[00] · The Pre-Ledger Control Layer
Obsidia is the control layer that verifies every financial record on its way to your ledger — so what posts is already right.
Independent of your ERP. Works alongside your existing stack.
Reconciliation and close automation all run after a record is already in your books. The error is found later — during close, audit, or diligence — when it's hardest to trace and costliest to unwind.
The record posts first. Someone catches the error downstream and works backward to correct it. The cost lives in the cleanup — and in the close it delays.
A financial data firewall sits in front of your books. Each record clears its checks before it can post, so the errors that drive cleanup never make it in.
This is the path each record takes inside the firewall, from raw source to posted entry. Scroll to walk it.
Records arrive from banks, billing, payroll, and subledgers and are mapped into one consistent shape, with the original evidence kept intact.
Each one is tested against your business logic, controls, and policy — and matched to the source document that should back it up.
Records are cross-checked between systems, so a figure that disagrees with its counterpart elsewhere is caught here.
Failed records are held with a stated reason and routed to the right owner — never silently dropped or force-posted.
Cleared records flow into the ledger automatically, each one carrying the full record of how it got there.
The hours your team loses tracing and unwinding errors largely disappear.
Move to a new ERP without a months-long data remediation project after go-live.
Walk in with evidence already in order — fewer findings, fewer follow-ups.
Diligence-ready numbers from day one shorten the path from review to financing or sale.
Fewer surprises in the data room means fewer price adjustments at the table.
Growing transaction volume stops meaning a growing pile of financial exposure.
Independent research shows what disciplined finance automation delivers — and why catching issues at the source matters most.
Figures reflect third-party research on finance automation broadly, not Obsidia results. Obsidia applies the same discipline deterministically — at the source, before records post.
Close and reconciliation tools work after the ledger. Six things only a layer in front of it can guarantee.
Bad records are blocked before they post — the cheapest error is the one that never enters the books.
Banks, billing, payroll, subledgers — together. Single-source tools miss the errors that only show up when systems disagree.
Same input, same outcome, every time. No model probabilities, no AI black box to defend to an auditor.
One control layer above NetSuite, QuickBooks, SAP, or Xero — not locked to a single platform.
A resolved issue becomes a permanent rule, so the same break never reaches a human twice.
Each posted record carries a replayable trail back to its source, the rule applied, and who signed off.
Bring your own scenarios to a 30-minute walkthrough and watch what gets caught.