Bead AI features and pricing (October 2026)

Bead is an AI platform for internal audit and SOX compliance teams at larger companies. Its agents collect and validate audit evidence, execute control test plans and produce working papers, so auditors spend less time on repetitive testing.

Bead covers the testing cycle of a SOX or internal audit program: requesting and collecting evidence (PBC, prepared by client), checking it, executing test steps and writing up results. It works from the team's existing test plans and templates rather than replacing the audit methodology. The company is based in San Rafael, California. Deployment options are cloud, private cloud or on premises, and larger customers can get a dedicated single-tenant account. Model inference runs through Amazon Bedrock and Google Cloud Vertex AI under zero data retention terms, according to the security page. The vendor claims about 80 percent of manual work can be automated.

• Executes control test plansThe Testing Agent runs the team's existing test plans against the collected evidence and records the results. Auditors review completed tests instead of performing every attribute check themselves, which shortens testing cycles before year end.
• Collects evidence from systemsThe PBC Collection Agent gathers evidence directly from source systems rather than waiting for control owners to email files. Control owners get fewer requests, and the audit team works from complete evidence sooner.
• Validates incoming filesThe PBC Validation Agent checks each file when it arrives, for example whether it covers the right period and control. Gaps are raised immediately, so the team avoids discovering missing evidence during testing.
• Writes working papersThe Working Papers Agent produces marked-up documentation in the team's own template format. Reviewers receive consistent working papers that external auditors can follow, and staff spend less time formatting documents before each review cycle.

• Works with the team's existing test plans and working paper templates instead of imposing a new methodology.
• Can be deployed in the cloud, a private cloud or on premises, with dedicated single-tenant accounts for large customers.
• States that customer data never trains any AI model and that inference runs in Bead's own cloud accounts.

Bead is based in San Rafael, California, stores data in US data centers by default and targets SOX teams at US-listed companies.

Bead stores data in US data centers by default; EU groups should ask whether a dedicated deployment in an EU region is available for their evidence. Request the SOC 2 Type II report, the security addendum and the subprocessor list from the trust center. Agree with your external auditor how agent-performed tests will be reviewed and relied on, and confirm which ERP and ticketing systems the collection agent can reach.

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