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Online bookkeeping for small businesses — humans + AI.

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About

Bench (bench.co) is the online bookkeeping service: dedicated bookkeepers plus AI-assisted software for small businesses.

The long-running SMB bookkeeping service; survived a 2024 shutdown scare and continues operating.

What it can do

  • Dedicated bookkeepers
  • Monthly books
  • Tax add-ons
  • SMB focus

Setup

  1. Sign up at bench.co.
  2. Connect your accounts.
  3. Get monthly books.
  4. File taxes with add-ons.

Prerequisites

Account; small business.

Use cases

financeautomation

Works with

Generic APIAny agent (.md)

Trust score — 6/10

/10 trustMetrics-checked

Scored 6/10 (metrics tier). Long-running SMB bookkeeping service with real traction; note the late-2024 shutdown scare and rescue — verify current status before committing. Proprietary, provider-estimated adoption. Metrics tier.

How the trust score is built

Full methodology →
Adoption · stars/downloads, log-scaled vs peers
6.0/10
Maintenance · recency, releases, issue load
5.0/10
Openness · license + docs
4.5/10
Manual review · sanity read + red-flag check
6.0/10
  • · provider-tier estimate — thinner evidence (no public adoption metric)
  • · Long-running — provider-tier estimate
  • · no release date — neutral maintenance score
  • · Long-running SMB service; 2024 shutdown scare — verify status. Closed SaaS.

Sources

Every fact above was checked against these sources. Where a claim comes from the provider and couldn't be independently verified, the text says so.