The Arden Lab
The Arden Lab
For tax, accounting, and CPA firms with 2 to 10 people. We find where your team's week is going, then hand that time back.
If the audit doesn't surface findings worth more than you paid, you get your money back.
Too much of the week still goes to work nobody should be doing by hand.
Reminders sent by hand, from one inbox nobody else can see into.
The same client figures keyed twice, with errors caught at review.
Another $60,000 salary to absorb work that shouldn't exist.
None of it is billable. All of it costs you.
Two to three weeks. We watch how work really moves through your firm.
The fixes, in the order that frees up the most time soonest.
We build it, put it in place, and train the team on it.
Three months: your roadmap, then the done-for-you build. Every partnership starts with an audit.
You hold Social Security numbers and financial records. Letting anyone near that is not a small ask.
Your team still signs off on every return and every client's numbers.
In your accounts, documented. No vendor lock-in, nothing leaves with us.
A decade of software and design-systems work behind every build.
One industry, learned properly. No general small-business advice.
The Arden Lab is taking on a small number of founding clients right now.
Rates set before results are in, held for the length of your engagement.
No account managers, no handoffs. You are not one of forty accounts.
We work only with tax, accounting, and CPA firms. The audit exists so nothing gets built on assumptions.
Everything we build lives in your accounts, under your control. AI never touches judgment calls, and your team keeps signing off on client work.
Then the audit did its job. The report is yours to keep, and it's priced to be worth it on its own.
A few hours across two to three weeks. Mostly we watch and ask questions while your team works the way they normally would.