Pay your people for their knowledge. Cranston does the typing.
Client documents in at close, drafted returns in your firm’s tax software by morning. Your staff opens a return to review — not a blank one to key.
1040 · 1065 · 1120 · 1120-S · Drake Tax, CCH Axcess, Lacerte, and UltraTax
The data entry leaves the building. The judgment stays.
Cranston works like a first-year preparer with perfect stamina — it reads the package, keys the return, and hands your reviewer a draft with findings.
Reads every page
Scanned PDFs, phone photos, handwritten notes. Missing or unreadable documents become findings, not silent skips.
No pre-sorting on your end.
Keys the return in your software
The draft lands in your firm’s Drake, Lacerte, UltraTax, or CCH Axcess — not in a portal you have to re-key from.
No second data-entry screen.
Hands review to a human
Every figure links to its source page. Your reviewer works the findings and signs the return.
Judgment calls stay with your people.
What a return costs your firm now.
Every hour of onshore salary spent keying W-2s is an hour not spent on review, planning, or the clients who pay for advice.
Upload the client package
Drop the documents in as they arrive — organized or not. Cranston checks the package for completeness before it preps.
Cranston preps overnight
The return is entered in your tax software and the calculation runs. You get the draft plus an Excel workpaper.
Your team reviews and signs
Findings show what needs a human: missing documents, year-over-year changes, judgment calls. The signature stays with your firm.
$40 a return, flat.
No per-form fees, no seasonal contract, no seat that quits in May.
The seasonal hire you can’t find
- Onshore salary for work that is mostly keying
- Weeks of training on your process each season
- Capacity capped at one pair of hands
- Gone by May — and re-hired next January
- $40 flat per return, federal and every state
- Learns your firm’s rules once, applies them to every return
- Preps the whole backlog overnight, at any volume
- Available every season, no re-hiring
Your reviewer stays in control.
Cranston prepares and checks the work. Your reviewer signs the return. Client data stays in the US.
Your reviewer signs off
Cranston preps and flags findings. The final review and signature stay with your firm.
Source-linked figures
Every number on the return links back to the document it came from.
Built for sensitive data
Encrypted at rest and in transit, with SOC 2 examination in progress.
Try it on a return you know cold.
Bring a real client package to the call. Watch Cranston prep it in your software, then judge the draft line by line.
Book a 30-minute demo