ResearchIQ

GAAP research with page-level citations

Ask a hard US GAAP question in plain English. An orchestrator plans the research, parallel researchers sweep the Big 4 handbooks, and a verifier checks every citation before you see the answer.

RESEARCHIQ4 agents in parallel
How do I account for profits interest units in a business combination?
Planning: consideration vs. post-combination compensation is the crux
Searching KPMG: profits interests and replacement awards
Reading EY §11.3: awards forfeited on termination
Bottom line: PIUs forfeited on termination are post-combination compensation, not consideration. This is close to determinative. KPMG p.415 EY §11.3
30 citations checked against their sources

A real answer from the product, shortened to fit.

The engine

Built like a review team, not a chatbot

One model answering from memory is how citations get invented. ResearchIQ splits the work the way a firm would: a planner, researchers working in parallel, and a reviewer who checks the support before anything reaches you.

An orchestrator plans the work

It decomposes your question and fans research tasks out to parallel researcher agents. When the question crosses standards, the plan does too: a replacement-award question pulls the share-based payment guidance on its own.

Researchers sweep the corpus in parallel

Each one runs varied retrieval queries over 27 indexed Big 4 handbooks from KPMG, EY, PwC, and Deloitte, plus FASB and SEC sources: 33K+ guidance passages across 23 ASC topics.

A verifier checks every citation

Before the answer is displayed, a second model checks each cited claim against its source text and strips what it cannot support: the guard against hallucinated cites.

Answers open with the bottom line

The conclusion comes first, then the support. Review starts where a reviewer would start.

RESEARCH PIPELINE
01
Orchestrator
Decomposes the question and plans the sweep
02
Parallel researchers
Varied retrieval queries across the handbooks
03
Verifier
Each cited claim checked against its source text
Output: a cited answer that opens with the bottom line, with pills like KPMG §11.15 EY BC 4.2 on every claim.
Citations verified against source text before display
The output

Every claim carries its source

The answer is not a wall of prose to take on faith. What survives verification stays clickable, and where the firms read a judgment area differently, you see the split.

Citations you can click

Every claim carries a pill that opens the handbook at the exact page with the supporting text highlighted. No hunting through a PDF for the sentence that supposedly supports the conclusion.

KPMG §11.15EY BC 4.2PwC 4.7

Divergence surfaced, not averaged

When the Big 4 read a judgment area differently, the answer shows the positions side by side instead of blending them into a consensus that exists nowhere. You make the call with the split in view.

A corpus, not training data

Retrieval runs over 27 Big 4 interpretive handbooks, 33K+ guidance passages, and 23 ASC topics, alongside FASB and SEC EDGAR sources. The corpus keeps growing.

Treat every answer as a research starting point, not professional advice: the citations stay clickable so a qualified professional can verify the work. Verification is enforced in code, and your questions stay confidential. How we protect your work is on the trust page.

Sessions

Follow-ups never count

A research session is one thread on one question. Ask follow-ups, request tables, push back on the answer: it all belongs to the same session, because interrogating a conclusion is the work, not an extra.

One question, one thread

Interrogate the answer as long as you need. Follow-ups, tables, and pushback are all part of one research session, so checking an answer is never rationed.

Try it on a real question

The free plan includes one full research session, cited and verified, plus one memo, one disclosure, one policy, and two schedules to try. No credit card required to start.

Priced like a tool, not a consultant

Professional is $149 per month, or $1,490 per year (two months free), with 20 research sessions a month. Enterprise is $399 per month, or $3,990 per year, with unlimited sessions.

Professional sessions reset monthly. Compare plans on the pricing page.

ONE SESSION
QUESTION
Does the setup fee in our SaaS arrangement create a material right?
FOLLOW-UP
Show the capitalize-versus-expense views in a table.
PUSHBACK
Why is this not a separate performance obligation?
Three exchanges, one threadStill one session
Works with

Where the answer goes next

ResearchIQ is one of the seven tools on GAAP IQ, and every plan includes all of them. The conclusion you land here flows into the documents your auditors actually read.

Prefer to see the research worked through first? Three fact patterns are written up in the guides, including the five-step ASC 606 walk for advisory fees. The full platform tour is on the AI technical accounting software page.

FAQ

Common questions

How is this different from using ChatGPT for GAAP research?

General chatbots answer from training data and have no page-level citations to interpretive guidance. ResearchIQ retrieves from an indexed corpus of 27 Big 4 handbooks plus FASB and SEC sources, and a verifier model checks every citation against its source text before the answer is shown, stripping anything it cannot support. Every surviving claim carries a clickable citation that opens the handbook at the exact page with the supporting text highlighted.

What sources does the research cover?

The corpus indexes 27 Big 4 interpretive handbooks from KPMG, EY, PwC, and Deloitte alongside FASB and SEC sources: 33K+ searchable guidance passages across 23 ASC topics, including revenue recognition under ASC 606 and leases under ASC 842, and it keeps growing.

Do follow-up questions count against my session quota?

No. A research session is one thread on one question: follow-ups, requests for tables, and pushback on an answer all belong to the same session and never count as new sessions. Professional includes 20 research sessions a month; Enterprise sessions are unlimited.

How do I know a citation is real?

Before an answer is displayed, a verifier model checks each cited claim against the source text it references and strips unsupported citations. What survives is clickable: every pill opens the handbook at the exact page with the supporting text highlighted, so you can read the guidance yourself.

Can I rely on the answers for professional decisions?

Treat it as a research starting point, not professional advice. Every conclusion carries clickable citations so a qualified professional can verify it, and answers open with the bottom line so review starts with the conclusion, not the search.

Ask the question that has been sitting in your inbox

The free plan includes one full research session, cited and verified. Bring a real question and check every pill yourself.

No credit card required