Accent
Financial Services
The forty-year practice, rebuilt for the modern legacy builder. Three lines of work, designed to compound on each other rather than be bought separately — and the firm where Taxsmithing is delivered today.
Tax preparation & strategy
Returns done right, and — more importantly — the planning that happens before December, so the return is a formality rather than a surprise.
Accounting & bookkeeping
Books you can actually make decisions from. Clean, current, and reconciled to something real.
Fractional CFO
The finance cadence a growing business needs before it can justify a full-time CFO: forecasting, capital structure, and someone in the room who reads the numbers the way an owner does.
The Taxsmiths
Taxsmithing is the service I created: engineering positions the IRS recognizes, documenting them so they survive an audit, and integrating them into one stack that compounds year over year.
Not loopholes. Not tricks. Positions inside the four corners of the Code, held together by documentation most firms never build — because the documentation is the part that actually protects you when someone asks.
It's delivered through Accent today. The Taxsmiths is the company that's turning it into products.
The blacksmith metaphor is the point: chaos in, structure out, and the strength comes from the working.
Forge
Practice management with deep AI — built to run an entire tax and accounting firm top to bottom. Workflow, client work, and the review discipline that keeps quality from depending on who happened to touch the file.
The Taxsmithing App
Consumer-facing. The strategy engine in the hands of the person whose money it is — engineer the position, generate the documentation, carry it forward.
Free during the open beta. $59/mo after launch.
Taxsmithing App for Firms
The same engine for practitioners — so a firm can run the method across a whole client base instead of one return at a time.
Dayspring Hospitality Solutions
Accounting, compliance, growth, and real estate for hospitality groups — run on AI tools, unusual tax strategy, and CFO-level insight rather than a bigger back office. Hotel and restaurant groups across Texas and beyond.
I spent sixteen years in hotels before this — six of them running IT at The Fess Parker, then finance at the Hilton Anatole, The Madison in DC, and Hilton Plano. If your controller keeps trying to force a hotel into a generic chart of accounts, I know exactly what that costs you, because I have been the one closing the month.
InnControl
Focused-service hotel accounting — night audit through financials.
HotelControl
Full-service hotel accounting for properties with real complexity.
TableControl
Restaurant accounting and compliance, where labor and COGS get watched weekly.
TotalControl
CFO-level reporting for complex, multi-property ownership groups.
Taxsmithing for Hotels
Advanced tax strategy built for hospitality — including cost segregation on acquisition.
Task Force Support
On-site accounting leadership when a property needs hands, not advice.
Dayspring IdeaForge
My AI creation company. Every platform here started the same way: I needed the tool inside one of my own businesses, went looking for it, and found nothing good enough. So we built it — which means the first customer was always us, with our own money on the line.
This is the work I most like talking about: what AI actually does for a small business once you stop demoing it and start shipping it.
Forge
Practice management with deep AI — enough to run a tax and accounting firm end to end.
The Taxsmithing Apps
Consumer and firm editions of the strategy engine.
Tax toolkits
Focused tools that do one job properly — the calculators and document engines a strategy actually needs behind it.
Hospitality management platform
A complete operating layer for hospitality — the daily numbers, the back office, and owner reporting in one place instead of six spreadsheets.
Unfinished Empires
The podcast about the half-built. Long-form conversations with builders about the part that isn't finished — because every empire starts as a sketch, and the brave keep building.
Why it exists
Because the polished after-photo teaches almost nothing, and every founder I actually learn from is mid-build. If you only publish the wins, you're teaching survivorship bias with a microphone.
Not sure which one
you need?
Fair question when someone hands you five logos. Tell me what you're trying to solve and I'll point you at the right door — including someone else's, if that's the honest answer.