Accounting firms · Coquitlam, BC
AI automation for Coquitlam accounting firms.
Tri-Cities firms tend to carry a large book of personal returns: families who come back every spring, retirees, and households with a rental suite or a condo they lease out. Each return is modest. Together they swamp a small office from late February to the end of April. We build systems that handle the intake, so the season runs on a schedule instead of on overtime. We start by mapping how a return moves through your office today, from first call to pickup, because that is where the hours leak.
Hundreds of families, all in the same eight weeks.
The work is not hard. It is the volume, and the volume all lands at once. Booking drop-offs, sending organizers, chasing the missing T4A or the RRSP slip, calling to ask about medical receipts, then calling again. A Coquitlam office with a few preparers can spend more of April on the phone than on the returns. The front desk becomes the bottleneck, the preparers wait on incomplete files, and the last two weeks before the deadline turn into evenings and weekends for everyone.
Intake that runs before the client walks in.
Each household gets a request list built from last year's return: the same slips, the same rental property, the same childcare receipts. Reminders go out until everything arrives, slips are read and staged for entry, and the file is flagged ready when it is complete. Your preparers open finished files instead of half-finished ones. The front desk answers fewer calls, because clients already know what is missing and when it is due.
Rental income without the annual rebuild.
Many Tri-Cities clients own a rental suite or a second unit. Every year the same questions come up: which expenses, what share of the house, what capital cost allowance. The system keeps each property's details on file, asks only about what changed, and stages the rental figures for a person to check. A return that used to take a phone call and a follow-up email now takes a review.
Common questions.
Most of our clients still drop off paper. Does that work?
Yes. Paper gets scanned once at the front desk, and the system reads and sorts it from there. Clients who prefer email or a portal can use those instead, and the file looks the same either way. Your staff stop sorting envelopes by hand.
Can it book our tax season appointments?
It can offer open times, confirm bookings, and send reminders, and it can hold the booking until the documents are in so preparers are not meeting about empty files. Clients who just need to drop something off can do that without an appointment at all.
Will clients notice the change?
Mostly they notice fewer calls and faster turnaround. Requests go out in your firm's wording, and anything sensitive is drafted for a person to send. Long-time clients still deal with the same people they always have.
What if it does not work?
The guarantee is simple: we add one full-time role of capacity within 90 days, or we keep working until we do.
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