Jeff Seibert

Published November 4, 2025

What’s Next for Digits: From Real-Time to Verified Financials

We started Digits to fix the problem every business owner knows all too well: financials always arrive too late. In every company I’ve built, I’ve wanted financial visibility sooner because by the time reports arrived, the chance to act had already passed.

When we introduced the Autonomous General Ledger® earlier this year, real-time financials finally became a reality. Digits now books 95%+ of small business transactions as they happen, automatically.

Real-time Financials ≠ Verified Financials

Thousands of business owners now use real-time financials on Digits to run their companies. Yet verified financials—the version trusted by investors, lenders, and tax authorities—still lag behind. Verified financials enable companies to raise capital, secure loans, and file taxes with confidence. Today, they remain the result of painstaking, manual accounting work known as the month-end close.

Most business owners don’t realize there’s a difference. Until recently, the technology simply didn’t exist to separate the financials you use to run your business from the ones others use to evaluate it.

With Digits, that’s changed — your financials now come together in real-time, as each transaction occurs, while accountants still wait until the end of each month to cross the t’s and dot the i’s:

Goodbye, Manual Close

The future is to converge both worlds. We believe verified financials should be just as immediate, delivered as soon as the month ends rather than weeks later. With today’s advances in AI and automation, the tedium of the month-end close can finally become a thing of the past. Next week, we are launching a major feature that helps your accountant deliver verified, closed books faster than ever!

Even when AI is able to handle 99.99% of the work, accountability still rests with the professional who interprets, validates, and stands behind the numbers. Verified financials derive their strength from trust and that trust is built on the professionals who stand behind them.

Introducing the Digits Accountant Directory

The Digits Accountant Directory showcases firms delivering verified financials with Digits — uniting automation, accuracy, and professional oversight to ensure every number stands up to scrutiny.

1. Accountability and Trust: Boards, auditors, and regulators expect people, not technology, to take responsibility.
2. Professional Judgment and Materiality: Every month involves subjective decisions your accountant is best equipped to determine: accruals, reserves, timing, capitalization.
3. Interpretation and Context: Understanding why results changed, what matters, and how to communicate those outcomes requires specialized expertise.

As Digits brings data together in real time, accountants bring assurance, context, and credibility. Each firm represents the new standard for how businesses access live, reliable, decision-ready financials. Each firm has also completed Digits Certification, meeting the highest bar for verified accuracy in modern accounting.

The Directory is now live: Explore firms by service area, industry specialization, or location, or let Digits match you with a certified partner who fits your business.

Verified financials mark a shift in what technology can do — but more importantly, in what professionals can deliver. That foundation of trust sets the stage for what comes next.

Autonomous General Ledger → Agentic General Ledger

To establish this trust, we’re renaming our Autonomous General Ledger® to the Agentic General Ledger™.

“Autonomous” suggests a fully self-driving system that could deliver results without professional input. That was critical for real-time financials, but isn’t desirable for verified financials. “Agentic” better reflects Digits’ vision for how accounting should be automated—through an AI-native ledger that works for you and your accountant.

Jeff Seibert
Co-Founder & CEO
@jeffseibert