Shouldered AI / For bookkeepers and small bookkeeping practices
You be the bookkeeper. We shoulder the rest.
You keep everyone else's books in order, and your own inbox is the mess. Shouldered gives your practice one HQ that chases receipts, sends month end reminders and gets your own invoices paid. You keep doing the books; the rest is Shouldered.
"Clients never send their statements on time."
Tabitha at the Service Desk asks each client for what is missing before month end and keeps reminding them kindly until it is in.
"I could take more clients if onboarding were not so slow."
Nehemiah at the Operations Desk sends the welcome checklist, collects access details you ask for and books the kickoff call.
"Ironic, but my own invoices go out late."
Matthew at the Finance Desk sends your monthly invoices on time after you approve them and follows up on any that are late.
"Every client asks the same questions."
Tabitha at the Service Desk answers the common ones in your words and passes anything that needs judgment to you.
Simon and seven desks of Heroes, working for bookkeepers.
Shows you every client's status each morning: waiting on documents, ready to reconcile, or done.
Requests receipts, statements and missing details from clients every month and keeps after them politely.
Runs your month end checklist for each client and tells you which books are ready to close.
Sends your own monthly invoices once you approve and chases the late ones.
Answers new inquiries, explains your packages and books discovery calls.
Asks happy clients for reviews and referrals and shares the tips you approve.
Simon runs HQ: all the tech and all the brain power, and the one you talk to. Each of the seven desks is run by a Hero, and Simon directs all seven and answers for them. A person approves what matters, and legal, tax, medical and financial decisions stay with you and your licensed advisers.
On the third of the month Simon tells you nine clients have sent everything, five are still missing a statement and have been reminded, and one new prospect booked a call for Thursday. Your own invoices went out on the first and most are already paid. You spend the day reconciling instead of writing reminder emails.
An illustration, not a promised result.
Start
Start with the Small HQ (up to 5 seats, 80 hours a month) at $750 a month paid for the year (Founding price: $500, first 50 companies only), plus $1,000 onboarding. Client chasing, month end reminders and your own billing are first.
Grow
Your practice runs on it first. Then you can offer each client an HQ of their own at $750 a month, so their invoicing and follow up run as cleanly as their books.
Your Hero is here to improve the human. Your HQ, led by Simon, is here to improve your business.
Two prices, and 50 Founding places.
First, what the work costs you today. A full-time office manager runs most small businesses about $4,000 to $5,000 a month with taxes and benefits, and goes home at five. Every call nobody answers is a job that goes to someone else.
Business coaching often costs $5,000 to $7,500 for one session day. HQ does the work every month, with a coach running the Shouldered Way and workshops included. Already have a coach? HQ works alongside them.
Founding 50: of 50 places left. When they are gone, this price closes.
For you
An assistant for one person: mail, chat, calendar, to-dos and contacts. It learns how you work.
- A seat a month
- $25
- Founding price, first 50 only
- $20
- A seat a month. Cancel any time
- No onboarding fee
- It stops where you stop. It does not run a business
Up to five people
5 seats and 80 hours a month. Onboarding $1,000, paid once.
- Paid for the year
- $750
- Month to month
- $1,100
- Founding price, first 50 only
- $500
- Simon and all seven desks
- Starts the work itself
- About $25 a day, paid for the year
- The six-month guarantee
- Arrives in December. Join the founding list now
Six to twenty people
20 seats and 200 hours a month. Onboarding $2,000, paid once.
- Paid for the year
- $1,875
- Month to month
- $2,750
- Founding price, first 50 only
- $1,250
- Everything in Small
- Room to grow without changing plan
- The six-month guarantee
Prices are per month. Only the first 50 companies (the Founding 50) get the Founding price with a two-year commitment, paid yearly by bank transfer, and keep it for as long as they renew. Pay yearly by bank transfer and take 3% off. Onboarding is $1,000 for Small and $2,000 for Medium, paid once, and free at Shouldered events. It is one 1-hour call: technical setup with our technical team first, then your business with our team. The person who sold you HQ joins your onboarding call. Paid for the year, you get a named person who checks in every month. Month to month gets standard support. Twenty-one people and up is built around you. More seats are $25 each (Founding price $20), and more hours $12.50 each; hours count only while HQ is working, like minutes on a phone plan.
Enterprise and government. For large companies and public agencies. Custom plans start at $5,000 a month. Pilots are paid. We start SOC 2 Type 1 work in 2027. Texas agencies: we are working toward TX-RAMP.
If HQ does not complete at least 40 hours of real admin work a month for you in your first six months (100 hours on Medium), tell us by the end of month five and we refund every dollar you paid for the plan.
The onboarding fee is not refunded. The guarantee asks one thing of you: let HQ do its work. Give it the access it needs and review its work in good faith. If our records show you kept declining or blocking the work HQ set out to do, the guarantee does not apply. If we see that happening, we tell you in writing so you can fix it.
The six months start the day HQ goes live for you. The Founding 50 are included. The guarantee covers HQ only, never coach fees.
Do I have to switch bookkeeping software?
No. Client data stays in the systems you already use. HQ works around them on requests, reminders and your own admin.
Will it make accounting decisions?
No. It prepares and tracks. Categorizing, reconciling and anything that needs judgment stay with you and your clients' licensed advisers.
I am a one person practice. Is it worth it?
That is who it is built for. Your next hours go to clients, not to admin, and you can take on more without more paperwork.
When can I start?
The Hero is available now at $25 a seat a month. HQ launches in December 2026, and the founding list is open today.
What if it does not help?
If HQ does not complete at least 40 hours of real admin work a month for you in your first six months (100 hours on Medium), tell us by the end of month five and we refund every dollar you paid for the plan.
A Christian-run company, and proud of it.
Churches get free Hero seats. When a member's business joins, its church gets an HQ, free.
Simon is named for Simon of Cyrene, who stepped in and shouldered the cross for another. Shouldered takes no outside funding and is open to everyone. The technology comes from the OurWorld group: ten years of work, 60+ engineers, running in 20+ countries.
Pull up a chair.
Start with your Hero today, take a Founding 50 place for HQ, or just come and ask questions in the community.
Founding list
One of the first 50 places. Keep the Founding price as long as you renew.
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