Audit is facing a structural labor problem.

For decades, audit firms have relied on teams of staff to perform the same first-pass testing engagement after engagement — selecting samples, inspecting support, documenting results, applying tickmarks, and preparing workpapers for review. The work is necessary, but much of it is repetitive, rules-based, and time-consuming.

At the same time, the profession is experiencing a historic shortage of accountants. Firms are being asked to do more with fewer people, while clients expect audits to be completed faster and at lower cost.

First-Pass was built to resolve the issues plaguing audit engagements.

First-Pass is an AI-native audit copilot that performs the first pass of audit testing automatically. By combining prior-year workpapers, current-year financial data, risk assessments, and supporting documentation, First-Pass generates draft workpapers, rolls prior year workpapers forward, performs testing procedures, identifies exceptions, and prepares documentation for auditor review.

We don’t replace professional judgment. We accelerate everything that comes before it.

The result is simple: fewer hours spent on repetitive testing, faster audit completion, and more time for auditors to focus on the areas that require experience, skepticism, and judgment.