Bill the value,
not the hour.

As AI makes tax and accounting work faster, hourly billing earns a firm less for the same value delivered. The model is breaking, and the firms getting ahead of it are moving to fixed-rate pricing, where revenue stops being tied to hours.

That shift turns on one piece of work. Every month, CCH Axcess exports a multi-client WIP, and before any of it becomes an invoice a partner or billing manager reads every line to pull the out-of-scope and advisory work out of the in-scope engagement. It is the split a fixed-rate model runs on, and today it is entirely manual: slow, and easy to under-capture.

Billswarm reads the WIP export and separates every line into in-scope, out-of-scope, and advisory, tallying each. We are not here to replace the partner. We do the sort, so the firm can fix-price the engagement, bill the extras on top, and close the WIP in minutes instead of hours.

We have one design partner in pilot and three more firms in onboarding conversations. The year-one thesis is to serve CCH Axcess shops only, not every firm generically, because that focus is the moat. We onboard manually, set up each firm’s taxonomy by hand, and earn the contract on the first month of real data before any of it touches paper.

This site is the marketing artifact. The product itself lives at app.billswarm.com, in an isolated AWS environment, with row-level tenant data isolation and an append-only audit trail. See Security for the contract posture.

Billswarm is built by a small team with a background in product engineering and applied ML, working closely with practicing CPAs. We built it because the move to fixed-rate pricing was stuck on a manual WIP sort no tool was doing. Billswarm proposes the split, the billing partner decides where each line belongs, and every decision is logged. The audit trail is as much the product as the split is.

We are deliberately small and will hire when there is a reason to, and not before.

The fastest way to see whether Billswarm fits your firm is a short demo. We walk you through the console on a sample batch and show exactly what it surfaces. When you’re ready, we can run a month of your own WIP or a redacted sample: after the call, under NDA, in our isolated environment. There is no signup form and nothing to integrate. Email austin@billswarm.com.