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Built Backward From Real Bookkeeping

How BD Financial IQ Works
(And What It Won't Do)

BDFIQ was designed from the bookkeeper's chair, not from a product roadmap brainstorm. Here's the actual flow of money through the system — from raw bank CSV to consolidated P&L — plus the v1 module scope and the roadmap for what comes after launch.

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Built Backward From What Small Businesses Actually Need

Every accounting platform starts with a chart of accounts and journal entries. The difference is how data gets in — and whether the reports at the end actually answer the questions you have. Here's how BDFIQ thinks about it.

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Step 1 · Money In, Money Out

CSV Import + AI Categorization

Download your bank's transaction CSV (or your card statement) and drop it in. BDFIQ AI reads the descriptions, suggests the chart-of-accounts category, and flags anything it's unsure about. You review in batches — not in a never-ending auto-categorized stream.

  • No Plaid token storage
  • Works with any US bank CSV format
  • AI runs on BDB's servers, not OpenAI's
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Step 2 · Tag for Cost Tracking

Job + Segment Tagging

Every transaction can be tagged to a Job (with the three real cost buckets: Materials, Labor, Subcontractors) and a Segment (Location, Division, Class, or whatever taxonomy fits your business). The tags drive every dashboard and report downstream.

  • Subcontractors as a real cost category, not a workaround
  • One transaction, multiple cost-track splits if needed
  • Estimates and invoices auto-inherit the same taxonomy
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Step 3 · Bill, Get Paid

Invoicing + Stripe Payments

Send invoices from BDFIQ. Customers pay by card or ACH through Stripe (per-company Stripe Connect). Payment lands in BDFIQ as a reconciled transaction, posted against the right invoice and the right job. No manual matching, no "undeposited funds" trap.

  • Recurring invoicing for retainer/maintenance work
  • QR-code payment links on PDF invoices
  • Stripe fees recorded as a real expense on the right job/segment
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Step 4 · Pay Bills

Bills / AP Workflow

Enter vendor bills as they come in — assigned to jobs and segments. Approve, schedule, and record payments. See exactly which vendors are eating your margin and which are pulling their weight.

  • Due-date tracking and aging
  • 1099 vendor flagging from day one
  • Bill splits across multiple jobs/segments
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Step 5 · See the Numbers

Dashboards + Segment P&L

Once data is tagged, the dashboards work for you instead of against you. Side-by-side P&L by segment. Per-job margin with materials/labor/subs called out. Multi-entity consolidation with per-entity drill-down. The reports your accountant pulls together monthly — available on demand.

  • P&L (accrual + cash), Balance Sheet, Cash Flow
  • Per-job margin with 3-track cost detail
  • Excel export on everything — your CPA can pull anything
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Step 6 · Year-End

Tax Exports + CPA Handoff

1099 generation for flagged vendors. Sales tax tracking by jurisdiction. Trial balance and GL export for your CPA. A "year-end package" PDF that bundles the statements your CPA usually asks for — in one click, not three back-and-forths.

  • 1099 prep for flagged vendors
  • Trial balance + GL export to Excel
  • Year-end package PDF

What's Launching, What's Roadmap, What's Explicitly Out

Pre-launch products often promise everything. We're not doing that. Here's the honest list: what's in v1, what's planned for the roadmap, and what BDFIQ has deliberately decided not to build.

Core Ledger Launch

Chart of accounts, journal entries, audit trail, manual bank reconciliation. The real double-entry accounting your CPA recognizes.

CSV Import + AI Categorization Launch

Upload bank or card CSV. AI suggests categorization with confidence scoring. Batch review and post. No Plaid token storage.

Invoicing + Stripe Launch

Customer invoices, recurring billing, Stripe Connect for card/ACH, QR-code payment links, automatic reconciliation.

Bills / AP Launch

Vendor bill entry, approval workflow, due-date tracking, payment scheduling, 1099 vendor flagging.

3-Track Job Costing Launch

Materials, Labor, and Subcontractors as three distinct cost buckets on every estimate, invoice, dashboard, and variance report.

Segment Performance Launch

Side-by-side P&L by Location, Division, Class, or any of 12 segment types. Excel export. Drill-down to transactions.

Multi-Entity Consolidation Launch

Multiple legal entities in one tenant. Consolidated P&L. Per-entity P&L. Intercompany eliminations.

Financial Reporting Launch

P&L (accrual + cash), Balance Sheet, Cash Flow Statement, AR/AP aging, custom report builder, Excel export.

PT Integration Launch

If you also use BDB Project Tools, jobs/estimates/invoices/receipts/labor flow in directly. No QBO middleman.

Tax Exports + 1099s Launch

1099 generation, sales-tax tracking, GL + trial balance Excel exports, year-end PDF package.

QBO Migration Wizard Launch

One-time import from QuickBooks Online: chart of accounts, customers, vendors, products/services, opening balances, historical transactions.

Bank Feeds (Plaid) Roadmap

Direct bank feed integrations are post-launch. We may add them if customers want them — or leave the system intentionally CSV-only.

Payroll Roadmap

Gusto/ADP integrations likely first. Native payroll is a larger build that may or may not happen depending on customer demand.

Inventory / COGS Roadmap

Stock tracking, COGS, reorder points. Roadmap, not v1.

Native Time Tracking Not Building

Time tracking lives in BDB Project Tools. BDFIQ doesn't duplicate it — PT customers' labor hours flow into BDFIQ via the PT integration.

CRM Pipeline Not Building

BDFIQ isn't a CRM. We integrate cleanly with what you already use. Customer records live in BDFIQ for billing purposes only.

What Happens Between Now and Public Launch

A pre-launch roadmap is a promise. Here's ours — with the caveat that software ships when it's ready, not when a press release says it should.

Now

Internal Build + Bookkeeping-Team Beta

BDFIQ is in active development. The BDB bookkeeping team is using a private build for select internal client books. Bugs get found and fixed by the people who'll be supporting customers later.

Next

Closed Beta (Limited Seats)

Waitlist members are invited to closed beta in priority order. Seats are limited so we can give every beta customer real support. Beta is free for the duration; Founder's pricing kicks in at public launch.

Then

Public Launch

Founder's pricing published. Waitlist members get a two-week heads-up so they can plan their QBO export and CPA briefing. Self-serve signup goes live.

Post-Launch

Roadmap Modules + Customer-Driven Priorities

Bank feeds, payroll, inventory: shipped based on real customer demand, not speculation. We'd rather build what's actually needed than ship a checkbox feature.

A Real Walkthrough, As Soon As There's Something Real to Walk Through

We're not going to fake a demo video before there's a stable product to show. When the beta build is ready for show-and-tell, the walkthrough lands here. Until then: Behind the Books on YouTube covers the financial concepts BDFIQ is built around.

Walkthrough video coming pre-launch

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Skip the QBO upgrade treadmill.

Job costing, segment P&L, and multi-entity consolidation at every BDFIQ tier. Pricing announced at launch. Waitlist members get the locked Founder's rate.

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