Configuring Tally settings

Tally starts with firm-level settings. These settings tell Tally what work the firm wants handled, where Tally should stop, how often it should look for work, which companies are paused, and how much autonomy is allowed. Treat this like configuring a supervised teammate inside LedgerHQ: the clearer the settings, the safer the work.

The first setup conversation helps the firm define those settings. After they are confirmed, Tally uses them on future turns and scheduled work.

Tally Settings

Tally settings are firm-scoped. They cover:

• duties Tally should perform;
• authority for each type of action;
• schedule and operating cadence;
• communication preferences;
• AI providers, budget, and model routing;
• company boundaries, including paused companies;
• any standing instructions that should guide future work.

These settings are stored as Tally memory and can be edited later from Tally settings. Saving them updates the relevant authority and automation settings so the visible configuration and the actual worker behavior stay aligned.

Duty Modes

Tally duties generally use three practical modes:

• Off: Tally should not create queue items, jobs, or client requests for that duty.
• Watch and suggest: Tally may inspect, prepare, explain, and stage work, but a person reviews the important action.
• Do autonomously: Tally may perform safe supported work when the duty, authority, scope, and service validation allow it.

Autonomous does not mean unlimited. It still respects account scope, period locks, approval rules, materiality limits, pending-bank holds, warnings, company boundaries, and irreversible-action hard floors.

Duties Tally Can Supervise

Current duties include bank feed review, uncoded transaction review, statement tracking, client requests for missing documents, reconciliation review, report delivery, month-end close support, cleanup work, and custom tasks or instructions.

Some duties are mostly watch-and-suggest by nature. For example, large cleanup projects, uncertain reconciliations, and period-close decisions often require human judgment even when Tally can prepare most of the evidence.

Company Boundaries

Tally settings can pause companies from scheduled scans. Use this when a company is not ready for automation, has unusual cleanup in progress, is leaving the firm, or should be supervised manually for a period.

Paused companies are excluded from scheduled queue scans and Tally-generated work. A user can still ask about a paused company directly, but Tally should recognize the boundary and avoid treating that company as part of routine scheduled work.

Schedule And Communication

The schedule tells Tally when to look for work and how often to prepare items for review. The current model is intentionally supervision-first: Activity is where users inspect what happened, and the main chat opens ready for a prompt instead of forcing a daily briefing.

Communication settings should match the firm's operating style. A firm that wants Tally to quietly prepare work should use conservative modes and review Activity. A firm that wants more help can give Tally permission to create requests, prepare close worksheets, or draft report deliveries when supported.

Choose the message handler who receives client-message decision packets. The notification policy controls whether routed messages email immediately or follow a quieter summary pattern. A normal reply to a decision packet is relayed to the company owner through LedgerHQ; a first-line @tally reply is an instruction for Tally.

Providers, Budget, And Model Usage

Tally-enabled companies include LedgerHQ's monthly house allowance. The Automation tab can also connect an Anthropic key, a ChatGPT/Codex subscription, or an OpenRouter key. The firm chooses which provider answers normal Tally turns and what happens after the included allowance is used.

For the complete provider, model-library, routing, and usage workflow, see Tally AI providers and models.

For key setup, see Connecting your Anthropic API key.

When To Reconfigure Tally

Revisit Tally settings when the firm adds many companies, starts using statement coverage, changes close expectations, changes who approves work, or notices that Tally is either too quiet or too active. The best configuration is not the most automated one. It is the one that matches the firm's risk tolerance and review habits.