BAS, FBT, ITR, CTR, SMSF and R&D — pre-flighted, working-papered, partner-signed. Built for TPB Code of Conduct, AUSTRAC AML/CTF, and Privacy Act 2026 ADM. Xero, MYOB, QBO, NetSuite, Hubdoc and Dext native.
by AI Lab AustraliaSix weeks before each lodgement deadline, the AI scans every Xero/MYOB file, drafts client chase emails, pre-fills the BAS, and routes for partner sign-off. 12-18 hours per partner per quarter.
Daily sweep of every client's bank feed. Coding suggestions from 12-month pattern match. Auto-codes whitelisted suppliers above 0.95 confidence. 6-12 hours per bookkeeper per week.
Captures fringe benefits as they occur, classifies them across the 13 categories, builds the FBT return continuously. Lodge by 21 May with zero last-minute reconstruction.
Drafts trustee resolutions before 30 June with s100A reasonable-benchmark test (TR 2022/4) and Division 7A guardrails. eSign before EOFY.
Watches PRODA mailbox + email forwards. Classifies every notice (60+ types). Drafts the response with the right deadline. Senior reviews, partner signs.
Annual TPB-required reissue. Detects scope drift from the last 12 months of work. Auto-includes Privacy Act 2026 ADM clause. eSign before 1 July.
Identifies the event type (~50 under Div 104), builds the cost base (5 elements per s110-25), applies the discount, runs the small-business concession cascade.
Six weeks before each lodgement deadline, the AI scans every Xero/MYOB file, drafts client chase emails, pre-fills the BAS, and routes for partner sign-off. 12-18 hours per partner per quarter.
Daily sweep of every client's bank feed. Coding suggestions from 12-month pattern match. Auto-codes whitelisted suppliers above 0.95 confidence. 6-12 hours per bookkeeper per week.
Captures fringe benefits as they occur, classifies them across the 13 categories, builds the FBT return continuously. Lodge by 21 May with zero last-minute reconstruction.
Drafts trustee resolutions before 30 June with s100A reasonable-benchmark test (TR 2022/4) and Division 7A guardrails. eSign before EOFY.
Watches PRODA mailbox + email forwards. Classifies every notice (60+ types). Drafts the response with the right deadline. Senior reviews, partner signs.
Annual TPB-required reissue. Detects scope drift from the last 12 months of work. Auto-includes Privacy Act 2026 ADM clause. eSign before 1 July.
Identifies the event type (~50 under Div 104), builds the cost base (5 elements per s110-25), applies the discount, runs the small-business concession cascade.
Six weeks before each lodgement deadline, the AI scans every Xero/MYOB file, drafts client chase emails, pre-fills the BAS, and routes for partner sign-off. 12-18 hours per partner per quarter.
Daily sweep of every client's bank feed. Coding suggestions from 12-month pattern match. Auto-codes whitelisted suppliers above 0.95 confidence. 6-12 hours per bookkeeper per week.
Captures fringe benefits as they occur, classifies them across the 13 categories, builds the FBT return continuously. Lodge by 21 May with zero last-minute reconstruction.
Drafts trustee resolutions before 30 June with s100A reasonable-benchmark test (TR 2022/4) and Division 7A guardrails. eSign before EOFY.
Watches PRODA mailbox + email forwards. Classifies every notice (60+ types). Drafts the response with the right deadline. Senior reviews, partner signs.
Annual TPB-required reissue. Detects scope drift from the last 12 months of work. Auto-includes Privacy Act 2026 ADM clause. eSign before 1 July.
Identifies the event type (~50 under Div 104), builds the cost base (5 elements per s110-25), applies the discount, runs the small-business concession cascade.
Six weeks before each lodgement deadline, the AI scans every Xero/MYOB file, drafts client chase emails, pre-fills the BAS, and routes for partner sign-off. 12-18 hours per partner per quarter.
Daily sweep of every client's bank feed. Coding suggestions from 12-month pattern match. Auto-codes whitelisted suppliers above 0.95 confidence. 6-12 hours per bookkeeper per week.
Captures fringe benefits as they occur, classifies them across the 13 categories, builds the FBT return continuously. Lodge by 21 May with zero last-minute reconstruction.
Drafts trustee resolutions before 30 June with s100A reasonable-benchmark test (TR 2022/4) and Division 7A guardrails. eSign before EOFY.
Watches PRODA mailbox + email forwards. Classifies every notice (60+ types). Drafts the response with the right deadline. Senior reviews, partner signs.
Annual TPB-required reissue. Detects scope drift from the last 12 months of work. Auto-includes Privacy Act 2026 ADM clause. eSign before 1 July.
