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AI for Financial Services in Ireland: Built by Accountants Who Run Businesses

Four days of a senior accountant's month lost to reconciliation isn't a people problem — it's a systems problem. Keystone builds the financial AI that surfaces the numbers automatically. Built by Chartered Accountants who've done the month-end close themselves.

Book a Free Discovery Call 20 minutes. No cost. No obligation.
4 days Of senior accounting time back every month
days → hours Month-end close, once it runs automatically
10 days Off the cash conversion cycle with WIP-to-invoice
3× Average annual saving against implementation cost
The Cost of Manual Finance

Four days of a senior accountant's month,
gone to reconciliation.

Senior accounting time is the most expensive resource in any finance function. When four days of it disappear into manual matching every month, that's not a sign your team should work harder. It's a system that hasn't been built yet.

The most expensive resource

Senior time, spent tying out numbers

A qualified accountant is the costliest seat in your finance function. Every month, days of that time go on matching, checking and correcting. That's not the work you hired them to do.

A systems problem, not a people one

Four days a month, every month

The work is repetitive and rules-based — the kind a system handles better than a person. If reconciliation is eating four days a month, the fix isn't another pair of hands.

Decisions on stale data

Management accounts, two months late

By the time the numbers are signed off, the month they describe is long gone. You end up steering the business by looking in the rear-view mirror.

The gap

The information already exists

Your data is sitting in Salesforce, Xero and your bank feeds right now. What's missing isn't information — it's the system to surface it automatically.

Live Systems

Three financial systems, running right now.

Not concepts. Three AI systems built for real Irish finance functions — each one live on real data, with a number attached.

AR Guardian

Salesforce matched to Xero, automatically

Invoices reconciled without a spreadsheet in sight. Partial payments, RCT treatment and credit notes all handled, so the ledger stays clean on its own.

Four days of senior accounting time recovered every month Read the case study → WIP-to-Invoice

Work done, converted to invoiced amounts

Time and work-in-progress turned into billable invoices automatically — no month-end scramble to figure out what to charge. Senior partners get their week back on client work.

Ten days off the cash conversion cycle Read the case study → Month-End Close

Balance-sheet reconciliation, days to hours

Account tie-outs, intercompany, FX and the audit trail all generated automatically. The close finishes sooner and management accounts go out days earlier.

Balance-sheet reconciliation from days to hours Read the case study →
Why Operators Understand Finance

We built these systems for our own finance function first.

The Partners at Keystone are Chartered Accountants who run businesses. We've done the month-end close ourselves, chased the intercompany balances, and lost the four days to reconciliation. So the systems we recommend aren't theoretical — they're the ones we built to solve our own problems, then offered to clients once they'd proven their worth.

Jamie Walsh is a CPA-qualified finance leader who led a Nasdaq IPO as CFO of Kollect on Demand. He knows exactly what a senior accountant's time is worth, and where it gets wasted. Every system on this page has a payback case — because we built the payback case for our own operations before we built anything else.

That's the difference between AI advice and AI that pays for itself. If a workflow doesn't earn its place against the cost of senior accounting time, we don't propose it.

What that means for you

  • Built by Chartered Accountants. The people who scope your finance systems have done the close themselves.
  • A payback case on every system. We built the maths for our own operations first — you see the return before you commit.
  • Senior time protected. The most expensive resource in your finance function, spent on judgement instead of matching.
  • Fixed price, in writing. Scope, cost and delivery date agreed before a line of work begins.

Average 3× annual saving against implementation cost — because the payback case was built for our own finance operations first, not pitched from a slide.

The Fixed-Price Process

Four fixed-price steps. Stop whenever you want.

No retainers, no open-ended engagements. Each step stands on its own, priced up front, and you only move to the next when the value is clear.

Step 01 · Free

Discovery Call

Twenty minutes. We give you an honest read on where AI would earn its keep in your finance function — and tell you if it wouldn't.

20 minutes · no cost · no obligation
Step 02 · €1,000

Discovery Report

A written report mapping your highest-value financial workflows, each costed with a projected return. Yours to keep, build elsewhere, or bring back to us.

Delivered in 48 hours · credited against the build
Step 03 · €1,000–€20,000

Build the System

We build the reconciliation or close system on your real data — fixed scope, fixed price. The same people who scoped it build it.

Typically four weeks to live
Step 04 · From €1,000

Expand the System

New apps bolt onto the system you already own. Each one costs less than the last, because the hard part is already built.

From €1,000 per app · compounding economies of scale
See how it works See full pricing
Questions

Financial AI, answered plainly.

How can AI reduce month-end close time for an Irish finance team?

Most of a month-end close is manual reconciliation — tying out balance-sheet accounts, chasing intercompany, checking FX and building the audit trail. Keystone's Month-End Close system does that tie-out work automatically and generates the audit trail as it goes. Balance-sheet reconciliation drops from days to hours, so the close finishes and your management accounts go out days earlier.

Can AI reconcile Salesforce and Xero automatically?

Yes. Our AR Guardian system matches Salesforce to Xero automatically. It handles partial payments, RCT treatment and credit notes without anyone touching a spreadsheet, and it recovers around four days of senior accounting time every month.

What does AI automation cost for a financial services business in Ireland?

Start with a free 20-minute Discovery Call. If you want a costed plan, the Discovery Report is €1,000, delivered in 48 hours and credited against any build you go ahead with. A build is fixed price — €1,000 to €20,000, typically live in about four weeks. Extra apps on top start from €1,000 each. Every recommendation comes with a payback case, so you can see the return before you commit. Prefer to talk it through first? Contact the team.

Is AI suitable for Irish accountancy practices?

Yes. The Partners are Chartered Accountants who have done the month-end close themselves. The systems we recommend are the ones we built for our own finance operations first, and if a workflow doesn't have a clear payback we don't propose it. That's why AI fits Irish accountancy practices well — it removes the repetitive, rules-based work and gives senior people their time back.

How long does it take to automate financial reconciliation?

A focused reconciliation build is usually live on your data in about four weeks. Before that, the Discovery Call takes 20 minutes and the optional Discovery Report lands within 48 hours, so you know the scope, cost and payback before any build begins.

Start Here

The Discovery Call is free.
Twenty minutes is all it takes.

Book a call and we'll tell you honestly where AI would pay for itself in your finance function, where we'd start, and what it would cost. No pitch deck, no follow-up pressure.

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