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Tellen

AI platform for audit quality and workpaper review

  • Finance and Accounting
  • AI Agents
  • Compliance
  • Workflow Automation
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About

Tellen builds AI for audit quality. Its agents work inside the tools auditors already use, scanning workpapers in Excel against a firm's own methodology, flagging missing documentation, unclear conclusions and inconsistencies before review, and answering questions across a whole engagement binder. The aim is work that clears manager and partner review the first time, rather than issues surfacing at inspection. It deploys in the firm's own cloud and has completed a SOC 2 Type 2 examination.

Former EY auditor and fintech CFO Deepak Lalit started Tellen in New York in 2023 with Jason Jones and Paul Gerlich, after more than 100 customer interviews. In 2026 it acquired Tellen QM, adding quality-management tools for audit firms.

Array led Tellen's first $500K pre-seed round in October 2023.

Record

Stage
PreSeed
Category
Finance and Accounting
Location
New York, New York
Team
11-50
Total raised
$2.5M
Array came in at
Pre-Seed, 2023

Founders

  • Deepak Lalit

    CEO & Co-founder

    Previously CFO and managing director at Fintech Nexus and co-founder and CFO of END Labs, after five years in assurance at EY; a chartered accountant and CFA charterholder.

  • Jason Jones

    Co-founder & Head of Growth

    Co-founded and ran Fintech Nexus, the fintech media and events company, and was chief commercial officer at Centrifuge and CEO of END Labs.

  • Paul Gerlich

    Co-founder & CTO

    Previously an engineering lead building audit software at Workiva and AuditBoard; holds an MS in computer science focused on AI from the University of Illinois.

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