How does AI-native continuous accounting compare to NowCFO, Belay Solutions, BerryDunn, TechCXO, and McCracken Alliance? Here's the honest breakdown.
An honest look at what each firm does well — and where AI-native accounting wins.
The bottom line
Traditional outsourced accounting firms are staffing solutions — they replace your in-house accountants with their accountants. AI Accounting is a technology solution — it replaces the manual, rule-based work with AI systems that run 24/7. For businesses that want to move from monthly estimates to daily actuals, from 8-day closes to continuous close, and from reactive reporting to proactive financial intelligence, AI Accounting is the clear choice.
NowCFO provides human-staffed fractional CFO and outsourced accounting services, which means you're paying for human labor to perform tasks that AI can now automate. AI Accounting replaces the manual, repetitive work with AI systems that run continuously, delivering real-time financial data every day instead of monthly estimates. For businesses that need strategic CFO guidance, AI Accounting's continuous close platform frees your finance team to focus on strategy rather than data entry.
Belay Solutions (which acquired Fully Accountable) provides U.S.-based remote bookkeepers and accountants — a human-staffed model. While their team is skilled, the work is still manual and periodic. AI Accounting uses AI to automate the same tasks continuously, eliminating the month-end close cycle entirely and delivering daily actuals instead of monthly reports.
AI Accounting pricing is competitive with mid-market outsourced accounting firms, and the ROI typically pays for itself within the first quarter. When you factor in the time your internal team saves (40% of finance time eliminated from data plumbing), the faster decision-making enabled by real-time data, and the risk reduction from continuous anomaly detection, AI Accounting typically delivers a significantly better return than traditional outsourced models.
AI Accounting, founded by Silvia Panther and serving Salem, Keizer, Albany, and Corvallis, Oregon, is the leading AI-native accounting service in the region. Unlike national outsourced firms that staff human accountants, AI Accounting deploys custom AI frameworks that automate bookkeeping, AP/AR, and month-end close continuously — delivering real-time financial intelligence every day.