> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.tight.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Introduction

> Welcome to Tight AI-native Embedded Accounting

## Quickstart

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    Embed accounting with Tight's proven white-labeled experience
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    Leverage AI to quickly embed accounting into your platform
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## Agentic Accounting

Tight's AI-native General Ledger (AGL) is now able to automate categorization, reconciliation, anomaly detection, reporting,
and analysis by leveraging LLM-based [Agentic Accountants](/ai/agentic/agentic-accountant).

Having served 1.3M businesses to date, Tight [AI-native Embedded Accounting](/ai/philosophy/ai-native-general-ledger) allows
platforms like yours to provide businesses with the power of real-time financials and reconciliation as well as the
accuracy and reliability of a fully deterministic ledger.

## Use cases

### Augment Your Platform

If you already have invoicing, expense tracking, or bill pay built into your product, Tight's accounting engine can back
your existing features with proper double-entry bookkeeping. Push your existing transaction data to the Tight API, and
Tight automatically maintains the general ledger, enabling financial reporting and reconciliation capabilities you'd
otherwise need to build from scratch.

This approach lets you add complementary features selectively; see below for some example features you can add to your
platform with Tight:

1. [Expense Tracking](/guides/business-owners/bank-transactions#expense-tracking)
2. [Automatic Mileage Tracking](/guides/business-owners/mileage-tracking#automatic-mileage-tracking)
3. [Financial Statements](/guides/business-owners/financial-statements)
4. [Invoicing](/guides/business-owners/invoicing#adding-invoicing-to-your-platform)
5. [Bill Pay](/guides/business-owners/bills#adding-bills-into-your-platform)

### Turnkey Accounting Solution

The [Tight Dashboard](/embeddable-ui/react/financial-overview) provides a complete accounting platform
embedded directly in your product. Your users see a simplified, action-oriented view that surfaces only what requires
their attention — uncategorized transactions, unpaid invoices, upcoming tax deadlines — without overwhelming them with
accounting complexity.

Everything is included: bank connections, expense categorization, invoicing, financial statements, income tax estimates,
and reconciliation. Your users get professional-grade accounting functionality without needing to understand debits,
credits, or journal entries.

### Advanced Accounting Controls

For bookkeepers and sophisticated business owners who need deeper control, embed individual accounting pages alongside
the dashboard. These users can access the [Chart of Accounts](/embeddable-ui/react/accounting/chart-of-accounts) to
customize account structures, the [General Ledger](/embeddable-ui/react/accounting/general-ledger) to review
transaction-level detail, and the [Journal](/embeddable-ui/react/accounting/journal) to create manual journal entries
for depreciation, amortization, or complex adjustments. This gives power users the granular control they expect while
keeping the experience simple for everyone else.

## What Tight enables

### Financial Reporting

The double-entry General Ledger that Tight maintains automatically enables
comprehensive [financial reporting](/guides/business-owners/financial-statements) without requiring your users to
understand accounting mechanics. Every transaction that flows through your platform, whether it's an invoice,
bank transaction, bill, or payroll run, automatically updates the appropriate GL accounts in real-time.

This means your users get instant access
to [Profit & Loss statements](/guides/business-owners/financial-statements#profit-&-loss-income-statement), [Balance Sheets](/guides/business-owners/financial-statements#balance-sheet), [Cash Flow Statements](/guides/business-owners/financial-statements#cash-flow-statement),
and [Trial Balance reports](/guides/business-owners/financial-statements) without manual
bookkeeping work.

Bookkeepers and accountants working within your platform can drill down from any report line item directly into the
underlying transactions and journal entries, providing the audit trail and transparency needed for professional
accounting work.

### Automated reconciliation

Tight's accounting engine automatically handles the complex reconciliation scenarios that typically require manual
bookkeeping intervention. When a payment processor (
e.g. [Adyen](/integrations/payment-processing/adyen), [Stripe](/integrations/payment-processing/stripe)) payout hits a
business's bank account, Tight automatically matches it to the underlying invoices, merchant fees, and payment
processing charges without any manual matching required. See how this works in practice
with [automatic payment/payout reconciliation](/guides/business-owners/invoicing#automatic-paymentpayout-reconciliation).

The same automation applies
to [matching bill payments](/guides/business-owners/bills#adding-automatic-bill/withdrawal-reconciliation-to-your-existing-bill-pay),
bank transfers between
accounts, [payroll withdrawals](/guides/business-owners/payroll#automatic-payrollwithdrawal-reconciliation), and other
multi-leg transactions that traditionally create reconciliation headaches. Your users see clean, reconciled books
without needing to understand the accounting mechanics happening in the background.

### Dimensions

Many businesses need to track profitability across multiple dimensions beyond just account categories, e.g. by location,
product line, project, or department. Tight's [dimensions](/guides/business-owners/dimensions) functionality
enables this multi-dimensional reporting without requiring your users to maintain complex account structures.

Your platform can define the dimensions and hierarchies made available to the business on your platform, and the
businesses can define the values against those dimensions. Your users can assign dimensions to transactions, invoices, and
expenses, then generate Profit & Loss reports segmented by dimension to understand which locations, products, or projects
are most profitable. This is particularly valuable for platforms serving multi-location businesses, project-based
services, or any vertical where profitability analysis by segment drives business decisions.

The dimension tracking integrates seamlessly with Tight's accounting engine, so businesses get accurate profitability
reporting by segment while maintaining a clean, simple Chart of Accounts structure.
