Zeni

What is Zeni?

Zeni is an AI accounting and bookkeeping platform for startups and growing businesses that want books, bill pay and reporting handled by AI with human review. It layers on QuickBooks Online and assigns each customer a dedicated finance team, and the vendor reports 1,000+ customers.

Key features of Zeni

• AI Accountant: categorizes transactions, matches receipts, reconciles accounts and runs month-end close.
• Zeni experts: 250+ accountants, bookkeepers and controllers review low-confidence items and sign off each close.
• AI CFO: answers questions about cash, burn, runway and spend and produces board-ready reports.
• AI Bill Pay and reimbursements: accounts payable and expense reimbursement workflows.
• Zeni MCP: connects books to AI assistants such as Claude and ChatGPT.
• Add-on services: fractional CFO, tax accounting and payroll.

How Zeni works

Zeni connects to QuickBooks Online, bank accounts and cards, and the AI categorizes and reconciles daily. The finance team reviews exceptions and signs off monthly close, and the AI CFO produces reports from the closed books. The vendor says setup takes about a week.

Who uses Zeni?

Zeni serves founders, CEOs, finance leaders, accounting firms, SaaS and AI companies and startups.

Zeni pricing

Zeni lists Starter at $549 per month and Growth at $799 per month, with Enterprise custom. Every plan includes AI bookkeeping, bill pay, reimbursements and a dedicated finance team, and final pricing depends on monthly expenses and complexity.

Zeni integrations

Zeni uses QuickBooks Online as its primary ledger, connects to bank accounts and cards, and offers Zeni MCP for AI assistants such as Claude and ChatGPT.

Zeni alternatives

Karbon is practice management software for accounting firms rather than a bookkeeping service. Financial Cents and Jetpack Workflow manage firm workflows, and Uku is a workflow tool for accountants. Dext automates receipt and invoice capture.