Bead AI automates control testing for internal audit and SOX teams. Its AI agents follow your existing testing plans step by step: they collect and validate evidence, evaluate samples, flag exceptions, and produce working papers in your own Excel templates.
Every judgment the AI makes is recorded in a decision log and traced back to the underlying evidence, so reviewers and external auditors can see how each conclusion was reached.
What you can do with Bead AI:
- Test controls using your existing testing attributes — no setup or custom configuration
- Process any evidence, including complex spreadsheets, screenshots, system logs, and email
- Test full populations instead of capped samples
- Generate marked-up working papers in native Excel, matched to your templates
- Keep a complete audit trail automatically: every decision logged, every data point cited
Teams use Bead AI to automate about 70% of controls and cut overall testing time by about 80%, reducing reliance on co-sourcing and freeing auditors for judgment work.
Security: SOC 2 Type II certified. Customer data is never used for model training. Available as managed cloud or deployed in a private cloud where your data lives.
Bead AI was founded in 2025, is backed by a16z speedrun, and is headquartered in San Francisco.
