For accounting firms
Managing 50 clients at a small accounting firm, without losing your mind.
Practiq is the shared team workspace for small CPA, tax, and bookkeeping firms running 30–200 client relationships. Each client gets a dedicated space with full history, and an AI assistant scans every client overnight so Monday doesn't start with three hours of tab-switching.
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Built around the way accounting firms actually run.
Every client, fully remembered
Balances, prior years, the questions their CFO always asks, the quirks of their QuickBooks chart of accounts — Practiq stores the entire relationship, not just the tasks. Switching from an S-Corp to a restaurant to a 1099 contractor takes one click and the context loads instantly.
An AI that works the overnight shift
Every night Practiq scans each client's books, flags unusual transactions, queues ready-to-send follow-up questions, and builds a morning priority list. You walk in Monday to a triaged view of the 5 clients that need you today — not a 50-row checklist that forces you to decide where to start.
Shared memory when people move on
When a staff accountant leaves or a new one joins, the client knowledge doesn't walk out the door. Notes, preferences, recurring questions, and deliverable history live inside the workspace — not in someone's inbox, notebook, or head.
Built for the firm, not a single seat
Practiq is designed around how small firms actually work: partners reviewing, senior staff preparing, juniors learning. Everyone sees the same client truth. The AI writes in your firm's voice, not a generic one.
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Frequently asked
Questions from accounting firms
Does Practiq replace QuickBooks or my tax prep software?
No. Practiq sits on top of the tools you already use. It's the shared workspace and AI memory layer — QuickBooks, Drake, Lacerte, and your document store continue to be the system of record. Practiq makes switching between clients and finding context trivial, not another silo to maintain.
How is this different from Karbon or TaxDome?
Karbon and TaxDome are workflow / practice management platforms built around tasks and templates. Practiq is a workspace built around client memory and AI assistance. The difference shows up the first Monday morning you use it: instead of checking off tasks, you're reviewing what the AI already flagged and prepared overnight.
How many clients does it take for this to be worth it?
Based on our conversations with small firms, the client-context cost starts eating the day somewhere between 30 and 50 active clients. Below 30, a good notes discipline and calendar will usually do. Above 50, firms report losing 6–10 hours a week to tab-switching alone — that's where Practiq pays for itself fastest.
What about busy season / tax season?
That's exactly when the workspace matters most. Practiq's overnight scans surface which returns are missing documents, which clients still owe responses, and which deliverables are stale — so you spend the peak weeks on the work that only a CPA can do, not on hunting down where you left off with Client #38.
Is my client data secure?
Yes. Every workspace is isolated, data is encrypted in transit and at rest, and we do not train models on customer data. Practiq is designed to meet the same confidentiality bar small firms already hold for client trust — not to be a novelty AI tool bolted onto that bar.
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