Can I use Octobooks today?
Yes. Early access is open and free. Get in touch through the form below and we set you up. Octobooks already runs every day on the books of two real trading companies, a UK Ltd and a German GmbH, in a parallel run next to their accountant.
Who files my VAT return and my accounts?
You do, or your accountant, with everything ready: Octobooks hands over the figures and, for Germany and Austria, the draft files in the layout the tax office expects. Direct filing from Octobooks is next up, country by country, and each filing will wait for your approval.
Which AI can I connect?
Claude Cowork, and any other client that speaks the Model Context Protocol (MCP). Built your own AI? It uses the REST API. Bring whichever model you like: Octobooks works with all of them.
Can my AI post a booking or send an invoice by itself?
You set the rules, once, on your own page: you decide yourself, your AI decides for bookings that stay inside the books, two agents agree, or a rule you approved covers it. Anything that leaves the company waits for you. Everything decided without you shows up on a daily list and can be reversed.
What does my AI tell Octobooks about me?
The category, and that is all. When a bank line needs an answer, Octobooks offers categories from your chart of accounts and your AI picks one. Reasons, notes and your calendar stay with you: there is no field for them.
Do I still need an accountant?
Octobooks does the bookkeeping. Advice stays with a human adviser, and many owners keep one for the year end and the judgement calls. Yours gets a read only seat and the exports they already know, such as DATEV.
Can I bring my books from another system?
Yes, and it is easy. Xero, QuickBooks, FreeAgent, Sage, DATEV, sevDesk, Lexware Office or a spreadsheet: your AI and Octobooks move the books over, and we check every balance with you. Mid month, half booked, your accountant dropped the pen? No problem. We start from where you are.
What happens to my data if I leave?
You take it with you: one archive with every entry, every document and the links between them, checkable without Octobooks.
What happens when I join?
A person writes back and we set your company up together. Your email, company name and country stay on our server in Germany, for exactly that.