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Checks hours before payroll for US small businesses: totals regular time, overtime and PTO from Gusto, QuickBooks Payroll or timesheets, and flags missed punches, overtime anomalies, rate changes and mid-period hires or exits. Prepares only, never runs payroll. Official from Anthropic.

Reads the exact position of every character, line and table cell in digital PDFs: the CLI exports layout-preserving text or CSV/JSON details, and the Python API extracts tables and form fields, ideal for invoices, statements and reports. Runs locally with Python; scans need OCR first.

130+ office skills for contract review, NDAs, job descriptions, offer letters, invoices and expenses, meeting notes, email, and Excel, PowerPoint and PDF work. Writing skills work as-is; Airtable, Slack and other automations need those services. Legal and finance output needs expert review.

Official MCP and skills from freee, Japan's cloud accounting service: accounting, invoices, HR and payroll, timesheets, fixed assets and tax filings. Remote server with freee OAuth recommended; freee Sign e-contracts are local-only for now. Have an accountant check results.

Apideck's official MCP: one unified API to read and write invoices, ledgers and reports in QuickBooks, Xero, NetSuite and other accounting systems, plus HR, CRM and ATS data. Needs a paid Apideck account (30-day trial), API key and App ID, with your systems connected. An accountant should review.

Intuit's official QuickBooks plugin: health checks on profit, cash flow, balance sheet and receivables, peer benchmarking and payroll cost analysis, and drafts payment reminders, estimates and invoices, confirming before writes. Needs QuickBooks Online (official connector); have finance review.