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Categories/Tax & Accounting/Rational
Rational

Rational

Founded 2026

Automate routine bookkeeping, accounts payable, and month-end close workflows with autonomous agents

Pricing model

Paid

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★ People love it

Time to value

Moderate Setup (1-3 hours)

You can use Rational to hand off repetitive accounting work while keeping final approval with your finance team. The system reads documents, inboxes, and exports to handle accounts payable, accounts receivable, and bank reconciliations. It prepares schedules, matches transactions, and generates draft financial statements before sending exceptions to human reviewers. Startups can also use it for end-to-end bookkeeping and tax filings, while enterprise finance departments can deploy digital coworkers inside their existing general ledgers and workflows.

What Rational does

Extract data from vendor invoicesMatch bank records to general ledger entriesDraft month-end balance sheet reconciliationsFollow up on missing expense receiptsPrepare corporate tax filingsRoute exceptions to finance managers for approvalGenerate monthly financial statementsAutomated invoice data extraction and accounts payable preparationBank transaction matching and scheduled balance reconciliationsDraft financial statement generation for monthly closingHuman review gates for payment releases and ledger postingsAnnual federal and state corporate tax return filing for startupsDelaware franchise tax filing supportDocument chasing and email inbox integration for receipts

Pricing breakdown

Pricing model: Paid

PlanList price
Startups$399 / mo

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