Ryland Beard

Bookkeeping, AI, ATX

[Ryland Beard @drylandbeard]

Left my job to see my gf (now wife). Lived on savings.

Built a small bookkeeping firm to be able to live & travel.

Grew this into 40 person firm.

Now building switchbooks, a drastically simpler bookkeeping software, while traveling.

Lesssgo!

[Ryland Beard @drylandbeard]

My friends all make tons of money (self employed) and nobody has health insurance.

Is there not one good, easy company to offer good insurance for healthy young people?

[Ryland Beard @drylandbeard]

@cdolan92 Drives me nuts!

[Ryland Beard @drylandbeard]

@KurtisHanni 100%%

[Ryland Beard @drylandbeard]

@MagisterTax @KurtisHanni This isn't the case anymore honestly

[Ryland Beard @drylandbeard]

@KurtisHanni You're right -- if you don't use plugins.

AI + connector = me never doing my books

I use @bot and switchbooks connector. It does all the accounting for me.. posting, recons, loan splits. Whenever it's confused, it just emails or asks me questions on the chat

[Ryland Beard @drylandbeard]

@mattmcmichen You don't think AI can do books and give financial clarity? I'd argue that a lot of CPA's/CFO's don't communicate clearly.

[Ryland Beard @drylandbeard]

@ConnorAbene Same here. My first job was a fancy title. Low pay. Amazing learning experience.

[Ryland Beard @drylandbeard]

My @bot uses @switchbooksai. Game changer. Never have to my books. My team on grokbot (affectionately named Butch, Al, and Roger) do JE's, posting, bank recs. They alert me when fishy transactions come through and then give me advise on how to improve the biz. Dream.

[Ryland Beard @drylandbeard]

@jbransonx @elonmusk @bot Alone or with a plugin?

[Ryland Beard @drylandbeard]

@EpiphanyDynamic Bookkeeping is definitely done.. I use grokbot plus switchbooks plugin and haven't looked back

[Ryland Beard @drylandbeard]

@CornerstoneCPA_ @MagisterTax Well said

[Ryland Beard @drylandbeard]

@robbhurstCPA Unbelievable. They know they're on the brink. Reaping what they can before it's too late.

[Ryland Beard @drylandbeard]

@ericzawo @TaylorSicard To what?

[Ryland Beard @drylandbeard]

@noahkagan Seems like QBO realizes they'll start sinking soon and they've decided to just send it with pricing to reap all they can before it's too late

[Ryland Beard @drylandbeard]

@theotherraj @sutehk @noahkagan Have you tried switchbooks? I use it with grokbot and works like a charm. Literally never touch my books anymore

[Ryland Beard @drylandbeard]

@ignatiuscpa @BlakeTOliver @cbriancpa 100%

[Ryland Beard @drylandbeard]

@RichardHanania Ironic

[Ryland Beard @drylandbeard]

@NotGoKGreen What AI do you use now?

[Ryland Beard @drylandbeard]

@dreamfirms Agreed. Buying my partner out in the first month of business ended up being the best money I've ever spent.

[Ryland Beard @drylandbeard]

@JeffreyDebolt @collin_ruth89 Switchbooks + grokbot or claude is the best

You can tell Claude to post all your transactions, create JEs, reconcile bank statements, etc.

Haven't had to touch my books since