April

April is an embedded, year-round tax platform. Its AI-powered tax engine allows banks, fintechs and payroll platforms to offer tax filing, tax planning and tax estimation tools inside the financial applications that Americans already use. The company operates in the United States, with coverage across all 50 states, and works across banking, fintech, payroll, financial services and tax preparation.

Its product line comprises embedded tax filing, tax planning and tax estimation tools for partner platforms, all powered by a core tax engine. That engine uses AI and dynamic auto-fill to extract data from uploaded documents and prefill it; the company reports it reduces tax preparation time by roughly 50% for tax professionals. On licensing, April holds full IRS e-file authorisation and is the first new company in more than 15 years to secure the e-file licences required to file in all 50 states - and the first AI-powered tax platform to receive full IRS e-file authorisation in that period.

Technical work spans artificial intelligence, tax engine development, embedded finance and API integration, document data extraction and auto-fill, and tax planning and estimation algorithms. The company describes itself as mission-driven and AI-first, aiming to help Americans build long-term financial standing, and emphasises innovation in a heavily regulated industry, with regulatory clearance cited as a marker of that approach.