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Optro sees the risk between the spreadsheets.
It began with two friends and a neglected customer: the auditor. Now the company formerly called AuditBoard is teaching AI to do the paperwork - and helping businesses keep an eye on AI.
AuditBoard made the paperwork talk.
Two auditors built a business around the work nobody wanted to repeat. Now called Optro, AuditBoard is taking the same idea from SOX checklists to AI agents.
Andera's 43,000-Line Answer to a Spreadsheet
An early customer handed the audit startup a mountain of unruly workbooks. The fix became a 43,000-line Excel engine - and a revealing lesson in where useful AI actually begins.
GMG Group and the business of making business work
For 30 years, the Rome consultancy has connected strategy, finance, audit and legal expertise. Its proposition comes into focus where a growth plan meets the everyday work of running a company.
Ideagen built a billion-pound business on “prove it”
A missing signature. An outdated procedure. Sixty people reviewing the same document. Ideagen sells order to organizations that cannot afford to lose the paper trail.
Workiva
Workiva is a cloud software company that turns the painful, deadline-driven work of regulatory, financial, and sustainability reporting into a connected, audit-ready process. Founded in Ames, Iowa, in 2008 as WebFilings, its platform links data, documents, and people in real time so finance, risk, audit, and ESG teams can collect, manage, and report critical business data with full version control and traceability. Today Workiva serves more than 6,000 organizations - including a large share of the Fortune 500 - and is layering agentic AI across finance, GRC, and sustainability workflows.