Bookkeepers are the most trusted people in small business. That deserves a better network.
Bookkeepers see everything: the cash, the pressure, the decisions, the potential. Too often that insight stays trapped in the books. BGN exists to turn it into value — for the bookkeeper and for the businesses they serve.
How we decide what to build
Four rules that keep BGN from becoming the thing we set out to avoid.
Simplicity wins
If a member has to be trained to use it, we designed it wrong.
Community over software
People solve problems. Tools should just make that easier.
Practical over impressive
We prefer a small thing that helps today to a big thing that might help someday.
Honest about stage
Pilot is pilot, planned is planned. We say which is which.
Where the network is heading
A sequence, not a promise of dates. Each stage only ships when it is genuinely useful.
Now
Free, invitation-based membership, a simple community pilot, and practical resources and learning.
Next
A guided member experience with a Today view, plus deeper community and AI assistance.
Then
Secure QuickBooks connectivity and client-level insight, with clear permissions.
Horizon
The Network Sphere: an intelligent professional network where expertise and opportunity are easy to find.
The Network Sphere vision
An intelligent professional network that makes relationships, expertise, introductions, resources and opportunities easier to discover. We are exploring it openly — it is part of the vision, not a launched product.
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