The problem
Accounting firms can't hire enough accountants to keep up with manual close, tax prep and audit work
What they do
AI agents that do accounting, tax and audit work end to end for accounting firms
Traction In ~7 of top 25 US firms (Feb 2026), ~40% by Jul 2026 (CEO est.); headcount ~2.5x YoY
Hiring trend
- Open roles
- 42
- Ops roles
- 4
- Headcount
- ~120-200
Headcount ~76 (Sep 2025) → ~200 (Oct 2026), +149% YoY on LinkedIn; 44 open roles
Hiring in
- New York
- Remote
Latest news
Aug 2026
Launched End-to-End Tax Platform: agents run the whole tax return from intake to review ↗Funding
- Last round
- $100M
- Stage
- Series B
- Date
- Feb 2026
Led by Accel (with GV, Khosla Ventures)
- Hiring+242 open roles on the live job board (30+ roles = +2)
- Funding recency+1.5Series B · $100M, Feb 2026 (8 months ago): 6–12 months = +1, $100M+ round +0.5
- Traction+1.5Strong growth: In ~7 of top 25 US firms (Feb 2026), ~40% by Jul 2026 (CEO est.); headcount ~2.5x YoY
- Red flags0None found in the last 24 months
- Total5.02 + 1.5 + 1.5 − 0 = 5.0 → Sprint (4.75 or more)
Distance (Half) is a separate read on how long the lead can last. It doesn't change the score.
Distance
Half · edge: hard to leave
Claims to be the most-deployed AI platform in accounting firms (about 40% of the top 25, 25%+ of the top 150) with a Deployed Intelligence team embedding agents across whole practice areas; a young category with Fieldguide, Accrual and tax-software incumbents chasing the same firms.
Sources: Accounting Today: Basis deployed at ~40% of top 25 firms, 120 staff (Jul 2026) ↗ · Sikich partners with Basis (Jul 2026) ↗ · Reuters via Yahoo: Basis raises $100M at $1.15B, ~7 of top 25 firms (Feb 2026) ↗
Last checked Oct 25, 2026