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Accounting: the 1099 Desk

Can AI run my 1099 season?

Usually, yes. The vendor list and W-9s come in and the desk prepares the 1099s. Your preparer reviews and files them.

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1099 DeskSample firm, sample job
What came in
  • EmailClient's vendor list for 2026, 212 payees
  • AttachmentW-9s, 61 PDFs.zip
  • QuickBooksClient's QuickBooks Online
  • SpreadsheetPayments by vendor, 2026.xlsx
Nobody retyped any of it.
What the desk did 0:00
  • Read 61 W-9s: names, TINs, addresses2:10
  • Matched payees to QuickBooks vendors0:48
  • Flagged 9 vendors with no W-90:06
  • Drafted the W-9 request emails0:35
  • Left card payments out of the totals0:27
  • Prepared the 1099-NEC and 1099-MISC batch1:14
Staff hours: 0
What came back to you
1099 batch: 203 forms
9 vendors still owe a W-9, requests sent
Card payments left out of the totals
Ready for your review and e-file
Waiting on the preparerReview
This month, sample firm
3001099s prepared
30staff hours back
$926of payroll not spent
Sample firm: 300 1099s in January at 6 minutes each, at the BLS median admin wage loaded for benefits. Your numbers go in on the call.

One client, start to finish.

  1. Reads every W-9: name, TIN, address.

  2. Matches payees to the client's books.

  3. Chases the missing W-9s.

  4. Leaves card payments out of the totals.

  5. Prepares the batch. Your preparer reviews and files.

Where it stops.

These stay with a person, every time.

Signing and filing.
A payee it can't match. It says so, never guesses.
The client conversation.

You win, we win.

Our monthly fee is about a quarter of what the work costs you now, set in your own numbers at the review. You keep the rest.

The next office hire

  • Every year they stay
  • Hired for one season, gone by spring
  • Out sick in January
$47,540a year, before benefits

The 1099 Desk

  • You keep the other three quarters
  • There's a minimum; the review tells you if your work clears it
  • Not running the agreed jobs by day 90? Cancel and keep what was built
About 25%of what the work costs you now

Wage: US median for secretaries and administrative assistants, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025.

Start with a free review.

60 to 90 minutes, in your office or on a screen share.

  1. Show us last season's 1099 folder.

  2. Get a proposal in your numbers.

  3. Decide. It's good for 14 days.

Proof, the honest version

The batch above is a sample. Client names and hours go here when owners say yes.

Your data

  1. Yours, exportable any day.

    No fee, no notice.

  2. Your rules are a document you keep.

    Readable without us.

  3. Never used to train anything.

    Your files run your desk only.