Uku

Uku is accounting practice management software covering client management, a client portal, document management, e-signatures, workforce management, automated billing, client budgeting, reporting and business intelligence analytics, described by the company as one calm place for the whole firm.

Client budgeting is the capability worth singling out because it addresses where accounting firms actually lose money. A fixed-fee engagement is profitable or not depending on how many hours it consumed against what was quoted, and a firm that only discovers the answer at year end has been subsidising some clients for twelve months. Budget tracking per client turns that into something visible while it can still be renegotiated.

Automated billing paired with that budgeting closes the loop, since knowing a client is over budget is only useful if the invoice reflects it. Recurring fee arrangements are where administrative slippage compounds quietly, because nobody notices an invoice that was never raised.

Being AI agent-ready is a stated property rather than a bolted-on chat window, which matters as firms begin connecting assistants to their systems. Uku is European in origin with the interface published in Estonian, Danish and English among others, and prices in dollars, euros and sterling. Solo starts at 19 dollars a month, Team at 38 dollars a month for growing firms and the enterprise tier at 48 dollars a month.