Auditstage
4 employees on LinkedIn · 1 known investors
Auditstage automates routine audit tasks such as vouching and documentation for audit firms, enabling auditors to focus on professional judgment and complex analysis in an increasingly regulated environment.
Also known as Auditstage BV
Founders & leadership
Investors · 1
Company profile
researched Aug 2026Auditstage is a Belgium-based audit technology company developing an AI-native platform intended to serve as a single workspace for external financial audits, replacing the mix of spreadsheets, email and legacy tools that audit teams typically use. The product covers the engagement end to end: ingestion of client trial balance and general ledger files from any ERP format with automatic mapping, cleaning and standardization; construction of the audit plan including methodology, risks, procedures and prepared-by-client (PBC) request lists; a client portal with automated follow-up reminders and document validation; preparation of working papers structured around collected evidence; and quality checks and partner review and sign-off inside the same system.
AI is positioned as integral rather than an add-on. Proprietary AI agents are designed to take over repetitive tasks such as confirmations, data preparation, vouching, tick-marking, sampling and formatting, run population-wide analysis (for example journal entry analysis and automated matching of bank confirmations), surface anomalies, and draft technical memos, variance explanations and summaries of client documents. The company states every AI output carries a full audit trail and direct links to source evidence, and describes a human-in-the-loop design in which suggestions support rather than replace auditor judgment. The company states the platform is ISO 27001 certified and locally hosted so client data remains within its jurisdiction.
As of the May 2025 funding coverage, the product was in a pilot phase with a selected group of Belgian audit firms, with a public launch planned for fall 2025 and a broader commercial rollout in 2026.
Founding story
The founders met while working as certified auditors at Big 4 firms, where the founder accumulated over a decade — described elsewhere as nearly 15 years — in the profession. They concluded that fragmented tools and manual workflows, rather than a shortage of talent, were consuming auditors' time on data entry instead of risk analysis, and built Auditstage to automate mechanical work and leave judgment to people.
Business model
B2B software sold to audit firms as a platform covering the full audit engagement, with a client-facing portal used by the audited companies to submit documents. The website invites prospective users to request pilot access.
Traction
Product in pilot phase with a selected group of Belgian audit firms as of May 2025; €750,000 pre-seed raised.
Latest developments
Following the May 2025 pre-seed round, the company said it would use the capital to continue core platform development, build out a founding team, launch publicly in fall 2025 and pursue a wider commercial rollout in 2026. Its website advertises pilot access and lists a three-person leadership team.
▸Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market, geography, history, risks & controversies
Market position
Early-stage entrant in the AuditTech segment, described by its investor as an area where the automation wave that reshaped accounting is now reaching auditing. Its stated long-term ambition is to become a widely used audit solution in a market dependent on disconnected legacy systems.
Positions itself against legacy tools that digitized the paper audit file, offering dynamic risk-based workflows instead of static checklists, instant TB/GL ingestion instead of manual mapping, a client portal with automatic follow-ups instead of email chasing, and full automated population analysis instead of limited manual sampling — all in one system. It emphasizes explainability ("zero black boxes"), human-in-the-loop control, audit-domain expertise embedded in the AI, and local hosting.
Technology
AI-native audit platform combining ERP-agnostic trial balance and general ledger ingestion and normalization, risk-based workflow structuring, automated PBC collection and validation, automated population analysis and sampling, and AI agents that draft working papers and memos with citations to source documents. The company states outputs include a full audit trail with links to source evidence, and that the system is ISO 27001 certified and locally hosted.
Go-to-market
Pilot-led entry with a select group of Belgian audit firms ahead of a public product launch, with pilot access requests collected through the website, followed by a broader commercial rollout planned for 2026.
External audit firms of varying sizes and their audited clients; initial pilot users are Belgian audit firms.
Geography
Belgium-based, with a strategic hub in Belgium and a dedicated international engineering unit; reported locations include Brussels and Kampenhout. Pilot customers are Belgian audit firms, with stated ambitions to serve audit firms internationally.
History
Founded in 2024 by certified auditor Natalia Khamraeva in Belgium. In May 2025 the company announced a €750,000 pre-seed round led by Smartfin, with Smartfin co-founder Jürgen Ingels joining the board of directors. At the time of that announcement the company was described as a one-woman company with the product in pilot with selected Belgian audit firms, planning a public launch in fall 2025 and a wider rollout in 2026. The about page later lists Natalia Khamraeva, Jonas Plancke and Valérie Brouwers as the leadership team.
Risks & controversies
At the time of the pre-seed announcement the company was a solo-founder operation with a product still in pilot and no general availability, leaving execution, hiring and commercial rollout ahead of it.
Compiled by commissioned research from 8 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.
Key figures
latest reportedCompany-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.
Timeline · 2
launches, deals, and filingsAuditstage raised €750,000 in pre-seed funding led by European venture and growth capital firm Smartfin, to fund platform development, hiring of a founding team and preparation for a broader market rollout in 2026.
In connection with the pre-seed round, Smartfin co-founder and founding partner Jürgen Ingels joined Auditstage's board of directors.
Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.
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primary sources listed
- Auditstageauditstage.com · web
8 public sources were cited for this profile; the first-party ones are listed here.
Frequently asked questions
- What does Auditstage do?
- Belgian AuditTech startup building an AI-native platform that unifies the external financial audit workflow in one system.
- Who founded Auditstage?
- Auditstage was founded by Natalia Khamraeva, Jonas Plancke, Valérie Brouwers.
- Who are Auditstage's investors?
- Auditstage's investors include SmartFin.