Two decades in regulated finance,
now building the software for it.
A Canadian firm whose people have spent their careers inside the environments where getting it wrong is expensive — courts, law firms and multinational tax. We are building the software for that world because we have been the ones living without it.
- Head office
- 1 Rideau Street, Suite 700Ottawa, Ontario
- Practice
- Accounting, tax and the systems regulated firms run on
- Built in-house
- VertAcc PlatformOneCivic
- Who we work with
- Owner-managed businesses, law firms and multinational groups
- Work sits under
- CRA filing rules, law-society trust accounting, PIPEDA
We did all of this by hand.
Two decades ago we were a local accounting practice keeping books the way everyone kept books — on paper and in spreadsheets. It is the reason we know exactly which parts of this work are worth automating and which parts need a person.
We called it AI accounting before anyone else did.
We started automating early and put “the AI accountants of the future” on our own door while most of the profession was still deciding whether that meant anything. Software stopped being something we bought and started being something we built.
We file from the system we wrote ourselves.
Our developers build the platform and our accountants run client files on it and submit the returns. Nothing is licensed in, nothing is handed off — which is why a change a client asks for lands in days rather than on a vendor’s roadmap.
Four things we decided early and have not moved on.
We build the software, we don’t resell it
Our platform was written here, by our own developers — as was the civic platform now live in Guyana. That is why we can put a confirmation gate in the code rather than in a policy document, and why a client’s request turns into a shipped change instead of a support ticket on somebody else’s roadmap.
Correct before clever
The ledger underneath everything is real double entry, balanced to the cent and enforced by the database itself, and checked against books we already know the answer to. A wrong number is not a bug to prioritize — for an accounting firm it is the end of the conversation, so correctness gets built first and everything interesting sits on top of it.
The unwelcome answer, early
Sometimes the model says the expansion does not work, the asset should not be tokenized, or the thing you asked for will cost more than it returns. You get that in the first weeks, while it is still cheap to act on. It is the least profitable sentence we say and the reason clients come back.
One price, everything switched on
Our platform is not sold in tiers and features are not held back for an upgrade. A two-person shop gets the same bookkeeping, sales tax, payroll and reporting as a group of companies, because a business that has to buy its way up to working books was never really sold working books.
The people behind the work.
Ghassan Sagga
Senior financial-systems specialist with two decades of work at the intersection of complex finance and modern technology. Builds the systems that let regulated practices run cleanly — without disrupting the day-to-day.
- Accounting transformation for highly regulated environments
- Trusted advisor to law firms, courts, and members of the bench
- Complex corporate tax preparation, filing, and CRA correspondence
- Large-scale digital adoption for legal-sector teams
Technical precision in service of clarity. Our work is judged by whether the people we support can operate with confidence.
Olesia Budarova
Builds the digital systems that run behind the books. Pairs CRA-compliant tax work with disciplined accounting-software implementation, so the platform our clients depend on stays accurate and on time.
- Scalable financial workflows for SMEs and professional services
- End-to-end tax preparation and filing
- System integration and software implementation
- Training teams to adopt new technologies with confidence
Rigour and operating discipline — turning traditional accounting into a foundation our clients can grow on.
Credentials, in plain sight.
Ready to put your
business on autopilot?
Twenty minutes, no charge. We will look at how your books are kept today and tell you exactly what we would do differently — and that advice is yours to keep, whether you hire us or not.