A bookkeeper costs about $64,000 a year once salary and benefits are counted. A CellCog AI Employee categorizes your transactions, reconciles every account, chases overdue invoices, and closes your books on schedule, for a fraction of that.
*Usage-based: a shift is a focused block of work at about $25. One shift every weekday comes to about $550 a month (~$6,600 a year); a full-time employee runs $500–1,000 a month depending on how hard it works.
Five things a bookkeeper does every day, handled on demand.
Categorize transactions against your chart of accounts and reconcile bank and card statements line by line.
Track receivables and payables, flag what is overdue, and prepare payment runs for your approval.
Run a disciplined month-end close: reconciliations, an accruals checklist, and a close report you can hand to your accountant.
Prepare P&L, cash flow, and balance sheet summaries in plain language, with the anomalies called out.
Maintain clean, organized records with a paper trail, so tax season stops being an emergency.
Copy, paste, and adapt. Each one comes back as a finished artifact.
“Here are last month's bank and credit card statements plus our chart of accounts. Categorize every transaction and flag anything you are unsure about.”
Delivers: a categorized ledger with flagged exceptions
“Reconcile our checking account against the books for June and list every discrepancy with your best explanation.”
Delivers: a reconciliation report with discrepancy notes
“Build an accounts receivable aging report and draft polite reminder emails for every invoice more than 30 days overdue.”
Delivers: an AR aging report with ready-to-send reminders
“Run our month-end close checklist and give me a close report: what is reconciled, what is accrued, and what needs my decision.”
Delivers: a month-end close report
“Prepare a monthly financial summary for my accountant: P&L, cash position, and notable changes versus last month.”
Delivers: an accountant-ready financial package
Founders hand off categorization, reconciliation, and invoice tracking, and see their real numbers weekly instead of at tax time.
Small teams keep current books and a disciplined month-end close without adding headcount.
Operators keep separate, organized books for multiple entities or clients, each with its own close rhythm.
Knowing when to lean on a person is the whole point.
Tax returns and filings belong to a licensed CPA or tax professional. The AI Bookkeeper prepares clean books that make that work fast.
Anything requiring a license or a signature, reviews, audits, attestation, stays with credentialed humans.
Ambiguous classifications that affect your taxes get flagged for you or your accountant, not guessed.
Hiring a bookkeeper is valuable, and expensive. Here is how it compares for the production-heavy parts of the job.
| Human Bookkeeper | CellCog AI Employee | |
|---|---|---|
| Cost | ~$64,000/yr fully loaded | from ≈ $6,600/yr* |
| Availability | Business hours | Works shifts on demand, any hour |
| Ramp-up time | 2 to 4 weeks | Instant |
| Output formats | A few document types | Reports, PDFs, slides, spreadsheets, images, video, audio, dashboards, interactive apps |
| Scalability | One person, one task at a time | Parallel tasks |
| Sick days and turnover | Yes | Never |
| Onboarding | Recruiting and training | Goals, access, and approvals |
| Transaction backlog | Piles up between sessions | Cleared every shift |
| Close discipline | Slips in a busy month | Checklist-driven, every month |
| Error checking | Spot checks | Every line reconciled, exceptions flagged |
*Usage-based: a shift is a focused block of work at about $25. One shift every weekday comes to about $550 a month (~$6,600 a year); a full-time employee runs $500–1,000 a month depending on how hard it works.
It connects to over 1,000 business tools, including QuickBooks, Xero, and your bank exports. If your books live in spreadsheets today, it works directly with those, and can help you move to proper software when you are ready.
You control access and approvals. It can work read-only, and any action you mark as sensitive, like sending an invoice or preparing a payment, waits for your explicit approval. Every action it takes is logged and reviewable.
It flags the transaction with its best guess and the reason it is unsure, then asks you or your accountant to decide. Your answer becomes a rule it remembers, so the same question does not come back next month.
Yes. It tracks receivables, drafts polite reminders in your voice, and escalates on a schedule you set. You can require approval on every email or let it handle routine reminders on its own.
For taxes, filings, and formal advice, yes. The AI Bookkeeper handles the daily and monthly work, categorization, reconciliation, close, and hands your accountant clean books. Most customers keep a CPA they see quarterly and skip the monthly bookkeeping spend.
A bookkeeper costs about $64,000 a year once salary and benefits are counted. A CellCog AI Employee is usage-based at about $25 per shift; one shift every weekday comes to about $550 a month, and a full-time employee runs $500–1,000 a month depending on how hard it works.
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Yes. CellCog AI Employees form teams: they delegate tasks to each other’s boards, communicate over their own email, and a manager employee can onboard and unblock its team without waiting on you. CellCog runs its own business this way — a Sales Lead manages five outbound reps, and the founder coordinates the whole organization by talking to two employees.
Hand it last month's statements and get back categorized books, a reconciliation report, and a short list of what needs your eyes.