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Tax document processing that saves your season.

Classify and extract tax documents, organize the workpaper binder, detect missing items, and prepare reconciled inputs for professional review.

◆ human-gateda person approves every consequential action
$17,500
fixed-scope pilot
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launch posture
Strong durable demand
market signal
tax-document-processing-assistant
// classify form and year
input: W-2
step: extract boxes
citations: [ source ✓ ]   confidence: 0.93
HUMAN GATEawaiting review →

Nothing is finalized until a human approves it.

Built for
The buyer
Tax-firm Managing Partner, CFO, Head of Tax
The champion
Tax Operations Director, Tax Technology leader, Engagement Partner
Day-to-day users
Tax preparers, reviewers, client service and document teams

Designed, built, and evaluated by Alpesh Nakrani, VP of Growth at ViitorCloud, 14 years shipping software, writing on AI-Native engineering and evaluation.

Evals-first
built in from day one
Human-gated
judgment stays with you
The problem

Where the time and money actually go.

Seasonal teams spend large amounts of time naming files, entering W-2/1099/K-1 data, chasing missing schedules, and reconciling inconsistent taxpayer information.

Who feels it

Tax preparers, reviewers, client service and document teams

Trigger to act: Seasonal capacity is constrained, document turnaround is slow, offshore/onshore handoffs create errors, or a firm wants a standardized intake product.

Outcome & ROI

The result you can model before you sign.

Illustrative, replace with your data
$36,000
per month, illustrative

Illustrative only: 15,000 documents/season × 4 minutes removed × $36 loaded hourly cost ÷ 60 = $36,000 seasonal capacity. Tax-position value is outside scope.

The outcome, plainly: Classify and extract tax documents, organize the workpaper binder, detect missing items, and prepare reconciled inputs for professional review.

Extraction accuracy by form/box
Documents per hour
Missing-item detection
How it works

Inputs in. A cited, review-ready result out. Your expert decides.

A Document AI + workflow agent. Every material fact is grounded in an allowed source and returned with its identifier, with no invented data.

01
Classify form and year
02
Extract boxes
03
Validate totals/TIN formats
04
Compare taxpayer/entity
05
Detect missing expected forms
06
Populate draft workpaper
07
Route exceptions
08
Track client requests
Reference architecturegrounded · human-in-the-loop · fully auditable
Source systems · scoped access
Tax preparation software
Secure client portal
Document management
Workpaper system
E-sign
Grounded reasoning core
Retrieve & extract
grounded on your sources, returns citations
Reason & draft
Claude Sonnet 4.6 or GPT-5.6 Terra
Human gateCredentialed tax professionals review all extracted data, positions, estimates, elections, and returns before filing.
Action · only after approval
Track client requests
Audit trace
sources, rules, confidence, reviewer
Tenant isolation
minimum data, never cross-tenant
Evaluation suite
baselined pre-launch, watched after
Observability
cost, latency & drift telemetry
Model strategy

Claude Sonnet 4.6 or GPT-5.6 Terra for evidence-aware extraction and reasoning; Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite or Claude Haiku 4.5 for high-volume classification and normalization. Amazon Textract or Azure AI Document Intelligence; PostgreSQL + pgvector; Pinecone only when scale/latency requires it.

Inputs
  • W-2
  • 1099 series
  • K-1
  • Brokerage statements
  • Mortgage/charitable documents
  • Prior return
The human gate

AI-Native, not autonomous. Judgment stays with your people.

The machine does the work; the human’s role narrows to the one thing that matters, judgment. That constraint is what makes it safe to deploy.

Non-negotiable human gate

Credentialed tax professionals review all extracted data, positions, estimates, elections, and returns before filing.

What it will never do
No tax advice, position, estimate, election, or filing without professional review
No cross-taxpayer data leakage
No use of outdated forms or tax-year logic
The scorecard

A scorecard, not a demo. We baseline what breaks in production.

Every deployment ships with an evaluation suite. These are the numbers we baseline before launch and monitor after.

Primary
Extraction accuracy by form/box
Documents per hour
Missing-item detection
Reviewer correction
Turnaround
Duplicate/stale form rate
Filing rework
Why this, not that

The category is crowded. Most of it isn’t built for your workflow.

