Two signatures on the close, one plan per household.
Every step of the close carries a preparer and a reviewer, each with their own name and their own date, and a rejection clears the preparer's stamp instead of quietly leaving it there. Next period rolls forward without carrying last period's signatures with it. On the other side of the practice, Clients holds households and the people and entities inside them, what each one holds, the strategy it is measured against, and drift and concentration flags that fire before a review rather than during one. The document the client reads is one Hoot drafts and a person approves, and only a person can approve it. Choose Financial & Accounting Services at setup and Clients, Period Close and the append-only audit log are queued before month one ends.
10 apps queued at setup - untick any of them before you finishDefault project tabs
RAID replaces Capacity - the risk register is an audit artefact you hand over.
Projects created on day one
- Client Engagements
- Close & Reporting
- Compliance
The three that do the heavy lifting.
Choose this industry during setup and its tools are queued for you. Review the list, drop anything you don't want, and the workspace initialises with the rest already working - or install any one of them on its own, later, from the marketplace.
Clients
Households and the individuals, trusts and entities inside them, what each one holds, the strategy it is measured against, the roadmap it is working through, and a record of the advice you gave.
- Households that group individuals and entities, the way the work actually runs
- Portfolio import from a CSV, TSV or JSON export, with the columns mapped by a person
- Drift, concentration and risk alignment, each refusing to answer when it cannot
- A strategy document Hoot drafts and only a person can approve
Period Close
The close that runs every period with a preparer and a reviewer signed and dated on each step, reconciliations carrying both balances, the chase list for what the client still owes, and the filing calendar.
- Preparer and reviewer, each with their own name and date
- A rejection clears the preparer's stamp rather than keeping it
- Reconciliation steps carry both balances and the difference
- A filing calendar that warns before the date and keeps the confirmation after
Compliance Audit Logger
An append-only record of decisions, approvals and access events - enforced by the database, not by a policy someone has to remember.
- The database refuses UPDATE and DELETE on the log
- Decisions, approvals and access events captured
- Export as CSV or JSON on demand
- Also available to healthcare and public-sector workspaces
What changes, in the hours it actually changes.
Three moments from an ordinary week. Every one of them is a thing the product does, not a thing it could be configured to do one day.
07:30
the close is on the board, and it knows who signs each line
This period's run rolled forward on its own cadence, seeded from the firm's own written procedure, and it deliberately did not carry last period's preparer over. Each step is prepared by a name on a date and reviewed by a different name on another date; a rejection clears the preparer's stamp, because a rejected step is not a prepared one. Reconciliation steps carry both balances and the difference between them, so a step is agreed or it is not, and the chase list says which client documents are still outstanding and when each one was last asked for.
11:20
the budget says what is spent, what is promised, and what is left
The finance workspace opens on the numbers rather than on a generic dashboard: budget, then variance, then the dates that do not move, then risks and client health. Variance reads forecast against actual per line with a tolerance you set, and calls each line fine, worth watching or breached rather than making you read two columns. A commitment is a third column and is never added to spend, so the page can say how much of the budget is uncommitted rather than pretending a purchase order is money gone. Variance, the plan and the ledger each export as CSV.
16:00
the client's plan is measured, not remembered
Drift is measured against the strategy that household actually has, both halves of the rule at once: a sleeve breaches when it moves outside its absolute band or its relative one, whichever is tighter, and there is a watch state before the breach. Concentration needs no strategy at all, so it works on day one, and it sums a position across every account rather than reading each one in isolation. It publishes how much of the portfolio it could see at position level, because finding nothing across a third of a book is not the same as finding nothing. And where there is no strategy on file it returns a sentence rather than a number, because a silent zero and a real zero look identical on a page.
These sit on top of the whole product.
