Co-Founder & CEO — AI-Native Accounting Firm

Overview

This is a co-founder partnership to serve as Co-Founder & CEO for an AI-native accounting firm. The role is a founder equity arrangement with meaningful founder ownership from inception and is not a salaried executive position.

The firm is being built around an agent fleet that continuously performs bookkeeping, reconciliation, workpapers, and first-pass tax returns. Every professional in the firm works in a reviewer capacity—applying judgment, signing off, and owning the client relationship. A technical co-founder is embedded in the practice from day one to automate work alongside your daily workflow.

Responsibilities

• Clients: Bring an existing founding client base and win new mid-market clients through your network
• Practice: Own quality of work, review standards, and every client relationship as the firm’s lead CPA
• Product: Partner with the technical co-founder to turn daily workflows into agents and convert review corrections into improved accuracy
• Licensing & Compliance: Lead firm registration and CPA licensing across US states
• Capital: Lead the seed raise, supported by the venture-building network and traction
• Team: Hire reviewer CPAs and establish the firm’s cultural foundation
• Venture leadership: Set the venture’s direction and lead execution

Requirements

• Licensed US CPA
• Partner or senior manager experience at an accounting firm
• An established book of client relationships you can bring into a new firm
• Hands-on experimentation with AI tools in your own practice, plus conviction that the firm model needs to change
• Strong business development track record, including winning and retaining clients based on the quality of your work
• Product mindset: ability to break down your own workflow and shape how it gets automated
• Ability to build an investor narrative and close capital with support
• Experience handling bookkeeping, tax, and advisory for 1M–20M businesses

Preferred Qualifications

No additional preferred qualifications were specified.

Compensation & Benefits

• Founder equity with meaningful ownership from inception
• Pre-seed capital committed to support early hires and agent development, with potential for follow-on funding
• Venture-building resources, including design, engineering, growth, and fundraising support from day one
• Investor and advisor network across fintech and early-stage capital markets

Location

US-based; licensing across US states is required as part of firm registration and CPA licensing.