Accounting automation consulting, with the work shown first.
ColabContent is a Boston AI consulting house that builds custom automation for CPA and accounting firms of 10 to 150 staff. Before any call, you can have a working prototype of one task in 5 business days, or your firm's cost benchmark memo by email in 2 minutes. Both are free. Production builds are a fixed fee of $45,000 to $150,000 with the code owned by the firm at handoff, and the 45-minute diagnosis is booked at cal.com/colabcontent/45mins.
Pick one. Neither one puts you on a sales call.
What a CPA firm prototype usually is.
You name the task. These are the four that firms of 10 to 150 staff ask for most, so you can see the shape of what arrives.
Document chasing that runs itself
The prototype reads a fictitious client list and organizer status, sends the reminder in the firm's voice, logs what came back, and hands a partner one list of who is still missing what, instead of forty email threads.
First-pass source document review
Uploaded W-2s, 1099s and K-1s read, classified and cross-checked against last year, with every exception flagged for a human reviewer, so the senior hours go to the exceptions rather than the whole stack.
Re-keying between systems
Data that today gets typed twice, once into the tax system and once into practice management or the client portal, moves once, with a review screen before anything is written.
Engagement letters and organizers
The annual engagement letter and the client organizer drafted from last year's file and this year's changes, queued for partner approval, sent and tracked without a staff member touching each one.
How the engagement runs.
The prototype you request here is the first step. Everything after it is optional and priced up front.
Free diagnosis, 45 minutes
Operator to operator. Both sides leave with the constraint written in one sentence. Either side can stop there at no cost.
Prototype on your own data
Under NDA, on a representative slice of real files, within 7 to 10 days. If it does not perform to the diagnosis, you owe nothing and keep the work.
Fixed-fee build, 4 to 7 weeks
$45,000 to $150,000 depending on integration depth, inside your own cloud tenant. You receive the code, prompts, runbook and documentation. No per-seat fee, no platform to renew.
The questions firms ask first.
What does accounting automation consulting cost?
ColabContent builds custom automation for CPA firms as a fixed-fee commission of $45,000 to $150,000, set after a free diagnosis and a free prototype. There is no hourly meter, no per-seat license and no ongoing platform fee; the firm owns the code at handoff. Independent consultants charge $150 to $500 per hour and mid-tier firms $300 to $1,000 per hour for comparable work.
What is the free prototype?
You name one task your firm does by hand, such as chasing client documents, first-pass review of source documents, re-keying data between the tax system and the practice management system, or drafting the engagement letter and organizer. Within 5 business days ColabContent sends a link to a working prototype of that task running on fictitious data, with no NDA and no call required. If the firm wants it running on its own data, the next step is the 45-minute diagnosis call at cal.com/colabcontent/45mins.
What is in the cost benchmark memo?
The memo takes six numbers you type in (partners and managers, their blended rate, hours per week they spend chasing documents and reviewing first passes, staff count, staff rate and staff hours per week on data entry and re-keying) and returns the annual dollar leak on each line, the total, and the payback period against ColabContent's $45,000 to $150,000 fixed fee. It is emailed within about a minute of submitting the form.
Does either option lead to a sales call?
No. Both are delivered by email with nothing else attached. A principal at ColabContent replies personally to prototype requests, and the 45-minute diagnosis call is offered, not scheduled, at cal.com/colabcontent/45mins. Nobody phones you.
Rather just talk?
Forty-five minutes, operator to operator. You leave with the constraint written in one sentence, whether or not we work together.