- A portfolio arrives as the CSV, TSV or JSON your custodian already exports. Noots recognises the shape of a Schwab, Fidelity, Altruist, Orion, Black Diamond or Vanguard file well enough to suggest the mapping, then asks you to confirm every column it is not certain about rather than guessing which one is market value. A row it cannot read is refused by line number rather than written in as zero, and the whole import undoes in one press
- The Record tab on every client is the advice and decision trail: what was advised, what was decided, who by and when, with the provenance kept - the query a compliance review actually runs is every piece of advice this firm recorded, across clients, and there is an index for it
- The Filings tab is your own filing calendar: what you file, when, and a warning that arrives days before rather than on the morning, with the confirmation kept against the row afterwards and the next period rolled forward in a press
- Time Tracking & Billing keeps every recorded hour attached to the engagement it is billed against - a timer from the task or an entry afterwards, a rate per user, per engagement or per firm, and a Billing tab that turns the month into an invoice with CSV line items
- Checklists & SOPs turn a written procedure into a run with a tick and a name on every step, and a close seeds itself from that library; the Policy Library holds each rule with its effective date and one authoritative text
- Recurring Tasks carry the engagement letter's re-signing, the licence and the subscription with a date each, so what comes up next is on the board before it is a surprise; RAID is a tab on every engagement and the Risk Register is org-wide
- Client reviews, audit walkthroughs, close reviews and committee reviews each get their own steer on the recorder, and become owned action items with real start and due dates taken from what was said, without anyone taking minutes
- Forms is where a client questionnaire lives: your questions, in your words, attached to the engagement, sent as a link the client opens without an account, with every answer kept individually and nothing scored or averaged by the software. The onboarding questionnaire, the annual review pack and the fact-find are the same object built three ways
- Offered at setup, one tick each: Expense Claims with manager approval, the Decision Log, the CRM for engagements in the pipeline with Customer Health beside it for each client's renewals, Budgets, and Training for the CPD record
- SAML/SCIM single sign-on, two-factor authentication the workspace can require of every member, and an IP allowlist
The honest edges.
- Noots is a workspace for advisers and accountants. It is not a broker, a custodian or a book of record, nothing in it is investment advice, and every figure is arithmetic over records this firm entered or imported.
- A portfolio import reads CSV, TSV and JSON. It does not read .xlsx, and there is no statement or PDF extraction of any kind - a spreadsheet needs saving as CSV first.
- There is no live custodian or aggregator connection, and there is no API-key box that pretends otherwise. Schwab, Fidelity, Altruist, Orion, Black Diamond and Vanguard each require a signed vendor agreement and firm-level entitlement rather than a credential you could paste in, and the product lists what each one would need.
- Every holding is a snapshot of what a statement said on a date. Cost basis and price are stored and nothing computes a gain or a loss from them, and a portfolio holding more than one currency reports that it cannot be assessed rather than converting.
- Drift, concentration and alignment each refuse rather than guess: no stated strategy means no drift number, and concentration publishes how much of the book it could actually see.
- A risk assessment here is two scores a person enters, tolerance and capacity, kept apart and never averaged. Noots ships no risk questionnaire of its own: you can build one in Forms and read every answer back, and nothing in the product turns those answers into a score.
- No regime requires an investment policy statement, and this page will not imply one. What the product does is draft a strategy document from that client's own records, with no return figure in it, past or projected, and hold it in draft until a named person approves it.
- The filing calendar ships with no dates in it. Noots does not know your jurisdiction's deadlines and will never add one you did not, and recurring work re-creates itself on the schedule you set.
- The audit log records what happened in Noots. It is append-only and exportable, but it is not a ledger and it does not reach into your accounting system. Approvals record who signed off and when, which is an internal control rather than a qualified electronic signature.
- Noots holds no SOC 2, ISO 27001 or SOX attestation and offers no uptime SLA.
How Financial & Accounting Services actually runs.
Each of these is a project in Noots - its own board, tab strip, meetings, calendar and members. They are not pre-built modules and we will not pretend they are: what the industry gives you is the right defaults around them.
Built for the way your trade actually runs.
The ones buyers ask first.
How do portfolios get in?
Does it connect to Schwab, Altruist, Orion or Black Diamond?
What does drift actually measure?
Who can approve a client document?
Does the close really know who prepared and who reviewed?
Does the filing calendar know our deadlines?
Can an administrator edit the audit log?
What certifications does Noots hold?
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