Denki
AI-native financial audit platform automating internal audit and SOX compliance.
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About Denki
Denki (YC Fall 2025) is an AI-native financial audit platform that automates internal audit work, from planning and testing to evidence collection and documentation, helping public companies move from sample-based SOX testing to continuous assurance. It works alongside existing systems such as AuditBoard and Workiva and records every step as full audit-trace workpapers. The company has raised 4.1 million dollars.
Key Features
- Automates audit planning, testing, evidence collection and documentation
- Turns sample-based SOX testing into continuous assurance
- Works alongside systems like AuditBoard and Workiva
- Full audit-trace workpapers for traceability
Our in-depth review
Denki is an AI-native audit platform that automates internal audit and SOX compliance, with a focus on full-stack SOX 404 and BSA-AML work. It is a recent Y Combinator (F25) company that has raised around $4.1M.
What it does well, on the evidence so far: it targets a genuinely painful, highly manual area, internal audit and compliance testing, and aims to automate the repetitive control and transaction work that eats audit hours. The SOX and BSA-AML focus is specific enough that the AI can be tuned to those well-defined frameworks.
Where to be cautious: it is very early-stage, so independent reviews are essentially not yet available, and the capabilities are largely as the company describes them. Audit and compliance are high-stakes, so any AI here needs careful validation and human sign-off.
Best for: internal audit and compliance teams at larger or regulated organisations exploring AI to speed up SOX and AML testing.
Verdict: a promising, focused entrant in AI audit, but an early one. Treat it as worth a pilot rather than a proven standard, and keep tight human review over anything compliance-related while its track record builds.
At a glance
- Category
- Audit & fraud detection
- Best for
- 50+ practice
- Editor's score
- 4.4 / 5
- Pricing
- Early-stage, quote-based via demo; no public price list
- Last verified
- 2026-09-17
A promising, focused entrant in AI audit worth a pilot; keep tight human review over anything compliance-related while its track record builds.
Integrations
- Standalone platform
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