Grow beyond the hiring ceiling◆
Meridian runs the month-end close across portfolios of hundreds of clients, on your firm’s policies and review standards. Your team reviews more finished books at a higher margin.
01 · Improve margins
Carry more clients on the team you have◆
Every new client used to mean another hire. With Meridian running the close, every accountant can carry a $1M book, with room for the team to move into advisory and the work that grows their careers.
02 · Grow advisory
Free your team for the work clients pay for◆
Your senior people are stuck on tactical work. Meridian runs the close, so they open finished books and shift their time to advisory and client strategy. Meridian flags A/R issues, payroll misconfigurations, and revenue recognition gaps with every close, before your team has to find them.
03 · Drive speed at scale
Close books in hours, not weeks◆
Month-end stretches across weeks because every client’s close waits its turn. Meridian runs closes in parallel across your entire portfolio, completed in hours. Every decision logged for review.
Revenue per accountant calculator
20 to 25 clients a month is what an average accountant can carry by hand. See what your firm’s number becomes when Meridian runs the close.
The model
Meridian changes how the work gets done. It doesn’t change who owns the client◆
What changes
What stays
See the close run itself
30-minute walkthrough of the platform. See how Meridian runs a month-end close.
Frequently asked questions
What is an AI operating system for accounting firms?
It is the layer that runs a firm’s accounting work end to end, not just the recurring monthly tasks but the complex, multi-step work a staff accountant used to do by hand. For Meridian that means the full month-end close across your entire client portfolio: categorization, reconciliation, exception handling, workpapers, and financial statements. Your accountants review finished books, and your existing general ledger stays your system of record.
What size accounting firm is Meridian built for?
Firms carrying 50 to 1000 bookkeeping clients. That is the range where the headcount math stops working: every new client needs another hire, and experienced accountants are slow and expensive to find. Meridian runs the close across the whole portfolio, so the firm takes on more clients without growing the team.
Can AI run a full month-end close?
Yes. Meridian’s Meridian AI completes categorization, reconciliation, exception handling, and financial statement preparation, then delivers review-ready books in the general ledger. Your accountants review the finished books instead of producing them. The platform has closed books in production since 2017, across 199K months of books.
Is client data safe with an AI accounting platform?
Your books stay in your own general ledger the whole time. Meridian sits on top of the ledger rather than replacing it, so nothing migrates and the underlying data is intact if you stop.
What does my team actually do after deployment?
Your accountants review finished books for each client. Meridian has already completed categorization, reconciliation, exception handling, and financial statement preparation. Your team reviews, approves or resolves items that need judgment, and moves to the next client. The close is done. The review is faster because the work is already complete.
How does onboarding work for my firm?
Meridian’s team works with your firm to connect bank feeds or upload documents and configure firm-level or client-specific policies. Most firms begin receiving finished books within days. Your clients do not need to change anything on their end.
Does Meridian replace my accountants?
No. Meridian does the close. Your team shifts from producing books to reviewing finished books. The role elevates from transaction processing to oversight, advisory, and client strategy. Firms that deploy Meridian redeploy their staff toward higher-value work, not out the door.
What happens to my data if I stop using Meridian?
Your books live in the general ledger throughout. Meridian sits on top of the general ledger, not instead of it. If you stop using Meridian, the underlying books are in the general ledger and nothing is lost. Full data portability from day one.
What ledgers does Meridian support beyond QuickBooks Online?
Meridian currently supports QuickBooks Online and Xero. Support for NetSuite, Sage Intacct, QuickBooks Desktop, Rillet, and additional or custom ledgers is in development. Meridian separates ledger-specific connectors from its accounting workflows, which makes it straightforward to add a ledger while preserving the depth required for subledgers, dimensions, schedules, write-back, and review. Firms with mixed portfolios or a priority ledger on this list should talk to Meridian about their requirements and the development roadmap.