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Bookkeeping where the AI does the typing

Books is our own accounting app for a business owner and their accountant. Staff send receipts to a Telegram bot, an AI assistant reads each one and drafts the entry, reads bank statements and matches every line against the books. A person checks the draft and posts it. Nothing reaches the books without a human saying yes.

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Why we built it

The bookkeeping nobody gets round to

Small businesses lose receipts in drawers and chat groups, and the accountant rebuilds the month from bank statements at the end of it. Accounting software asks the busiest person in the business to type everything in. We wanted the opposite: send a photo from your phone, and have the books mostly written by the time anyone looks.

Before

The usual way

Receipts pile up in WhatsApp groups and drawers
Someone types every entry in by hand
The bank statement is ticked off line by line at month end
Mistakes turn up when the accountant closes the year

After

With Books

Staff send the receipt to a Telegram bot, with a note if they like
The AI reads it and drafts the entry with the right accounts
Statement lines are matched automatically, and the gap is explained
The owner or accountant reviews and posts in a click

How it works

From a photo to a posted entry

Every upload lands in an inbox. The AI works through it over MCP, writes a draft for each receipt and a note saying what it did, and leaves posting to a person.

Staff
Send a receipt
- Photo to Telegram
- Or upload on the web
- Optional note: “client lunch”
AI over MCP
Drafts the entry
- Reads the receipt
- Picks the accounts
- Names the supplier
- Writes what it did
Owner or accountant
Reviews and posts
- Check the draft
- Post in one click
- Or edit first

A receipt from Telegram, the AI's summary, and the draft it created — A receipt sent from Telegram. On the right: the staff member’s note (“beans for next week”), what the AI did with it, and the draft entry it created, waiting for someone to post.

The files inbox with receipts and their AI summaries — The inbox. Every file shows who sent it, their note, and what the AI did with it.

AI-drafted journal entries waiting to be posted — Drafts waiting for review, each with its receipt attached. One click posts it.

Reconciliation

The bank statement, checked for you, with the gap explained

Give the AI a bank statement and it reads every line, then matches each one to the entry that records it. Books then compares the statement’s closing balance with the books and breaks any difference into plain reasons, like “on the statement, not in the books”, so there is always an answer to “why don’t these agree?”

Reconciliation: statement vs books, the difference explained, and every line matched — Nine of ten lines matched by the AI. The one left is a cash deposit with no entry yet, and the reconciliation says exactly that.

Built for AI

Your AI assistant does the bookkeeping, with guardrails

Books has its own MCP server, the open standard AI assistants like Claude and ChatGPT use to connect to software. The assistant can read uploads, draft and edit entries, import statement lines, match them, and run the aging and reconciliation reports.

There is deliberately no tool that posts to the books. The AI can get everything ready, but the books only change when a person posts, and every action is recorded with who did it and how.

You ask your AI assistant

Process the new receipts.
Reconcile the August statement.
Who still owes us money, and for how long?

Claude, ChatGPT or any MCP-ready assistant picks the tool, calls books and answers from what comes back, on a laptop or a phone.

Files and drafts

list_filesnew receipts and statements
get_fileread a receipt or statement
create_draftdraft an entry, never post
update_filerecord what was done

Bank and reports

import_statement_lineslines read from a statement
suggest_matchesentries that fit each line
reconcile_statementexplain the difference
aging_reportwho owes what, how long

books · profile

Connecting an AI assistant: one address and a personal key, which can be revoked at any time.

Drafts only

The AI has no way to post. A test checks the tool list so it stays that way.

Acts as you

Each key belongs to one person, and the AI can do only what that person could.

Every change on record

The activity log shows each change, who made it, and whether it came from the web, Telegram or the AI.

A real accounting system

Proper double-entry books underneath

The AI is the fast way in, but the books are the real thing: a chart of accounts, balanced entries, reports an accountant expects, and a year-end close.

Double-entry, always balanced

Every posted entry balances. Posted entries are locked, and changes go through unposting, so history stays honest.

Reports and exports

Profit and loss, balance sheet, trial balance, general ledger and aging, all exportable to CSV for the accountant.

Customers and suppliers

Different spellings of the same name are grouped, so “BUMI COFFEE” and “Bumi Roasters” count as one supplier.

Recurring entries

Rent and subscriptions are drafted on schedule, for someone to check and post.

Roles and year-end

Owners and accountants post, staff only draft. Closing the year locks it.

No passwords

Sign in with a one-time email code. Daily backups are kept automatically.

Profit and loss report — Profit and loss for six months of the demo café.

Receivables aging report — Aging: who owes what, and for how long.

Activity log showing changes made through the AI — The activity log: every change, including each statement line the AI matched.

Built with

The pieces underneath

Bun
Hono
HTMX
SQLite
TypeScript
MCP
Telegram bot
Docker

One small container and one database file. Screenshots on this page use demo data.