BENALI
Proof Returns Automation

Close the quarter in a day, not a week.

Every quarter-end, AI reads your reports and fills the proof returns, so your team verifies balances and chases exceptions instead of copying numbers cell by cell.

Prepared for
Alliant HR Outsourcing
From
Benali
Date
June 30, 2026
Where the time goes

Every quarter, a week disappears into a spreadsheet.

At each quarter-end, every payroll processor runs a stack of reports out of ACS and the IRS system, then hand-transposes the totals into the proof-return template, client by client, pay item by pay item, before a single 941 is filed. It runs eight to twelve hours per person, and it's where the costly discrepancies hide.

Run
Reports come out of ACS and EFTPS as separate exports, one workbook per client, across all 350 of them, every quarter.
Transpose
A processor copies each pay-item total by hand, pulling total pay, taxable, pre-tax, and tips out of several reports and into the proof-return spreadsheet, which then runs its calculations.
Reconcile
Those numbers get compared to the 941 ACS generates. Clients that balance pass. The rest have to be found and corrected before anything is filed.
What we build

The proof return, populated and checked before your team opens it.

Step 01
Reports land in ShareFile

Your team exports the ACS and EFTPS reports in a single click and drops them in ShareFile, exactly as they do today.

Step 02
Skills populate the return

A dedicated skill for each report reads the totals and fills the proof-return spreadsheet. No hand-transposing.

Step 03
A 941 is built and compared

From that data it generates a 941 and checks it against the ACS-generated 941, client by client.

Step 04
You get a pass/fail list

A clean report shows what balanced and flags what didn't, so 5 of 350 get a look, not all of them.

Your processors keep the judgment. When a client doesn't balance, they investigate the pay-item detail in ACS exactly as they do now. The automation just tells them where to look, and hands them a populated proof return to work from.

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How we work

Map, connect, deploy. With your team.

01 · Map
Understand the work

We walk the proof-return process with Adam end to end, every report, how pay items are coded, and exactly what makes a return balance.

02 · Connect
Wire it together

Connect the automation to ShareFile and your exports, and build the population, 941, and comparison logic around how your team actually works.

03 · Deploy
Ship it live

Deliver it as a bundle of skills your team runs in Claude Code. Reports in, a populated proof return and a flag list out.

ACS has no open API today, so export and import stay a one-click human step by design, with no risky write-back into your system of record. An optional working session gets Adam and the team running the bundle themselves, so it's yours, not a black box.

Investment

A first project, scoped to prove it out.

Proof Returns automation
$8,000

Fixed price for the complete first project, mapped through deployed.

What's included
  • A report-reading skill for each ACS & EFTPS report, built as a modular bundle
  • Automated population of the proof-return spreadsheet
  • A Claude-generated 941 with client-by-client comparison to the ACS 941
  • A pass/fail report across all clients, flagging every out-of-balance return
  • Deployed in Claude Code, run from your ShareFile
Timeline About two weeks

From the mapping session to a working, tested deployment, scheduled to be live before your Q3 close. AI usage runs on your account, billed at cost.

Why start here. This one workflow is a clean proof of concept: contained, high-value, and already well understood on your side. Once it's running, the same approach extends across your operation, from a company agent your team messages in Teams to custom applications. We scope that together, only if the first project earns it.

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