Karbon

Karbon is practice management software for accounting firms, combining workflow automation, collaboration and AI-powered practice management, and ranked the top accounting practice management software on G2.

Building the workflow around email is Karbon's defining choice and it reflects how accounting work genuinely arrives. Clients send documents, questions and approvals by email, and in most firms those messages sit in individual inboxes where nobody else can see them, so the partner cannot tell whether a client replied and the work stalls invisibly. Putting the mail inside the workflow makes the state of a job visible to the team rather than to one person.

Standardising processes is the second half and it is what makes a firm scalable rather than merely busy. Tax returns and month-end closes are the same work repeated across many clients, and a firm where each accountant does it their own way cannot review consistently, cannot hand work over and cannot train anyone quickly. Templated workflows convert individual competence into firm capability.

The AI positioning covers automating tasks, working faster and strengthening client connections, applied inside the existing workflow rather than as a separate assistant. Karbon publishes comparison material against other providers, which is a confident thing to do, alongside solutions for small firms through to larger practices. Team is 59 dollars per user per month paid annually and Business is 89 dollars per user per month paid annually, with monthly rates of 79 and 99 dollars.