About Kwata Books
Clean, CRA-ready books for your accountant.
Kwata Books is bookkeeping for Canadian small businesses that reads your receipts for you. Expenses map to the right T2125 line, GST/HST is tracked, and payroll and slips are built in, for $19 a month. Lex, our AI assistant, answers from your own books with links to the relevant CRA and Justice Canada pages you can check.
We don't replace your accountant. We hand them clean books.
Meet Lex, your AI bookkeeping assistant
Built like a Canadian lynx — for a reason
Our AI bookkeeping assistant is named Lex. Phonetically a nod to the Canada Lynx, the boreal cat native to Canadian forests. The metaphor isn't cute. It's precise.
Lynx have disproportionately large eyes for low-light precision. Lex brings the same care to your books: its answers link to the relevant CRA and Justice Canada pages you can check, with a confidence tag, and when it cannot cite a provision it tells you to check with your accountant.
Lynx spot prey under deep snow that other predators miss. Lex looks through your transactions for deductions and credits that may apply, so you can raise them with your accountant.
Lynx are patient predators — they wait motionless for hours before striking. Lex waits for the right moment in your fiscal year — Q4 planning, dividend timing, year-end optimization.
Lynx are solitary by nature. Lex is your one-on-one bookkeeping assistant. It answers from your own books, and it tells you when a question belongs with your accountant.
Like the lynx, Lex is a specialist — built for one job and built well. Nine narrow skills (tax planning, deduction finder, credit scorer, payroll advisor, CRA form lookup, HST guidance, audit prep, cash-flow forecaster, free chat) instead of one generic chatbot trying to be everything.
Nine specialist skills, one conversation
Answers from your own books, with links you can check.
Tax planning
Dividend-vs-salary mix · fiscal year-end timing · LCGE prep · structural moves the CRA permits.
Deduction finder
Scans your last 90 days of transactions and surfaces the deductions you're under-claiming.
Credit scorer
SR&ED, apprenticeship, ZEV class 54/55, clean tech ITC, donations, loss carryforward, and 10+ more.
CRA form advisor
What goes on T2125 line 8520? Schedule 7? T4 box 14? Lex answers with a link to the relevant CRA page you can check.
Payroll advisor
Contractor vs employee · CPP/EI · TOSI rules · spouse-on-payroll · taxable benefits · T4/ROE timing.
HST advisor
Quick method vs regular · ITC documentation · place of supply · zero-rated vs exempt · QST/PST.
Audit prep
Got a CRA review letter? Lex builds your documentation pack and tells you what NOT to volunteer.
Cash-flow forecaster
Last 6 months of transactions become a 3-month and 12-month cash projection with confidence bands.
Free chat
Ask Lex anything bookkeeping or tax-related. It steers toward the right specialist skill when one fits.
Made in Calgary, Alberta — for small businesses
Kwata Team builds practical AI tools for small businesses. Kwata Books is one of several products in our suite — alongside Aya (career platform) and a growing roster of vertical SaaS tools.
Built with PIPEDA, Alberta PIPA, and CCPA practices from day one. Every line of code reviewed against the OWASP Top 10.
Free plan · No credit card · 30 receipt scans / month