Long nights stitching evidence packets, version-controlled chaos, and six-figure invoices. Audit has a bad reputation. It’s simultaneously mission-critical, resource-starved and error-prone. Today’s model treats controls as static check-boxes and auditors as compliance historians instead of risk navigators, burning them out and starving the industry of desperately needed talent.

But something is coming to change this. The great AI wave is gathering speed, taking more and more shares of daily workloads, quietly shouldering the grind and data wrangling, leaving people free to focus on curiosity, judgment, and the stories only humans can tell.

That’s what convinced us that right now is the time to start Bead. To give audit its overdue moon-shot. Bead is an engine to power audit in a world where humans intervene only when judgment is needed, not getting lost digging for data scattered across email threads and workbooks.

A world without tool silos and swivel chairs. Where intelligent agents create on-demand evidence graphs, where always-on connectors watch full-population data feeds, providing continuous assurance and surfacing failures as they happen.

This world needs Bead.

Our Pledge

• We are here to empower auditors with superpowers. Making audits better and faster, not just cheaper.

• Augmentation over replacement. People’s scepticism, ethics, and contextual insight remain irreplaceable.

• Transparency first. Every step and conclusion is traceable back to the source or action logs.

• Community-driven standards. We collaborate with IIA chapters, regulators, and audit leaders to shape open protocols for AI-enabled assurance.

Call to Action

CAEs, if you believe controls should be living, evidence should be self-assembling, and auditors should be strategic advisors, join us. Reject the status quo. Help us build a future where assurance keeps pace with innovation. Together we can turn internal audit from a cost centre into a control intelligence hub. Continuous, collaborative, and boldly data-driven.

Because the companies you protect, and the investors who trust them, deserve nothing less.