Implementation guide

What setup actually looks like

Connect QuickBooks, give Peregrine context, then let it close, budget, and forecast. Here's the path, module by module.

  1. 1

    Connect your company to QuickBooks Online

    On the Settings page, click Add new company. Peregrine hands you off to Intuit's own login screen — you authorize Peregrine there, and your credentials never touch us.

    Settings → Add new companyAuthorized via Intuit
  2. 2

    Peregrine runs an initial 6-month GL scrub

    Once authorized, Peregrine's AI agents read six months of your general ledger to build initial context — learning your vendors, your customers, and your chart of accounts before they do anything else.

    • Vendors and customers identified
    • Chart of accounts mapped
  3. 3

    Load your documents into Agreements

    The Agreements module does two jobs. First, it's a reference library for the agents — Peregrine reads each document, summarizes it, and stores the material terms so it can answer questions and make decisions grounded in your actual contracts. Second, it's document storage: files live in secure, S3-compatible object storage on Cloudflare, always within reach when you're logged in.

    • Upload business term loans and Peregrine automatically extracts the financial covenants
    • Double-check every extracted covenant in the Covenants module
  4. 4

    Bring over your balance-sheet schedules

    In the Accounting module, load your existing schedules — fixed assets, prepaid expenses, and the rest — through the setup wizard (paste them in) or a CSV upload.

    • Map each schedule to the exact balance-sheet account it supports, so Peregrine can track the reconciliation and confirm it ties out every month
    Setup wizardCSV upload
  5. 5

    Leases flow in automatically (ASC 842)

    If you uploaded a lease into Agreements, it's pulled straight into the Leases module. Peregrine calculates the lease and proposes the required entries each month.

    ASC 842Monthly entries suggested
  6. 6

    Run your first bank reconciliation

    Every bank and credit-card account appears in the reconciliation dropdown. For your first reconciliation in Peregrine, enter the beginning balance for that first month — then upload the statement and Peregrine matches it against your books, auto-matching the transactions it recognizes.

    PDFCSVAutomatic transaction matching
  7. 7

    Build your budget from the trailing twelve months

    The Budget module defaults to your TTM financials as a starting point. Every vendor or client that hits an account can carry its own driver type.

    • Driver types: YoY Growth, % of Revenue, or TTM Average
    • Setting these one by one gets tedious — ask the Peregrine agent to do it in bulk instead
    • Every change the agent makes is queued for your approval in the Actions module
  8. 8

    Model returns in FP&A / LBO

    The LBO module reads your asset purchase agreement and loan agreement (where applicable) to establish total cost basis in the investment. Set custom drivers for EBITDA growth and it forecasts your expected returns.

    • No LBO transaction? Use the same module as a three-statement model to forecast long-term balance-sheet health
  9. 9

    Turn on the cash-flow forecast

    The forecast reads cash inflows against your AR balance and cash outflows against your AP balance, projecting your cash position forward. Today it pulls directly from your balance-sheet cash transactions.

    • If your bank feeds run through QuickBooks and you post them weekly, your forecast stays accurate
    • Ask the agent to change forecast assumptions for you

The Peregrine agent sits in the bottom-right of every screen and is designed to be your assistant for navigating the whole platform — setting drivers, adjusting assumptions, answering questions. Nothing it proposes takes effect until you approve it in the Actions module.

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