India
Manufacturers and promoter owned businesses
Books in Tally or Zoho, a small accounts team, plenty of compliance, and a promoter who wants a straight answer on why margins moved.
Coming soon
What if your books planned themselves?
LedgerByte sits on top of the accounting software you already use, whether that's Tally, Zoho Books, SAP Business One or NetSuite. It reads your ledger and does the monthly analysis your team does by hand today, so you get faster and more reliable reporting without adding people.
Read only. It can see your books but can't change them. Every number it reports links back to the entries it came from, and you keep the accounting software you have.
Sample Co.
March management report
| Line | Budget | Actual | Variance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | 12,000 | 12,480 | 480 |
| Raw materials2 | 5,120 | 5,395 | (275) |
| Travel and conveyance1 | 210 | 290 | (80) |
| Freight outward | 340 | 318 | 22 |
| Professional fees | 150 | 185 | (35) |
Notes for review
Travel came in 80 over budget, mostly from two customer visits to Rotterdam.1 Raw material costs rose after a supplier put its prices up on 1 March.2 One invoice looks like it was booked twice and is worth checking before close.3
Also flagged: a Porsche Cayenne bought in January was written off 100% in its first year. Company cars are normally depreciated over several years, so this one needs a closer look.4
1 JE 10482, JE 10517
2 PO 2291
3 JE 10533, JE 10534
4 FA 0417, JE 10602
Bank reconciliation412 of 418 lines matched, 6 left to review
What if
A few questions worth asking
What if month end took hours instead of weeks?
The checks, bank matching and variance work run by themselves once the month is booked. Your team reviews the results rather than building them from scratch.
What if your forecast kept itself up to date?
Each month the actuals come in and replace the estimates, and the rolling forecast moves with them. You can see what changed and why.
What if odd entries were flagged before your auditor found them?
Duplicates, expenses sitting in the wrong account and entries that break local rules show up in a list, with the ledger lines attached.
What if the board pack was ready the next morning?
Statements, variances and a written commentary get drafted for you. You read it, change what you want and approve it.
What if you could ask your ledger why travel spiked?
Ask in plain words. You'll get a short answer along with the entries behind it.
The problem
Most growing finance teams are stuck in the middle
Excel and Tally reports stop being enough once you have a few entities, a proper budget and a board asking questions. Tools like Anaplan or OneStream are built for much bigger companies, and the price and rollout reflect that.
So people fill the gap. A controller on staff, a fractional CFO, an outsourced firm, and a lot of late evenings. Month end drags on for days. Budgets get rebuilt from last year's file. And audit season turns into a scramble, because the problems surface when the auditor finds them rather than when your team could have fixed them quietly.
How it works
It works alongside your books, not instead of them
- First
Connect
Give LedgerByte read only access to your accounting system. It can't post, edit or delete anything, and setup is designed to be quick.
- Then
Check and calculate
Ordinary code does every calculation, from reconciliations and variances to consolidation and forecasts. The same data always gives the same numbers.
- Finally
Explain and review
The AI writes up what happened and answers your questions, pointing to the entries it used. Someone on your team reads it, edits it and signs off.
Numbers you can trust
Code calculates the numbers. AI explains them. You decide what goes out.
The real worry with AI in finance is a confident answer that turns out to be wrong. So we keep the two jobs apart. Every figure is worked out by tested code, never by the AI. The AI only writes the explanation, and it has to cite the entries it's talking about.
If a number can't be traced back to the ledger, it doesn't go in the report. Nothing is posted to your books, and nothing goes out until someone on your team approves it.
Take the travel line from the report above. Click it and you'd see this.
| Entry | Description | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| JE 10482 | Customer visit, Rotterdam | 96 |
| JE 10517 | Customer visit, Rotterdam | 74 |
| JE 10390 | Regular travel for March | 120 |
| Travel and conveyance | 290 |
What it does
The monthly analysis work, done before anyone asks for it
Booking checks
Flags entries that break local accounting rules.
Bank reconciliation
Matches bank lines to booked entries and to open payables and receivables. You only look at what doesn't match.
Budget against actual
Shows each variance and the reason behind it.
Budgets
Builds a first draft from your last few years of data and a short questionnaire.
Rolling forecasts
Refreshed every month with the actual numbers.
Consolidation
Brings your entities and countries together, with currency effects shown.
Reports and board packs
Commentary in plain English on what happened and what's likely next.
Anomalies
Spots expenses in the wrong account, duplicates, double claims and patterns that look off.
Coming soon Regulatory modules for IFRS 18, ZATCA, GST, Ind AS, Pillar 2 and CSRD.
Works with
Built to sit on top of what you already use
- Tally Prime
- Zoho Books
- SAP Business One
- NetSuite
- Excel, for budgets and imports
Using something else? Let us know when you sign up. Product names belong to their owners, and we aren't affiliated with them.
Who it's for
Finance teams doing big company work with a small team
We're building for CFOs, heads of finance, group controllers and owners who still check every number, at companies with somewhere between $5M and $250M in revenue.
UAE and Saudi Arabia
Groups with several companies
Different entities and currencies, and a group board that wants one consolidated picture with the currency effects spelled out.
Asia Pacific
Companies growing across borders
Subsidiaries in a few countries and a finance team that hasn't grown as fast as the business. Investors want the numbers on time, and they want to know why they changed.
An assistant
LedgerByte is there to help your finance team. It isn't an accounting system, it doesn't do payroll or HR, and it isn't an auditor. It won't replace your people either. It takes the repetitive analysis off their desks so a small team can cover what used to need a bigger one.
Security and data
Your ledger is sensitive, and we treat it that way
- Read only access
- It reads your ledger and has no way to change it.
- Your data doesn't train AI
- Customer data isn't used to train AI models.
- Where your data lives
- We're working toward hosting in India, the Gulf and Asia Pacific. Either way, you'll know exactly where your data is before you connect anything.
- Certifications
- Security certifications are in progress. Early access companies will get the details before they connect.
Questions
What people usually ask
Does it replace my accounting software?
No. It sits on top of it, and your team keeps booking entries where they do today.
Will it change anything in my books?
No, access is read only. If something looks wrong it shows your team the entry and the reason, and your team decides whether to fix it in your own system.
Where will my data be stored?
We'll confirm hosting locations before launch. The goal is regional hosting for India, the Gulf and Asia Pacific, and you'll know where your data sits before you connect. Customer data isn't used to train AI models.
Who's accountable for the numbers?
Your finance team, same as now. Every figure is calculated by code and linked to its source entries, so your team can check it before signing off. The AI writes the explanations but it doesn't make the call.
Is it an auditor?
No. It helps you catch problems before the audit, but it doesn't give audit opinions or any kind of assurance.
Which systems will it connect to?
Tally Prime, Zoho Books, SAP Business One and NetSuite to start with. If you use something else, pick Other when you sign up so we know.
When can we start using it?
We'll open early access in stages. People on the list hear first, and we'll email you when there's a place for your company.
Early access
Want to see it working on your own numbers?
Leave your work email and we'll be in touch when early access opens.