Dovah Advisors

Finance and automation consultants

We help businesses get more done with the teams they already have.

Every engagement starts with a roadmap. We map how your business runs, put a cost on each manual process, and tell you what to automate first, and what not to. Then we build it, train your team to build it, or hand it to whoever you choose.

Free · about 5 minutes

Nervous about AI near your numbers? That's the right instinct. We came from finance, so we'll tell you where AI is safe and where it isn't, keep a person signing off on anything that touches money, and stay until your team trusts it.

Your team assembles numbers. Instead of deciding on them.

The month-end pack, rebuilt from scratch. Fourteen location sheets merged by hand. Bank lines ticked against the ledger, one by one. Invoice PDFs typed into QuickBooks. The same question about the same number, fifty times a week. None of it is hard. All of it is paid for.

It costs salary

An hour spent copying, checking and re-keying is paid at the same rate as an hour spent thinking.

It costs time

Numbers that land on day ten get decided on day eleven. By then the month has moved on.

It costs accuracy

Every hand-off is a place for a wrong cell to slip through, and a day lost finding it.

Start with the free tools

Most people meet us through LinkedIn and start here. Take your time. Book a call later, or never.

Time Tax calculator

Free

List the work your team repeats by hand. See what it costs a year, how much of it can run on its own, and whether it needs AI at all.

Example, worked out for you

Monthly management report, rebuilt in Excel

Time it takes
10 hours a month
Loaded cost of the person
$50 an hour
Time Tax
$6,000 a year
Can run on its own
up to 90%

$5,400 a year back

Our estimate, before tool costs. The conservative case is $3,780. Yours will differ.

Calculate yours, free

Do you need us?

Free

Up to nine honest yes-or-no questions about one task. Plenty of people finish this and don't need anyone. That's the point.

Open it on its own page

A CPA, CA or consultant? Or know someone who'd benefit from this? Introduce us, and become a Dovah partner. How the partner program works

What we do

Picture this: a file arrives by email, gets cleaned up in Excel, turns into an interactive Power BI dashboard and goes out to the right people. Without anyone touching it, because your apps talk to each other.

  • Monthly reports your team rebuilds from scratch, and Excel files that eat hours every week. Automated.
  • Running on Tally, Zoho, QuickBooks or Xero, or moving between them? We automate the accounting and handle migrations with balances that tie out.
  • Your business's own ChatGPT, answering the questions your customers or staff ask fifty times a week.

Often AI isn't the answer. Most of the time it's a better spreadsheet.

Four kinds of fix. None ranked above the others.

We recommend the quadrant that solves your problem, not the one that sounds most impressive.

Quadrant 01 · Visibility

See your entire business clearly, in real time.

One trusted set of numbers for leadership, refreshed on its own. Power BI dashboards, clean KPIs, financial reporting under Ind AS and US GAAP.

  • Power BI executive dashboards with drill-down
  • ERP and accounting integration: Tally, QuickBooks, Zoho, SAP
  • KPI tracking and management reporting
  • Data cleaned and structured, ready for AI later

Typical ROI: In client work: a 40-hour monthly consolidation became a 2-minute refresh.

See the MIS & BI details →
FP&A Command Center · sample data

Not sure which one? It's probably the first or second. Start there and see if the problem survives.

The power of 10

Every step up reaches ten times further than the one before. Most businesses are still on the first.

  1. 100One cell Typed by hand.
  2. 101The sheet Fills itself.
  3. 102The dashboard Updates itself.
  4. 103Connected systems Talk to each other.
  5. 104The intelligence layer Reads across all of it.
  6. 105The whole business Runs itself.

You don't have to climb all six. Most of the payback sits in the first three.

How we work

01

Time Tax Audit

Fixed fee · 1–2 weeks

We map how the work runs, put a cost on every manual process, and rank what to automate first and what to leave alone. You keep the roadmap, whoever builds it.

02

Build with us

We build it, test it against your real numbers, train your team and support it for two months.

03

Train your team

1–2 day workshops or 6–8 week cohorts. Your people build it themselves.

04

Hand it to your vendor

The roadmap is yours. Give it to anyone you like.

