AttestWork vs Autire

AttestWork is a web workspace for audit, review, compilation, preparation, agreed-upon procedures, and examination engagements. It imports trial balances and general ledgers, compares account balances, and surfaces exceptions. Document processing extracts text and structured fields from scanned PDFs, images, and ledger exports. Teams can search indexed engagement files, including OCR-processed PDFs, and an assistant can draft procedure documentation and workpaper tables using engagement context and files. Firms can connect AI clients such as Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini Spark, or another MCP client through an OAuth-secured connection. The workspace tracks prepared-by-client requests and can link client responses to the relevant request and procedure. Preparers and reviewers must sign off, and editing resets the affected sign-off tier. WorkpaperOS says it does not train its own models on customer work; files are kept in private buckets with short-lived signed links. A five-day trial costs nothing, with no card required. Professional is $57.50 a month for three months, then 115 USD per month; Premium is $92.50 a month for three months, then 185 USD per month.

Autire is a browser-based platform for employee benefit plan audits, linking planning, testing, and financial statement delivery. Firms can set materiality thresholds, risk logic, and templates for reuse across engagements. Its client portal handles plan-specific document requests and follow-ups based on AICPA and DOL requirements. Auditors can upload a trust report PDF to extract plan activity and build a trial balance. Testing rules apply to all available participant records, including contributions and distributions. The platform groups audit exceptions by root cause for review and generates financial statement packages from tested and verified data using firm-approved templates. Autire says it maintains SOC 2 Type 2 controls, encrypts stored data with AES-256 and data in transit with TLS 1.2+, and hosts data in US AWS regions. Audit data is retained for seven years, and Social Security numbers are not required to complete an audit. The company says all support staff are former EBP auditors and that direct DOL inspection and peer review support is included in the per-audit fee. Pricing is on request, and the service is intended for business users.