The alternatives
SurePrepGruntWorxThomson ReutersCCH/Wolters KluwerIntuit ProConnectCanopyTaxDomeOffshore data-entry teams
This implementation

Fixed-scope, tuned to your systems and rules, grounded in your data, with the human gate and audit trail built in from day one. A price you own, not a subscription you rent.

✓ Fixed price, not a seat subscription ✓ Grounded in your data & rules ✓ Human approval on consequential actions ✓ Auditable decision trace
Systems & integrations

It plugs into the stack you already run.

No rip-and-replace. Access is scoped to the minimum data necessary, isolated per tenant, and fully logged.

Tax preparation softwareSecure client portalDocument managementWorkpaper systemE-signCRMApproved tax form schemas
Pricing

Transparent by design. The build price buys the workflow and the proof.

A fixed implementation fee plus a monthly bill that scales with volume and governance. No hidden seats.

Pilot
$17,500
one-time · bounded proof of value
  • One process / scope
  • Live workflow on your data
  • Baseline evaluation suite
  • Measured vs. current process
Most chosen
Production
$40,000
one-time · full deployment
  • Full scope & integration
  • Human-review UI & audit trail
  • Write-back to your systems
  • Production evals & monitoring
Enterprise
$67,000
one-time · multi-entity / regulated
  • Multi-facility rollout
  • Advanced security & compliance
  • Custom control & escalation
  • Dedicated evaluation program
Monthly operating cost

10,000–40,000 document pages/month; OCR/form extraction, model verification, storage and workflow compute.

$800–5,000
usage (models, OCR, vector, storage)
$2,600/mo
managed evaluation & monitoring

Planning assumptions, not vendor quotations. Your Tax preparation software and other platform licenses are separate and owned by you. Figures confirmed during scoping.

On working with Alpesh
“His vast knowledge of technologies and a natural problem-solving mindset consistently lead us through complex challenges with clarity and confidence.”
AM
Adil Multani
Senior Backend Developer
Why this is safe to try
01Baseline first. We measure your current numbers before we build anything.
02Fixed scope, fixed price. One process in the pilot. No open-ended engagement.
03Expand only if the scorecard earns it. You see the measured result before committing to production.
04Your people stay in control. The human gate means nothing consequential happens without a human’s approval.
FAQ

Questions serious buyers ask.

Does the AI act on its own?

No. Credentialed tax professionals review all extracted data, positions, estimates, elections, and returns before filing. The system drafts and recommends; a human approves every consequential action. Explicitly excluded: no tax advice, position, estimate, election, or filing without professional review; no cross-taxpayer data leakage; no use of outdated forms or tax-year logic.

How do you stop it inventing facts?

Every material claim is grounded in an allowed source record and returned with its source identifier. The system separates observed facts, model inference, and missing information, and routes to a human whenever confidence is low, evidence conflicts, or an adverse outcome is possible.

What does it cost to run each month?

A usage bill of roughly $800–5,000/month (10,000–40,000 document pages/month; OCR/form extraction, model verification, storage and workflow compute), plus a $2,600/month managed retainer for evaluation, monitoring and maintenance. Your existing platform licenses are separate and already yours. Exact figures are confirmed during scoping.

Do we need a ChatGPT or Claude subscription?

No consumer ChatGPT or Claude subscription is required for the production workflow. The client needs an approved API/cloud billing account. Workspace seats are optional for internal prototyping and administrator access.

How is this different from SurePrep?

Tools like SurePrep, GruntWorx, and Thomson Reuters are broad platforms you adapt to. This is a fixed-scope implementation tuned to your systems and rules, grounded in your data, with the human gate and audit trail built in, and a transparent price instead of a seat subscription.

How long until it is live, and how do we prove it works?

We baseline “Extraction accuracy by form/box” first, then measure against that baseline. You see the scorecard before expanding scope, the evaluation suite ships with the system, not as an afterthought.

Book a scoping call

Bring your real numbers. Leave with a fixed-scope plan.

A 30-minute engineering-led working session, no slideware. You leave with a sized opportunity estimate, a fixed-scope pilot plan, and the integration & human-review path mapped.

VP of Growth at ViitorCloud · senior delivery owner confirmed before paid work

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