Audit firms are under growing pressure to deliver higher-quality work with more data, higher standards, fewer auditors and less margin for error.

Many firms have started experimenting with general AI, but audit requires a higher standard. Every result needs to be explainable, reviewable and defensible. Cortea is built for that environment: AI agents purpose-built for audit quality, with auditors always in control of judgement and final sign-off.

Cortea’s Audit Quality Agents support the completion stage of the audit, where final review happens before an audit report goes out. Cortea works with innovative audit firms across Europe, the UK, and the US.

We backed Cortea in their seed round, alongside heavyweight industry executives including Larry Bradley, former Senior Partner and Global Head of Audit for KPMG, Simon Collins, former Senior Partner and UK Chairman of KPMG and Davor Tremac, founder and CEO of Fonoa.