Ever wonder why you're still doing this by hand?
We did too. We're BI Curious - accounting document automation for the terminally over-it.
The problem
People become the integration
Every finance team we meet has the same shape of problem. The ledger lives in one system. The online store, the payment gateway, the point-of-sale, the bank, the scanner on the receiving desk - none of them talk to it properly. So people fill the gap. Someone re-types orders. Someone matches settlement reports against deposits. Someone chases a delivery note that never reached the accounts office.
It works, until it doesn't. The errors are quiet, the delays are structural, and every year the auditors ask how you know the numbers are right.
That's not a staffing problem. It's a missing systems problem.
Services
The parts of your month-end you'd rather not do
BI Curious builds accounting document automation around the processes that eat the most time - matching, reconciling, and consolidating, so your team can focus on everything else.
Invoices, GRVs & three-way matching
Purchase order, supplier invoice, and what actually arrived - matched automatically, with the exceptions surfaced instead of buried.
Cash, card & statement reconciliation
Multi-site takings, card settlements, bank and supplier statements reconciled against your control accounts. Discrepancies flagged, not buried in a spreadsheet.
Month-end sign-off & VAT
The checklist your FM currently runs on paper - evidence attached, sign-off recorded, and the whole thing exportable when the auditors ask.
If your problem isn't on this list, it's probably still ours. The common thread is a finance process that runs on paper because the systems don't connect.
Why us
What makes us different
We're finance people who build.
Most software teams can build what you specify. Far fewer will tell you that what you specified won't survive an audit. We design the control before we write the code - who signs off, what evidence is kept, what happens when the document and the delivery disagree.
Our automation doesn't block your business.
The fastest way to kill an automation project is to build something that stops the work. A system that refuses a delivery because the paperwork is wrong doesn't fix the paperwork - it teaches everyone to go around it. We build detective controls, not preventive ones. Nothing gates the operation; exceptions are made visible and accountable instead.
Built to survive an audit.
Immutable records, retained evidence, a clear trail from source document to ledger entry. Your ERP stays the system of record - we don't replace it or shadow it, and everything we post goes through sanctioned paths, with a record of what was sent and what came back. A control you can't evidence isn't a control.
Our work
Some of what we've built
Bespoke, not off the shelf - but the same thinking, applied to very different problems.
Automated VAT recovery
Found, not sampled. A manual input-tax review tests a slice of your ledger and extrapolates. We read all of it - every transaction classified, every recoverable claim traced back to the entry and document that produced it. Starts from a standard ledger extract. No integration, no IT project.
Bay Watch
Workshop management for South African workshops. Scan a licence disc, pick the job, and the full parts list appears with live stock. Job cards, quotes, WhatsApp approvals, stock takes, Pastel export - and it keeps working when the line drops.
Multi-site operating intelligence
One record of what was found, who owns it, and whether it was fixed, across every site in the estate. The visit on a phone, the site's action list, and a group view that ranks every site worst first. For operators with more sites than one person can walk in a week.
About
Built by an accountant and a programmer who got tired of watching people copy numbers by hand
BI Curious is a South African automation consultancy working with mid-size businesses that have outgrown manual finance processes but aren't about to replace their ERP.
Two people, 15+ years each on opposite sides of the same problem - one in accounting, one in code - both tired of watching manual, error-prone work eat hours it shouldn't. No focus groups, no pivot deck. We're a small team, deliberately: you deal with the people building it.
How we work
From first look to month-end
Discover
We sit with the people doing the work and watch the process as it actually runs, not as the manual describes it.
Map
Documents, systems and hand-offs written down end to end, with the controls and the failure points named.
Automate
We build the matching, reconciling and reporting around your existing systems, exceptions first.
Support
It stays ours to keep running. Month-end doesn't care that the build finished.
We sell hours, not promises
You buy a block of capacity each month. What it gets spent on is decided together, every month, against what matters most right now.
No surprise scope
New ideas don't need a new contract - they compete for hours against everything else in the backlog. You always know what you're paying and what you're getting.
We won't quote what we haven't seen
If we don't know what's behind a system yet, we'll say so, price the investigation, and come back with a real number instead of an optimistic one.
You own your data. Always.
Exportable on demand, in an open format, whether you're a client of ours or not.
Contact
Tell us about your worst reconciliation
The one that takes three days, lives in a spreadsheet, and that only one person in the business actually understands. That's usually where we start.