given to answer from is what you chose to load, and what it says is stored beside its source. Confidentiality and your professional body's rules on client communication remain the firm's responsibility, exactly as with a receptionist or an answering service. The firm decides what may be said.
What does it cost per client or per call?
Nothing per client, per call or per seat. The plan is $25 a month or $200 a year for the whole firm, with unlimited agents, contacts and lists, and a 7-day free trial. The AI runs on your own key with one of sixteen providers, billed to you by that provider at cost, typically a few dollars a month. Calls and texts are billed by your carrier at its rates. There is no per-minute charge from us for calls, no per-conversation charge for chat, no per-contact charge for reminders, and nothing extra in tax season.