For investors

Building the ownership platform for modern tax and CAS firms.

Keelwater is building an AI-enabled operating system for tax and CAS firms, proving it through implementation partnerships before deploying it across owned firms.

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The thesis

Accounting does not have an AI-awareness problem. It has an implementation problem.

Most firms already know AI matters. The opportunity is making it work inside real tax and accounting workflows:

Client document intake
Preparation
Reconciliations
Close
Client communication
Research and reporting

The point is not to replace professional judgment. It is to remove repetitive work, so great accountants can serve more clients, respond faster and expand advisory.

Where the market is

Almost every firm is trying AI. Very few run it firm-wide. Fewer still can show it pays.

95%

of surveyed accounting and bookkeeping professionals are using or exploring AI.¹

11%

report firm-wide AI use.¹

20%

report measurable ROI.¹

1. Financial Cents, 2026 State of AI in Accounting & Bookkeeping.

The Keelwater operating system

Capacity, growth, ownership.

Implementation is the wedge and the proof engine. Ownership is the destination.

Capacity

Map the workflow. Deploy proven AI and automation into the existing stack. Measure the operating result.

Growth

Recovered capacity becomes more clients, packaged advisory, better pricing, expanded accounts and a professional go-to-market.

Ownership

For select firms, Keelwater's long-term model is ownership: partnering with great accounting businesses and investing in their people, technology and growth.

Long-term partnership

Building for decades, not a three-year flip.

Keelwater's long-term ambition is to become a permanent ownership partner to great accounting firms. The best firms should keep what made them successful while gaining technology, growth capability, talent and capital that are difficult to build alone. As the platform develops, we expect to partner selectively with owners thinking about succession, liquidity or the next stage of growth.

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Who we talk to

Building the platform.

Keelwater is developing an AI-enabled operating system for tax and CAS firms through real design partnerships. We welcome conversations with accounting operators, firm owners, applied-AI talent, M&A professionals and long-term capital partners.

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