The compliance studio your articled assistants were never trained to be.
Lekha is purpose-built AI automation for Indian Chartered Accountant firms — GSTR-1 to GSTR-9, TDS reconciliation across 26AS, statutory calendars, and audit prep. Not another Zap. A practice in software.
The world built workflow tools.
India needs a ledger.
Zapier connects apps. Make moves payloads. n8n is a beautiful canvas. None of them know what a GSTIN looks like, what the 17 sections of TDS mean, or that GSTR-9C late fees compound at ₹200/day per Act.
Lekha is not a workflow builder pretending to know your domain. It is a practice management studio built around the calendar, vocabulary, and statutes of the Income Tax Act, CGST Act, and Companies Act — with AI grafted in where it actually saves you hours.
Built by a Power BI + FastAPI practitioner who has stared at enough 26AS reconciliations to design the tool he wished existed.
Seven workrooms. One studio.
Each module knows its statute. Together they form a single firm-wide command surface that replaces eight spreadsheets and three WhatsApp groups.
GST Filing Engine
Drafts GSTR-1, GSTR-3B, GSTR-9 from raw books. Flags HSN errors, ITC blocked credits, and rate misclassifications before they cost penalties.
TDS Reconciliation
Pulls 26AS, matches against book entries across sections 192, 194A through 194J, surfaces mismatches in seconds, prepares Form 26Q.
Compliance Calendar
Statutory due-date calendar across GST, TDS, IT, ROC, and audit — with auto-priority and client tagging. The dashboard your partners ask for.
Invoice Processing
Scans invoices (PDF, scan, photo), extracts vendor, GSTIN, HSN, tax breakups. Posts to your books via reconciliation queue.
Bank Reconciliation
AI-assisted matching of bank statements to ledger. Handles UTR mismatches, partial settlements, and inter-branch sweeps without manual mapping.
Audit Prep
Generates Form 3CD draft schedules, ratio analysis, related-party tags, ledger scrutiny lists. Saves the first 18 hours of every audit.
AI Summary Layer
Every filing, reconciliation and audit task ships with a plain-English summary you can paste into a client email. Bilingual: English + Hindi.
The category is crowded. The vertical is empty.
| Capability | Zapier / Make / n8n | MS Power Automate | Lekha |
|---|---|---|---|
| Knows what a GSTIN is | — | — | Native validation, 15-digit checksum + state code |
| TDS section logic | — | — | Sections 192, 194A-J pre-modelled with current rates |
| GSTR-9 reconciliation | Build it yourself | Build it yourself | First-class template, audit-ready |
| Indian statutory calendar | No | No | Built-in. Auto-rolls as government shifts dates |
| Pricing for Indian SMB firm | $30+ per user | $15+ per user | $79/firm/mo flat |
| Hindi support | — | Partial | Bilingual AI summaries |
One price. Everything inside.
Sweet-spot pricing between affordable for Indian SMBs and global. No seat math, no module unlocks, no overage drama.
- ✓Unlimited GSTR / TDS / ROC workflows
- ✓Up to 300 client entities
- ✓AI summaries on every filing
- ✓Compliance calendar with statutory alerts
- ✓Audit trail + 26AS reconciliation engine
- ✓Email & WhatsApp client nudges
Pricing milestones: 85 → 1,400 practitioners by Year 3.
“Indian CAs are not late adopters. They are early demanders — they just refused to pay for tools that did not understand the difference between Schedule III and Schedule VI. Lekha is the tool I have wanted since articleship.”