Straight answers. What you get, what you keep, and what it costs.

The Sprint is a self-guided finance and accounting platform firms build themselves. You get a guided planner, tested starter source code, control foundations and build guides. Your firm uses its own compatible AI coding workspace to build the workflows it needs.

You choose the first useful result and its limits. Your workspace helps with the technical work. Your firm owns the decisions, tests the finished workflow and approves it before live use.

The price is $2,000 once per firm, with a perpetual licence to the supplied source and no per-seat fee. Workspace subscriptions, hosting and AI usage are separate. This is a platform you build and run, rather than a hosted app you sign in to after payment.

No. The wider platform can cover the accounting close, 13-week cash forecasts, three-statement and valuation models, and financial and bank covenant reporting. Project Falcon shows those workflows in use in one private equity portfolio. That is evidence from one engagement, not a promised result for another firm.

The Sprint supplies the plan, tested foundation and build guides. Its catalog distinguishes implemented, scaffolded and planned parts; your firm builds and validates the workflows and connections it chooses.

The Bootcamp teaches the method through one starter workflow on test data. The four-week Build covers one month-end close across the client books in scope. Additional forecasting, modeling and reporting work is agreed separately.

You do build it yourself. The value is where you start. The Sprint gives you a documented plan, tested controls and examples to adapt to your firm, so you can spend more of the build on the work you need.

The package includes four worked examples and five commit checks. For the supplied components, 2,140 tests passed and 1 was skipped. The controls cover risks such as one person preparing and approving the same entry, or an approval being reused after the figures change. Four handoff files record the outcome and limits you choose.

Those tests prove the parts that ship. Your firm still has to build and validate its selected workflows, integrations and deployment. Before a real write, you must prove that every write follows the approval controls and that there is no second path.

Your coding workspace supplies the AI tools. The Sprint supplies the finance and accounting plan, tested source, control foundations, examples and build guides. You use them together.

Quick Start asks three business questions. The optional seven-stage Customize path lets you add detail. The handoff files and repository instructions guide a compatible workspace through your chosen build. The checker validates the handoff files; it does not grant permission or enforce the finished system’s security.

You need your own compatible workspace and access to the features the guide uses. Availability depends on the app, plan, settings and account access. Workspace subscriptions and AI usage are separate from the Sprint price.

You can make the plan without writing code. Open the planner in your browser and answer three questions: what work you want to do, which accounting product to prove first, and what the first useful result should be. The local planner needs no Vesper account or installation.

Building and running your platform takes technical work. You need a compatible coding workspace, a permanent project folder, a code repository and a working build environment. Hosting and provider accounts may be needed for the workflows you choose. The guides cover setup, but someone at your firm must own it.

Your workspace can handle routine design, code, tests, fixes and commits within the outcome you authorize. It must pause for missing facts, owner-only actions or a material change to the agreed limits. Connecting accounts, allowing data access and approving live use remain firm decisions. Deployment requires your approval.

You may want a developer for unfamiliar integrations or deployment. You also need someone qualified to judge the accounting, review the evidence and approve the result. The Sprint does not include hands-on build or validation services.

Quick Start records a default of no client data sent to an AI provider. The optional Customize path lets you change that rule. The handoff records your choice, and its checker validates that the plan is complete and consistent.

Your finished build still has to enforce the rule. Before live use, your firm must prove the real data path through its workspace, providers and deployment. Only give a coding workspace data that your firm has approved for that tool and its settings.

The local planner itself sends nothing anywhere. It runs in your browser from a file on your machine, without an account or network calls. If you later share the exported plan with an AI workspace, that is a separate step governed by that tool’s data handling.

Yes. Approval controls do not establish accounting correctness. Your firm remains responsible for the figures and the judgement behind them.

The supplied controls require a named person to approve a guarded write. By default, the preparer cannot approve their own work. A service account cannot approve. Approval is tied to the exact payload: the worked example shows that approval of a $400 reclass does not authorize a $40,000 one.

The package does not include a certified live connector. Its tests prove the controls that ship, not your full client build. Before a real write, your finished integration must route every write through those controls and prove there is no second path.

The terms of sale require a qualified person at your firm to review and approve every output before it is posted, sent, filed or relied on.

Those duties are yours. They do not move. That includes keeping client data private. We are not your lawyer, and this is not legal advice.

The handoff gives you a written record of the rules you chose. Who may approve what. Where client data may be handled. What the finished software may do. The package includes tested control foundations. But the finished build still has to put those rules in place. And its go-live evidence has to show they hold in the real provider and the real deployment.

Is your real question which AI tools already touch client work, and what proof you hold for each one? That is what the AI Register is for. Free, private, and about ninety seconds.

The package includes a small QuickBooks Online reference adapter. It is not a turnkey or certified live connection. Selecting QBO in the planner does not make it one.

For Xero, NetSuite, Sage Intacct or another provider, your firm and coding workspace build and validate the integration you choose, using the provider-independent interfaces. That work is part of your build; it is not an included Vesper implementation service.

The package includes provider setup guidance covering credentials, scopes, expiry and test companies. Prove the connection on test data, then validate and approve the full workflow before allowing access to real books.