An AI finance operating system runs a company’s accounting, budgets, payroll checks, bill pay, tax and compliance on one set of books. Software drafts the routine work, and a person approves anything that moves money before it posts. Fintra is one, built for small and medium businesses, so there is one set of numbers instead of several tools to reconcile.
The business behind your business.
Accounting software for 14 industries, 7 of them fully set up today. Nothing that moves money goes out until a named person approves it.
Fig. 1. Sample payroll for 20 employees, pay date June 20, 2025.
- payroll lines recomputed from the source data
- 246
- left unexplained once each of the 7 differences was traced to its cause
- $0.00
Pick your industry to see the monthly jobs Fintra is set up for.
Every industry runs on the same books, approvals and reports. What changes is the work on top of them: the settlements, pay applications or claims your team handles every month.
- Insurance & ERA
- Provider payroll
- Recall & collections
- Accounting & close
- Bill pay & AP
- Payroll
- HR & people
- Compensation
- Sales commissions
- Budgeting & FP&A
- Revenue & sales tax
- Compliance & controls
Your industry’s depth and your whole back office, on one ledger.
Of 246 lines in a sample 20-person payroll, 7 did not match.
Fintra recomputed every line of the payroll and compared it with what the payroll provider reported. Each difference stays open, with its cause written beside it, until a person reviews it.
Payroll check, pay date June 20, 2025
A sample payroll, with figures from a recorded run.
| Employee and line | Provider paid | Fintra computed | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Employee 3, federal income taxThe W-4 inputs or the method differ. | Provider paid$130.20 | Fintra computed$90.20 | Difference-$40.00 |
| Employee 5, regular pay and overtimeHours were shifted between regular and overtime. Gross pay is the same. | Provider paid$2,136.00 and $0.00 | Fintra computed$1,920.00 and $216.00 | Difference$216.00 moved |
| Employee 9, Social Security and MedicareThe 401(k) deferral was wrongly left out of the wages these taxes apply to. | Provider paid$76.19 and $17.82 | Fintra computed$79.36 and $18.56 | Difference+$3.91 |
- Lines recomputed
- 246
- Matched to the cent
- 239
- Did not match, across 3 of 20 employees
- 7
- Net tax difference
- -$36.09
- Unexplained variance
- $0.00
A payment stays a draft until a named person approves it.
It does not matter whether a person or an AI agent started it. Fintra checks the request first, then routes it.
Step 1: Someone asks
A person or an AI agent proposes a payment, a journal entry or a change. It stays a draft.
Step 2: Fintra checks it
Against your policies: who asked, how much, which vendor, whether bank details changed. The reasoning is written next to the entry, so you can trace the number back to its cause.
Step 3: A person decides
The action is allowed, sent for approval or blocked. Anything that moves money waits for a named person.
Step 4: The record is kept
After it posts, Fintra compares the outcome with what was approved and keeps the record, ready to hand to an auditor.
Four parts are available today and five are in early access.
We call something available when it has a real interface, a real backend, your own isolated data, automated tests and a demo with no stand-ins. Everything else is labelled.
Available today
- Accounting and close
A double-entry ledger with automated close and statements from posted journals. Bills, invoices and expenses each post their own entries.
- Planning
Budgets, forecasts and variance on the same books as your actuals, with revenue recognition, sales tax and commissions.
- Payroll checks
Checks and controls around the payroll provider you already use, plus year-end W-2 and 1099 data.
- Controls
Control tests on every transaction instead of a quarterly sample, mapped to SOX 404 and SOC 2, with a complete audit trail.
Early access
- AI copilotIt runs the workflow, you approve.
- Native Fintra payrollTexas first, in shadow mode.
- Live payment executionApproved early customers only.
- Multi-entity consolidationOne company’s books today.
- Continuous benchmarkingMonth-over-month trends.
Payroll
Use the payroll provider you already trust. Import payroll data by CSV today to validate, reconcile and generate evidence. Automated provider connectors and native Fintra payroll are in development. Fintra does not file taxes or move payroll money.
Payments
Payment controls and accounting are available today. Live payment execution is enabled only for approved early customers.
What is an AI finance operating system?
Questions people ask before a demo
What is an AI finance operating system?
An AI finance operating system is a single platform that runs a business’s core finance and workforce operations on one shared data model, with AI doing the routine work and a human approving anything consequential before it posts. Instead of stitching together separate tools for accounting, budgeting, forecasting, expenses, bill pay, payroll, tax, and compliance, an AI finance OS unifies them as one system of record so there are no sync jobs or CSV reconciling. Fintra is an AI finance operating system built for small and medium businesses.
