Inflo Explained: Data, Analytics and Collaboration for Auditors

Inflo, the digital audit platform founded in 2016 by two former PwC accountants, supports more than 20% of the top 100 US accounting firms and grew US revenue 243% in the year to July 2025, the company said.

The Sunderland-area company sells audit firms one platform covering workpapers, data analytics, client collaboration and quality management. It started with UK mid-tier practices and has spent the past two years selling the same product to American firms.

That matters to audit partners for a practical reason. Regulators on both sides of the Atlantic are pressing firms to show consistent quality on every engagement, and the audit file is where that evidence is built. A platform that holds the file, the data tests and the client requests in one place changes how a firm documents its work and how it trains staff.

What Inflo is and who founded it

Mark Edmondson and Graham Clark, both former PwC accountants, founded Inflo in 2016, according to Deloitte’s Technology Fast 50 profile of the company. Edmondson is chief executive.

The company is based in Houghton-le-Spring, outside Sunderland, and runs remote-first with team members in the US and Australia. Deloitte ranked it a North East regional winner in 2021 on growth of 1,923%.

Inflo sells to audit and accounting firms, not to the companies they audit. Its customer list on its website includes GBQ, Wolf & Company, RKL, Horne, Azets and Blick Rothenberg. The company describes its range as “from small practices to global enterprises”.

How the Inflo platform is built

The product has four modules, each of which a firm can adopt on its own. Together they are designed to carry an audit from client data request to signed file.

• Working Papers manages the audit file, with workflows that route tasks and review points between team members.
• Audit Data Analytics tests 100% of a client’s transactions rather than a sample.
• Digital Collaboration structures the exchange of requests and documents with the client.
• Quality Management gives firms a system for recording compliance with their own quality procedures.

Underneath the modules sits a risk-based, activity-focused audit methodology, which Inflo says was built by audit professionals. Firms can use it as supplied or load their own approach.

Inflo has also built content packs for US audits, including packs aligned to PCAOB standards, which the company said passed quality control examinations.

Inflo data ingestion and analytics

The data work starts when a client’s ledger and trial balance enter the platform. Inflo ingests the data from the client’s accounting system, maps it to a standard structure and runs tests across the full population of transactions.

The approach is known in the profession as audit data analytics. Instead of drawing a sample of invoices and vouching each one, the auditor tests every entry and investigates the exceptions the software flags, such as unusual journals or postings outside normal patterns.

The company uses automation and AI to surface those unusual transactions, with dashboards that let the engagement team present results to the client. Inflo hosts the platform on Microsoft Azure and holds ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type II certifications.

Collaboration is the less glamorous half of the pitch, and the one auditors tend to mention first. Client request lists, document uploads and status tracking sit in the same system as the workpapers, so a partner can see what is outstanding without chasing email threads.

Inflo partnerships and US expansion

Inflo’s most recent partnership is with Inscope, a maker of automated financial statement preparation software. The two companies announced the agreement on April 14, 2026. Inflo acts as the audit system of record, and Inscope uses the audit context to prepare the financial statements. Neither side disclosed financial terms.

“This partnership reflects how modern firms want to operate.”

Mark Edmondson, Chief Executive, Inflo

Mary Antony, cofounder and chief executive of Inscope, said in the announcement that “financial statements are the final expression of audit quality”.

Inflo lists other partners on its site: the accounting associations HLB and Allinial Global, and HubSync, which covers audit and tax workflows.

In February 2026 Armanino, a large US firm, selected Inflo as the basis of an AI-enabled audit platform.

The US push is the company’s main growth story. On July 29, 2025, Inflo said it would hire more than 60 people for the US and UK after US revenue rose 243% year on year and headcount rose 43%. It said it supports more than 20% of the top 100 US firms.

Recent US signings named in the announcement include SingerLewak, RKL, HoganTaylor, Brixey & Meyer, Dean Dorton Allen Ford, Wolf & Company, Geffen Mesher and LaPorte CPAs & Business Advisors. Inflo said several firms with more than $1 billion in fee income had also joined, without naming them.

“We chose Inflo because it offers more than just audit technology.”

Jeremy Dillard, Technical Standards Partner, SingerLewak

Inflo said nearly all UK private equity-backed firms use the platform. Private equity ownership is a theme in the US customer list too, since SingerLewak is a top 100 firm with private equity backing.

Inflo’s announcements cover the UK and North America. They do not describe a separate European Union launch.

Inflo and FRC audit quality reviews

In the UK, the Financial Reporting Council inspects audits of public interest entities and publishes the results each summer. Its Annual Review of Audit Quality, published on July 22, 2026, said progress continues but that “a gap between the largest and smallest firms persists”, with the gap most visible in investment in systems of quality management.

“There is no one-size-fits-all approach to delivering audit quality,” said Anthony Barrett, executive director of supervision at the FRC.

That is the market Inflo’s Quality Management module addresses. Smaller and mid-tier firms must evidence their quality procedures under the same standards as the largest firms, often with far fewer people. Firms building those systems from scratch can also look at the quality management kit for small CPA firms, a template pack for the same job.

Inflo’s own pitch to regulators is standardisation. A common methodology and file structure make inspection findings easier to trace back to a step in the audit, and easier to fix across an entire client portfolio.

The company has not published inspection outcomes for engagements run on its platform, and the FRC reports are not broken down by software vendor. Firms should not assume that buying a platform improves an inspection result without changes to how teams use it.

How Inflo compares with DataSnipper, MindBridge and Caseware

Inflo competes with three vendors that cover different parts of the same workflow.

DataSnipper works inside Excel, extracting and matching evidence from documents to the figures in a spreadsheet. It is a point tool that auditors add to their existing file, not a replacement for the file itself.

MindBridge concentrates on anomaly detection and risk scoring across ledger data. Its closest overlap with Inflo is the analytics module, and firms often run it alongside an audit file system. Buyers weighing the field can read the MindBridge alternatives page.

Caseware is the nearest like-for-like rival, because it also sells a full audit file with workpapers and methodology. Accountio’s Caseware vs Inflo comparison sets the two side by side, and the Verity agent shows where Caseware is taking AI-suggested risk assessment.

Inflo’s distinguishing choice is breadth in one product: file, analytics, client portal and quality system, sold as modules. Specialist tools can go deeper in a single task. The trade-off for a firm is one contract and one training programme against the best tool for each step.

Accountio’s AI audit software comparison covers DataSnipper, Inflo, CoCounsel, MindBridge and Caseware in more detail, and the wider best audit software list ranks the field by firm size.

What to watch next for Inflo

Inflo has not published pricing, and it has not disclosed revenue or a funding round. Those are the numbers buyers and rivals would most like to see, and the company has so far chosen to publish customer wins instead.

The Inscope integration is the next product test. Firms that adopted both products will show over the coming audit season whether passing audit context into financial statement preparation saves time at year end, which is where partners feel the pressure most.

The July 2025 hiring plan of more than 60 roles for the US and UK will show up in the next customer announcements. Inflo’s annual report for 2025 is the company’s own record of that growth, and the FRC’s next Annual Review of Audit Quality in July 2027 is the next formal check on the UK firms that run on its platform.