Identifies the event type (~50 under Div 104), builds the cost base (5 elements per s110-25), applies the discount, runs the small-business concession cascade.
Hubdoc + Dext + email-forwarded receipts. OCR with field confidence. ABR check. GST sanity. Posts to Xero/MYOB with rationale captured in working papers.
T-1 pre-validation against Modern Awards. Annualised salary monthly reconciliation. Super 12% on OTE (FY26). STP Phase 2 disaggregation. Bookkeeper approves before submit.
1 July 2026 obligations: CDD record before engagement, ECDD for high-risk, OCDD ongoing. SMR within 3 business days. TTR for cash ≥ $10k. Annual program review.
Every AI-assisted decision logged with prompt, model version, retrieved sources, output, human reviewer, friction events. APP 1.7-1.9 explainability covered.
Three weeks before 30 June: close checklist. One week out: Div 7A + depreciation + trust. On 30 June: resolutions via eSign. 20-30 hours per partner per EOFY.
Practice Partner, BAS Specialist, Senior Tax Agent, SMSF Specialist, Cost Accountant, Payroll Specialist, R&D Tax Specialist, Audit Senior, Compliance Officer, Senior Bookkeeper.
ABN modulus-89, TFN modulus-11, GST sanity, base-rate-entity test, FBT Type 1/Type 2 split, SG sanity. Catches deterministic ATO rejections before lodgement.
Hubdoc + Dext + email-forwarded receipts. OCR with field confidence. ABR check. GST sanity. Posts to Xero/MYOB with rationale captured in working papers.
T-1 pre-validation against Modern Awards. Annualised salary monthly reconciliation. Super 12% on OTE (FY26). STP Phase 2 disaggregation. Bookkeeper approves before submit.
1 July 2026 obligations: CDD record before engagement, ECDD for high-risk, OCDD ongoing. SMR within 3 business days. TTR for cash ≥ $10k. Annual program review.
Every AI-assisted decision logged with prompt, model version, retrieved sources, output, human reviewer, friction events. APP 1.7-1.9 explainability covered.
Three weeks before 30 June: close checklist. One week out: Div 7A + depreciation + trust. On 30 June: resolutions via eSign. 20-30 hours per partner per EOFY.
Practice Partner, BAS Specialist, Senior Tax Agent, SMSF Specialist, Cost Accountant, Payroll Specialist, R&D Tax Specialist, Audit Senior, Compliance Officer, Senior Bookkeeper.
ABN modulus-89, TFN modulus-11, GST sanity, base-rate-entity test, FBT Type 1/Type 2 split, SG sanity. Catches deterministic ATO rejections before lodgement.
Hubdoc + Dext + email-forwarded receipts. OCR with field confidence. ABR check. GST sanity. Posts to Xero/MYOB with rationale captured in working papers.
T-1 pre-validation against Modern Awards. Annualised salary monthly reconciliation. Super 12% on OTE (FY26). STP Phase 2 disaggregation. Bookkeeper approves before submit.
1 July 2026 obligations: CDD record before engagement, ECDD for high-risk, OCDD ongoing. SMR within 3 business days. TTR for cash ≥ $10k. Annual program review.
Every AI-assisted decision logged with prompt, model version, retrieved sources, output, human reviewer, friction events. APP 1.7-1.9 explainability covered.
Three weeks before 30 June: close checklist. One week out: Div 7A + depreciation + trust. On 30 June: resolutions via eSign. 20-30 hours per partner per EOFY.
Practice Partner, BAS Specialist, Senior Tax Agent, SMSF Specialist, Cost Accountant, Payroll Specialist, R&D Tax Specialist, Audit Senior, Compliance Officer, Senior Bookkeeper.
ABN modulus-89, TFN modulus-11, GST sanity, base-rate-entity test, FBT Type 1/Type 2 split, SG sanity. Catches deterministic ATO rejections before lodgement.
Hubdoc + Dext + email-forwarded receipts. OCR with field confidence. ABR check. GST sanity. Posts to Xero/MYOB with rationale captured in working papers.
T-1 pre-validation against Modern Awards. Annualised salary monthly reconciliation. Super 12% on OTE (FY26). STP Phase 2 disaggregation. Bookkeeper approves before submit.
1 July 2026 obligations: CDD record before engagement, ECDD for high-risk, OCDD ongoing. SMR within 3 business days. TTR for cash ≥ $10k. Annual program review.
Every AI-assisted decision logged with prompt, model version, retrieved sources, output, human reviewer, friction events. APP 1.7-1.9 explainability covered.
