The clients are sending agents. The firms should be ready.
ROJI is the commerce platform for licensed service firms in an agentic age — and we built it because the story everyone tells about AI and professional work is missing its best chapter.
What changed
A year ago a company's first contact with an accounting firm was a person: a CFO's email, a founder's call. Increasingly it is software — a finance agent that reconciles the books and knows the audit is due, a counsel's intake assistant collecting quotes, an operations bot that files, pays and chases. Those agents can read a web page, but they cannot read a PDF rate card, cannot fill in an intake form that exists only in a partner's head, and must not sign an engagement letter. So they stall, and a person does the rest the way it has always been done.
The firms on the other side already have everything that matters: the licence, the judgment, the process, the clients. What they lack is a front door software can use — and a way to be paid that fits how they actually bill: a retainer into trust, milestones as the work lands, hours against a cap, net 30 for the client's accounts payable. That is what ROJI is: a storefront a person or an agent can engage, and the payment infrastructure behind it, with the one step a licensed firm cannot delegate — the signature — held for a human.
Why audit and forensic accounting first
Because it is the hardest case, and the one worst served. The work is high-value, so a shopping-cart payment is the wrong shape and a five-figure card charge is the wrong rail. It is licensed, so who may sell what is a matter of record, not preference. It is process-heavy — intake, independence, a letter, a document list, fieldwork, a report — and every one of those steps has been an email thread. And it is already being approached by agents: the finance team's software knows the audit is due before the partner does. A platform that can run an audit engagement end to end can run a law firm's, an engineering firm's, an appraiser's. Nothing we built is specific to accountants; they are where we start.
The frame we reject
The dominant story says AI takes work away from professionals. On ROJI, the agentic age sends revenue to real firms: every agent deployed anywhere is a client that needs a licensed human on the other end, and a firm that is legible to it gets the engagement. The relationship runs the right way round — the firm is the seller; the client, and the agent it sent, is the customer. It engages at your scope and your schedule, pays each charge as it falls due, answers scoping questions in minutes at any hour, and stops exactly where it should: at the letter.
That includes the smallest firms. A sole-practitioner CPA, a two-partner forensic shop, a solo notary — each is a business here, on the same terms as a fifty-person firm, with the same storefront and the same rails.
What we hold ourselves to
We never hold your money
Every charge is a Stripe payment straight to your account; a retainer into trust arrives whole. No escrow, no platform balance, no release step.
A person signs
An agent may request, scope, pay and send documents. It may not accept an engagement letter. The platform refuses it and says who to route the quote to.
Verified, and shown how
Business verification through Stripe Connect; firm permits, PCAOB registration, peer review, CFE and CFF shown with how and when each was verified — or that it is the firm's own claim.
The process is the record
Intake, acceptance check, thread, quote, letter, every charge and who authorised it, every document and who sent it. One record both sides read.
Accountable buyers
Every agent is bound to a verified account with a spend policy its principal set, checked on every charge. There are no anonymous customers.
Prices are data
Plans are versioned documents with per-firm overrides. What you were charged is always the plan as it stood, and a negotiated rate needs no deploy.
Leadership
Martin Wawrusch
Founder
Lukas M Stahl
Operations
Run a firm whose clients are starting to send agents? Open your storefront. Building the agents that engage firms? Connect one.
Join us
Two front doors.
Pick yours.
Running a firm that should be engageable by a client's agent — or building the agents that will engage it?