Frequently asked questions
Your questions,
answered.
How Airspeed fits with your finance team, systems and advisers.
What is Airspeed?
Airspeed provides financial oversight for CFOs and finance teams. It checks ledger activity at scale, flags unusual activity and gives your team evidence to investigate.
Is the platform available?
Airspeed Doppler is in beta. You can join the beta waitlist or request a demo. Joining the waitlist does not give immediate platform access.
How do Airspeed FlightPlan and Airspeed Preflight differ?
Airspeed FlightPlan helps finance leaders entering a role understand the records and priorities they have inherited. Airspeed Preflight helps business buyers and sellers identify findings and follow-up questions. Both are focused services with Chartered Accountant review.
How much does Airspeed cost?
Service fees depend on the agreed scope. Contact us for an Airspeed FlightPlan or Airspeed Preflight quote, or to discuss Doppler beta access and pricing.
Which systems can Airspeed work with?
See our integration catalogue for accounting, banking, workforce and registry connections. The catalogue distinguishes available connections from those coming soon.
My accounting system already checks this.
It does perform useful checks. Xero, for example, already flags potential duplicate bills. Airspeed brings payment patterns, historical changes, employee–supplier analytics and external identity checks into a broader review. Duplicate detection is one check within that process.
My team would catch it.
Your team knows the business. The constraint is finding the time to repeat every check while the close, cash position and board pack still need to get done. A familiar supplier, an ordinary-looking journal or a small recurring error can be easy to pass over in a busy month.
Airspeed gives your team another way to surface those items consistently. They keep the judgement and business context; the routine analysis does not have to compete for the same hours.
Could I do this with a general-purpose AI tool?
You can. But a confident answer is not proof that the right checks ran. AI tools can produce plausible errors. If a record is omitted, a calculation is wrong or a prompt never asks the right question, a polished summary can leave you more confident than the evidence warrants.
You still have to define the tests, validate the calculations, check coverage and preserve the work so it can be repeated next month. That responsibility stays with you when the board asks how you reached a conclusion.
Airspeed is built around defined checks and findings linked to source records. Deterministic tests calculate the rule-based results; statistical and model signals identify items for review. Each finding gives your team a concrete starting point for follow-up.
We already have an auditor.
That gives you a separate professional assessment for its agreed purpose. It does not give management a current answer to every question about payments, suppliers or activity between reporting dates.
Waiting until year-end can leave a recurring error running for months. Airspeed helps you examine the underlying activity earlier and take evidence into conversations with your auditor.
What if nothing is flagged?
You have a record of the tests performed, the data covered and the gaps that remain. That gives you a stronger basis for confidence than “we haven’t noticed anything wrong”.
Is this a fraud investigation?
The starting point is financial oversight: errors, unusual activity, unexplained balances and relationships that warrant a closer look. The findings give your team specific questions to work through.
Can this wait until after year-end?
A recurring mistake does not pause while the finance calendar is busy. Each new payment or reporting period can carry the same issue forward, and the explanation can become harder to reconstruct as people and systems change.
Running a defined set of checks during the year gives your team an opportunity to investigate while the records and context are current. The scope can focus on the questions that matter most.