What does Fintra do?
Fintra unifies your finance stack on one AI-native data model. Available today: a double-entry general ledger with automated close and financial statements from posted journals; AP, AR, and expenses that each post real journal entries; a deep FP&A suite (budgeting, budget-vs-actuals, forecasting, scenarios, and a report builder with figure-citing AI insights); ASC 606 revenue recognition, sales tax, and sales commissions; Payroll Intelligence with a deterministic tax engine that computes W-2, 1099, and 940 data (you run the pay run itself on the payroll provider you already use, importing the data by CSV today); equity, cap table, 409A, and ASC 718; compliance and GRC; and Control Tower governance that decides whether an action, human or AI agent, should proceed before it moves money. It unifies the accounting, planning, payroll-intelligence, approvals, and compliance work SMBs typically spread across several separate tools.
Can Fintra replace my accounting software?
Yes, for a single-company SMB. Fintra runs a real double-entry general ledger with automated close, financial statements from posted journals, invoicing and AR, and bill pay and AP, plus a guided migration importer that parses an export from your current accounting tool into a balanced opening-balance entry, so it can be your accounting system of record rather than sit alongside it. The difference is scope: Fintra also covers budgeting, forecasting, expenses, payroll intelligence, tax, equity, and governance on one data model. Honest caveat: Fintra is single-company today, so multi-entity consolidation is in early access.
Can Fintra replace my spend-management tool?
Fintra covers the full spend-management surface: corporate-card controls, expense management, and bill pay and AP, as part of a complete finance OS rather than a standalone spend tool, so spend flows straight into the books and the budget without an export step. Honest distinction: payment controls and accounting are available today; live payment execution is enabled only for approved design-partner configurations, and every expense and bill still posts a real journal entry today.
How does AI governance for finance work in Fintra?
Fintra checks every consequential action before it happens, whether a person or an AI agent starts it. Because Fintra runs your books, payroll, and money, it sees each action in context, assesses its risk and policy fit across identity, data, compliance, and fraud signals, and enforces a verdict: allow, ask for approval, or block. Anything that moves money is draft-first and human-confirmed: an AI agent can propose, but a named person approves before anything irreversible posts, and every decision is recorded as tamper-evident, audit-ready, SOC 2-aligned evidence you can reconstruct later.
How much does Fintra cost?
Fintra does not publish pricing. Fintra is in early access and pricing is scoped per customer, based on the modules you turn on and the shape of your finance stack, with full data portability and no long-term lock-in. Contact the team through the pricing page and we will map a plan to your current stack on a short call.
Is Fintra production-ready today?
The accounting, FP&A, revenue recognition, sales tax, Payroll Intelligence, equity, compliance, and governance core is available today and posts real double-entry journal entries, covered by tests. Live payment execution, native payroll processing, multi-entity consolidation, and the Control Cloud surfaces (AI Workspace, Company Memory, AI Inbox, and more) are in early access or staged rollout. We show exactly what is available versus what is next, so nothing surprises you mid-pilot.
Does Fintra move real money or process payments?
Not by default. Fintra is a system of record, not a bank or a payment processor. Payment controls and accounting are available today, and every payment, bill, and payroll run posts a real journal entry. Live payment execution is enabled only for approved design-partner configurations; by default Fintra records the accounting without moving funds, so the books are real before the money is.
How does payroll work in Fintra, and does it file taxes or move payroll money?
Fintra leads with Payroll Intelligence, the workflow it owns around the pay run: employee changes, compensation and commissions, time validation, a policy engine, an exception center, payroll cash-requirement forecasting, approvals with segregation of duties, and audit evidence, plus a deterministic tax engine that computes W-2, 1099, and 940 data. The actual pay run is a replaceable box: you use the payroll provider you already trust, importing your payroll data by CSV today to validate, reconcile, and generate evidence, with automated connectors in development. Payroll calculations, tax filings, direct deposits, and money movement are done by your payroll provider, not Fintra. Fintra does not file taxes or move money; it manages the intelligence, controls, approvals, accounting, and audit evidence around every run. Native Fintra payroll is in controlled development (Texas first, shadow mode). Payroll is priced separately, never bundled into your base plan; pricing is scoped with you on a call.
Spend less time keeping up with your business and more time growing it.
Settlements, a pay application or a month-end close: tell us which one, and we will run it in Fintra while you watch.