Accounting Transformation
Accountants Who Use the Same Tools Your Engineers Use
We don't just understand AI. We build with it. Claude, ChatGPT, and custom automations are active parts of our practice, deployed inside your accounting stack to close faster, catch anomalies earlier, and give you the financial clarity to move.
Sound Familiar?
The Problems That Keep Finance Leaders Up at Night
If any of this hits close to home, you're not alone. These are the challenges we hear in nearly every discovery call.
Month-End Close Takes Too Long
Your close stretches 15+ days. Leadership wants faster reporting, but every shortcut risks accuracy. The process feels stuck.
Senior Staff Buried in Manual Work
Your best people spend their time on reconciliations, data entry, and formatting instead of analysis and strategic decisions.
Inherited Spreadsheets Nobody Wants to Touch
Years of patched formulas, undocumented tabs, and tribal knowledge baked into workbooks that everyone relies on but nobody trusts.
Scaling Means Hiring More People
Every new entity, product line, or audit requirement means another headcount request. The cost of growth keeps compounding.
How We're Different
Accounting Changed in 2025. Most Firms Are Still Catching Up.
The gap between excitement and action is where most accounting firms live right now. They've played with ChatGPT. They watched the demos. They know something is changing. But 63% of firms still haven't invested in the training or tooling to put AI to real use inside their practice.
Zeroed-In is on the other side of that gap. Claude and ChatGPT are active parts of our workflows. We've built automations, standardized processes with custom GPTs, and deployed human-in-the-loop scripting on reconciliation work. We know what works, what doesn't, and, critically, where human judgment still has to be in the room.
Because here's what doesn't change: the reconciling, the formatting, the cross-referencing, all of that is automatable. The GAAP judgment, the strategic interpretation, the positions that hold up under audit scrutiny, that still requires an expert. AI makes our team faster. It doesn't replace what makes our team valuable.
For high-growth tech startups, this matters. You move fast. Your investors expect clean numbers and fast closes. You can't afford a finance partner who's still figuring out the tools you already use in your own product.
Not sure where your team sits on the AI maturity curve?
Use our interactive AI Skill Tree to assess where you are and what to learn next.
Proof of Work
Real Results from Our Own Practice
These aren't hypothetical use cases. They're examples of how we use AI in our own work, on real client engagements.
Days spent on ASC 842 lease implementation
AI-assisted analysis reduces time by up to 80%
Manual bank rec line-by-line matching
AI tags matches, reviewer confirms exceptions in minutes
Scattered Excel workbooks built over years
Standardized Claude-enhanced reconciliation templates
Slow month-end close taking 15+ days
Streamlined close, achieving <10 day closes
Time Reduction
ASC 842 Lease Implementations
ASC 842 used to mean days of manual schedule-building, term extraction, and cross-referencing. With targeted prompting, our team now completes full implementations in a fraction of the time, without sacrificing accuracy or auditability.
How we did it
AI processes lease agreements, extracts key terms, and supports generation of compliant amortization schedules and journal entries from plain-language input.
Built using Claude Chat
Not Days
Bank Reconciliation Automation
We standardized the bank rec workflow using AI to cross-reference bank statements against the GL and tag matching items automatically. Reconciling items are highlighted for human review.
How we did it
AI handles the matching logic. Your reviewer validates the output and resolves exceptions. Faster, cleaner, and fully auditable.
Built using Claude Code/Excel
Workbook Upgrade
Standardized Monthly Recs
We took a client’s existing Excel workbooks, built over years and inconsistently structured, and used AI to analyze, redesign, and rebuild them as clean, standardized monthly reconciliation templates.
How we did it
No rip-and-replace. We upgraded what they already had, preserving their data and logic while making the process faster and more consistent.
Built using Claude in Excel
How We Work
AI-Powered Workflows. Expert-Validated Results.
Each tool in our stack has a specific job. Here's what we use and what we use it for.
AI Processes
Data extraction, matching, and analysis
Human Reviews
Expert validates and resolves exceptions
Final Output
Audit-ready, accurate, delivered fast
Technical Accounting and Document Analysis
Chatbots let us process entire lease portfolios, contract sets, and technical memos using a chunking methodology (breaking things down into smaller steps). We follow a simple 3-step model, with a human ALWAYS in the loop at crucial steps.
- Step 1: Contract term extraction
- Step 2: Technical accounting research with conclusions
- Step 3: Audit ready policy memos
Financial Modeling and Month-End Close
Plain-language instructions become working Excel formulas, VBA scripts, and full financial models. We use Claude Code to build, rebuild, and standardize the spreadsheet infrastructure your close depends on, cutting build time and removing the need to reverse-engineer old, inherited formulas.
- Monthly reconciliation workbook upgrades
- Formula generation and VBA automation
- Three-statement model builds
- Close process standardization
Standardized Team Workflows
We build Custom GPTs trained on your specific accounting policies and procedures. Every output follows similar format, similar logic, and similar standards, regardless of who on your team runs it. Consistency at scale without added headcount.
- Consistent accounting memo formatting
- Standardized month end close reconciliations
- Repeatable close checklists and documentation
Reconciliation and Data Processing
Custom scripts handle high-volume, repetitive matching and data transformation, with a human review checkpoint built in. You get the speed of automation and the accuracy of expert oversight, without giving one up for the other.
- Bank statement vs. GL cross-referencing
- Automatic flagging of reconciling items
- Data normalization and cleanup
- Automated report generation
Your Team
Accountants. Active AI Practitioners.
John Ikosipentarhos
President / Co-FounderJohn Ikosipentarhos is a CPA in Orange County, CA, with 10+ years in public and private accounting. Specializing in corporate accounting and finance, he helps companies leverage new technologies and automate workflows to reduce costs. He has a Bachelor’s in Business Administration with an Accounting emphasis from Cal State Fullerton.
Travis Laganosky
Managing DirectorTravis brings nearly 15 years of experience across technology, media, education, real estate, and healthcare industries. His expertise spans full-cycle accounting, technical research, SEC reporting, SOX compliance, and M&A transactions. He is a licensed CPA in Florida with a background including senior roles at a global tech startup, a publicly traded entertainment/media company, an advertising tech startup, and a private equity healthcare organization.
Michelle Morrison
ManagerMichelle Morrison is a Nevada-based CPA with 20+ years of experience in both public and corporate accounting roles that include US GAAP, SEC, and internal controls. Her transformation skillset includes process optimization, automation, and ERP implementation, and holds a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting from the University of Nevada, Reno.
Ready to Run Your Accounting at AI Speed?
Schedule a discovery call to see how we can put Claude, ChatGPT, and custom automation to work inside your accounting operation.
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How to Get Started with Zeroed-In Consulting
Schedule a Discovery Call
To get started, we’ll review your current state, identify gaps, and give clear, honest feedback, fast.
Get a Tailored Game Plan
From there, we’ll prioritize the urgent issues and simplify the path to digital transformation with a clear strategy.
Ongoing Support
We operate as an extension of your team, not just for this engagement, but to support your long-term growth.
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