DataSnipper Launches Alwin: End-to-End Agentic Automation for Audit & Finance

Alwin by DataSnipper takes automation from individual tasks to complete, end-to-end procedures without compromising the familiarity of Excel reviews, evidence and control.  

“I immediately tried Alwin on some of our more difficult tasks, like hundreds of pages of GL extraction, and it worked really well,” said Nicholas T. Robbins, Director, Audit and Accounting at FGMK. “It can also keep tasks running in the background and pick up right where you left off. What was genuinely impressive is that DataSnipper found a way to let us work outside of Excel while keeping it in a secure, contained environment.”   

Alwin, the name, carries meaning. Years ago, an auditor named Alwin sat down with three friends in Amsterdam and described how much of his working life was disappearing into repetitive, manual work. That conversation became DataSnipper. Naming the platform after him is a reminder of who the technology is built for: the people doing the work. 

"For years, we've worked alongside audit and finance teams to automate manual work," said Vidya Peters, CEO at DataSnipper. "Alwin is the next step: agents can now take on complete procedures, not just individual tasks, while the professional stays in control of the work that requires judgment. The future isn't running autonomous audits. It's giving professionals the capacity to do more of the work they trained for, without asking them to give up the evidence, oversight, and accountability their work demands." 

Alwin runs audit and finance procedures end-to-end, defensibly

• Execute complete procedures, end-to-end. Agents can carry multi-step work across evidence collection, verification and reporting, processing hundreds of documents and returning completed workpapers for review. From planning the right procedures to evidence collection, verification and reporting, agents carry multi-step work across hundreds of documents and return completed workpapers for review. 
• Make agentic work defensible. Conclusions remain linked to source evidence through Snips, with visibility into agent and human changes and a detailed audit trail to support review, and make sure finished work holds up under review month later. 
• Govern agents at firm scale. Alwin provides your teams with extensive governance and review workflows: an agent library, granular control over who can build, run and publish agents, and configurable review workflows throughout agent execution. These are the controls our regulated profession needs, and they're built in.

"Our team has already developed dozens of agents to test evidence across a range of audit procedures " said Lukas Homola, Manager of Internal Audit Methodology at BDO Czech Republic. "Alwin gives us the potential to run this work in parallel in the cloud, reducing our reliance on manual Excel processes. Every result remains traceable to its source. That level of transparency is one of the reasons we chose DataSnipper, and it will only become more important as agents take on a greater role." 

That security and traceability is deliberate. Thousands of companies trust DataSnipper daily, because every output has always been tied to its source inside the workpaper. Alwin extends that same standard to full procedures. Agents execute across hundreds of files, carry work from evidence collection through to completed workpapers, and return everything with supporting evidence linked directly to each finding.  

Early results show increased Efficiency, quality and control

At CROP Accountants & Advisers, their cash-testing workflow run through Alwin was around 80% faster, reducing hours of work to minutes of agent run time followed by human review.

“Beyond these efficiency gains, we see an opportunity to bring our own guidance, templates, and working papers into Alwin, helping our teams work more consistently and increase quality,” said Gert-Jan Brouwer, Partner Accountancy at CROP Accountants & Advisers. “Being part of the Design Partner Program has allowed us to work closely with DataSnipper and help shape that development.” 

At Rehmann, testing across revenue transactions and inventory costs shows how agents could change the way audit work itself is structured. 

“Alwin represents a significant step forward in how audit work can be performed. Through testing it across revenue transactions and inventory costs, I’ve seen how it can prepare the work, flag items for attention, and generate possible questions for the client. This has the potential to reshape the preparer role, giving staff an earlier exposure to the reviewer role and more time to investigate differences,” said Raul Villamil-Otero, Manager Assurance & Financial Reporting Strategic Business Partner at Rehmann. 

To learn more about Alwin by DataSnipper, visit www.datasnipper.com/product/alwin