auditstage
Automates financial audit workflows with AI-driven tools for data extraction, sampling, and testing, improving speed, accuracy, and compliance.
Auditstage, a Belgian AuditTech company, was established in 2024 by Natalia Khamraeva, a certified auditor with over a decade of experience in Big4 audit firms. This venture was born from her direct experience with the inefficiencies, fragmented tools, and manual workflows that characterize the traditional financial audit process. Khamraeva's background includes developing innovative solutions at PwC and Deloitte, which inspired the creation of Auditstage. The company's mission is to enhance intelligence, transparency, and speed in financial audits.
In May 2025, Auditstage secured €750,000 (approximately $854K USD) in a pre-seed funding round led by the venture capital firm Smartfin. This capital is earmarked for accelerating platform development, expanding the founding team, and preparing for a public product launch anticipated in the fall of 2025, with a broader market rollout planned for 2026. As part of the investment, Smartfin's co-founder, Jürgen Ingels, has joined Auditstage's board of directors.
The company operates in the AuditTech sector, providing a B2B software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform designed for external financial audits. Its clients are audit firms of all sizes and their respective clients. The core of Auditstage's offering is an all-in-one, AI-powered collaboration platform that serves as a digital command center. It aims to replace the patchwork of tools and communication channels currently used by auditors with a single, secure, and collaborative environment. The platform utilizes proprietary AI agents, described as 'Digital Audit Twins', which are trained to automate repetitive and time-consuming tasks such as generating dynamic 'Prepared-By-Client' lists, drafting working papers, and handling follow-up requests. This automation allows auditors and accounting teams to focus on higher-value activities that require professional judgment. The platform is built with data security as a core principle, with data hosted on EU-based AWS servers and a commitment to achieving ISO 27001 certification. Although still in the pilot phase, a select group of Belgian audit firms are currently testing the platform. Keywords: AuditTech, financial audit, AI-powered audit, audit automation, collaboration platform, external audit, audit management, B2B SaaS, Natalia Khamraeva, Smartfin, audit workflow, compliance, financial reporting, data security, digital audit, accounting technology, professional services automation, regtech, audit software, corporate audit