Kairos · the CFO companion

CFO thinking, every day, from your own books.

Kairos reads your accounting system and tells you what needs attention. It has read-only access to Sage, Xero, Zoho or QuickBooks, and every finding links back to the transactions behind it.

How long would these take you to answer today?

1

Are we making money this month, or will we only know in six weeks?

2

Which customers are paying us later than they used to?

3

The profit says we have cash. Where is it?

4

What changed in the numbers this week that nobody has told me about?

The answers are usually in the ledger already. Nobody has had the time to look.

What a month looks like with Kairos.

When this happensTodayWith Kairos
The month closesYou wait for last month's numbersThe big movements are already flagged
A customer starts paying lateYou notice when cash gets tightFlagged the first month it happens
Margin slips on a product lineFound at year-end, if at allRaised in the month it slips
Someone posts an odd journalThe auditor finds it months laterQueried in the same month
The board meetsTwo days building the packA draft is ready for your finance lead to review

It also keeps a 13-week cash forecast current and writes the first draft of your variance commentary. People still make the calls.

What ten days of debtors costs.

A worked example on a made-up company, Apex Industrial. Try it with your own figures.

Annual revenue
R31,300,000
Sales per day (÷ 365)
R85,753
Debtor days: 45 actual, 35 agreed
10 days
Cash tied up (10 × R85,753)
R857,534
Your version: annual revenue ÷ 365 × (actual debtor days − agreed debtor days).

What owners usually ask us.

“My data is a mess. I'd rather clean it up first.”
Most clean-ups stall because nobody knows which part of the mess matters. Kairos lists the unreconciled items, suspense balances and miscoded postings in order of rand value, so your accountant fixes the expensive ones first. Any figure that rests on doubtful data is marked.
“I don't want another system.”
Nobody captures anything into Kairos and nothing moves. Setup is a 30-minute questionnaire and one read-only connection that your finance lead approves. Only the people who want answers ever log in.
“My accountant has this covered.”
Keep him. He gets last month right. Kairos watches the weeks in between, so when he arrives the questions are already on the table.

How the platform handles your data.

Read-only

One encrypted connection to your accounting system, approved by your finance lead. Kairos cannot post, edit or delete.

Kept to your company

Your data isn't used to train AI models and is never mixed with another customer's.

On the record

Every question and answer is logged against a named user. Your auditor can have the full log.

Kairos is built around POPIA and the duty of care the Companies Act places on directors. The detail is in the platform Privacy Policy.

Plans.

Pulse

One business, owner-managed
  • Ask questions of your own numbers
  • 13-week cash forecast
  • R995 a month, excl. VAT
See Pulse

Member

Part of a group, franchise or practice
  • Pulse, plus anonymous peer benchmarks
  • Sold through your group
Ask for pricing

Function

A finance manager and small team
  • Budget variance with commentary
  • Board-pack drafts
Ask for pricing

Executive

Group FD, 4 to 15 entities
  • All entities in one view, any mix of systems
  • VAT, PAYE and covenant checks
See Executive

Sovereign

Large groups, PE-backed or listed
  • Your own environment, on-premise if needed
  • You choose where data lives
Talk to us

Start with the free diagnostic.

52 questions, about 30 minutes. You get a scored report on where your finance function stands. If it's worth going further, we run Kairos on your own month-end for 30 days and you decide from there.

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