Premium Partner
XYRA AI, with an accountant checking what the model produced
Automated document capture is genuinely good now. It is also confidently wrong often enough that nobody should file a return on it unreviewed, which is exactly how we use it.
Where it is strong
What XYRA AI is genuinely good at
Capture that removes real work
Bank feeds, OCR receipt scanning and automated transaction categorisation. Invoices and bills are read and posted rather than typed — on a file carrying a few hundred bills a month, that is most of the data entry gone. Invoices can go out over WhatsApp, which in this market gets paid faster than email.
FTA returns generated, not assembled
VAT and corporate tax returns are produced from the ledger in FTA-compliant form, with UAE localisation built in rather than configured. It still needs checking — see below — but it starts from the right shape.
It connects to what you already run
Zoho Books, Odoo, Shopify, Zapier and the WhatsApp suite among about ten integrations. There is a free tier and an Android app, so trialling it costs nothing but your time.
And where it is not. It launched in 2026, so it carries less history than the alternatives and about ten integrations rather than hundreds. XYRA Books, the bookkeeping module, is what ships today; payroll, expenses, inventory and the CFO analytics module are on the published roadmap, so build your processes around Books and treat the rest as coming. And extraction accuracy is high but not perfect — a confident wrong answer is harder to catch than an obvious gap, which is the whole reason a person reviews the output before anything is filed.
What we do
The work, not the licence
Software is the easy half. The part that decides whether your books are usable is how it is configured and who checks what goes into it.
Implementation
Chart of accounts, tax codes, users and approval flows, opening balances reconciled to your last signed accounts.
Teaching the automation your business
Extraction rules and categorisation are only as good as the first few hundred documents they learn from. We supervise that period rather than leaving you to correct it afterwards.
Review, not just capture
Every period we check what the automation posted before it reaches a VAT return or a set of accounts. This is the part that makes the automation safe to rely on.
Ongoing bookkeeping
We run the file monthly, or review your in-house accountant's work, under any of our packages.
Automation does not remove the accountant. It moves what they do.
Data entry was never the valuable part. What matters is whether the treatment is right, whether the balance is real, and whether the position you are about to file can be defended. Tools like XYRA free the hours that used to go into typing, and the honest version of that pitch is that the review still happens — it just happens on better data.
Questions
XYRA AI, answered straight
Is it safe to let AI do my bookkeeping?
To capture and post, with a qualified person reviewing before anything is filed: yes, and it is more accurate than tired manual entry. Unreviewed, no — not because the technology is bad, but because it fails confidently rather than obviously, and a VAT return is the wrong place to discover that. Everything we run through it is reviewed.
Which parts of XYRA are actually available?
XYRA Books is the live product: bank feeds, OCR receipt capture, transaction categorisation, bank reconciliation, invoicing including WhatsApp delivery, and VAT and corporate tax returns in FTA-compliant form. There is a free tier, a paid plan from around USD 13 a month, and an Android app.
Payroll, expenses, inventory and the CFO analytics module are on the published roadmap. We will not build your processes around something that has not shipped, so if you need payroll today we will pair it with a solution that exists.
Does it work with the software we already use?
It integrates with Zoho Books, Odoo, Shopify, Zapier and the WhatsApp suite, among about ten connections. That is a short list compared with the mature platforms, so if a specific integration is load-bearing for you, tell us what it is and we will confirm before you commit rather than after.
It launched recently. Is that a risk?
It is a fair question and the honest answer is that a young product carries more change than a mature one. We mitigate it the way we would anywhere: your data stays exportable, the chart of accounts is portable, and we keep a reconciled trial balance independent of the tool. If it stopped suiting you, moving would be a migration, not a rebuild.
Can you use it on our file without us switching accountants?
Yes. Several clients keep an in-house accountant on the day-to-day and use us for the monthly review and the filings. Our internal audit engagement is priced for exactly that — AED 5,000 a year where you have your own accountant and want a second pair of eyes.
Also partnered
The other two we work in daily
We are a partner on three platforms rather than every platform, because a partnership that means anything requires using the product enough to know what it cannot do. We still support QuickBooks, Xero, Tally and the enterprise systems.
Talk to us about XYRA AI
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