Three weeks before 30 June: close checklist. One week out: Div 7A + depreciation + trust. On 30 June: resolutions via eSign. 20-30 hours per partner per EOFY.
Practice Partner, BAS Specialist, Senior Tax Agent, SMSF Specialist, Cost Accountant, Payroll Specialist, R&D Tax Specialist, Audit Senior, Compliance Officer, Senior Bookkeeper.
ABN modulus-89, TFN modulus-11, GST sanity, base-rate-entity test, FBT Type 1/Type 2 split, SG sanity. Catches deterministic ATO rejections before lodgement.
What we're actually fixing
We talked to forty Australian firms before we wrote a line of code. These are the things partners actually said keep them up at night — and exactly what SydClaw takes off the desk.
“I haven't had a free Saturday in March, April or May.”
Why it hurts
FBT season + BAS Q3 + ITR drafting all collide on the same partner.
What you stop carrying
BAS Season Commander runs the choreography across your portfolio in the background. FBT Year-Round Tracker captures benefits as they happen, so April is review, not reconstruction. Saturdays come back.
“I dread opening the ATO portal because I never know what notice landed overnight.”
Why it hurts
Notices arrive in a hundred templates, with deadlines that bite when you don't notice them.
What you stop carrying
ATO Correspondence Triage classifies every notice the moment it arrives, sets the right deadline, drafts the response. You see the pack at 7am Monday — sorted by urgency — and you're ahead, not behind.
“I'm terrified of a TPB review on a position memo nobody really wrote.”
Why it hurts
Marginal positions get taken in conversation, never written down. The audit trail is 'ask Sarah, she'll remember'.
What you stop carrying
Every position memo is FLAC-structured (Facts → Law → Application → Conclusion) with the ITAA section cited by exact identifier. Working paper attached automatically. The chain from source documents to partner sign-off is one query away.
“AUSTRAC starts 1 July 2026 and I haven't built the program yet.”
Why it hurts
Tax/BAS agents have to enrol with AUSTRAC, write a CTP, build CDD, file SMRs and TTRs. Most firms haven't started.
What you stop carrying
Full AUSTRAC AML/CTF framework ready out of the box: CDD/ECDD/OCDD, risk rating, SMR drafter with 3-business-day clock, TTR for cash ≥ $10k. PEP and sanctions screening. Annual independent program review built in.
“My senior staff want to do advisory, but they're still typing receipts at 9pm.”
Why it hurts
Compliance backlog sucks oxygen out of every senior's week. Advisory work gets the leftovers, not the prime time.
What you stop carrying
Bank Reconciliation Coach + Receipt Capture & Coding clear the daily compliance backlog by lunchtime. Senior staff move up the value chain — CGT walkthroughs, trust resolutions, Division 7A planning. The work they actually trained for.
“I'm losing junior staff because the work is mind-numbing.”
Why it hurts
First-year accountants are doing data entry. They leave for in-house roles where the work is more interesting.
What you stop carrying
AI handles the rote work. Juniors review AI output, learn the why, and develop judgement faster. They get exposure to complex matters six months earlier. Retention curve flips.
“Pricing pressure is killing margins on compliance.”
Why it hurts
BAS and ITR have commoditised. Clients see them as 'just lodgement'. Fees won't move up; cost has to come down.
What you stop carrying
Same work in 60% of the time means same margins at lower price points — or the same price with margins restored. The Practice Dashboard tells you realisation by client so you stop subsidising the loud ones.
“I can't grow without doubling headcount.”
Why it hurts
Every new client adds a recurring compliance load. The firm scales linearly with people, not with software.
What you stop carrying
An 8-person firm runs like a 14-person firm with SydClaw — without the recruiting, the desks, or the partner management overhead. Capacity grows where it matters: advisory and partner relationships.
“I lie awake the night before a lodgement wondering if we got it right.”
Why it hurts
ATO portal rejections are deterministic — checksum errors, GST sanity breaches, base-rate-entity mistakes. They turn into half-day re-work cycles.
What you stop carrying
Pre-flight catches every deterministic ATO rejection in sub-millisecond local validation. ABN checksum, TFN checksum, GST sanity, base-rate-entity test, FBT split, SG sanity — all blocked BEFORE upload. Lodgement nights stop being a coin flip.
“Privacy Act 2026 is six months away and I have no audit trail of AI use.”
Why it hurts
Every AI-assisted decision affecting a client must be explainable from 10 December 2026. Most firms have ChatGPT in browsers with zero logging.
What you stop carrying
ADM evidence layer captures the prompt, model version, retrieved sources, output, the human reviewer, and friction events for every AI-assisted decision. APP 1.7-1.9 transparency by design. NDB scheme readiness built in.
