We’ve run tax closes ourselves.
TaxTime is the platform we wanted.
Every tax professional knows the feeling. Monday morning. Another week of manual reconciliations. Another month-end approaching. Another year where most of your talent is spent on work that should be automated.
You became a tax professional to protect value, manage risk, be a strategic partner. Instead, you’re stuck on what we call the Tax Treadmill: running faster and faster just to stay in the same place.
We know because we lived it.
Andrew Danckert left PwC after years of watching strong tax people spend their careers on manual work. He started Cumulus Tax as a consulting practice to understand why tax teams stay stuck.
It’s not a skills problem. It’s not an effort problem. It’s a system problem.
The tools built for tax professionals weren’t built by tax professionals. They were built by people who never felt the Sunday night dread of an approaching deadline. Never experienced the frustration of explaining numbers you can’t trace. Never watched talented team members leave because they were tired of being human calculators.
Jim Edwards joined from EY with the same story from a different firm. Together they worked with more than 20 enterprise tax teams and mapped every step of the compliance process.
One idea came out of that work: trace every tax number back to the transaction in the general ledger, not just to a schedule. Six companies took it on early. All six are still with us.
We build for tax teams who want their time on judgement, not reconciliation.
Teams that want to:
They want their work to count. They expect technology to take work away, not add to it. And they know transparency is what builds trust.
We built the Tax Ledger: GL-level automation where every figure traces from disclosure to source, validated in parallel before you switch. Because the Tax Ledger is structured and every action is recorded, it is also what an AI agent needs to do real tax work: read the Tax Ledger, act as a named user, and stop at judgement. That is Level 4. But technology isn’t our differentiator.
What sets us apart is that we’ve done your job.
We’ve lived the late nights. We’ve felt the frustration. We’ve experienced the gap between what tax work is and what it should be. Every feature exists because a tax professional needed it. Every automation frees a human to do human work. Every transparency tool helps you tell the story behind the numbers.
Changing how a tax function works takes effort, and we do that work with you. Every implementation runs in parallel with your current close before you switch, so you move off the treadmill on evidence, not on trust.
If your close still runs on spreadsheets, start with a conversation.
Here’s how it works:
We work out together whether TaxTime fits before anyone books a demo.
When it does, we work with you through implementation and beyond.
Ex-PwC. Started TaxTime after years of watching talented tax professionals lose their time to manual work.
Ex-CCH Integrator and EY. Joined after seeing the same problems from the vendor side.
Start with a 30-minute call with Andrew or Jim about how your close runs today.
