# Charlie Barmore > Charlie Barmore is an AI-native, agent-native CPA who runs his own practice, co-owns the AI Lab for Accountants, and builds the software he uses with AI coding agents instead of an engineering team. The personal site of Charlie Barmore, an AI-native CPA who builds the tools he uses. Case studies for every app, the mission behind them, and how a non-engineer ships software with AI agents. Charlie Barmore (CPA, CFE, CVA) is based in Augusta, GA. He is not a software engineer. Every application listed here was built by him alone, with AI coding agents (primarily Claude Code) doing the engineering, and most of them are the tools his own CPA practice runs on. ## Roles - Owner, [Charles J. Barmore CPA PC](https://www.cbarmorecpa.com): His CPA practice. AI-adoption advisory for accounting firms, plus tax, accounting, and advisory for business owners and individuals. - Partner, [AI Lab for Accountants](https://www.ailabforaccountants.com): A weekly community and platform where accountants learn to use AI in real client work. Co-owned with Rebecca Driscoll, CPA. - AI Practitioner, [The Collaboration Room](https://thecollaborationroom.co): The in-house AI practitioner for a paid community of roughly 200 accounting-firm owners. - Founder, [Ledger Labs](https://www.ledgerlabs.co): His software studio. AI-native software for accountants and a handful of consumer apps, all built solo with AI coding agents. ## Pages - [Home](https://charliebarmore.com/): who he is and everything he has built, by entity - [Mission: Pick Up Your Sword](https://charliebarmore.com/mission/): why he builds what he builds - [Full site text for models](https://charliebarmore.com/llms-full.txt): every case study in full ## Practice and community - [Charles J. Barmore CPA PC](https://www.cbarmorecpa.com) (Active): My CPA practice, full-time since August 2026. Helping accounting firms adopt AI safely and effectively, plus tax, accounting, and advisory for a select roster of business owners and individuals. - [AI Lab for Accountants](https://www.ailabforaccountants.com) (Active): Helping accountants leverage AI to free up their time and elevate the service they provide. A community I co-own with Rebecca Driscoll, CPA, built around real client work. - [The Collaboration Room](https://thecollaborationroom.co) (Active): AI Practitioner at The Collaboration Room, a paid community for firm owners. I'm the in-house AI person for roughly 200 members, running sessions, building workflows in front of them, and answering the questions that come up in real practice. - [Real Firms](https://realfirms.co) (Active): The umbrella brand Rebecca Driscoll, CPA and I share for candid work on what it actually takes to run and rebuild an accounting firm. It holds AI Lab for Accountants, The Collaboration Room, and Fix Your Firm. ## Software for accountants (Ledger Labs) - [LedgerClaw](https://charliebarmore.com/projects/ledgerclaw/) (Live - waitlist): The AI-native, agentic operating system for the modern CPA firm: agents that keep the books, run the close, and carry the work from book to tax, orchestrated by the practitioner. - [LedgerBug](https://charliebarmore.com/projects/ledgerbug/) (Private beta): An accounting control plane built for agents. One continuous set of double-entry books per client that people and AI agents operate through the same guarded engine, by API or MCP. Self-host or hosted. - [Duovisory](https://charliebarmore.com/projects/duovisory/) (Pre-launch): One secure workspace where a financial advisor and a CPA work the same client household. Each owns their lane, both see one brief, and every message and change is attributed. - [TaxClaw](https://charliebarmore.com/projects/taxclaw/) (In development): The tax half of LedgerClaw: AI reads the documents, a real engine computes the return, and it ties out on a canvas workpaper, with the CPA in control before anything is filed. - [RealTime1040](https://charliebarmore.com/projects/realtime1040/) (Prototype): A live tax engine: link your accounts and watch your 1040 compile in real time as income, deductions, and strategies change. - [LedgerPDF](https://charliebarmore.com/projects/ledgerpdf/) (Alpha): A