L AI Ledgerly
A VPJ & Associates practice

Outsourced finance, run by chartered accountants.

Bookkeeping, month end close, management reporting and virtual CFO services for US and UK businesses. Fixed monthly fees, a named partner on every account, and books closed by the tenth working day.

100+
Qualified specialists
10
Working day close
17
Finance services
4
Delivery offices
Hero image — founder or partner at work
Secondary image — client meeting or close-up detail
Serving E-commerce Banking & financial services Technology & SaaS Real estate & rentals Medical & pharmacy Hospitality & F&B
Why founders call us

Most companies outgrow their bookkeeper long before they can justify a CFO.

01

The close takes three weeks

By the time the numbers land they describe a company you no longer are. Decisions get made on instinct because the ledger is always behind.

02

Nobody owns the whole picture

A bookkeeper here, a tax agent there, and a spreadsheet the founder maintains at midnight. No single person can answer what runway actually looks like.

03

Hiring in house is a $200,000 bet

A controller, an accounts clerk and a part time CFO is most of a headcount budget, for capability you need a few days a month.

What we run

One team, from the first journal entry to the board pack.

All 17 services
01

Books & compliance

Daily bookkeeping, a clean month end close, and filings that never slip.

Bookkeeping Accounts payable Accounts receivable Payroll processing
02

Reporting & insight

The monthly pack your board reads, and the forecast you plan against.

Management reporting KPI dashboards Cash flow forecasting Investor reporting
03

CFO & strategy

Senior judgement on pricing, runway, hiring and the next raise.

Virtual CFO FP&A and budgeting Financial modelling Fractional finance team
04

Assurance & deals

Diligence, valuation and controls work when something material is at stake.

Due diligence Business valuation Internal audit Systems implementation
The honest comparison

Three ways to solve this. Here is where each one breaks.

We are not right for everybody. If you have fewer than fifty transactions a month, a good local bookkeeper is cheaper and we will tell you so.

In house hire
Local bookkeeper
AI Ledgerly
Monthly cost
$8,000 to $18,000 loaded
$400 to $1,500
$500 to $25,000, fixed
Qualified review
Only if you hire senior
Rarely
Named CA partner signs off
Coverage when someone leaves
You rehire, three months lost
Single point of failure
Team of four, documented SOPs
Scales to reporting and CFO work
Another hire
No
Change the engagement tier
Time to full capability
3 to 6 months
4 to 8 weeks
3 weeks to first close
Onboarding

Live in three weeks, without a migration project.

We work inside your existing stack: QuickBooks Online, Xero, Zoho Books, NetSuite and Tally. No portal to learn, no data held hostage.

Week zero

A partner reads your books

Not a salesperson. One of our chartered accountants reviews your last two closes and tells you plainly what is wrong and what it will cost to fix.

Weeks 1 to 2

We take over the ledger

Chart of accounts cleaned, backlog cleared, approvals mapped, and a documented standard operating procedure for every recurring task.

Week 3

First close, on the calendar

Books closed by the tenth working day, every month. Profit and loss, balance sheet, cash flow and a short written commentary from the partner on your account.

Ongoing

You scale the engagement, not the headcount

Add forecasting before a raise, diligence support during one, a fractional controller after. Same team, same context, no rehiring.

The firm behind us

AI Ledgerly is the outsourced finance arm of VPJ & Associates.

VPJ is a chartered accountancy firm working across audit and assurance, corporate finance, risk advisory, taxation and transaction advisory, with a team of more than a hundred and offices in Bengaluru, Mumbai, Hosur and Jodhpur.

That means the person reviewing your monthly pack is a qualified chartered accountant who also signs statutory audits. It is a different standard of care to a bookkeeping shop, and it costs less than you would expect.

Meet the partners
Office or team photograph — VPJ, Bengaluru
Systems & security

We work in your stack, under your controls.

Technology handles document capture, coding suggestions, reconciliation matching and exception flagging. Every judgement and every number that reaches you is reviewed by a qualified accountant.

QuickBooks Online
Xero
Zoho Books
NetSuite
Tally
Bill, Ramp, Brex
01

Signed engagement letter and NDA

In place before we see a single transaction, covering your data, your clients and your staff.

02

Role based access, nothing stored locally

Named users only, least privilege by default, and no client data on local machines or personal devices.

03

Your security review, completed

We will complete your vendor questionnaire, penetration test evidence request or client audit before onboarding rather than after.

Fees

Three ways to work with us.

Priced on transaction volume and entity count, not on hours logged. Fixed monthly fee, agreed before we start, reviewed every six months.

Ledger

Clean books, closed on time, filings handled. For companies who need the basics done properly.

$500 to $5,000
per month, fixed
Daily bookkeeping and reconciliations Accounts payable and receivable Month end close by working day ten Payroll processing Profit and loss, balance sheet, cash flow
What is included

Ledger Plus

Books plus the reporting layer, which is the pack your board and your lenders actually want.

$2,000 to $12,000
per month, fixed
Everything in Ledger Monthly management reporting pack KPI dashboard, maintained 13 week cash flow forecast Investor and lender reporting
What is included

Office of the CFO

A full finance department on retainer, led by a partner who sits in your leadership meetings.

$5,000 to $25,000
per month, fixed
Everything in Ledger Plus Virtual CFO, named partner FP&A, budgeting and reforecasts Financial modelling and scenarios Fractional controller and analyst
What is included

Testimonial to be supplied. Ideal length is two sentences: one on the state of the books before, one on what changed after.

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Client name
Title, Company
Client or workplace photograph
Answers

Questions we get asked most

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What does outsourced bookkeeping cost?

Outsourced bookkeeping with AI Ledgerly costs $500 to $5,000 per month as a fixed fee. Adding management reporting takes it to $2,000 to $12,000, and a full virtual CFO engagement runs $5,000 to $25,000 per month.

How fast can you take over our books?

Three weeks from signature to first close. Week zero is a partner review, weeks one and two are cleanup and documentation, and your first month end close lands by the tenth working day of week three.

What is the difference between a bookkeeper and a virtual CFO?

A bookkeeper records what already happened. A virtual CFO uses those records to decide what happens next: pricing, runway, hiring and funding. We provide both under one engagement, so the numbers behind the advice are the numbers in your ledger.

Send us your last two months of books.

A partner will read them and come back with a written view: what is clean, what is not, and what we would charge to run it. No obligation, no deck.

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