Accounting firms have a problem that most productivity tools never solve. The work itself isn’t the bottleneck, the overhead is. Emails pile up. Client context lives across three different tools. Deadlines shift. And the accountant ends up spending more time managing information than actually doing accounting. Dytto, built specifically for an AI assistant for accounting and bookkeeping firms, is designed to close that gap, and as of today the Ghent-based startup has raised €1.5 million in pre-seed funding to accelerate that work.
The round is co-led by Entourage and Fortino Ventures, with participation from the founders of Aikido Security, Tally, and several accounting firm partners. The funding is earmarked for product development, European expansion, and team growth across engineering, product, and customer success.
The Core Problem:
Most AI tools in the market are general-purpose. They can summarize, draft, and answer questions, but they don’t know your clients, your firm’s tone, or your practice management setup. That’s the friction point for accounting teams.
Accountants aren’t looking for another chatbot. They need something that understands client history, surfaces what’s outstanding, and helps them respond without starting from scratch every time.
Co-founder and CEO Niels Van Driessche spoke to that directly: “The team talked to more than 100 accountants before building, and the question they heard most often was what AI could do for them right now, not someday.”
What Dytto does
Dytto connects to the tools firms already use, Outlook, Xero, Exact, Yuki, Silverfin, Adminpulse, Iris, Winbooks, and Excel, and brings client information, emails, and open tasks into one place.
Setup takes under 30 minutes for a full team. That’s a meaningful number for firms that don’t have IT departments and can’t afford week-long onboarding cycles.
Once connected, Dytto does a few specific things well. It shows what’s outstanding per client, suggests next steps, and helps accountants draft emails that match their existing tone and client relationship. It also answers accounting and client-specific questions by combining the firm’s own knowledge with trusted external sources.
The Team-wide Layer:
One feature worth noting for firm operators is the shared workflows layer. Dytto lets teams share prompts, templates, and best practices across the whole firm. This matters because AI adoption in professional services often stalls when it stays individual, one person uses it, no one else does, and the efficiency gain stays siloed.
By making AI workflows shareable, Dytto helps firms build consistent habits rather than just giving individual users a faster way to draft emails.
Accounting firms operate under strict confidentiality requirements. Dytto is GDPR compliant and currently pursuing ISO 27001 certification. It signs in via Microsoft SSO, which fits naturally into how most European accounting firms already manage access.
The Firm Impact:
According to Dytto, users save more than 1 hour per team member per day. Firms using Dytto range from solo practitioners to multi-team organizations across the UK, Belgium, and the Netherlands. Benjamin D., a Founder and Partner at an accounting firm, noted that his team was up and running quickly and that it became part of how they work. These are self-reported figures and your results will vary based on firm size and workflow complexity, but the productivity framing is consistent with where accounting firms are feeling pressure right now.
Pricing and Access:
At €29 per user per month, Dytto’s early pricing includes email drafting, shared client context, AI-grounded answers, skills and reusable templates, personal onboarding, and compliance by design. Enterprise agreements are available separately. The early pricing is locked until March 31, 2026, after which standard pricing applies.
Firms interested in trying Dytto can book a demo first, the product demo leads to a free trial if it’s a fit. That low-friction entry point is useful for firm partners who want to evaluate before committing.
Who Benefits Most:
Dytto is built for accounting and bookkeeping firms that already use tools like Xero, Exact, or Silverfin and are looking for an AI layer that connects those tools rather than replacing them. Small to mid-size firms with lean teams stand to gain the most from the 1-hour-per-day saving, simply because every hour recovered has a bigger proportional impact at that scale.
Firms running on Microsoft infrastructure, which covers a significant share of the European accounting market, will find the Microsoft SSO and Outlook integration particularly smooth. If your firm is already evaluating AI for accounting work or looking at accounting automation software, Dytto fits naturally into that conversation.
Comments:
Niels Van Driessche, co-founder & CEO of Dytto, added: “For many businesses, the accountant is their only financial adviser. That relationship is not going anywhere. The challenge is whether firms can free up enough of the day-to-day work to actually serve it well. Accountants do not need another expensive software sold on long-term promises. They have had a decade of those. They need AI that is simple to adopt, works inside their existing tools, and delivers value from day one.”
Jorne De Blaere, co-founder and CTO of Dytto, says: “Our AI assists, but humans decide. We designed Dytto so firms can embed their own expertise and ways of working. That is how they stay differentiated.”
Filip Van Innis, Managing Partner at Fortino Ventures, commented: “Professional services is one of the largest sectors still waiting for AI to deliver real value. Dytto is tackling the adoption challenge by meeting accountants where they work, inside the tools they already use. We are excited to back Niels and Jorne as they build out the product and grow the team.”
