Puzzle can review your books for transactions and journal entries that look unusual, such as a large payment to a vendor you've never paid before, a round-dollar entry with no memo, or a posting on a weekend, and tell you why each one was flagged. Findings are for you to review. Puzzle never changes your books because something looked unusual.
Run an anomaly review in Close
Go to Close under AI Suite, click Add, and add one of these templates to your checklist:
Template | What it flags |
Journal entry review & anomaly detection | Round-dollar entries over $5,000 with no supporting reference, entries posted outside business hours, entries by people who don't usually post to that account, entries reversed within three days, and suspense or clearing accounts still open at period end. Each flag gets a risk reason, a severity (high, medium or low) and a recommended follow-up. |
First time large transactions | Large payments to vendors that appear for the first time in the period. |
Transaction and vendor inconsistencies | Breaks from each vendor's history: a different category or class, an amount outside the usual range, a recurring vendor that's missing or appears more often than usual, and possible duplicates. |
Click Run, then Review when the task is Ready. Add a schedule to run it every month.
Close is available to accountants and firms that manage the company's books. In Cowork under AI Suite, you'll find First time large transactions and Transaction and vendor inconsistencies.
In Chat, the Anomaly detection analysis prompt reviews the last 60 days and summarizes findings by risk level in a table.
Find anomalies from your AI assistant
With the Puzzle MCP connected, ask something like "Check September for unusual transactions." The assistant runs Puzzle's anomaly scan, which compares the period against the company's own last 12 months and flags:
large payments to first-time vendors,
large entries in the last days of the period,
weekend and off-day postings, judged against how often the company normally posts on those days.
"Large" defaults to $2,500. Tell the assistant a different threshold if that's too low for your business. The assistant can also pull Puzzle's accuracy checks for possible duplicates and vendor or category inconsistencies.