local-first workpaper binder for accountants. Assemble PDFs and spreadsheets into one bookmarked, tick-marked binder, and let an AI agent work in the same binder at the same time. Nothing leaves your machine. - [LedgerTB](https://charliebarmore.com/projects/ledgertb/) (Shipped): Double-entry bookkeeping you can read, run, and change. A local-first desktop ledger from trial balance through close-package signoff, encrypted on your machine, with an MCP server that can propose but never edit. - [TP Ledger](https://charliebarmore.com/projects/tp-ledger/) (In development): The evidence layer around the return. Every number on an 1120-S or owner 1040 gets somewhere to point: a local, encrypted workpaper record that ties facts to documents, and never calculates the return itself. - [ProjectionLedger](https://charliebarmore.com/projects/projection-ledger/) (In development): Defensible, multi-year, multi-scenario federal tax projections that run on your own machine, with math you can tie out to the dollar and a trace behind every figure. - [NTLedger](https://charliebarmore.com/projects/ntledger/) (Pre-beta): The bot-free local meeting notetaker for accountants. Capture the client call on your own Mac, transcribe it on-device, and turn it into engagement notes without sending the conversation anywhere. ## Tools for accounting-firm owners (built for my practice and Real Firms) - [Fix Your Firm Control Room](https://charliebarmore.com/projects/fix-your-firm/) (Private beta): The workspace our team uses to diagnose an overloaded tax firm and sequence the pricing, capacity, and client changes that fix it, without an uncontrolled hit to revenue. - [Firm Stack Map](https://charliebarmore.com/projects/firm-stack-map/) (Beta): Map every tool your firm runs on, answer five questions per tool, and get a rules-based AI-readiness audit you can hand to whoever writes your WISP. Free, and the front door to my AI-adoption advisory work. - [Tool Safety Index](https://charliebarmore.com/projects/tool-safety-index/) (Shipped): Can you put client data in it? A verified data-protection posture for 231 accounting, tax, and AI tools, read from each vendor's binding terms rather than its marketing page. - [Practice Ledger](https://charliebarmore.com/projects/practice-ledger/) (In development): Local practice management for a solo accountant and their supervised AI assistants. Clients, engagements, deadlines, and revenue in one encrypted file, where agents can read and propose but never write accepted state. ## Consumer apps (Ledger Labs) - [Revelate](https://charliebarmore.com/projects/revelate/) (Parked): A Christian faith companion: chat with Revi, generate sermons and podcasts, read the Bible, and follow guided study plans. - [CoupleClarity](https://charliebarmore.com/projects/coupleclarity/) (Private beta): AI that helps couples move through conflict, reframing heated messages into something the other person can actually hear. - [Hemoclaw](https://charliebarmore.com/projects/hemoclaw/) (Parked): A longitudinal bloodwork dashboard. "Whoop for your bloodwork." Upload labs and get AI-driven biomarker trend analysis over time. - [LoreClaw](https://charliebarmore.com/projects/loreclaw/) (Parked): A story production platform that turns one structured world into a manuscript, a multimedia edition, and the social posts that promote it. - [Agent Sprites](https://charliebarmore.com/projects/agent-sprites/) (Beta): Assemble or generate a squad of AI agents, with pixel-art personas and copy-paste Build Packs for Claude Code, Codex & Cursor. - [ForePool](https://charliebarmore.com/projects/forepool/) (Parked): A live golf pool app: draft your squad, track scores in real time, and run the whole pool from your phone instead of a spreadsheet. ## Maker - [CB Leathercrafts](https://charliebarmore.com/projects/cb-leathercrafts/) (Open): Handcrafted leather goods (wallets, belts, and accessories) with a live customizer and an AI concept generator. ## Contact - Email: charlie@cbarmorecpa.com - X: https://x.com/cbarmorecpa - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cbarmorecpa/ - Work with the practice: https://www.cbarmorecpa.com