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The practice that got its juniors out of the photocopier queue

Qualified people spending their week extracting numbers from client PDFs is the most expensive data-entry operation in the city.

Archetype
Chartered accountancy practice with four partners
Scale
22 staff · ~340 clients · GST and audit heavy
Run cost
₹14,000 – ₹24,000/mo
Payback
8–14 weeks
This is a playbook, not a client claim.

Modelled on document-processing volumes in mid-size practices, measured extraction times and published document-AI and model pricing. Every figure below is an estimate and is labelled as one. Why we publish it this way→

The problem

A practice of this size receives thousands of client documents a month in every format known to humanity — scanned bills, phone photographs of invoices, bank statement PDFs, WhatsApp forwards, and the occasional actual spreadsheet. All of it has to become structured data before anyone can do accounting with it.

That work falls to articles and junior staff, who spend a large part of every week reading numbers off a screen and typing them into another screen. It is the single largest block of time in the building and it produces no professional judgement whatsoever.

What changed

The numbers that moved.

All figures modelled — see the note above.

Junior hours on data extraction
46 h/wk 11 h/wk
Remaining time is verification of low-confidence items
Turnaround on client document to booked entry
2–4 days Same day
Estimated
Routine queries handled without a human
0% ~70%
Advisory questions always escalate
What we refuse

The list we will not build.

Most people selling AI leave this part out. It is the part that decides whether the whole thing survives its first year.

Any automated filing or sign-off

Professional liability sits with a named individual. No exceptions, ever.

AI-generated tax advice to clients

A confident wrong answer about a provision is a negligence claim. The assistant is built to refuse this category.

Session 01 · AI, from zero · Sunday 15 November 2026

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