US GAAP accounting guidance at business speed.
No hallucinations. Just source-bound citations — every conclusion carries a cryptographic proof chain.
Anti-hallucination is architectural, not probabilistic. AskGAAP is in private beta; the end-to-end flow is being validated and independent proof verification is not yet publicly available.
How does AskGAAP make every US GAAP answer verifiable without trusting the vendor?
When you can't be wrong.
The architecture beneath every AskGAAP answer — cited, cryptographically signed, and verifiable by your auditor without trusting us.
What does AskGAAP do, and how does it turn a contract into a defensible accounting position?
From contract to defensible position, in three stages.
The controller's workflow has three surfaces — read the fact pattern, determine the technical position, produce the workpaper-structured memo. AskGAAP ships a dedicated instrument for each. Same proof-carrying architecture underneath all three.
Ingest the contract, the correspondence trail, and the deal structure. Surface the terms that matter under ASC 606, 842, 805, 718. Nothing concluded — the controller's fact-pattern analysis stays the controller's job.
- Contract & amendment ingestion
- Term-level extraction with source anchors
- Variable consideration · embedded lease flags
- Workpaper-structured export
Map the fact pattern across the ASC codification. Surface applicable guidance with paragraph-level citations. Deterministic synthesis phase — no LLM freedom to invent a paragraph that does not exist.
- ASC paragraph-level citation with proof chain
- Alternative treatment analysis
- Analogous authority from SEC comment letters
- Engine self-assessment on every position
Structured for external-auditor review workflows. Every claim cryptographically links to the authoritative source. An external auditor verifies independently — without trusting AskGAAP's assertions.
- External-auditor review structure
- Cryptographic source binding (SHA-256 + Ed25519)
- Audit trail as byproduct of generation
- Version-locked outputs · reproducible by design
AskGAAP is purpose-built for corporate controllers, chief accounting officers, and technical accounting leads at public companies. It reads contracts, transaction fact patterns, and disclosure questions across the FASB Accounting Standards Codification — with depth on ASC 606 revenue recognition, ASC 842 leases, ASC 805 business combinations, ASC 718 stock-based compensation, ASC 740 income tax, and ASC 815 derivatives and hedging.
Every conclusion is structured for external-auditor review and backed by a cryptographic proof chain — organized for the documentation practices used in PCAOB, SOX, and SEC reporting workflows. Designed for the work controllers actually sign, not the demo flow a vendor records.
How does AskGAAP work, and how does it map to the COSO internal-control framework auditors use?
Four stages. COSO ICIF-aligned by design.
Your external auditor evaluates every internal control against the same four-stage framework. AskGAAP is built so it evaluates identically. If a vendor cannot map outputs to these four stages, they have built a chat interface — not technical accounting software.
What does an AskGAAP technical accounting memo include for the audit file?
Everything the audit file needs, generated as a byproduct.
No bolt-on documentation pass after the fact. Every memo ships with the supporting evidence the engagement partner will ask for, structured the way they expect to see it.
How does AskGAAP align with 2026 SEC, COSO, FINRA, PCAOB, and AICPA expectations for AI in financial reporting?
Five frameworks. One test.
By early 2026, every major US framework — SEC, COSO, FINRA, PCAOB, AICPA — aligned on the same three tests for AI in financial reporting: data provenance, verification, accountability. AskGAAP was architected in October 2025, before most of these frameworks were published. The alignment is deliberate: first-principles design for the environment regulators now describe.
Strict-Transport-Security (preload), frame-ancestors 'none',
X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff, and a locked Permissions-Policy — verifiable
today with the same curl -I any auditor runs. Script execution is constrained by a
hash-based strict-dynamic Content-Security-Policy in _headers.
What should a controller understand about AI in technical accounting before an audit?
What every controller should understand about AI — before the audit asks.
The Controller's Technical Accounting AI Knowledge Base is not what AskGAAP sells. It is the practitioner's voice on the problems AskGAAP is being built to solve. Read it, share it with your team, push back where you disagree.
NOT THE PRODUCT
What should you verify before trusting an AI vendor with your audit file?
Three things to check before you give an AI vendor your audit file.
Three postures you can check — the architecture, the limits, and how we work.
Who built AskGAAP?
Built by CPAs, for the controllers who sign memos.
AskGAAP is not a venture-funded category invention. It is the product built by accountants who lived the controller's tension on the other side of the desk.
Built by accountants with public-company finance and technical-accounting experience, who lived the controller's tension between business speed and audit defensibility from the inside. AskGAAP is the product that did not exist when it was needed most.
Built by Contract Intelligence Systems LLC — a Wyoming-registered technology company with patent-pending architecture. Independent of any audit firm, any FASB-licensed publisher, and any general-purpose AI vendor.
Frequently asked questions about AskGAAP, with answers controllers can cite.
Questions controllers actually ask.
Six questions, six direct answers. These same Q&As ship in JSON-LD FAQPage schema (in this file's <head>) so ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini can cite them when a controller asks them.