# Bead AI > Bead AI automates SOX 404 testing with AI agents. Execute testing plans, generate working papers, and produce auditable decision logs. Built for enterprise internal audit teams. AI-powered platform that automates SOX 404 testing end-to-end. AI agents analyze your evidence, execute your existing testing plans, perform control testing, and generate customized working papers with full decision audit trails. - Website: https://usebead.ai - Sign in: https://app.usebead.ai - Book a demo: https://cal.com/team/bead-ai/demo - Trust center: https://trust.usebead.ai - Email: mailto:founders@usebead.ai - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/bead-ai - Crunchbase: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/bead-ai - PitchBook: https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/1080836-38 ## Product - [AI Agents for SOX Testing & Internal Audit](https://usebead.ai/index.md): Bead AI's agents run your existing SOX testing plans end to end: pull evidence, test controls, and draft working papers with a full decision log. - [Security at Bead AI: SOC 2 Type II, Zero Retention](https://usebead.ai/security.md): SOC 2 Type II, US data residency, AES-256 at rest, tenant isolation, and zero-retention inference. Your audit evidence never reaches a model provider and never trains a model. - [Deployment: Cloud, Private Cloud or On-Prem](https://usebead.ai/platform/deployment.md): Run Bead AI as managed cloud, in a dedicated VPC in your own AWS region, or fully on-premises — same SOC 2 controls and zero-retention LLM inference. - [SOX Automation ROI Calculator](https://usebead.ai/roi.md): A vendor-neutral calculator: enter control counts, testing hours, co-sourcing share and blended rates to see annual savings and payback period. - [The Audit Leader's Guide to AI for SOX Testing](https://usebead.ai/book.md): A free 8-chapter field guide (~90 min, PDF and print) on making AI agents work inside a SOX program. Vendor-neutral, written for Internal Audit leaders. ## Company - [About Bead AI: Our Manifesto for AI-Era Audit](https://usebead.ai/why.md): Why Alexey Zanin and Tobi Otte started Bead AI, what we believe about AI in assurance, and the CAEs advising and backing the company. - [Careers at Bead AI | San Francisco](https://usebead.ai/careers.md): Open roles at Bead AI, a small product-obsessed team in San Francisco building AI agents that run SOX and internal audit testing. - [Book a Bead AI Demo: AI SOX Testing in Action](https://usebead.ai/contact.md): Book a call to see how Bead AI automates SOX testing: agents run your testing plans, handle evidence, and produce working papers. ## Blog - [Bead AI Blog: SOX Testing, ITGC & Audit Automation](https://usebead.ai/blog.md): Field notes from the Bead AI team on automating SOX and ITGC testing with AI agents: evidence collection, tool comparisons, and working papers. - [How to Pick a Workiva Alternative: Step by Step](https://usebead.ai/blog/step-step-pick-workiva-alternative-audit-automation.md): A four-step process for replacing Workiva: build a scorecard, compare alternatives, run a 90-day pilot on your own data, and make the business case. - [AI Agents for SOX Compliance and Workpapers](https://usebead.ai/blog/ai-agents-sox-compliance-automating-audit-testing-workpapers.md): How AI agents cut manual SOX work: they collect evidence, test controls, flag exceptions and draft workpapers your external auditor can follow. - [Bead AI vs Workiva for Internal Audit Automation](https://usebead.ai/blog/bead-ai-workiva-alternative-internal-audit-automation.md): Where Bead AI and Workiva differ on SOX testing: Workiva manages the workflow, Bead's agents execute the tests and produce the working papers. - [Best Platforms for Automating SOX and ITGC Compliance 2026](https://usebead.ai/blog/sox-itgc-automation-ai-works-tools-lead-2026.md): The platforms that automate SOX and ITGC compliance in 2026, ranked on test execution, evidence collection and audit-ready output. - [Agentic AI for SOX Controls Testing: How It Works](https://usebead.ai/blog/agentic-ai-sox-controls-testing.md): How agentic AI tests SOX controls: evidence collection, full-population testing, exception analysis and an auditor-ready trail of every decision. - [Internal Audit Software Compared: Top Tools 2026](https://usebead.ai/blog/audit-software-comparison-top-tools-internal-audit-teams-2026.md): AuditBoard, Workiva, Diligent and AI-native platforms compared on testing execution, evidence handling, working papers and price for 2026. - [Best AI for SOX Testing: 5 Criteria to Evaluate Tools](https://usebead.ai/blog/best-sox-testing-tool.md): Five criteria that separate SOX workflow tools from AI-native platforms that actually execute tests, cover full populations, and document the result. ## Legal - [Acceptable Use Policy](https://usebead.ai/legal/acceptable-use-policy.md): What customers may and may not do with the Bead AI platform, including prohibited, abusive, illegal and security-compromising uses. - [AI Policy](https://usebead.ai/legal/ai-policy.md): How Bead AI develops and deploys AI in the platform: compliance with AI regulations, data sourcing, accuracy and reliability testing, and transparency. - [Cookie Policy](https://usebead.ai/legal/cookie-policy.md): Which cookies usebead.ai sets, what each one is for, how long it lasts, and how to change your consent at any time. - [Privacy Policy](https://usebead.ai/legal/privacy-policy.md): How Bead AI collects, uses, stores and deletes personal data, the rights you have over it, and who to contact about a request. - [Security Addendum](https://usebead.ai/legal/security-addendum.md): The contractual security commitments behind Bead AI: certifications, data hosting, encryption, access controls, incident response and audit rights. - [Terms of Service](https://usebead.ai/legal/terms-of-service.md): The contract terms for using the Bead AI platform: permitted use, ownership of Customer Data, warranties, limitation of liability and termination. - [Website Terms](https://usebead.ai/legal/website-terms.md): The terms that govern use of usebead.ai: acceptable use of the site, intellectual property, disclaimers and governing law.