Question 1

Can AI replace an accounting team?

Accepted Answer

It can fill specific seats — reconciliation, the close, collections, payables — under supervision your team controls. Aleq does the transactional work of those seats end to end: it matches, posts, chases, and documents, inside approval gates you set. What it does not replace is the judgment layer — the people who decide policy, handle exceptions that deserve a human call, and own the relationship with your auditor. In practice, teams run Aleq in the seats they cannot keep staffed and point the people they keep at that judgment layer.

Question 2

What accounting roles can an AI agent actually do today?

Accepted Answer

Aleq runs the standing jobs of a finance team: controller work (continuous reconciliation and journal integrity), collections (email and voice outreach with promise capture), accounts payable (three-way match through payment runs), close and consolidation (multi-entity, multi-currency, eliminations), tax readiness (jurisdiction rules and evidence assembly), and reporting (board-ready statements off the live ledger). Each runs at the autonomy level you set — drafting for review, acting inside limits with approvals at gates, or running on its own with everything logged.

Question 3

Will AI work alongside my existing accountants?

Accepted Answer

Yes — that is the normal deployment, not the exception. Your team sets the approval gates, reviews what Aleq stages, and keeps every account or workflow they want to run themselves. Aleq posts nothing above the thresholds you define without a named person approving it, and every action it takes is signed and replayable, so your staff can inspect its work the way a controller reviews a junior’s.

Question 4

How do I supervise an AI accountant?

Accepted Answer

Three controls. First, autonomy modes — each workflow runs Manual (Aleq drafts, you post), Assist (Aleq acts inside limits, approvals at gates), or Autonomous (Aleq runs it, everything logged). Second, approval gates — dollar thresholds, account restrictions, and counterparty rules that route actions to a person. Third, the action trail — every move is signed, carries its reasoning and source documents, and can be replayed or reversed. Supervision is reviewing a staged queue, not watching a screen.

Question 5

What happens when the AI is unsure about a transaction?

Accepted Answer

It stops and asks. An item that does not meet its confidence threshold is held for review with the reason attached — what it found, what did not tie, and what it would do next. Nothing is forced to match and nothing ambiguous is posted to keep a number moving. The held item sits in your review queue with its evidence, and your decision teaches the system how you want that case handled.

Question 6

Is it safe to let AI post journal entries?

Accepted Answer

Posting is earned, not assumed. Aleq starts read-only, then drafts entries for your approval, and only posts on its own where you have explicitly granted that authority — by workflow, account, and dollar limit. Every entry is double-entry validated before it can post, carries its source documents and reasoning, and is reversible. If an entry is wrong, you reverse it with one action and the correction is itself logged.

Question 7

Can an AI agent make collections calls for my business?

Accepted Answer

Aleq works receivables by email and by phone, in your company’s voice, following rules you approve: who gets contacted, at what aging, in what tone, and what it may commit to. It captures promises to pay, applies cash when it lands, and escalates to a person for anything outside its script — a dispute, a hardship case, a customer who asks for one. Every contact is logged with a transcript.

Question 8

Why is it so hard to hire accountants right now?

Accepted Answer

Fewer people are entering the profession than leaving it — accounting graduate numbers have declined for years while a large share of current CPAs approach retirement. The practical result for a mid-size company is that controller and senior accountant searches take months, cost a placement fee on top of a six-figure salary, and the seat may turn over again within a couple of years. That vacancy math, more than any technology argument, is why companies put Aleq on the work they cannot keep staffed.

Question 9

How long does it take to onboard an AI accountant compared to hiring one?

Accepted Answer

Aleq connects read-only in about 48 hours and is doing supervised work in the first week — closing a trailing month, reconciling accounts, staging collections. A human hire for the same seat typically takes months to source and additional months to ramp on your chart of accounts and processes. The trust arc is the same in both cases — supervised first, autonomous later — but the calendar is compressed from quarters to weeks.

Question 10

What does an AI accountant cost compared to a full-time hire?

Accepted Answer

Aleq is priced on the work it runs, not on seats or headcount. A full-time controller in most US markets is a six-figure salary plus benefits, recruiting costs, and the risk of re-running the search when they leave. Aleq bills for the closes, reconciliations, and collections it actually executes — so work that only needs twenty hours of real attention a month costs a fraction of a hire, and it does not resign in March with the books half-closed.

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