Link Xero, MYOB, QBO, NetSuite, Hubdoc, Dext, your email and your eSign provider. We map your engagement templates and TPB-style file structure into the platform.
Set your firm hierarchy (Partner / Manager / Senior / Accountant / Bookkeeper), AUSTRAC risk-rating thresholds, lodgement-cycle workflows and engagement letter scope library.
From day one: pre-flight on every BAS / FBT / ITR / CTR / STP. Working papers attached automatically. Partner sees the Monday morning compliance dashboard. Audit-defensible by design.
What changes on Day One
Here's what one quarter looks like at an 8-person Australian firm with SydClaw running. Real workflows, measured time savings.
Before
Partner spends 2 hours building a list of clients with BAS due, manually checking lodgement dates and pulling Xero variance reports for each.
With SydClaw
Compliance dashboard already shows: 47 BAS due in 6 weeks, 12 with unreconciled bank feeds, 3 with anomaly flags, 31 ready for first-pass review. AI has already drafted chase emails for the 12 — partner reviews and sends in 8 minutes.
Before
Practice coordinator spends a day collecting ID, ABN search, beneficial ownership questions, drafting an engagement letter from last year's template, sending to client to print and scan back.
With SydClaw
AI generates engagement letter from the firm's 10 TPB-aligned templates with the right scope. AML CDD record auto-created with risk rating. Client receives eSign link via Annature. AML risk re-rating built in. Job auto-allocated to a senior accountant by capability. 14 minutes start to finish.
Before
Partner reads the letter, can't remember which year it relates to, asks the senior to dig through emails, eventually drafts a reply at 7pm. 90 minutes lost.
With SydClaw
Notice ingested via OCR. Classified as "NOA amendment, FY24, GST treatment of customer rebates". Job created with 29-day deadline. Senior tax agent sees draft response with cited cost-base position memo from prior file. Partner approves in 6 minutes.
Before
Bookkeeper coding the trust's receivables sees a $40k journal but can't classify it. Senior accountant pauses tax-return work for 45 minutes to investigate. Issue escalates to partner. Partner spends another hour reviewing s100A risk.
With SydClaw
AI flags: looks like UPE owed by trust to corporate beneficiary — TR 2022/4 risk medium. Drafts position memo with sub-trust analysis + Division 7A timeframe. Senior accountant reviews and adds firm-specific facts. Partner sees it ready for sign-off the same morning.
Before
Bookkeeper runs the pay, hits submit, then realises three employees on annualised salary went over award threshold this month. Manual reversal, awkward call to the client, half a day burned.
With SydClaw
T-1 pre-run validates every employee's award rate × hours, super 12% OTE calc, STP Phase 2 disaggregation. Three flagged BEFORE pay runs. Bookkeeper makes the adjustment, submits clean.
Before
Partner saves catch-up working papers for Saturday morning, opens 14 Word documents, reconciles them against the ledger by hand, signs off after 5 hours.
With SydClaw
Partner opens the compliance dashboard at 8am. Every working paper has its source documents, calculations shown, ITAA section cited, and a FLAC-structured position memo. Sign-off takes 90 minutes. Saturday afternoon is theirs.
Your firm in 90 days
Not a tool. A transformation. Three months in, the rhythm of your firm has changed in ways your team will feel before your P&L does.
Mondays
By the time you sit down with coffee, the compliance dashboard has surfaced every BAS due in the next fortnight, every job stuck in review, every AML record overdue, every debtor past 60 days. Eight lodgement files are pre-flighted and waiting. Your first meeting is at 10am — not at 7:15am chasing data.
Saturdays
FBT season doesn't mean reconstruction; it means review. BAS quarter doesn't mean 80-hour weeks; it means choreography you barely touch. EOFY week doesn't mean missing your daughter's recital. The firm runs the calendar; the calendar stops running you.
Lodgement nights
Every file passed pre-flight before it reached you. Every position memo cites the ITAA section and is FLAC-structured. Every working paper has its source documents attached. When TPB queries the lodgement six months later, the audit trail is one query away — not a week of reconstruction.
Hiring
Junior accountants do real accounting from week one — reviewing AI output, learning the 'why', developing judgement faster than the old grind allowed. Senior staff stay because the work is interesting again. CGT walkthroughs, trust resolutions, Division 7A planning — the work they trained for, not data entry until 9pm.
Growth
An 8-person firm runs like a 14-person firm. The marginal cost of one more BAS lodgement, one more ITR, one more SMSF is close to zero — because the choreography is automated. Growth stops being a recruiting problem. It starts being a partner-bandwidth problem, which is the kind of problem you actually want.
