Field notes

What we are building, and why.

Product decisions and operating ideas for the firms that have to close the books after the demo ends.

Give AI more of the QuickBooks Desktop workday

The September 18–19 update expands reviewed batches across sales, purchasing, inventory, time and lists, with richer forms and more careful cleanup.

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More of the QuickBooks Online job, in one conversation

Connected sales and payments, bulk corrections by name, receipt batches and exportable results: the September 18–19 update to Zeno for QuickBooks Online.

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Safe retries on QuickBooks Online: what requestid actually guarantees

How network timeouts duplicate accounting entries, how Intuit's requestid parameter prevents double-posting, and why cross-restart recovery requires pre-commit journaling.

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The hidden constraints of QuickBooks Online's Change Data Capture API

How Intuit's /cdc endpoint actually behaves in production: the 30-day lookback limit, the entities that cause ValidationFault crashes, and how hybrid sync handles them.

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Notes on Intuit's QuickBooks CLI

A technical audit of intuit-cli: setup quirks, unvalidated query interpolation, exit code 127 crashes on Windows, and why --dry-run covers 3 of 36 write verbs.

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Two ways into the bank feed

QuickBooks Online has no API for the For Review queue. Every AI bookkeeper that works it has made the same choice, and there are only two options. One of them involves giving a vendor your login.

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“Give me a plan before acting.”

Six accounting technology leaders describe their AI agents going off-script in 2026. Every fix points to the same architectural decision, and it is the one Zeno makes for you.

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Why an accounting plan digest cannot touch floating-point math

How dual runtimes in C# and TypeScript enforce exact decimal strings and canonical hashing so a human approval digest never drifts before posting.

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FROM THE ARGUMENT TO THE PRODUCT

See one real batch move from AI preparation to human approval.

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