HISAB 360's answer

HISAB 360 is a native Microsoft Excel add-in (VSTO) for Windows and Excel 2016 or later. It uses Claude (Anthropic) as its default AI, with optional support for your own OpenAI or Google keys. Under the hood it runs a sandboxed Python engine (pandas, numpy, openpyxl, plotly) for analysis and reporting, generates VBA macros and custom Excel ribbon buttons, and integrates with Odoo, Xero, QuickBooks Online and Zoho Books through their official APIs. Credentials are stored locally using Windows DPAPI encryption, and workbook data stays on the user’s machine.

Split Fee's answer:

A next-generation serverless platform, built for AWS.

HISAB 360's answer

HISAB 360 is the only AI assistant that runs fully inside Microsoft Excel and works completely offline — your workbook data never leaves your machine. Instead of a web app that generates formulas you copy back, you simply chat in plain English and HISAB writes formulas and VBA straight into your live sheet, runs sandboxed Python (pandas, numpy, plotly), turns PDF bank statements into clean ledgers, reconciles accounts, and posts invoices, bills, journal entries and payments directly into Xero, QuickBooks, Zoho Books and Odoo — all with approval-gated writes and a full audit trail.

Split Fee's answer:

Split Fee is the first purpose-built platform for split fee recruitment in the UK. Instead of relying on LinkedIn groups, WhatsApp messages, and manual agreements, agencies upload their candidates and vacancies and the platform automatically matches them across agencies.

Candidate identities are revealed gradually; anonymised at first, then progressively disclosed as both sides accept, so agencies can collaborate without the risk of circumvention.

HISAB 360's answer

Tools like Ajelix, GPT Excel and Sourcetable mostly generate formulas in a browser that you then copy back into Excel. HISAB 360 lives inside Excel and actually does the work: it inserts the formula into your cell, builds the report, converts the bank statement, reconciles the accounts and writes back to your ERP — in one click, offline and private. It is purpose-built for accountants and finance teams, so it goes well beyond formulas into bookkeeping, reconciliation and ERP automation (Xero, QuickBooks, Zoho Books, Odoo). You can start free for 15 days (50 credits, no card), then use your own AI keys for $7/month or buy it once for $199.

Split Fee's answer:

Most "split fee networks" are just directories or social groups where agencies post and hope someone responds. Split Fee is an actual matching engine. It scores candidate-vacancy pairs, handles the legal agreements (non-circumvention, self-billing), automates invoicing and fee splits, and manages the entire placement lifecycle from match to payment. Everything that normally requires trust, phone calls, and spreadsheets is handled by the platform.

HISAB 360's answer

Accountants, bookkeepers and finance teams who live in Excel and want to move faster without leaving it — from solo practitioners and bookkeeping firms to in-house finance departments that reconcile accounts and post to Xero, QuickBooks, Zoho Books or Odoo. In short, anyone comfortable in spreadsheets who wants AI to handle the formulas, VBA, financial reports, PDF bank-statement conversion, reconciliation and ERP data entry for them — while keeping sensitive financial data offline on their own machine.

Split Fee's answer:

UK recruitment agencies; from boutique firms with a handful of consultants to mid-sized agencies with specialist sector coverage. Any agency that has either strong candidates without the right vacancies, or client vacancies they can't fill from their own candidate pool. Split Fee turns those dormant assets into placements.

HISAB 360's answer

HISAB 360 was built to bring AI to where accountants already work — inside Excel — instead of forcing them onto yet another web app. "Hisab" means accounting and calculation, and the idea was simple: let finance professionals get their formulas, reports, statement conversions, reconciliations and ERP entries done just by chatting in plain English, while keeping their sensitive financial data private and offline on their own machine. The result is an Excel-native AI copilot that handles the tedious accounting work end to end.

Split Fee's answer:

Abbie, our founder, knew that although split fee arrangements have existed in recruitment for decades, the process has always been manual: find a partner agency, negotiate terms, trust them with your candidate data, chase invoices. Most agencies avoid it because the overhead and risk outweigh the reward. Abbie built Split Fee to remove that friction entirely, with automated matching, progressive identity disclosure, built-in legal agreements, and automated billing, making split placements as straightforward as direct ones.