Asked. Answered.
Remembered.
Your auditors have AI. You have email archaeology. TieOut answers any auditor request in minutes — from documents you already have — and turns every answer into permanent institutional memory.
Numbers don't lie.
Audits just got harder.
Every figure below is sourced from 2025–26 industry surveys and the live hiring market.
Surviving an audit was never the hard part.
Remembering why is.
The reasoning behind every number lives in email threads, shared drives, and the head of someone who quit. TieOut is where it lives instead.
Compare what
truly matters
Three ways to face an auditor request. Only one gets easier every year.
| Email archaeology (status quo) | PBC portals & checklists | ⬤ PRECEDENT | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Time per request | ✕Hours to days | △Tracked, not answered | ✓Minutes, drafted & cited |
| Prior-year answers | ✕Re-excavated yearly | ✕Not stored | ✓30 seconds, linked |
| When people leave | ✕Knowledge walks out | ✕Knowledge walks out | ✓Reasoning stays |
| Citations | ✕"Trust me" | △Files without context | ✓Every claim sourced |
| Value over time | ✕Same pain yearly | △Flat | ✓Compounds every close |
Crafted for
the controller's office
One tool, two jobs: win this audit season, and make every future one easier.
Answer this audit
- ✓Indexes drives, close folders & exported threads as-is
- ✓Drafts responses with pinpoint citations
- ✓Surfaces how items were treated in prior periods
- ✓Flags what's missing before the auditor does
- ✓Works with FloQast, Excel & your existing stack
Remember every audit
- ✓Judgment, assumptions, evidence & approver — captured
- ✓"Why did we do it this way?" answered in seconds
- ✓Turnover-proof: reasoning stays when people go
- ✓New hires onboard from the memory, not guesswork
- ✓Immutable evidence hashes — audit-grade integrity
How it works
Three steps. Zero behavior change.
Connect the mess
Point TieOut at your drives and folders. We index memos, workpapers, models and approvals exactly where they live.
Paste the request
Drop in the auditor's question verbatim. Get documents, prior-period treatment, and a drafted response — every claim cited.
Approve & remember
On approval it becomes a Decision Record. The same request next year takes thirty seconds. That's the compounding.
Every audit easier
than the last
- 🔒Never trains AI modelsYour documents and records never train any model. Contractually. Ever.
- 🧾Every claim citedNo uncited output exists in TieOut. Every sentence links to its source document.
- ↺Auditors repeat themselvesMost PBC items recur yearly. Year two, most of your list answers itself.
- 🚪Your data leaves with youFull export in open formats within 30 days. Valuable, not hostage-taking.
- ✓Mid-market finance teams, 200–2,000 employees
- ✓Prior-year files indexed before fieldwork begins
- ✓Direct line to the founding team, same-day turnaround
- ✓Founding-cohort pricing locked for life
Questions controllers
actually ask
No — and the distinction is the whole product. Your ledger records what was booked. TieOut captures why: the judgment, the assumptions, the support, the approval. We never touch your books, your ERP, or your close checklist. We sit one layer above, where the auditor's questions actually live.
It's the entire reason we exist. Nine versions of the spreadsheet, support buried in email, the memo in a departed employee's folder — we index the mess as it is. If your documentation were perfect, you wouldn't need us.
AI in TieOut finds, links, and drafts — it never decides and never asserts without a source. Every sentence carries a citation to the underlying document. Your team reviews and approves everything. If a claim can't be traced to evidence, it doesn't appear.
Design partners pilot free for a season, then founding-cohort annual pricing — deliberately below the cost of the audit-liaison salary or the fee overruns it prevents. If it doesn't visibly pay for itself in the first season, don't renew. That's the deal.
It's yours. Full export of every decision record, every evidence link, every document — open formats, within 30 days, no ransom. We intend to be impossible to leave because of value, not hostages.