Laurel
AI time capture for accounting firms: a desktop assistant drafts the timesheet, then time can flow into the billing system.
- Pricing
- Contact sales
- Pricing checked
- October 12, 2026
Our take
- Best for
- Accounting firms that already bill from CCH, Practice CS, or IRIS and lose billable time because timesheets are reconstructed from memory.
- Not ideal if
- A solo bookkeeper or a small firm that only needs a timer on a job. The deployments they describe start around 50 timekeepers, and there is no public price.
- Standout
- The computer records the work, drafts the narrative, and the help center shows a path to drop that time into the firm's billing system.
About Laurel
Laurel is AI timekeeping for accounting, legal, and consulting firms. A lightweight assistant on the computer records work in the tools people already have open, including Outlook, Microsoft 365, Teams, Zoom, Word, Excel, Chrome, and Edge. It sorts that activity by client, project, and activity, and drafts the timesheet narrative. The person reviews it before it is billed. Released time can go into IRIS Practice Engine, CCH Axcess Practice in the cloud, and Thomson Reuters Practice CS. A connector for on-prem CCH Practice Management is marked coming soon, and the CCH Axcess Practice import is one-way.
It does not keep the books, and it does not run a client portal. QuickBooks is on the list of apps it can see. It does not say QuickBooks Online versus Desktop, and it does not say time posts back to QuickBooks. Client Hub can track time against a job by hand. Double is where a bookkeeping firm closes QuickBooks Online or Xero. FloQast is the close checklist for an in-house team on an ERP. Laurel's Signal view is the profitability layer: hours and cost against the engagement, including fixed-fee work.
Firms stick when timesheets were a Friday memory exercise and write-downs showed up after the bill went out. Signal is how they look at partner time and fixed fees while the engagement is still open. Documented rollouts run from 50 timekeepers to more than 3,000, with time landing in the billing system the firm already uses.
Pricing
No pricing page was found on laurel.ai on 2026-10-12. The security page says there is one price for everything and that upgrades are included. It does not state the amount, the billing period, or whether Signal is extra. The accounting page lists white-glove onboarding and a dedicated success contact. The help center says they have implemented firms from 50 timekeepers to more than 3,000. A five-person shop should treat this as a sales quote, not a sticker you can budget from a webpage. Do not copy a price from a comparison article.
Firm quote
No pricing page was found. The security page says there is one price for the product and that Laurel handles upgrades. It does not give a dollar amount or a per-timekeeper rate.
- Time capture, narratives, and billing-system delivery
- Signal profitability views are described on the product pages
- White-glove onboarding and a named success motion on the accounting page
- Ask sales for the rate. Do not use a third-party price list.
How it hits your books
- Replaces your ledger
- No
- Inventory
- No
- 1099s
- No
- Payroll
- No
Laurel does not close the books. It can show what an engagement cost in hours. Coding, reconciliation, and the period lock still happen in the ledger and the practice system.
There is no client books package. The handoff is a timesheet into IRIS Practice Engine, CCH Axcess Practice, or Practice CS, where the firm already bills. QuickBooks is only named as an app the assistant can see.
Features
- Capture work, then draft the timesheet
- The assistant records chargeable and non-chargeable computer work and maps it to a client, project, and activity. It drafts the narrative. Staff still review the entry. The accounting page also says it accounts for offline gaps such as meetings and phone calls.
- What the assistant actually sees
- The security page names Outlook email, Zoom calls with attendees, calendar events, Word, Excel, PDFs, and 100 or more whitelisted URLs, with document names and activity. The accounting page adds Teams, Chrome, Edge, Adobe, Box, and Azure Virtual Desktops. Capture is the point. It is not a client document portal.
- Send time into the billing system
- Help docs describe stored procedures or an API connector into IRIS Practice Engine, CCH Axcess Practice (cloud), and Thomson Reuters Practice CS (noted against a 2021.3.0 schema). On-prem CCH Practice Management is marked coming soon. The same article says data into CCH Axcess Practice has one-way limits. Implementations they cite run from 50 timekeepers to more than 3,000.
- Signal for what the engagement cost
- Signal compares recorded time with time worked, shows billable and non-billable effort together, and is how the accounting page talks about fixed-fee profitability, scope, and capacity. It does not replace the invoice. The bill still lives in the practice billing system.
- Firm controls on the capture
- The security page lists SSO, encryption in transit and at rest, GDPR and CCPA, in-region storage, and bring-your-own key. The homepage adds single-tenant AI, no public LLMs, ISO 42001, SOC 2 Type 2, and HIPAA. The assistant is described as lightweight, with no servers in your data center. The page prints the size as XMB, which is not a real number.
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Pick something else instead of Laurel
Double
Pick Double instead if the pain is month-end close on QuickBooks Online or Xero, not missing billable hours.
TaxDome
Pick TaxDome instead if you need a client portal, tasks, and tax workflow, and time is only a field on the job.
FloQast
Pick FloQast instead if an in-house team needs a close checklist on the ERP, not a timesheet drafted from the desktop.
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