The vision
Every small business gets a finance team in a browser.
4.4 million small businesses use Xero. Most do not have an accountant — or a credit controller. The wedge is cash recovery: money already earned but slipping away because nobody chases it. The expansion is full AI bookkeeping: a conversational agent that audits, explains, and fixes the books as a subscription service.
The moat is the integration depth. Sikizana writes back to Xero through a real, permissioned tool layer — not prompt engineering — and every figure is traceable to an HMRC citation, a sector benchmark, or an explicit human approval.
The proof
Live in production on Xero.
- 19 Xero tools in the agent loop, plus tax RAG and receipt vision via Gemini.
- 77 tests covering report parsing, OAuth, webhooks, chase scheduling, and data erasure.
- Real write-back path gated at the tool layer, not just the prompt layer.
- Live deployments: landing page, books chat, impact dashboard, security page, activity audit.