Frequently asked questions
AI-native managed finance, explained.
Plain answers to the questions business owners actually ask us — what this service is, what work we take over, who checks it, and how your data is handled. If your question isn't here, ask us directly.
Eleven questions, answered the way we'd answer them on a call
What is AI-native managed finance?
AI-native managed finance is a service model where a provider takes over defined recurring finance operations — intake and processing, reconciliation, payables and receivables control, monthly close and reporting — and delivers completed work every period. AI systems handle the repeatable production; experienced humans review every output before it is delivered. You receive outcomes, not software to operate. techwaves is built on this model from day one.
Is techwaves software or a service?
A service. The test we use: if you have to manage it, it is software — if you only receive the completed work, it is a service. With techwaves there is no dashboard your team has to learn, configure, or babysit. The tooling stays our problem; your team receives completed, reviewed finance work.
What finance work does techwaves take over?
Four recurring areas: finance intake and processing (documents and data in, structured records out), reconciliation and exception handling, payables and receivables control, and monthly close and reporting. Scope is deliberately narrow and agreed per engagement — defined workflows, completed outcomes every period. That narrowness is what makes the work checkable, priceable, and safe to hand over. See the full scope →
Does AI do the work on its own?
No. AI handles the repeatable production — reading documents, matching transactions, reconciling accounts, assembling evidence. Anything unusual is diverted to people, and experienced finance professionals review every output before it reaches you. Judgment stays human, and commercial approvals stay with you: payments are only ever released by you.
Do we need to change our tools or install new software?
No. techwaves works across the systems your finance already runs on. Your ledger, your records, and your banking setup stay yours and stay in place — we take over the work inside them. There is no new software for your team to adopt.
How is our financial data protected?
Through architecture, not promises: EU-only hosting on infrastructure techwaves operates itself, a sealed data room per client, a signed data processing agreement (DPA) before any work begins, and a full audit trail linking every figure to its source evidence. GDPR compliance is the baseline, not a feature. More on trust →
Does techwaves replace our accountant or tax advisor?
No — techwaves takes over the recurring operational layer: the day-to-day production work behind the numbers. Where a service is regulated in your country — filings, statutory declarations, signatures — it is activated separately, only through the appropriate verified local professional structure, and you keep the signatures the law gives you. Many clients keep their existing advisor for exactly that layer.
How does the handover work?
It starts with mapping: you show us your current systems, providers, and recurring workload, and we identify which workflows techwaves can take over first. The handover is controlled — access is scoped, each workflow is validated before techwaves owns it, and your systems remain yours throughout. From then on, the work arrives completed every period. How the takeover runs →
Who is techwaves for?
Growing SMBs — typically companies without a full internal finance team, where recurring finance work is spread across a founder's evenings, an office admin, a bookkeeper, and an outsourced provider, and nobody owns the outcome end to end. If the business works but the finance work behind it doesn't keep up, that is the profile we built for.
What does it cost?
Pricing is agreed per engagement, after mapping your workflows, volumes, and current setup — there is no public price list yet, and we are onboarding early clients through scoped engagements. The aim of the model is simple: faster, more affordable service than the traditional setup, without giving up human review and accountability.
Where does techwaves operate?
techwaves is founded and hosted in the European Union and built for European SMBs, operating in English. Country-regulated activities are only activated through verified local professional structures, market by market.