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The agentic platform for multi-unit franchising

Purpose-built for franchising.
Not adapted to it.

A group, its entities and its locations are the model underneath, not a template on top. The documents it reads are franchise agreements and leases. The calendar is your brand’s. The reports are the ones a franchisor, a lender and you each ask for — all off one ledger.

AI agents draft the books every night, and nothing they draft posts until a person approves it.

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$350 per location a monthno add-ons

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One night in Kite, from the evening feeds to the morning queue.

Reads from the systems you already run

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Purpose-built

Six things a general ledger would have to be taught.

Each exists only because of who this is for.

  1. 01

    A group, its entities, its locations

    One login. Each entity keeps its own books; each location is a dimension inside them. Store P&L, entity statements and the group rollup come off the same ledger, not three exports.

  2. 02

    Franchise agreements as rules

    Royalty, ad fund and percentage rent are read out of the agreement with the clause cited, and computed per period from the register — for the life of the agreement, not from a spreadsheet somebody maintains.

  3. 03

    Your brand’s calendar

    A 4-4-5 or 13-period year that closes on the weekday the brand closes on, so the royalty week and the accounting week are the same week and a restated day raises a delta, never an edit.

  4. 04

    A chart that stays comparable

    Accounts unify by code, then by name, across every store — so one location’s Repairs & Maintenance is never another’s Building Expenses, and a store P&L means the same thing in every market.

  5. 05

    The trade’s own words

    Name the trade once. The chart template, the modules, the vocabulary and the connections follow from an industry profile — store or studio or property, member or check or folio — instead of a general ledger being taught them.

  6. 06

    What the franchisor asks for

    Franchisor reporting in the format they require. Brand-standards audit findings with an owner and a deadline each. Licences and permits raised before they lapse. The obligations a franchise carries, kept as obligations.

What the price buys

An agentic software platform and a named accounting lead. One number.

Software on its own is a tool you still have to staff. A firm on its own is people doing by hand what a machine should have done overnight. Kite is the accounting function itself, taken over — and the two halves are priced as one thing because that is how they work.

Half one · software

The agentic platform

A system you log into, with AI agents working inside it — not a service that emails you a spreadsheet.

  • You get a login of your own. The books, the queue, every document and every report are on your screen, live — not summarised out of somebody else’s system once a month.
  • The agents act on a schedule rather than on request. Feeds arrive, documents are read, money is matched and the entries are drafted overnight, whether or not anyone opens the app.
  • They read what you signed and what you were billed — leases, franchise agreements, bills, bank and delivery statements — and cite the clause or line each number came from.
  • The model interprets and proposes. Deterministic engines do the arithmetic, so no figure that moves money is something a model made up.
  • Every automation has its own switch. Off stops the agent, not the work — the button that does it by hand is still there.

Nothing it produces reaches the ledger on its own.

Half two · people

Kite’s accounting experts

Kite’s dedicated human experts, who do franchise books all day, working inside that same system with you.

  • A named lead owns your books and works your queue every morning, before you have opened it.
  • The same people all month, so nobody re-learns your entities, your brands or your chart in week three.
  • They take the judgement: what did not match, what the model was unsure of, what a document does not say.
  • They close the month, produce the package, and answer the franchisor and the lender in the format each asks for.
  • Under twenty locations the team behind your lead is shared; from twenty it is yours alone, at the same rate.

A task closes only when a check over your own data passes.

Every capability

57 things that stop being your problem.

Not a summary and not a sample — the whole accounting function, named. Every line is included from your first location, on day one. The marks say which half does the work.

  • The software
  • Kite’s experts
  • Both

Money in

Every dollar the registers say you earned, followed to the bank line that settles it.

  • The software: Sales register by location and by day
  • The software: Card batches matched to bank deposits
  • The software and Kite’s experts: Cash deposits followed, over and short explained
  • The software and Kite’s experts: Delivery payouts reconciled to orders, with every fee booked as its own cost
  • The software: Unreported and restated sales days raised the next morning
  • The software: Delivery apps: Uber Eats connected; DoorDash and Grubhub by statement

Money out

Bills arrive in an inbox and leave as approved, coded entries.

