What OpenAccountants does — and where its limits are.

Yes, under a separate paid engagement. We confirm the countries, scope, the accountant responsible and the price before work begins. Reading our free Guides or using the AI connection does not create an engagement or submit a return.

Tell us the work you need, the countries involved and any deadline. We confirm whether we can take it on before you commit.

The introductory 30-minute call is free. Accounting services are quoted in writing once we understand the work, including who will deliver it and the price.

OpenAccountants is an accounting firm that works with AI. We do bookkeeping, payroll and tax for business owners in different countries. We also publish free, source-cited Guides that people and AI tools can use. Every Guide shows its sources and review status.

No. Guides and automated outputs are reference material and drafts. User-specific professional advice requires a separate engagement with a qualified practitioner.

No. The free Guides and AI connection help with research and drafts. Tax-return work requires a separate paid engagement with an accountant; using the Guides does not submit a return or make a payment.

Added to your AI, it searches the current Guides, retrieves the relevant ones and returns version and review details during a conversation.

Most were drafted overnight by our engine, which reads only official government pages and may not publish a figure without a link to its source. They stay clearly labelled as built by Michael Cutajar and the OpenAccountants team until a licensed accountant reviews one and takes the byline.

Exactly what it says: the engine wrote it from official sources, nobody has professionally reviewed it yet, and the label stays until a named accountant approves it. A draft is never dressed up as reviewed.

Yes. The whole library is open on GitHub: fix the Guide there and, once merged, your change flows back into what every AI serves, credited to you by name. If the Guide carries an accountant's byline, that accountant approves the change first.

No. Read files on the website or GitHub, install local packages with the CLI, use MCP for compatible agents or use API access for an existing application.

Yes. Every public Guide should be readable on OpenAccountants and linked to its exact GitHub source.

Each Guide is versioned. Local installations can pin versions, hosted retrieval returns the current release and production integrations can use change notifications where available.

No. Anyone can use OpenAccountants and the Guides without joining as an accountant.

As an accountant, you review the complete displayed Guide version against its sources and your professional knowledge. The review is recorded publicly with your name, credentials and review date.

You may opt in to relevant professional introductions where available. Introductions and paid work use separate terms and are not guaranteed.

Downloaded files and a genuinely local installation do not send content to OpenAccountants unless the user enables a networked service.

Yes. Requests reach the hosted service and may generate operational metadata as described in the Privacy Policy. Do not submit unnecessary personal or confidential data.

The information selected for review is shared with the relevant practitioner under the applicable engagement and privacy terms.