maaya.works
The structural moat

Your AI team runs on your real books.

Most AI bookkeepers ask you to trust the model. maaya.works lets you check the receipt — because the books are the system of record, not something the AI reaches into from the side.

maaya.works is a free, AI-native business operations platform for Indian SMBs. It runs on an immutable, insert-only general ledger: every action your AI team takes is recorded as a new entry that can never be silently changed or deleted, and every entry carries its full provenance — what proposed it, at what confidence, and under which version of your rules.

Hosted in India (ap-south-1) · Insert-only ledger · Provenance on every row

On your reportOutput GST, June₹1,84,500
The posted entry
Dr · Trade receivables₹1,21,000
Cr · Sales₹1,02,542
Cr · Output CGST + SGST₹18,458
SourceInvoice INV-2041 (uploaded PDF)
Proposed byAI Invoicing Hire · Priya
Confidence0.98
Rule versionsales-gst-split · v4
Approved byYou · 09:14, 12 Jun 2026

Illustrative example · your books show your real documents and approvals

Insert-only. Immutable. Attributed.

A financial row is never deleted or silently edited — enforced at the database layer, not left to good behaviour. Every entry carries the receipt you just saw.

Why this matters to you

The real worry isn't "will the AI help?" It's "what is it doing to my money?"

Handing your books to software that "does it for you" is a leap of faith — and you should be careful. An entry posted to the wrong account, a number quietly changed, a month that no longer ties out: in a business, that is not an inconvenience, it is a real loss and a real fight with your accountant. The honest answer to that fear is not a reassuring sentence. It is an architecture you can check. That is what this page is about.

The comparison

Three architectures. Only one keeps the books true.

We will not name names here — judge the structure, not the marketing. Every AI finance tool on the market sits in one of these three positions.

AI with no books underneath

A general-purpose assistant gives clever answers with nothing keeping them true. There is no system of record — so nothing stops it from being confidently wrong.

AI bolted on beside the books

A separate tool reaches into a record someone else owns. The books and the assistant can quietly drift apart, and no one notices until month-end.

The books run the AI

maaya.works is the record. The AI works on the real books, and the rules live below it, in code — so the books cannot go out of balance, no matter who or what is typing.

Under the gate

How the ledger protects you

Three properties, enforced in code — not promised in copy.

Insert-only & immutable

Nothing in your books is ever quietly overwritten. Every record is appended; a correction is a new reversing entry, so the history stays intact. This is enforced at the database layer — the system simply will not allow a financial row to be deleted or silently edited.

Provenance on every entry

Every entry carries where it came from, what proposed it, at what confidence, and which version of your rules was applied. Trace any number on any report back to the exact entry — and the exact rule — that produced it.

The service layer is the compiler

Every input — human or AI — posts through one place that enforces double-entry, GST splits and stock rules, in code. The AI is an input method into your books, never a path around them.

This is the architecture. The approval queue is how it feels.

This page shows you what sits beneath the gate. See how the day-to-day approval loop actually works — the confidence states, the refusals, and your first day with the team.

See the approval queue
Why this is the foundation

Books you can trust are why you can trust the team with everything else.

Because the foundation is a true system of record — immutable, attributed, rules enforced below the AI — your books are live instead of three weeks late, and your accountant gets an audit trail they can actually rely on. The same proven ground is how the team grows beyond accounting: chasing a late payment, drafting the email, watching the stock. Meet the team →

Who stands behind your books

The judgment is yours. The accountability is ours.

maaya.works is built by Maaya Software Solutions Pvt Ltd15 years of enterprise software from Chennai, serving 453+ businesses across 13 countries. Every action your AI team takes posts to an append-only ledger: nothing can be quietly changed, and each row carries who proposed it, on which rule, at what confidence.

Append-only ledgerProvenance on every entryApproval-gated AIHosted in India (ap-south-1)GST · e-invoice ready
Straight answers

Straight answers

Can the AI change my books without me knowing?
No. The ledger is insert-only: the AI can never silently overwrite or delete an entry. Anything it does is recorded as a new, attributed entry that waits in your approval queue, and a correction is itself a new reversing entry — so the full history always stays intact and visible.
Is my data really mine?
Yes. Your books are your system of record, hosted in India (ap-south-1). Your rules and SOPs live in your own business, not in a shared model we train on. Every entry is attributable to you, and you can export or hand your accountant a complete, append-only trail at any time.
How is this different from an AI bookkeeper bolted onto my existing software?
A bolt-on AI sits beside someone else’s record and reaches in — the books and the AI can drift apart. maaya.works is the record itself. Double-entry, GST splits and stock rules are enforced in the service layer, in code, so every input — human or AI — passes through the same gate.
What happens when the AI gets something wrong?
You catch it before it is final, because nothing posts without your approval, and the entry shows its provenance — the source document, what proposed it, the confidence, and which rule version was applied. If something does need fixing later, it is corrected with a new reversing entry, never a silent edit.
Will my accountant trust books an AI helped keep?
Most are reassured once they see the trail. They get proper Dr/Cr vouchers, GST-ready entries, and a complete, append-only audit log where every action is timestamped, attributed and approved by a human. It is a cleaner record than most manual books.

Meet the team that runs on your real books.

Free forever for single users. Your first AI-hire is on us — and you approve every entry it proposes.

No credit card · Hosted in India (ap-south-1) · You approve every entry