Case study — Accounting Firm

Ledgerly: the build that paid for itself.

Ledgerly came to us as accounting firm operators in Sydney, Australia with a problem that was costing them weekly. The program below is what moved their headline number: Tax season headcount flat.

Ledgerly — hero visual

Fig. 01 — Practice AutomationSydney, Australia

Client
Ledgerly
Year
2024
Industry
Accounting Firm
Location
Sydney, Australia
01

The challenge

Support and operations ran on tribal knowledge: the answer to any question lived in someone's sent folder or somebody's memory. Onboarding new staff took months of shadowing.

Growth made it worse linearly — more customers, more questions, same library of zero documented answers.

02

The approach

Data hygiene came before any bot: field standards, required properties, one naming convention —two days of unglamorous work that made every subsequent automation trustworthy.

Then the leverage sequence: intake and routing automation, response-time workflows, reporting pipelines — each baselined before and measured after in the hours it returned.

The stack consolidated: fewer tools, documented data terms, and integrations that degrade loudly instead of failing silently.

  • Lead response-time automation with human checkpoints
  • RAG assistant scoped to company documents with citations
  • Team training and quarterly kill-review cadence
  • Documented workflows with owners, runbooks and failure alerts
03

The results

R—01 -81% Manual order entry
R—02 0 Silent workflow failures in Q1
R—03 3.2x Items processed per person
R—04 7 days Pilot-to-production median
We hired nobody this year and the team is less busy than last year. That sentence was impossible before this project.Hannah Brooks — Founder, Ledgerly
04

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