Pre-launch. Talking with accounting firms now.
Evenbead is double-entry bookkeeping that runs on your hardware or ours, lets AI agents post only within limits your accountant sets, and moves you off QuickBooks Desktop with a report that ties out to the cent.
| Total | QuickBooks | Evenbead |
|---|---|---|
| Debits | $412,806.19 | $412,806.19 |
| Credits | $412,806.19 | $412,806.19 |
| Accounts | 48 | 48 |
| Difference | $0.00 |
Why Evenbead
Most "QuickBooks alternatives" compete on price. Evenbead competes on who owns the books, who is allowed to change them, and whether the move is safe.
Run Evenbead on your own computer or office server, or let us host it. Either way the books are yours.
Your own AI tools can categorize and post, but only inside rules you set. Everything else waits for a person.
A free export tool reads your company file through Intuit's own SDK, on your machine, and brings the history across.
For accounting firms
Evenbead is built to be sold through firms. The idea: one bookkeeper supervises agents across many clients, and reviews only what falls outside the rules.
The console is being built now. The agent loop shown here runs today against a real database; we walk firms through it live on a call.
1An agent categorizes September's bank feed auto-post limit $500
| Bank line | Account | Amount | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| Square Inc deposit | Sales | +$412.35 | Posted |
| Restaurant Depot #114 | Food supplies | −$286.40 | Posted |
| Oakwood Properties rent | Rent | −$2,800.00 | Queued over the agent's $500 limit |
| Amazon Mktplace | Supplies | −$1,249.00 | Queued over the agent's $500 limit |
| Transfer to owner savings | Owner's draw | −$1,000.00 | Queued equity account: always needs a person |
2The accountant works the queue
| Proposal | Decision |
|---|---|
| Rent, $2,800.00 | Approved |
| Amazon, $1,249.00 | Rejected "It's a stand mixer: capitalize as kitchen equipment." |
| Owner draw, $1,000.00 | Left open waiting for the owner to confirm |
3The audit trail records who did what
event proposal.approved entry Rent, Sep 2026 · $2,800.00 · balanced ✓ proposed agent bank-categorizer model evenbead-rules-categorizer/1.0 run close-2026-09 approved Dana Okafor, CPA prev hash 9f3c…a41e chain verified offline ✓
How migration works
The risky part of switching is not knowing whether the numbers survived. So every migration ends with a report that says they did, or says exactly where they didn't.
Run the free Evenbead export tool on the Windows computer where QuickBooks Desktop is installed. It reads the company file through Intuit's SDK, with your licensed copy. We never crack or decode .QBW files.
The export is a plain, documented bundle that stays on your machine until you choose to import it. Lists, transactions and history are all in it.
Accounts, customers, vendors and transactions come across. Old history is kept as a read-only legacy record, so nothing is replayed or rewritten.
The trial balance is compared for every period. If any account is off by a cent, the migration is marked failed and the report lists the differences.
Keep QuickBooks for a month alongside Evenbead. Switch over when the month closes the same in both.
Status: the export tool is in design and will be tested first on Intuit's sample company files, then on real files with pilot firms. QuickBooks Online import is planned after that.
Proposed pricing
Nothing is for sale yet. These are the prices we're testing with firms. Tell us which one fits; joining the waitlist doesn't commit you to anything.
per company file
per company
per firm, plus setup
Waitlist
We'll email you when there's something you can try, and ask a few firms to pilot it first.
We store only what you type here, to plan the pilot and contact you about Evenbead. No cookies, no tracking, no sharing. How we handle it.
Thanks. We'll email you when there's something to try. If you run a firm and want to pilot Evenbead, reply to that email and we'll set up a call.
FAQ
No. Evenbead is pre-launch. We're talking with accounting firms and picking a few to pilot it. Join the waitlist and we'll tell you when there's something you can try.
Working today, with automated tests:
Not built yet: the web app and firm console, bank feeds, the QuickBooks Desktop export tool (in design), and the hosted service.
You do. Self-hosted and firm-box installs keep the books on your hardware and make no outbound calls you haven't turned on. On any plan you can export everything at any time, and reading your own data is never metered. AI features run on the deployment's own hardware by default; ledger data isn't sent to third-party AI services unless you choose to.
No. They're proposed prices we're testing with firms. Which option you pick on the waitlist helps us decide. Pilot firms that pay get setup help and their price locked for the first year.
Only routine entries inside the limits you set for that agent. Today, anything over its dollar threshold, anything touching equity, a low-confidence guess, or an entry into a soft-locked month goes to the approval queue instead. Next on the list: payroll and tax accounts, new counterparties and period-end entries. Every change records which agent and which model made it, and who approved it.
A Windows computer with your licensed copy of QuickBooks Desktop and the company file. The export tool uses Intuit's public SDK and runs on your machine. For files without a working QuickBooks install, we plan a hands-on migration service.
An importer for QuickBooks Online is planned, using its API and report exports, with a clear list of anything QuickBooks Online doesn't let you export.
No. QuickBooks is a trademark of Intuit Inc. Evenbead is independent and built clean-room: we don't copy QuickBooks' screens, reports or code.