Pricing
The Practice Dashboard tells you realisation by client. The clients who eat 14 hours of unbilled work for $1,800 quarterly fees are visible from Monday morning. You either re-price them or let them go. The clients you keep pay properly for proper work.
Reputation
When the AI handles compliance choreography, the partner conversations move up the value chain. Tax planning. Business structuring. Succession. Acquisition diligence. The firm becomes known for advice — and the advice work is what the next decade of accounting margins looks like.
Sleep
The 11pm panic — 'did we lodge that?', 'did Sarah upload the BAS?' — stops happening. You can see the lodgement state of every client in the firm from your phone. The deterministic things are deterministic. You go back to worrying about the things that actually deserve worry.
The promise
We give you back the partner you wanted to be —
signing strategic advice, not chasing receipts.
If after 90 days your firm doesn't feel meaningfully different — calmer Mondays, lighter Saturdays, juniors that stay, advisory work that grows — we refund the pilot fee and turn it off. We don't want unhappy firms; we want the AU accounting firm everyone calls first.
Built for Australian Public Practice
TPB Code of Conduct + TASA 2009
Working papers attached to every position
Every AI-generated output is tied to its inputs, the model version, the prompt template, and the human reviewer. The chain from prompt → response → working paper → partner sign-off → ATO file is one query away when TPB asks. The AI never lodges; the registered tax agent does.
AUSTRAC AML/CTF
Ready for 1 July 2026 obligations
CDD record before any engagement starts. ECDD for high-risk clients. SMR within 3 business days. TTR for cash transactions ≥ $10,000. Annual independent program review. Tipping-off prevention guard. PEP + sanctions screening. Built before the regulator knocks.
Privacy Act 2026 — ADM
Effective 10 December 2026
Every AI-assisted decision affecting a client must be explainable. Our ADM evidence layer captures the prompt, model version, retrieved sources, output, the human reviewer, and the friction events that caused course-correction. APP 1.7-1.9 transparency, NDB scheme readiness.
ATO PRODA + Pre-Flight
Sub-millisecond rejection prevention
ABN modulus-89, TFN modulus-11, ACN checksum, GST sanity (1A ≤ G1×1/11), PAYG W2 ≤ W1, FBT Type 1/Type 2 split, CTR base-rate-entity test. The deterministic ATO rejections that turn into half-day re-work cycles never make it past pre-flight.
The difference that matters
Generic AI tools don't know what s100A is.
They don't know the FBT gross-up factors, base-rate-entity test, or the FY26 super rate.
We do. Ten specialist personas, fifteen accounting skills, six platform integrations. This is what we build.
See It In Action
Every Monday morning, your agent reviews lodgements due this fortnight, jobs in review >5 days, AML records overdue, debtors past 60 days. No prompting. No supervision.
✔ BAS due this fortnight: 14 (8 ready, 4 in review, 2 awaiting client)⚠ 3 jobs >5 days in review — escalate to partner✔ Pre-flight passed: 8 BAS files ready for upload✔ AML re-verification: 2 high-risk clients overdue✔ Engagement letters expiring: 5 in next 60 days⚠ ATO correspondence: 1 amended assessment (29-day clock)✔ Debtors >60 days: $42,300 across 7 clients — chase draftedℹ Generated: monday-compliance-pack.pdfIntegrations & Deployment
Integrations
Xero. MYOB. QBO. NetSuite.
Hubdoc. Dext. Annature. FuseSign.
Native OAuth connections with AES-256 encrypted token storage. Xero Practice Manager and ATO PRODA mailbox sync supported. Plus 8,000+ integrations via Zapier. Connect in minutes.
Managed
We deploy, monitor, update.
Vercel + Supabase in Sydney. Zero ops on your end. Your dedicated firm instance, your data.
On-Premise
Your servers. Your network.
Docker Compose. Local LLM via Ollama. Zero client data leaves your office. For firms with strict TPB confidentiality settings.
Zero-Knowledge
AI never sees client PII.
17 detection patterns. Reversible inside your tenant only.
Client names, ABNs, TFNs, ACNs, phone numbers, addresses. All tokenised before any third-party model processes your data. Reversal happens only inside your dedicated tenant.
Practice management module + 5 of: BAS, FBT, ITR, AUSTRAC, payroll, bank rec, receipts. Xero or MYOB included. 30-day pilot with rollback. Typical: $3-5K/month for an 8-person firm.
All modules + all 10 specialists. Multi-office. SSO/SAML. Dedicated infrastructure. SLA. Xero Practice Manager + NetSuite + on-premise option. Annual independent AUSTRAC review included.
Frequently asked
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