Punchcard

Punchcard addressed the manual evidence-gathering bottleneck that consumed 40-60% of audit engagement time. Senior auditors and Big Four associates experienced this most acutely—they spent weeks requesting documents from clients, organizing spreadsheets, and performing repetitive testing procedures that required minimal judgment but maximum attention to detail. The problem was measurable: audit firms tracked billable hours lost to administrative work, and client satisfaction scores reflected delays in evidence collection. Alternatives existed but were fragmented—firms cobbled together email workflows, shared drives, and generic document management tools that weren't built for assertion-driven testing logic. Early validation came when pilot clients reported 30% faster evidence turnaround and when senior auditors immediately recognized the AI agent's ability to execute testing procedures from natural language instructions—mirroring how they'd train junior associates. Adoption signals strengthened when engagement partners began requesting Punchcard across multiple clients rather than treating it as a one-off experiment, indicating the solution solved a genuine, recurring pain point across their portfolio.