  • The software: Bill inbox: documents read, line by line
  • The software: Coded against how you coded that vendor last time
  • The software and Kite’s experts: Approval queue, with the approval recorded as yours
  • Kite’s experts: One vendor file across every entity, duplicates merged
  • The software and Kite’s experts: Card spend coded and matched to receipts
  • The software: Payables aging and what is due this week
  • The software: Expected charges learned, then the missing one raised

Bank

Reconciliation in three tiers: what proves itself, what is suggested, what needs reading.

  • The software: Bank and card feeds, connected once
  • The software: Tier one: matched by proof, no person needed
  • The software and Kite’s experts: Tier two: evidence suggested, held for a person
  • The software and Kite’s experts: Tier three: one model pass, its confidence shown
  • Kite’s experts: Worked to zero every week
  • The software: A connection that stops syncing is raised, not discovered later

Contracts and leases

What you signed, turned into rules that compute themselves for the life of the agreement.

  • The software: Franchise agreements and leases read into rules
  • The software: A clause cited for every number, one click from the figure
  • The software: Royalty, ad fund and percentage rent computed per period
  • The software: ASC 842: right-of-use asset, liability, schedule and disclosures
  • The software: Renewals, options, breakpoints and expiries watched
  • Kite’s experts: The reading checked against the document before it governs
  • The software and Kite’s experts: Amendments and superseding documents kept in one chain

Accounting and the close

The entries a controller would make, drafted overnight and closed by a person.

  • The software: Weekly sales journals per location
  • The software: Depreciation from the fixed asset schedule
  • The software: Loan interest accrued per period
  • The software: Intercompany management fees, both sides at once
  • The software: Rent, CAM and royalty recognised where their days fell
  • Kite’s experts: Month-end close and the close package
  • Kite’s experts: Year-end close, opening balances and retained earnings
  • The software and Kite’s experts: Every entry traceable to the rule and document behind it

Reporting

Franchisors want store P&L, lenders want entity statements, you want the group. One ledger, three answers.

  • The software: Store P&L and consolidated P&L
  • The software: Balance sheet, trial balance and cash flow
  • The software: Royalty register and occupancy cost
  • The software: Vendor ledger and fixed asset schedule
  • The software: Group rollup across entities and brands
  • Kite’s experts: Franchisor reporting, in the format they ask for
  • Kite’s experts: Lender and covenant packages

Compliance and operations

The obligations that are not accounting until the day they become expensive.

  • The software: Licences and permits tracked, renewals raised before they lapse
  • The software and Kite’s experts: Brand-standards audits, findings and corrective actions
  • The software: A finding cited twice is raised as a repeat
  • The software: Utilities tracked per location
  • Kite’s experts: Owners and deadlines on every open item

Your systems, and the shape of your group

Kite keeps the books. Everything you already run stays where it is.

  • The software: QuickBooks Online in step both ways, so your CPA keeps reading it
  • The software: History and balances from NetSuite, QuickBooks Desktop, Sage and Xero
  • The software: Point of sale connected, or by export where no connection exists
  • The software: Group, entity and location as one model, on one login
  • Kite’s experts: Charts unified by code, so stores stay comparable
  • Kite’s experts: Your history brought across and proved against its own totals

The people

The half of this that is not software.

  • Kite’s experts: A named accounting lead, the same person all month
  • Kite’s experts: A qualified team: shared under twenty locations, yours alone from twenty
  • Kite’s experts: The attention queue worked every morning, before you open it
  • The software and Kite’s experts: A task closes only when a check over your own data passes
  • Kite’s experts: Onboarding on your real data, alongside your current books

Built so you can check it

Trust is a property of the books, not a promise.

  1. 01

    A person confirms.

    Nothing the model drafts reaches the ledger until a person approves it, and every entry records who prepared it and who approved it.

  2. 02

    Every number cites its source.

    The clause, the register line or the bank line it came from, one click away from the figure.

  3. 03

    The ledger can be replayed.

    Every posting is traceable to the rule and the document that produced it, so the books can be rebuilt and checked.

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