💵 PRICING

What it costs to stop doing month-end

Every price on this page is the real price. Month-to-month, no contracts, no per-seat fees, no usage charges. Most businesses start with one closed month for $497 and decide from there.

START HERE

First Close — $497, one time

Before any recurring commitment, one complete month-end close, configured to your chart of accounts and delivered within two weeks.

What is included

  • QuickBooks connected and the close configured to your accounts
  • Full reconciliation against every payment processor
  • Every gap and exception flagged with the transaction behind it
  • Plain-language P&L narrative
  • The exported close packet
  • A recorded 30-minute walkthrough

The terms

  • The full $497 credits toward your first month of any recurring plan
  • Refundable in full if the packet is not delivered
  • No commitment to continue afterward
  • Delivered personally by William — no outsourcing

Full details on the First Close page →

RECURRING

Back Office plans

Work delivered on a fixed schedule. Each plan contains everything in the plan below it. No separate setup tier is required — the $497 First Close is your setup.

Books + Pipeline
$1,697 /mo
$1,885 à la carte — saves $188/mo

Everything in Books, plus the front end of the business: which leads to work and a CRM that stays current without anyone typing into it.

  • Everything in Books
  • Weekly Lead Triage — Mondays by 8 AM
  • Weekly CRM Maintenance — Fridays by 5 PM
Full Back Office
$2,497 /mo
$3,975 à la carte — saves $1,478/mo

Everything in Books + Pipeline, plus marketing execution and the reporting rhythm that keeps a growing business legible to its owner.

  • Everything in Books + Pipeline
  • Monthly Content Strategy + Assets — by the 1st
  • Monthly Campaign Run — by the 15th
  • Weekly Friday Brief — Fridays by 4 PM
  • Quarterly Business Review — within 10 days of quarter end

A bookkeeper runs $500–$2,500 a month. A fractional controller runs $3,000–$8,000. Books is $897.

WHICH IS RIGHT FOR ME

Pick by what is actually broken

Not by company size. The question is which job is currently landing on someone who should be doing something else.

If this is you

You or your office manager are still personally doing month-end, usually at night, usually late. You find out what the month looked like somewhere around the 20th of the next one.

→ Books, $897/mo
If this is you

The books are handled, but leads sit for days before anyone calls them, and the CRM has not been accurate since the last time someone cleaned it up by hand.

→ Books + Pipeline, $1,697/mo
If this is you

You are running everything — finance, sales follow-up, marketing, and reporting — and the constraint is your own hours rather than any one function.

→ Full Back Office, $2,497/mo

Not sure yet?

Start with the $497 First Close. It answers the question with your own numbers instead of a sales conversation, and it credits in full against whichever plan you choose afterward.

À LA CARTE

Individual services

Every service is available on its own. The bundles above exist because most businesses need several, not because these are unavailable separately.

SmartDesk à la carte services with prices and delivery cadence
ServicePriceCadence
Monthly Close Package$597/moBy the 5th
Weekly Cash Flow Snapshot$297/moMondays by 9 AM
Monthly Payroll Planning Check$197/mo3 business days before payroll
Tax Prep Packet$997/yrBy February 15
Weekly Lead Triage$397/moMondays by 8 AM
Weekly CRM Maintenance$397/moFridays by 5 PM
Monthly Content Strategy + Assets$997/moBy the 1st
Monthly Campaign Run$697/moBy the 15th
Weekly Friday Brief$197/moFridays by 4 PM
Quarterly Business Review$597/qtrWithin 10 days of quarter end
Contract Review$247/doc48-hour turnaround
Customer Pulse Report$197/report24-hour turnaround

Bundle savings above are calculated against these prices, with the Quarterly Business Review counted at $199/mo.

RUN IT YOURSELF

Prefer to run it yourself?

We will set the whole system up and train your team. You operate it day to day; we keep it configured, current, and supported.

TierSetupMonthlyIncludes
Starter$1,497$447 3–5 priority skills · 2 connectors · 60-min onboarding · monthly check-in · email + Slack support · Loom library
Growth$2,997$897 10–15 skills · full connector stack · onboarding + test run · bi-weekly check-ins · priority support · quarterly strategy review
Scale$5,247$1,497 All 31 skills · full connector stack · extended onboarding · weekly check-ins · same-day support · monthly strategy + new skills
Enterprise + Skill FactoryFrom $7,497$1,997 Everything in Scale, plus up to 5 custom skills · custom connector · dedicated Slack channel · bi-weekly strategy calls · SOW

Setup covers configuration, not installation: chart-of-accounts mapping, thresholds, business rules, output formats, and approval workflow. See how setup works →

SKILL FACTORY

When the skill you need does not exist yet

Built around your exact workflow, your tools, your data, and the output your team actually uses. Fixed price, quoted before any work begins.

Single custom skill

From $2,500

Fixed price. One workflow, built and tested on your real data.

Three-skill bundle

From $6,500

Fixed price. Includes a 30-day post-delivery refinement window.

Skill Factory retainer

$1,997/mo

Ongoing custom development. Included in the Enterprise tier.

How it works

Free scoping call, then a written fixed-price quote within 24–48 hours. Build and test on real data, then deploy with a live walkthrough and Loom documentation. Typically 3–7 business days after quote approval. Requires any active SmartDesk plan. More on custom skills →

PROFESSIONAL SERVICES

$250/hour, SOW-based

Scoped and quoted before any work begins. Custom connector integration — Oracle EBS, Fusion Cloud, Epic, ServiceTitan, Salesforce, AthenaHealth, Great Plains, FreshBooks — plus skill modification and enterprise integration.

A three-day Oracle engagement is a $6,000 project — you know that before you start, not after.

TERMS

The fine print, in plain language

QUESTIONS

Common questions

Do I still need my bookkeeper?

Yes. We produce the close package. Your bookkeeper or CPA handles filing and advisory. The roles do not overlap, and a clean close package usually makes your accountant's work faster and cheaper.

What happens to my financial data?

Your books stay in your own QuickBooks account. Access is read-only unless you explicitly grant more, and it is revoked whenever you ask. Nothing is sold, shared with third parties, or used to train any model.

Do I have to learn anything?

On the Back Office plans, no. Work arrives as finished documents on a fixed schedule. The self-serve setup tiers are the option for owners who do want to run the system themselves, and those include training.

What if I already tried AI and got a chatbot?

A chatbot answers questions. This delivers documents. The output is a reconciled close packet, a cash forecast, or a payroll readiness check, produced on a date you can plan around.

What does "you approve everything" mean?

Nothing is filed, sent, posted, or paid on your behalf. Deliverables arrive for your review. You decide what to act on.

What if Anthropic changes something?

Maintaining the configuration against platform changes is part of the recurring fee. If something breaks upstream, fixing it is our job, not yours.

Can I cancel?

Yes. All plans are month-to-month with 30 days' notice. There are no contracts and no cancellation fees.

What am I paying for in month six?

The same thing as month one: the close package, the cash snapshots, and the payroll check arriving on schedule, reviewed by a person before they reach you. The configuration also keeps changing as your business does.

Why is the Anthropic plan billed separately?

The system runs on Claude, and that subscription is held in your name so the account and its data belong to you rather than to us. Pro at $20/month is the minimum; Max at $100/month is recommended for the heavier plans.

START HERE

One month. Closed properly. $497.

The cheapest way to find out whether any of this is worth it is to have one real month closed with your own numbers. It credits in full toward whichever plan you pick.

✓ Month-to-month ✓ No contracts ✓ Cancel with 30 days' notice