Already know exactly what you need? Skip the audit and go straight to a scoped build.

Every build includes

  • Full documentation and handover
  • Training for your team
  • 2 months of support after launch
  • KPI check-ins at day 30, 60 and 90
  • You own the code and the IP

Our work

Recorded walkthroughs of systems we've built, run on sample data. Client systems stay confidential. Swipe through.

Q2 · Efficiency

50 branch files into one, in one click

One button reads every file, maps each header variant, fixes the data issues and produces a single consolidated dataset with a log of what it changed. On the demo: 113,760 rows in about 80 seconds.

Excel VBA

Q1 · Visibility

FP&A Command Center

Revenue, margin, EBITDA and cash against budget, by entity and region, refreshed from the ledger. Rebuilt here on sample data. The client version replaced a 40-hour monthly consolidation with a 2-minute refresh.

Power BI · Power Query

Q2 · Efficiency

Month-end NAV reconciliation

The reconciliation runs in about two seconds, lists every break with an owner and a reason, and refreshes the Power BI extracts. Rebuilt on sample data. The client version took month-end close from 10 days to 2.

Excel VBA · Power Query

Q3 · Intelligence

Ask your numbers in plain English

A finance assistant over the ledger, the AP inbox and the reports. Ask a question, get the answer with its sources: duplicate invoices held, bills that don't add up, regions running over budget.

Custom AI · Your ledger and documents

Q4 · Autonomy

AP inbox to QuickBooks

The workflow reads each invoice, checks it for duplicates, prepares the bill in QuickBooks and flags only the ones a person should look at.

n8n · QuickBooks · AI extraction

Q2 · Efficiency

Client document collector

Clients upload what the filing needs through one form. Each file lands in the right Drive folder, gets logged in a tracker, and the client is told when everything is in.

n8n · Google Drive · Google Sheets

Q1 · Visibility

What a Time Tax Audit hands over

Hours and cost per process, what to automate first, what to leave alone, and a phased build plan. Shown here for a fictional distributor.

Roadmap report

Q2 · Efficiency

Sales pipeline CRM in Excel

A CRM inside Excel: follow-ups due today, one-click personalised follow-up emails through Outlook, pipeline stages and an activity log.

Excel VBA · Outlook

The journey of a number

Follow one invoice line, 48,250.00, through month-end close: record, reconcile, consolidate, review. Every step that runs on its own takes days off the close.

10 days → 2

Month-end close for a fund administration client

Results from client work

Month-end closeFund administration, global investment bank (US)
Before10 days
After2 days
Monthly consolidationOil and gas multinational (US)
Before40 hours
After2 minutes

30–40%

lower DSO

AR Recovery Agent, e-commerce (US and UAE)

Day one

balances tied out after moving three years of books

Zoho migration, India to UAE

Client names withheld under NDA.

Questions people ask

What does Dovah Advisors do?

We help businesses get more done with the teams they already have. We map how your finance and operations work, put a cost on each manual process, and build the fix: dashboards, workflow automation, accounting system automation, or AI tools where AI is the right answer.

What is a Time Tax Audit?

Our fixed-fee first step, usually one to two weeks. We talk to the people doing the work, measure the hours, put a cost on each manual process and hand you a ranked roadmap: what to automate first, what to leave alone, the expected payback and a build plan. The roadmap is yours whether or not you build with us.

Do I need AI?

Often not. Most of the time the fix is a better spreadsheet, a macro, or two apps connected properly. We recommend AI only where the work needs reading or judgment, such as contracts, PDFs or answering questions from your own documents.

How much does it cost?

It depends on the process, so we work out what the problem costs you first. The Time Tax Audit is a fixed fee agreed upfront. Builds are scoped and quoted after the audit, and you see the payback math before you see a price.

Is my data safe with you?

Every engagement runs under a mutual NDA signed before we see a single file. Data moves only through encrypted channels, and access is limited to the people working on your engagement. For sensitive work, AI can run entirely on your own machines so no data leaves your building.

So if we mapped your finance and reporting processes, where do you think we'd find the most wasted hours?

Find out for free with the calculator, or talk it through with a founder for 30 minutes.

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