Fractional AI Engineers
for Accounting Firms
Hire pre-vetted, highly autonomous AI engineers who start in days, scope the work, and build.
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The margin leak most accounting firms don't track
Your senior staff bills at your highest rates. Then they spend 15 hours a week not billing.
Searching for the answer to a client question. Logging into QuickBooks, then NetSuite, then email, then Slack. Reconciling data that should reconcile itself.
- ×Client data spread across QuickBooks, NetSuite, email, and Slack. Nothing connected.
- ×Answering client questions that require logging into 3-4 systems
- ×AP/AR follow-up done manually, one email at a time
- ×Monthly reports rebuilt from scratch every time
- ×Data cleanup and spreadsheet formatting nobody wants to do but someone has to
// the actual waste
$108,000 per year
in lost billing capacity, per person
15 hrs/week non-billable
× $150/hr billing rate
× 48 weeks
= $108,000/year per person
That's one senior accountant's billing capacity, gone. Most firms have three or four people losing the same time.
How it works
30-min call with one of our engineers
Not a sales call. They ask the right questions, listen to how your team operates, and tell you exactly what they'd build — before you commit to anything.
FreeWe discuss your biggest bottleneck
You map out where your team is losing the most hours. The engineer shares how they'd solve it — what gets built, what it connects to, what it replaces.
You buy a package of hours
No retainer. No long-term commitment. Buy the hours you need and use them for the work you agreed on. Most firms start with a 40-hour block — enough to get a working tool live and see the impact before adding more.
Pay as you goYour engineer embeds with your team
They start in 2–3 days. They work in your stack, alongside your people, on the workflows you identified together. Everything they build is yours to keep.
Starts in 2–3 daysWhat Near engineers build for accounting firms
Tracked and followed up automatically. Nothing slips.
Clients get everything on day one, automatically.
Generated from your existing data. No manual reformatting.
Anyone finds any answer in seconds. No waiting, no pinging.
One place for client status, SOPs, and account details.
Cleaned automatically before it reaches your team.
Why Our Clients
Choose Near
Talk to one of our Engineers
Pre-vetted, highly trained engineers.
We leverage our local market expertise across Latin America to identify and screen the best AI engineering talent. Every engineer is vetted for technical depth, communication, and autonomy — with a proven track record to back us up.
Four ways firms try to solve this. One that ships.
Full-time AI hire
$150K-$180K/year
You need 40 hours a week of work for them. Most firms don't have that yet.
Near
Start at 40-hour package. Pay for hours worked.
Start next week. Add hours as you go. Stop when you want.
AI consulting firm
Months before anything ships
Scoping alone takes 2-3 months. Working software doesn't arrive until month four or five.
Near
Engineer starts in 2-3 days
They scope the work and build at the same time.
Off-the-shelf tools
Built for average workflows, not yours
They require customization you don't have engineers to do. So you work around them.
Near
Built on your stack, for your workflows
Your data stays where it is. No new platform to learn. No migration.
Doing it yourself
Unfinished projects
No time, no expertise, no dedicated person. Good ideas, no follow-through.
Near
One dedicated engineer, autonomous
They scope, they build, they ship. You review the output, not the process.
FAQ
What have other accounting firms built with Near engineers?+
AP/AR automation, unified client dashboards that pull from QuickBooks, NetSuite, HubSpot, and Slack, internal knowledge bases for SOPs and account status, automated onboarding flows, and monthly reporting tools. Most firms start with whichever of these is costing the most billable hours.
Can clients hire the engineer full-time?+
Yes. You can start with a package or two to see how the engineer works with your team. If it's a good fit, you can convert them to a full-time hire. A lot of our clients go that route.
What does the engineer vetting process actually look like?+
Every engineer goes through Near's technical screening before they're placed. We test for engineering fundamentals, AI and automation tooling, and the ability to work independently on ambiguous problems — not just follow a spec.
Can we stop anytime? What are the commitment and package options?+
You buy a package of hours based on what you need. There's no long-term contract or retainer. Use the hours, see what gets built, and decide from there.
What's the average engineer background — experience level and tech stack?+
Our engineers have several years of software and automation experience, including the AI and workflow automation layer on top — Claude, ChatGPT, n8n, Make, Zapier, and Python. They're also fluent in the tools accounting firms already run: QuickBooks, NetSuite, HubSpot, and Slack.
What teams say after hiring a Near engineer
The engineers Near provided are incredibly high quality. I worked at Google for 10 years, where the bar for talent is very high, and I would say the people I placed through Near are comparable to the people I worked with at Google.
Ashley Black
Ex-Head of Sales @ Google
Founder, Candid Consulting
Near has allowed us to nearly double our caseload without doubling our in-office staff.
Kathy Patterson
Operations Manager
California Consumer Attorneys
Near was a game-changer for our business. We increased lead generation by 100% with automations built by talent we hired through Near.
Sumner Vanderhoof
Co-founder & CEO
Propensity
Book the call. Bring your messiest workflow. We'll tell you how we can help.
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