Why Zeno

Built by someone who knows the work.

Zeno brings together financial answers for owners, practical tools for bookkeepers, and a review process for the people responsible for the books. Its design comes from doing the work and building the software to support it.

Twenty years of keeping books and building software

Zeno was created by Eli Mandel, an Advanced Certified QuickBooks ProAdvisor in both QuickBooks Online and QuickBooks Desktop, with 20 years of experience in outsourced bookkeeping and custom software development.

The same questions come up in that work: Which bills are still waiting? Why was this expense coded here? What did we agree with the client last month? Zeno helps you answer those questions and get the routine entries ready, so you can spend more time on the decisions that need you.

For owners who want to understand their numbers

Ask who owes you money, which bills are coming due or why expenses changed. See the QuickBooks transactions behind the answer and ask follow-up questions. You can work with your bookkeeper without taking over the bookkeeping.

For bookkeepers who have more than data entry to do

Ask your assistant to prepare bills, code card charges or match receipts. Review the proposed entries together, leave out anything that needs more information and approve what is ready to post.

Save the coding rules and client instructions you want to use again. The next person working on the books can find those notes and see what was already done, without searching someone else’s chat history.

Keep the AI assistant you choose

Zeno works with Claude and ChatGPT. Your assistant helps research and prepare the work; Zeno keeps the company’s saved instructions, proposed entries and posting history together. QuickBooks remains your accounting system.

You review planned entries before they post. Your approval covers the work you saw, and you can look up the source documents, decisions and results afterward.

Built from work we do ourselves

Before bringing Zeno to QuickBooks, we built software for running a business and keeping its books. We used it to prepare entries, save company instructions and review changes in books we actually work on and close.

That experience shaped Zeno for people who want the same help in the QuickBooks companies they already use.

Choose Zeno for the books you keep

Zeno for Business is for a company’s owners and the people who keep its QuickBooks Online books. Zeno for Firms helps accounting and bookkeeping firms manage outside clients on QuickBooks Online and Desktop. Standalone Zeno for QuickBooks Desktop runs on the Windows PC where you work with your company files.

Let AI do more bookkeeping. Keep the final decision human.