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Double is turning its accounting assistant into the way the work gets done

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◆Current state
Double ships weekly, and nearly every release extends Ask Double rather than the surrounding application. In the last two months it has learned to build workpapers by reconciling accounts against supporting documents, import accruals, create and manage client metrics through the MCP and API, take voice input, and — in private beta — reach into Slack, Notion, and HubSpot. The non-assistant work fills in what firms need to trust that: role-based restrictions on editing client properties, and check transactions in AI Transactions.
◆Where it's heading
The assistant is moving from answering questions to performing the billable work — tie-out, accrual setup, metric standardization across a whole book of clients. Each release pairs that with an access or permissions control, which is the pattern of a vendor that knows the objection is liability rather than capability. The accounting engine itself keeps advancing underneath, most recently with prepaid contracts paid in installments.
◆Prediction
Given the review-and-signoff question these features raise, the likely next step is an approval or audit trail around what Ask Double produces rather than another task it can perform.

◆Recent moves

  1. 5d ago

    Accruals handles prepaid contracts paid in installments

    Accruals handles multi-payment prepaid contracts, linking each installment to one continuous schedule that replenishes as payments arrive, and posts a period's amortization even when no payment landed. Core accounting work rather than assistant work, but it removes a case firms previously handled with separate schedules.

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  2. 12d ago

    Role-based restrictions on editing client properties

    Admins can restrict client property editing to chosen roles, where standard users could previously overwrite any property, and check becomes a supported transaction type in AI Transactions. The permissions half is what firms that invested in property setup have been exposed on.

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  3. 19d ago

    Ask Double reaches Slack, Notion and CRM data in private beta

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    Connections let Ask Double read from Slack, Notion, and HubSpot, so a question about a client draws on context that lives outside Double. Read and write tools are separated per connection, and it ships in private beta.

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  4. 26d ago

    Voice input for Ask Double

    Ask Double accepts voice input through a microphone icon in the chat composer, with device selection and the option to review before sending. Aimed at questions asked while reviewing books, where typing is the obstacle.

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  5. 1mo ago

    Create and manage client metrics via Ask Double and MCP

    Client metrics — tabs, variables, and visuals — can be created and managed through Ask Double and the Double MCP and API, including copying a metrics setup across an entire book of clients with conflict flagging. Standardization across clients is the part that previously meant repeating setup tab by tab.

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  6. 1mo ago

    Ask Double builds workpapers by reconciling accounts to documents

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    Ask Double builds workpapers by reconciling account balances against supporting documents, and can import accruals from a supporting file. It is the point where the assistant took on the manual tie-out that firms staff with billable hours.

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