Dom closes your books, produces your management accounts and board pack, reads and writes your ERP and CRM, prepares and files statutory accounts with Companies House, and answers any financial question on your live numbers.
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Why did gross margin fall in October, and what do I tell the board?
Gross margin was 41.8% in October, down 0.9 points on September. Pricing held. The fall is cost-led, and two drivers explain most of it.
For the boardMargin is down on cost, not price. Freight is the lever; the commentary sets out the action and the cash effect.
Built for finance teams that need work completed, decisions surfaced and actions owned.
FP&A tools show you the numbers. Data platforms store them. Dom does the accounting itself, from the ledger to the board pack to the filing, and writes back into your systems while he does it.
| Datarails*FP&A and reporting software for Excel users. | Databricks*A data and AI platform for data teams. | Critical FinanceAn AI accountant that does the work, end to end. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Produces your management accounts automatically from the ledger | Excel-based reports your team builds | Not stated | Every month, in your own format |
| Learns your reporting from your own past packs | Not stated | Not stated | Rebuilds your history and reconciles it line by line |
| Runs the month-end close | Separate Month-End Close module | Not stated | Accruals, reconciliations and checks run overnight |
| Consolidates the group, FX and intercompany | Yes | Not stated | Yes |
| Writes the board pack and the board deck | AI summaries and storyboards | Not stated | Finished pack, commentary and deck |
| Answers questions in plain English | Genius AI assistant | Genie, on datasets your data team curates | On your live ledger, then does the work |
| Writes back into your ERP and CRM | Not stated: connectors read actuals | Not stated for finance | Posts to SAP, Dynamics and Xero, with your approval |
| Prepares and files statutory accounts | Not stated | Not stated | Files with Companies House |
| Works without a data engineering team | Yes | Data teams curate the datasets | Yes |
* Based on each company's own public product pages and published materials, as reviewed in November 2026. "Not stated" means we could not find the capability in their public information. Datarails and Databricks are trademarks of their respective owners; Critical Finance is not affiliated with either.
Not a dashboard and not a data lake. A finance professional who works through the night, on your rules, with every step on the record.
Accruals, prepayments, bank and FX run overnight against your rules.
Bank, cashbook, supplier statements and intercompany, across every account and entity.
Eliminations at transaction level and overseas entities translated at the month-end rate.
In your layout, reconciled line by line, with every figure traceable to its source.
P&L, balance sheet, cash flow, bridges, commentary and slides, ready for the room.
Prepares them from the ledger and files them with Companies House.
Reads and writes your ERP and CRM, with a person approving anything that changes a record.
Margin, cash, covenants, an acquisition: an evidenced answer from the reconciled numbers.
Say it in plain words. The rule changes, and the change is recorded.
Dom does not impose a new reporting format. He learns the one you already use, proves he can reproduce your past results, and then produces them for you every month.
Your month-end treatments sit in a library of 108 accounting rules and settings. Your team can change any of them in plain words, or simply ask Dom.
Xero, NetSuite, Sage Intacct, SAP or Microsoft Dynamics, through a secure connection.
In whatever format you produce them today: Excel, PDF or a board pack.
How your accounts map to your reporting lines, and the treatments your team applies at month end.
Past periods are reproduced and compared line by line with the accounts you issued. Any gap is taken through with you, point by point, until it is explained.
In your format, on your rules, with every figure traceable to the transactions behind it.
Routine close work is finished before you arrive. What remains is judgement, and each item arrives with the evidence, the value and the person who owns the next step.
The overnight close tells finance what was completed automatically, which decisions genuinely need judgement, what has been routed to other owners and the value tied up in open items.
Put Dom through his paces yourself on a fictional group of three companies: the management accounts, the checks, the consolidation and the rules behind every figure. Try Dom on the live demo
Dom reads from and writes to your ERP and CRM. Information moves between systems without rekeying, against checks you define, with a person confirming anything that changes a record.
Contracts signed in the CRM become sales contracts and orders in the ERP, without anyone keying them in.
When the chief executive asks how an acquisition is really performing, the answer should not take a fortnight of spreadsheets. Ask Dom, and the analysis comes back built on your reconciled numbers.
“Has our acquisition delivered what we promised the board?”
Dom is the same in every model. What changes is where he runs and how your network reaches him. Your data region, EU or US, is chosen when you are set up.
Fully managed by us. We connect securely to your finance systems, run the platform and keep it updated.
A dedicated, isolated environment for your organisation, including within your own cloud estate where required.
Runs on a VM inside your private network, with administration and integrations through approved VPN or private connectivity.
Accounting applied in codeEvery policy is applied the same way, with an auditable trail for every transformation.
Answers from reconciled numbersDom answers from reconciled figures, never from an unchecked raw ledger.
People approve changesAnything written back to your ERP or CRM is confirmed by an authorised person first.
EU or US data regionChosen at setup, to match your data residency and governance requirements.
Book a call and bring a set of your management accounts: we will show you Dom reproducing them. Or connect your system and watch Dom get to work. Start free.