What an AI bookkeeper actually does
A traditional bookkeeping tool gives you a ledger and leaves the work to you: categorizing every line, chasing receipts, matching transfers, and reconciling at month-end. An AI bookkeeper does that work itself and hands you the result to approve.
HelloBooks watches your connected bank and card feeds, categorizes each transaction against your chart of accounts, learns your vendor patterns, drafts the journal entries a human bookkeeper would, and flags only the handful of items that genuinely need a decision.
- Auto-categorization at 95%+ accuracy that improves as it learns your patterns
- Daily bank and credit-card reconciliation, with transfer matching and duplicate detection
- Month-end close prep: accruals, journal entries, and a review-ready P&L and balance sheet
- Receipt and bill capture via OCR — the AI reads the document and codes it
- An open agent on a public MCP server, so you can ask it questions inside Claude or ChatGPT