Check your audit report against your working papers
A long report is put together in parts and corrected right up to the end. A finding can end up described one way in the body and summarized another way in the summary, or not make it to the conclusions at all.
HILO gathers everything the report and your audit working papers say about a single finding, with the page of each mention, so you can check that the report is consistent with the evidence before you issue it.
- Finds a finding even when it is worded differently
- Gives you back the edited document as .docx
- Download the finding's summary or its map
Seven tools for the report and its working papers
Gather a topic
Everything the report says about a finding, even when the body and the summary describe it differently. Each mention with its page.
Fix the passages together
The mentions of the finding are corrected together and the whole report downloads as .docx.
Summarize by topic
Everything the report says about a finding, gathered and ordered by section in a document you download. The basis for the executive summary and for answering a query without rereading.
Check against the audit program
The grid of procedures against the report: each item comes back with which part covers it and on which page, or with the fact that it doesn't appear.
Unify how each thing is named
The different ways the report names the same concept, grouped and counted. In a document written by several people, this is where you see there was no single criterion.
Review the sampling data
Duplicates, inconsistent categories, and columns that don't match between files, before the number makes it into the report.
Find verbatim quotes in interviews
If the audit includes staff interviews, the verbatim quotes about a finding, with who said them and on which page, ready to paste into the report.
Remove identifiers before sharing
To attach a sample of staff records or payments to your working papers without ID numbers or names: each person gets a code, and nothing leaves your browser.
What gets checked before you issue it
It works for audit reports, opinions, annual reports, and long accounting documents. The longer the report and the more hands wrote it, the further apart the mentions of a single finding end up.
Every finding, all the way to the end
It gathers every mention of an observation, from the body to the conclusions, so you can check that it wasn't lost along the way or left out of the summary.
The same amount shouldn't appear differently
A figure in the body of the report and a slightly different one in the summary, because one was updated and the other wasn't. Seeing them together shows which one is out of date.
The same account should always have the same name
When a line item is named two ways in different sections, an outside reader can't tell whether they are the same. It gathers the variants so you can unify them before you issue the report.
The summary should say the same as the body
The summary is the part that does get read in full, and the one that goes stale most when the report is revised at the last minute. It gathers a finding and compares how it appears in each place.
Your document isn't stored on our servers
Reading the document and editing happen on your computer. Changes are saved to your own Google Drive or Microsoft 365, in your account. It matters when the report contains information about the audited entity that hasn't been made public yet. When you use an AI feature, only the passage needed for that query is sent to Gemini, Google's model, and HILO doesn't store it.
No. HILO doesn't write, doesn't suggest paragraphs, and doesn't fill in what's missing. All it does is gather what you already wrote on a point and put it together so you can review it. Every passage it shows comes from your document and keeps its page number, so you can always go back to the original and check it. The writing, and the decision about what to change, remain yours.
That's where it pays off most. When each section is written by a different person, the same finding or the same account ends up named in several ways without anyone noticing.
Yes. You can work with the whole document or with one section. The usual approach is to search for a finding across the whole report and compare how it appears in the body and how it ended up in the summary.
Both. You can download the full document with your edits applied, the finding's summary separately, or the map as PNG or SVG for the presentation.
Not on our servers. Processing happens in your browser and saving goes to your own Google Drive or Microsoft 365.
Word documents (.docx) and PDF. PDFs are read, searched, and coded; the download with your changes is always .docx. Scanned PDFs can't be read, because they are images of pages, not text.
No. HILO doesn't evaluate or supervise the work: it gathers what the report says about each point so that whoever reviews it can see it together.
No. HILO doesn't build or suggest working papers: it helps you review the ones you already have. It gathers what the report and those papers say about a finding, with the page of each mention, so you can check that the report is consistent with the evidence.
Try it without signing up
Look at the example with a report, or upload yours and search for a finding to see where it appears. Without signing up, search is by keyword. To search by meaning, create a free account: it comes with 100 welcome hilos, the unit HILO uses to measure AI usage.