About Bookkeeping Index

We built Bookkeeping Index for one reader: a small-business owner who needs a bookkeeper and can't tell the firms apart.

It's a fair problem to have. Most local bookkeeping sites use the same few phrases, review counts mostly show how often a firm asks for reviews, and the directories that turn up in search tend to favor whoever filled in the most fields. Before launch we asked an AI search tool to name bookkeepers in each of our launch markets. Its answers leaned on a few directory reviews or a single service page, and it said itself that it couldn't find enough comparable evidence. You deserve something you can check.

What we do

We read each firm's own website, look the firm up on the state records and directories that will confirm it, and publish what we found with a link and a date beside every line. We score the firm on how much a buyer can verify, and we show how much we were able to check. We publish no ratings.

We started with four states, Texas, Connecticut, North Carolina and New Hampshire, plus a page for firms that work entirely remotely. We add markets slowly, because a thin page helps nobody.

Who runs it

Bookkeeping Index is operated by Pleiades Consultancy, a marketing firm that works with service businesses, bookkeeping and accounting firms among them. That's a conflict of interest, and we'd rather state it than bury it. Our client firms get a labelled Featured slot, they're scored by the same rules as everyone else, and we don't use the websites we've built for them as evidence. The disclosures page sets out every part of it.

If you run a firm that's listed

You can claim your listing to confirm you run the firm, or send a correction with evidence. A person reviews every submission, and nothing on a listing changes until the evidence has been checked. Claiming doesn't change a score. Evidence does.

If you're choosing a bookkeeper, start with the state list.