We run the close operations your seniors are doing by hand.
For SAICA, SAIPA, and IRBA partnerships under 50 staff where the partner still runs month-end at 9pm and a new senior takes nine months to reach full productivity.
Next 90 days
1 December 2026 to 28 February 2027
| Due | Return | What it covers |
|---|---|---|
| 7 Dec 2026 | EMP201 | November payroll: PAYE, UIF and SDL, return and payment by the 7th. |
| 31 Dec 2026 | VAT201 | October to November period, Category A, filed on eFiling by the last business day of the month. |
| 7 Jan 2027 | EMP201 | December payroll, return and payment. |
| 5 Feb 2027 | EMP201 | January payroll, brought forward because the 7th is a Sunday. |
| 26 Feb 2027 | VAT201 | December to January period, last business day of February. |
| 26 Feb 2027 | IRP6 second | Second provisional payment for the year to 28 February 2027, twelve months in; the 28th is a Sunday. |
| 26 Feb 2027 | ITR14 | Return for the year ended 28 February 2026, due twelve months after year end, so it moves back to the Friday as well. |
The first IRP6 payment for this year fell due on 31 August 2026, six months into the year, and is already in. The EMP501 annual reconciliation for the year opens on 1 April 2027 and closes on 31 May 2027.
C-Suite is a managed AI service that takes the document-chasing side of month-end off your team. The AI chases the clients slow to send paperwork, reads and sorts what comes back, and flags the transactions missing a category or a supporting document before they reach your reviewer. It works alongside Xero, Sage, Pastel, or GreatSoft on the ledger data your firm exports to a watched folder, and it is scoped to South African partnerships under 50 staff.
Accounting firms are the focus. See the homepage for how C-Suite works end to end, and the guide AI for accounting firms in South Africa explains what the AI actually does inside a practice, what it is never allowed to touch, and how the free one-week pilot works. The learn guides on AI for month-end close, AI with Sage, and AI with Xero cover the same workflows in how-to depth.
The moments most South African accounting partners recognise.
Provisional tax deadlines come round twice a year, and the senior who would run the next one is on leave the second week.
Three clients have asked where their AFS are this month and the partner is the bottleneck on every reply.
A SARS letter that arrives on a Friday afternoon means a partner is opening the laptop instead of going home.
The junior hire would cover roughly half of this in nine months and the other half is what a senior actually does, so the conversation circles back twice a year.
The hire-another-senior question has come up three times this year and stalled at the same place every time: half the work does not need a senior at all.
Eight years of running operations where one misfiled deadline ends a client relationship, now applied to South African accounting.
The team behind C-Suite has spent eight years running paid acquisition, lifecycle, and AI engineering operations built on high-volume document intake, deadline-driven escalation, and multi-stakeholder approval chains, in fields where one missed deadline ends a client relationship. A mid-size South African accounting partnership runs the same shape we have run for years in adjacent fields: partners who should not be doing the work but keep doing it at 9pm, and seniors whose time is the scarce resource. The case studies, with named firms and real numbers, are being written with our first accounting partners now, and the systems already run.
What does C-Suite's AI run for your firm?
The clients slow to send their bank statements, supporting documents, and the one invoice that holds up the whole recon get chased on a schedule, in your firm voice, with reminders that step up as cutoff gets closer, so the chasing stops falling to a senior at 9pm.
What comes back, whether it arrives over email, WhatsApp, or a portal, gets read, named, and filed against the right client and the right period, so your clerk opens a folder that is already in order instead of a mailbox they have to untangle first.
A transaction missing a category, a payment with no supporting document, a figure that does not tie back: these get caught and flagged for your reviewer while there is still time to fix them, not surfaced at review when the close is already late and the partner is the one finding them.
The supporting documents arrive matched and ready, your firm checklist runs the same way every close, and what is outstanding is visible at a glance, so your seniors pick up a file that is prepped for review rather than rebuilding the state of play each month.
Works alongside the stack you already pay for.
C-Suite works from the general ledger data your firm exports to a watched folder, so there is no connector into Xero, Sage, Pastel, GreatSoft, or CaseWare to install and no login to hand over, and the mailbox and drive access it does use is granted by your firm and can be withdrawn by your firm at any time.
POPIA-aligned by default.
Client data stays in infrastructure hosted in South Africa, processing is logged per matter, and deletion on request happens inside seven days. Your data is never used to train a model, and you see the data processing agreement up front.
What changes across your first close with C-Suite.
Each item is a real partner moment from South African accounting practice. The first six are the operational shift across one month-end. The seventh is the rule the other six run under.
Item 1: The clients who always send their paperwork late are chased before cutoff instead of after it, so the bulk of what you need is in by the date your firm works to, and your seniors stop spending the first week of the close asking for things.
Item 2: Statements, invoices, and supporting documents arrive read, named, and filed against the right client and period, so the file your clerk opens is already in order rather than a mailbox someone has to untangle first.
Item 3: A transaction missing a category or a supporting document is caught and flagged early in the close, while there is still time to fix it, instead of surfacing at review when the partner is the one finding it.
Item 4: Your seniors pick up a file that is prepped, matched, and ready to be reviewed, so the scarce senior hours go into judgement rather than rebuilding the state of the close each month.
Item 5: The partner who has been running month-end at 9pm gets those hours back, because the legwork sits with C-Suite and the partner only steps in where partner judgement is actually needed.
Item 6: Every chase, every filed document, and every flag is logged on a record your firm can inspect, so when a client asks whether you followed up, you can show a timestamp.
Item 7: The single outcome you are aiming at is agreed in writing before any work starts, and a named person on your team clears every message and every flag before it leaves the firm, so the record shows who decided what.
The outcome is agreed in writing before any work starts.
Before the operation runs a single close, we agree the one outcome we are aiming at and put it in writing in the one-page brief you sign during onboarding. You see the before and after in your own numbers, on your own close.
A person on your team signs off every action. Nothing posts to your ledger, no client message goes out on its own, and your client data is never used to train a model. We onboard a small number of South African accounting partnerships at a time, because running each close properly is what the promise rests on.
Four questions partners ask before they sign.
How does this work alongside our existing accountant and reviewer?
C-Suite sits underneath them. It runs the legwork of the close, chasing the clients slow to send paperwork, reading and filing what comes back, and flagging the transactions missing a category or a supporting document, then hands your reviewer a file that is already prepped, so the scarce senior hours go into the recon judgement and the advisory rather than into chasing and sorting.
What does it do with a SARS letter?
Once a person on your team logs the reference and the response deadline from the letter, C-Suite takes over the chase: it requests the supporting documents from the client, sorts what comes back against the matter, and assembles the bundle in order for your reviewer. It does not read or respond to SARS correspondence itself, and it does not act on the letter. The acknowledgement and the response are your reviewer’s call, and the whole trail, from the date the letter was logged to the date the bundle was ready, sits on a record your firm can inspect.
Does it work with Xero, Sage, Pastel, and GreatSoft?
Yes, all four, and it does that without connecting to any of them directly, because your practice exports the general ledger data to a watched folder and C-Suite reads it from there. Your logins stay where they are and your data stays where it is, because the export runs the way your firm already produces it, so the whole integration is the folder your firm exports into.
Is our client data safe?
Yes. Your practice remains the responsible party under POPIA and C-Suite works as an operator under a written operator agreement that records where every processing step runs, so the answer you give a client who asks is the agreement itself, with the hosting in South Africa, the per-matter log, and the seven-day deletion written into it.
Tell us which function is taking the most senior time in your accounting firm.
Fifteen minutes on Google Meet that ends with a one-page brief regardless of whether you sign.